JOURNAL 



OP THE 



Royal Hoetiodltural Society. 



Vol. XXXIV. 1908. 

 Part III. 



CONFERENCE ON SPRAYING OF FRUIT TREES. 



Friday, Octobee 16, 1908. 



PROGRAMME. 



Morning Session — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

 Chairman. — Colonel Warde, M.P. 

 Papers. 



" Spraying for Fungus Pests." Mr. Geo. Massee, V.M.H., F.L.S. 

 " Spraying as an Insurance." Mr. H, F. Getting, F.R.M.S. 



Afternoon Session — 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. 

 Chairman. — Colonel Long, M.P. 

 Papers. 



"Washes used as Insecticides and Acaricides." Mr. F. V. 

 Theobald, M.A. 



" Spraying and Spraying Machinery." Mr. Geo. Hammond, F.R.H.S. 



Morning Session, Colonel Warde, M.P., in the Chair. 



The Chairman : Ladies and gentlemen, I am very much obliged indeed 

 to the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society for giving me an 

 opportunity of being here to-day, and I need hardly say how glad I am to 

 be able to accept its invitation to take the Chair on an occasion like this, 

 an occasion interesting to all of us, but perhaps especially to those who 

 come from the part of the country from which I come, namely, Kent, 

 because in Kent nearly all the land that is not under cultivation of hops 

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