58 The Spraying of Plants. 



Tasmania has been remarkably vigorous in fighting insect 

 and fungous pests, and the government has passed a law (52 

 Viet. No. 16) which makes it a finable offense for a grower to 

 neglect cleaning his orchard : 



" ' The Colony of Tasmania is divided into thirty " fruit dis- 

 tricts " to make better provision for the destruction of the 

 codlin-moth. Every person who sells, or offers for sale, any 

 fruit infected with the moth is liable to a penalty of five 

 pounds. 



" l Bandages to be placed upon the trunks of the trees not 

 later than December in each year. 



" * Farmers shall remove all rough and scaly bark from trees, 

 and burn or otherwise effectually destroy such bark as soon as 

 removed.' 



" Similar methods are in use in Australia. There are persons 

 appointed by the Agricultural Bureau in each district (I believe 

 there are eighty odd districts in Australia, and over thirty in 

 Tasmania) to see that the law is not evaded." 1 



i Jour, of the Royal Hort. Soc. 1895, Jan. 185. 



