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The Fruit Fly. 
The Mediterranean fruit fly, the dis- 
covery of which has caused such conster- 
nation among orchardists, bears the long 
‘Scientific name of “ Ceratais capitata,” is 
one of the most pernicious pests with 
which the fruit grower has to contend. 
In order to reduce the loss caused by 
this insect, all fruit growers are strongly 
advised to carry out the following simple 
precautionary measures :— 
First...To grow only such varieties of 
fruit trees as are worth growing, and to 
look after such trees thoroughly. 
Second...To grub out and burn all use- 
less fruit trees that never give any return, 
and that only act as a nursery and dis- 
tributing centre for the pest. 
Third...To gather and destroy all in- 
fested fruit. : 
The efficacy of these measures depends 
on the active co-operation of every fruit- 
grower, not only those who grow fruit for 
a living, but those who have one or more 
fruit trees growing in their garden, yard, 
paddock, or round their fences, as the 
neglect to destroy the pest whenever and 
wherever it is present will undo in a great 
measure the good that will result if the 
recommendations are carried out syste- 
matically. 
There is only one stage in the life 
history of this insect in which it is possible 
to destroy it in large quantities, and that 
is when the larva or maggot is in the 
fruit. In this stage it is in a trap, as if 
the infected fruitis gathered and destroyed 
every lava contained therein is killed and - 
subsequent crops of mature insects are 
prevented. 
There is no known effectual means of 
preventing the fly from attacking the 
fruit other than covering the trees with a 
netting that is impervious to the fly, and 
this, in the case of anything except dwarf 
trees, is out of the question; so that our 
sole chance of keeping it in check is to 
reduce its breeding grounds, and to 
destroy the larva in the fruit, 
Mr. French the Government Entomol- 
ogist of Victoria, recently visited Queens- 
land, and in an interview declared that 
what he saw revealed a state of affairs in- 
finitely worse than anticipated. Several 
small orchards inspected were simply 
rotten with the pest, and if these were in 
Victoria most drastic quarantine measures 
would be immediately enforced. The 
pest was not the Queensland fly, as sup- 
posed, but the Mediterranean fly. He 
saw it inSyndey, but not nearly so bad. 
_ So far it has only been found in Victoria 
' at Melbourne and Bendigo, but it is 
. in west Central Australia. 
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known to exist in one orchard at least 
across the border from Albury. Mr. 
French, with Mr. Adams, closely inspected 
the fruit in local shop windows, and found 
it badly infested, peaches especially. From 
one fruiterer they obtained a cucumber 
which contained 57 of the larvae of the 
Mediterranean fly. Apples were found to 
have 23 punctures; watermelons werc 
also attacked. Mr. French said that he 
had-discovered for the first time that the 
fly would attack green fruit. He states 
that the Fruit Pest Act should be strictly 
enforced at once, as the prevalence of the 
pest jepardizes the industry and imperils 
the health of the commuuity. 
A ‘Big Business. 
The fruit growers of South Australia are 
very fortunate in having such enterprising 
people as Messrs. Geo. McEwin & Son of 
Glen Ewin. 
Mr, Robert McEwin, and in the course of 
conversation, he stated that their factories 
turned out immense quantities of tinned 
fruits and jams. During this season. they 
have used 400 tons of Apricots and 600 
tons of Plums, beside a proportionate 
quantity of every other kind of fruit, and 
the season has only just commenced. 
‘*Fadeless” Flowers. 
Mr, Luther Burbank, of San Francisco 
has developed a “fadeless” flower. He 
calls it the “ Australian star flower.” He 
evolved it from a half-hardy annual found 
Mr. Burbank 
describes the flower as a “unique and 
beautiful plant, which grows readily from 
seed in any ordinary garden soil, prefer- 
ring sandyloam. It blooms early in the 
season, and continues to bloom for a long 
time.” The fragrant flowers are of a 
rosy crimson shade, sometimes approach- 
ing pure white. They are produced in 
large, graceful clusters, which, when cut, 
will retain their form and colour perma- 
nently. The full-grown plants are about 
a foot high. Though the stem of the 
flower may dry up, the blossoms do not 
fade. Mr. Burbank has a cluster of these 
blossoms in his’ library which have re- 
mained there unchanged for a whole year 
Neither do they lose their odour. 
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Class Workmanship guaranteed. Kindly 
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buying elsewhere. 127 Gouger St. 
Our reporter interviewed . 
March j 1907 
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