i9i 2.] Duties of Commissioners of Woods. 



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for the use of inspectors under the Destructive Insects and Pests Acts, 

 1877 and 1907, in connection with the administration of the American 

 Gooseberry Mildew Order, 191 1. 



The price of the books is one shilling, post free. Applications for 

 them should be addressed to Messrs. A. and E. Walter, Ltd., of 13-17, 

 Tabernacle Street, London, E.C. 



The Board trust that Local Authorities will find it convenient to 

 use these books so as to secure uniformity of practice. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries desire to warn all growers 

 of tomatoes that the disease known as Tomato and Cucumber Canker 

 Tomato and (Mycosphcerella citrullina) is included among 



„ , « ■. the diseases which, in pursuance of the 



Cucumber Canker. r\ ^ ^ t * j r> I r\ a t 



Destructive Insects and Pests Order of 19 10, 



must be reported to the Board by the occupier of any premises on 

 which they appear. A description of the disease is given in the 

 Board's leaflet, No. 230, copies of which can be obtained free of 

 charge, and post free, on application to The Secretary, Board of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries, 4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W. Letters so 

 addressed need not be stamped. 



Growers who are in doubt as to whether or not the disease is 

 present on their premises should submit specimens of affected plants 

 to the Board for determination. 



Up to the present the disease has been chiefly confined to tomatoes 

 grown under glass. Occupiers of premises on which the disease 

 appeared last year are strongly advised not to plant tomatoes in the 

 same soil, unless it has been adequately sterilised, and to spray all 

 their plants during the early part of the season with Bordeaux mix- 

 ture or a solution of liver of sulphur (one pound to 32 gallons of 

 water). 



As announced in reply to a question asked in the House of Commons 

 on February 20th, 1912, Sir E. Stafford Howard has tendered his 

 . resignation of the office of one of the Corn- 



Re- Allocation Of missioners of His Majesty's Woods and 

 Duties of H.M. Forests. His resignation will take effect as 

 Commissioners from ^arch 31st next. No new appointment 

 of Woods. 0 f a Commissioner will be made to fill the 



office he vacates, and there will be a fresh allocation of the Com- 

 missioners' duties between the two remaining Commissioners, Mr. 

 Runciman, the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and 

 Mr. G. G. Leveson-Gower. The supervision of the Crown Forests 

 other than Windsor and of the more important Crown Woods will now 

 be committed to Mr. Runciman, with the object of bringing their 

 administration into closer co-operation than has hitherto been possible 

 with the work of the Board in regard to the development of sylviculture 

 and forestry. 



