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vine, the coffee, &c. Sometimes another insect will also be 

 called into being, which may keep the former in check. If 

 not, either an antidote must be found, or the trees must 

 eventually succumb. Insects multiply by millions in a very 

 short time, and the evil must be checked, if at all, at the 

 commencement. 



No. 15. 



In Baron Hubner's "Through the British Empire," the 

 following occurs : 



(a.) Vol. i., p. 50 " A disease, hitherto unknown, having 

 lately destroyed nearly all the orange plantations, which 

 constituted erewhile the glory of Paarl " (South Africa). 



(b.) Vol. ii., p. 127. Writing of the Shalimar Gardens of 

 Lahore : " The squares formed by the rectangular paths are 

 filled with mango, fig, and gigantic orange trees, more than 

 two centuries old, whose thick branches interlace each other 

 aloft." 



(c.) Vol. ii., p. 269 (Australia) : " By the uncertain 

 glimmer of the twilight we see, shining against the dark 

 background of Norfolk pines, the golden apples of the 

 Hesperides, the fruit of the gigantic lemon-trees, planted 

 here by the convicts nearly a century ago, but which now, 

 owing to the carelessness of the present inhabitants, are in 

 danger of being smothered by the ever-encroaching forest." 



(d.) Vol. ii., p. 325. At Loma Loma, Fiji : " Gigantic 

 orange trees gild with their fruit the dark vault of Man- 

 groves." 



No. 1 6. 



(a.) " Imperial Gazeteer of India," vol. v., p. 296, under the 

 head of Kashmir and Jamu states : "Neither orange, lemon, 

 nor any species of citrus arrive at maturity in Kashmir, as 

 the intense cold of winter proves fatal to them." 



(b} " Imperial Gaz. of India," vol. viii., p. 367, under the 

 head of Sindh Province : 



