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pest, especially on old top-grafted trees ; these you will also find 

 ^succumb readily to this treatment. Lime Sulphur and Salt applied 

 in winter is also an excellent remedy. 



Peach Maggot. We know of no remedy, but can recommend 

 strongly the picking up of the maggoty fruit as it drops, and 

 consigning it to the pigsty, in fact we think it positively suicidal 

 for a grower to allow maggoty fruit to lie on the ground. Mr. C. 

 P. Lounsbury says if growers would only combine and do this 

 effectively, it would greatly help in spite of the insect being in 

 the wild fruit, and from our own personal experience we must 

 agree with him, and recommend to all growers to keep this up. 



Codlin Moth. It is a very important matter for growers of 

 apples and pears to keep this pest in check, it has been many 

 years in the Colony and makes slow headway, and with proper 

 care we may be able to keep it in check. The attention of all 

 growers is here drawn to the notices of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment posted in most public places in the Colony, and drawing 

 attention in a very concise form to the character and style of this 

 pest ; we cannot but emphasise the benefit to the public of 

 reporting any discovery in a new district of its presence (which 

 is easily identified) to the Government Entomologist, Cape Town. 



In conclusion, we would say that spraying will be only partially 

 successful, no matter what the wash is, unless growers take care to 

 see that the solution is kept constantly and thoroughly stirred. 



LATE AND EARLY BLOOMERS. 



This subject is one of great importance to most growers in 

 South Africa, almost all our letters of enquiry contain some 

 reference to it. One cannot help noticing that in this connection 

 almost all growers jump to the conclusion that because a tree 

 bears late it must necessarily blossom late, whereas as a matter of 

 fact one may almost state that the reverse is the case. The date 

 of blossoming is affected by very many weather conditions in 

 each year, and may even vary in almost any variety to the extent 

 of one month, but, however, there are certain fruits whose habit 

 it is under the same conditions to fruit earlier than others, and it 

 is naturally safer to plant these sorts where late spring frosts 

 occur. 



The selection of a site for an orchard is a very important factor 

 in its freedom from late and unseasonable frosts. This is a matter 

 which can be only left in the hands of the individual grower. It 

 is quite extraordinary on most farms in Africa, the variation in 

 the temperature in stretches of land practically adjoining. 

 Touching on the point that we raised when we said that the 

 earliest fruits often blossom latest, we may bring up the fact that 

 in parts of the Transvaal where severe frosts are encountered and 



