x. PREFACE. 



them to illustrate some of its Leaflets, but in order to 

 make them more manageable for my purpose I have 

 had all those depicting fungoid attacks reduced in 

 size, by woodcuts and line drawings. 



The remainder of the illustrations throughout the 

 book have, with very few exceptions, been prepared 

 either from my own sketches or from photographs 

 taken for me by Mr. E. Garrett, cashier and clerk to 

 the Pels Fruit Farm, to whom I am also indebted for 

 much valuable help in reading proofs. 



THOS. SMITH 



Pels Fruit Farm, 



May land, Essex, 



April, 1911. 



