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and two fluid ounces of water shall be used. The cyanide of potassium shall be placed 

 in an earthenware vessel, the water poured over the said cyanide of potassium, after- 

 wards adding sulphuric acid, and the tent or box to be immediately closed tightly 

 and allowed to remain closed for not less than forty minutes. Treatment for disin- 

 fection shall continue until all insect pests or their larvse are destroyed. 



Remedies. 



[Here follows a lengthy enumeration of remedies as section 10.] 



Summer spraying. 



Sec. 11. Where pests or fungus diseases are found to exist during the growing sea- 

 son, while the trees are in leaf, spraying must be done and such remedies applied as 

 shall be recommended by or under authority of the board from time to time, so that 

 the insects or diseases can at least be held in check until the stronger washes of the 

 dormant season can be safely applied. 



Destruction of packages. 



Sec. 12. All boxes, crates, or other packages or wrappings which have contained 

 infected nursery stock shall be destroyed by tire immediately after the removal of 

 the contents thereof. 



Hop fields. 



Sec. 13. Where hop fields are infested with the hop louse, spraying must be done 

 as the board from time to time shall recommend. 



Penalties. 



Sec. 14. Every person violating the provisions of the "Horticultural board act, 

 1894," or the rules and regulations adopted by the provincial board of horticulture 

 is liable, upon summary conviction before a justice of the peace, to a penalty not 

 exceeding fifty dollars for each offense. 



Repealing former rules and regulations. 



Sec. 15. All rules and regulations heretofore adopted and published under the 

 authority of the horticultural board acts of 1892, 1893, and 1894 are hereby repealed 

 and the foregoing rules and regulations substituted in lieu thereof. 



Recomynendations. 



Horticultural and agricultural societies and all those interested in advancing and 

 protecting the interests of fruit growing are requested to cooperate with the provin- 

 cial board of horticulture in the enforcement of the provisions of the "Horticul- 

 tural act " and the regulations thereunder as adopted by this board. 



Correspondence. 



All correspondence relating to the extirpation of fruit pests should be addressed 

 to the inspector of fruit pests or the member of the board whose district may be 

 affected. Correspondence relating to other matters should be addressed to the sec- 

 tary of the board 



By command : J. R. Anderson, 



Secretary. 

 Office of the Provincial Board of Horticulture, 



Victoria, October 4, 1894. 



