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utmost to stamp out diseases in new districts as soon as ever they make their 
appearance. Don’t consider any discase too trivial, and that it can be well let 
alone to amore convenient time, as the more convenient time will not come, 
but the disease will flourish and spread rapidly, so that what might have been 
checked, if not eradicated, by half-an-hour’s work will now take the grower all 
he knows to get the better of it. In spraying, whether for insects or fungi, a 
knowledge of the pests to be treated, combined with carefulness and promptitude, 
are the essentials of success. 
In notes of this kind it is impossible that they apply equally to every part 
of the colony, but they will be found to be about an average. Very early 
districts will sometimes require the notes of a month later, and very late 
districts those of a month earlier; but this will right itself when a year’s notes 
have been written. 
ORANGES. 
JAmArcA produces some kinds of oranges which, under the name of “ Paradise 
fruits,” and “ grape fruits” are sold at wonderful prices in New York. Last 
year the United States absorbed £20,000 worth of the Jamaica “ erape-fruit” 
oranges. 
Two barrels were sold in New York at £5 each, and seven barrels of 
similar fruit sold in Philadelphia for £5 10s. per barrel. These oranges would 
be retailed at about a dollar a piece (4s. 2d.). The most valuable orange in 
Australia has never approached sucha yalue as this. The properties of the 
“ orape fruit” appear to be medicinal, as a tonic and febrifuge. The growers 
in Jamaica now propose to try the British markets, as the United States 
Government haye increased the duty on imported oranges. 
