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however, are not those of a torini but are elbowed and. clubbed ; the 
specimens are not preserved so as to admit of careful examination, but 
they. appear to be a hymenopterous aes probably of the family 
Mymaride. 
Both the cocoons and the supposed parasites appear to be of some 
interest, and it is a pity that the scantiness of the material does not 
allow a more thorough examination to be made. 
(Signed) WALTER F. H. Branprorp. 
DLVII.—FRUIT-GROWING AT THE CAPE. 
The following interesting paper on the possibilities of the fruit 
industry in Cape Colony has been communicated to Kew the 
Government Botanist, Professor MacOwan. It affords a striking 
eae of the resources of a country where “ all the fruits and crops of 
warmer temperate zone grow to perfection.” This information is 
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. 15-19), and gives in an expanded form with greater detail the facts 
already given iu the volume for 1893 (pp. 8-11). 
* At the cera moment there are in every ‘tines irr for 
enterprise in various kinds of petite culture, opening 
never existed here within the memory of man. It is x as sif one had 
to speculate upon the chances of perishable produce being got across 
the line and placed upon English markets in saleable condition. But 
for everything that a man can grow to a moderate de perfection, 
there is an unfailing market just some forty or fifty ee distant from 
the coast, and the rail to expedite it all the way. It is said to be well 
fora man to have two strings to his bow. The up-eountry market 
is the Cape growers’ first string, the export trade in fruit is the other. 
All the special appliances required for both lines of the enterprise are 
already provided. The steamship companies supply cold-storage on their 
vessels. A local firm has prepared refrigerating chambers for goods 
awaiting shipment. It would seem, therefore, that the only cement 
We want them from England, from the States, from California, in fact 
from anywhere where the skill and experience Date run for years 
into everyday practice. This is the immigration wanted just now at the 
Cape, to catch at the opportunity of the moment, and to turn skilled fruit- 
growing into gold. No question that success awaits the man who knows 
a to syn with Hate to voccm his ground kid properly, to drain, 
o gather, k for eic up-country, or for seria in 
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