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rather characteristic. The colour is a uniform brown, changing from 

 a light shade to a darker with the progress of the disease. The 

 diseased flesh has a watery appearance and a disagreeable look, though 

 the taste is not very disagreeable. Advantage is sometimes taken of 

 this latter fact to use up at canneries fruit that is in the first stages of the 

 attack. The practice is not to be commended, as such fruit, though it 

 may not be actually injurious to health, is certainly inferior in quality. 



The injury to the foliage is of a more obscure nature, and is often 

 overlooked, or mistaken in character and referred to some other cause. 

 It is usual in this State for the orchardists sending in samples of fruit 

 attacked by Monilia to say that the foliage is not attacked at all. As 

 a matter of fact, I have never seen the characteristic spores of the 

 disease growing on the foliage or branches of fruit trees, and I do 

 not recall at the moment any record of this character in the 

 writings of other observers; but there can be no doubt that the 

 disease enters the bark of tender tissues in the vicinity of diseased 

 fruit, and numerous instances of this are on record. There is 

 nothing remarkable in this, as the same is known to be true of a number 

 of other fungi attacking fruit and foliage of orchard trees. The fact 

 is one of importance in its bearing on possible remedial measures. 

 For this reason it is well, wherever this disease appears in the fruit, to 

 give careful attention to the appearance of the foliage and new 

 growths, both at the time of the attack on the fruit, and at later 

 dates, in order to determine whether they have suffered from disease. 

 If they have done so, the evidence will be found in the blighting of the 

 twigs, the appearances not infrequently resembling " fire blight/' or 

 insect girdling. 



Remedies. The principal feature in the fight against this disease 

 is the careful destruction of the diseased fruit ; and where there are a 

 number of orchards near each other, the same measures must be 

 adopted in all, if much good is to follow. It is of little avail that one 

 grower destroys his infected fruit, if his near neighbour, attacked in 

 a similar manner, fails to do so. The spores of the disease are so 

 abundant, and are so easily transported by various agencies, that 

 neighbourly co-operation is very essential to good results. 



The diseased fruit should not be allowed to accumulate on the 

 ground, nor should the dried-up fruit on the trees be allowed to- 

 remain there. Either of these is liable to cause a continuance of the 

 pest in fact, there is at present, I believe, no other known source 

 of infection, so that the problem is much simplified so far as concerns 

 a knowledge of what ought to be done. The destruction of this- 

 infected fruit must be carried on systematically. Spasmodic efforts are 

 not likely to be rewarded with a full measure of success. It should 

 be borne in mind that this disease may exist on many different sorts 

 of fruit, and though it does serious damage in this State to only a- 

 limited number of kinds, those other fruits upon which it finds but a 

 bare subsistence may nevertheless be the means of its passing over 

 from season to season. 



The absolute destruction of the diseased fruit is what should be 

 aimed at, although it must be admitted that this will sometimes 

 involve considerable expense. Fruit attacked at or near maturity can 



