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condition of the buildings, fences, gates, roads, drains, 

 ditches and cultivation is to be made within three months 

 after the commencement of the tenancy, by a person to be 

 appointed in default of agreement by the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries ; and, in default of agreement, the 

 cost is to be borne by the landlord and the tenant in equal 

 proportions. 



Section 42. (2) Market Gardens. — Under this sub-section, 

 with reference to tenancies current on 1st January, 1896, it 

 is provided that the market garden improvements in respect 

 of which compensation is payable under the section shall 

 include improvements executed before as w r ell as improve- 

 ments executed after that date. 



First Schedule, Part III. (27). Repairs to Buildings. — 

 This adds to the list of improvements for which, though made 

 without the landlord's consent, a quitting tenant is entitled 

 to compensation, repairs to buildings, being buildings neces- 

 sary for the proper cultivation or working of the holding, 

 other than repairs which the tenant is under an obligation 

 to execute; subject, however, to written notice to the land- 

 lord, with particulars, of the intention to execute the repairs 

 and failure by the landlord to execute them within a reason- 

 able time after such notice. 



AMERICAN GOOSEBERRY MILDEW. 



The disease known as American Gooseberry Mildew, 

 Sphaerotheca mors-uvae, Berk., is of a very serious character. 

 It has greatly increased the cost of the cultivation of 

 gooseberries wherever it has appeared, and in some cases it 

 has rendered gooseberry-growing impossible. 



This fungus is much more injurious to gooseberry bushes 

 than the allied European Gooseberry Mildew, Microsphaera 

 grossulariae, Lev. (Leaflet No. 52), as it not only attacks the 

 leaves, but also extends to the shoots and fruit, stunting 

 the latter and rendering it unsaleable.* 



In the following pages there are given (1) such a description 

 of the fungus as will aid fruit-growers to recognise the disease 

 should their gooseberry bushes be found to be attacked, 



(2) precautions to be observed by gooseberry growers, and 



(3) instructions for the treatment of infected bushes. 



* Occasionally the English mildew assumes a virulent form and attacks the fruit. 



