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tions, sent on the same date as the above, benefited greatly by bis 
careful treatment of his trees :—“ We are very busy finishing the fruit¬ 
picking. I am pleased to say I have been fortunate this season, 
having had a considerable crop of Plums, and which have been selling 
at high prices. My neighbours are now, from my success, beginning 
to realise the importance of taking proper precautions.” 
Diminution of amount of appearance of Winter Motli in the past 
autumn. —Mr. J. Masters, writing from Evesham, on the 80th October, 
remarked:—“ The point you especially refer to of the diminution of 
the pest, I find already is the case. Some of my plantations that were 
some years ago so badly infested are now so free from the Winter Moth 
that even last year, notwithstanding our grease-banding, we could 
scarcely capture one single moth; and here we were rewarded with 
heavy crops of Plums this season.” 
The following observations, sent me a few days after (on the 5tli of 
November) from Toddington, by Mr. C. D. Wise, give a most satis¬ 
factory account of the gradual lessening (where preventive measures 
have been taken) of amount of Winter Moths captured on the grease- 
bands, of the great diminution in the number as then compared to 
what the number was three years ago, and also the very noticeable 
fact that in a plantation which had been syringed, with the exception 
of one acre, with Paris-green, that on this one acre more Winter 
Moths were captured than anywhere else. Mr. Wise wrote :— 
“ You will be interested to hear that we caught the first female 
Winter Moth on the 17th October, one day earlier than last year ; also 
that we are catching very few this season, the greatest number I have 
seen on a tree being nine. This is avast difference to three years ago, 
when we counted as many as 500 on one tree, and I think it shows that 
all our trouble has not been in vain. 
“You will remember that I reported to you last year that the 
number of moths caught greatly decreased in number as compared 
with the former year ; now this year, as we are catching so very few, 
I think it is most satisfactory. 
“ You will he interested to hear that in one plantation where we 
syringed with Paris-green, and where the men in doing so emptied 
their buckets before they got to the end of the row, and left about one 
acre unsyringed; on this one acre we have caught more Winter 
Moths than we have anywhere, and this shows conclusively what the 
syringing did for us. 
“ I really think next year we shall be able to use narrower bands 
on the trees. This will save paper and grease.”—0. D. W. 
Rather later on—the 19tli of November—Mr. Wise further reported, 
“ We are still catching very few moths.” 
On Nov. 20th, Mr. J. Hiam, of Astwood Bank, Redditch, who has 
