FRUIT CULTURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



ORANGES AND LEMONS . 



CONTINENT OP AFRICA. 

 CAPE COLONY. 



REPORT BY CONSUL HOLLJS, OF CAPE TOWN. 



The time was, and not so long ago, when the orange crop of this 

 colony meant a good revenue to the farmer. With the advent of the 

 Australian bug, whose scientific name I have forgotten, all this is 

 changed, and in place of trees loaded with luscious fruit now only re- 

 main a few blackened stumps to mark where the orchards once stooa. 



No systematic effort was made to eradicate the pest, A. saying it was 

 useless for him to struggle against the evil while B., whose orchard was 

 close by, gave the bug free license to breed and multiply. 



I have just heard of a new method of destroying these insects which 

 may be worth a trial. It is to make a cross incision in the bark |_- 

 shaped, and after rolling back the bark dust the wound with flowers of 

 sulphur. Wax and bind up as after budding. 



Years ago I found that the juices of the squash vine was a solvent of 

 sulphur and would take it into the circulation of the plant. At all 

 events, it will cost nothing to try, and will do no injury to the tree. 



GEO. F. HOLLIS, 



Consul. 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Cape Toicn, March 5, 1890. 



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