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that they were grown in a suitable climate would produce good fruit, but they 
are quite unsuitable for the greater portion of this colony. I especially wish 
to warn fruitgrowers and intending fruitgrowers not to plant varieties that 
are unsuited to the climate, and advise all such to consult the Department of 
Agriculture as to the suitability or otherwise of the fruits they wish to plant, 
as I am certain that they will find it to their advantage to do so. 
“Tt costs just as much to prepare the land for and to plant, prune, and 
look after an inferior variety or a variety of fruit that is unsuitable to the 
climate, and from which no return of any value will ever be obtained, as it does 
to grow a variety that is suitable to the climate and that will produce superior 
fruit that will meet with a ready sale; therefore, no fruitgrower can afford to 
» spend time and money growing unsuitable varieties, and the sooner that this 
is realised the better for the fruit-growing industry of this colony.” 
The following warning also appeared in the Brisbane Press of 24th 
January, 1899 :— 
“VALUELESS CITRUS PLANTS. 
“Under the Diseases in Plants Act, all plants and trees imported to the 
colony from the south are forwarded to the Department of Agriculture for the 
purpose of inspection and fumigation. Ona recent occasion a number of 
young citrus plants were receivedin this way; but when examined by Mr. 
Benson, fruit expert, it was found that the citrus plants were young lemon 
stocks that had been grafted. All the grafts, however, were dead, and a 
number of young lemon shocts were growing in their places. These plants 
were absolutely valueless, and Mr. Benson has therefore advised that their 
introduction into this colony should be prohibited, as when sold to persons who 
have no knowledge of fruit trees they are bound to turn out a loss and a 
disappointment. It appears also to be a common practice for orange grafts to 
be placed on lemon stocks; these grafts often die, and then the original stocks 
shoot out. It is only some considerable time after that the persons who receive 
them find out their mistake. The Department of Agriculture have therefore 
concluded that a warning note should be sounded in this respect.” 
The Department of Agriculture advise all fruitgrowers and intending 
frnitgrowers to pay careful attention to the warnings issued by the Depart- 
ment. They also advise any fruit-grower who is uncertain what to plant to con- 
sult them, instead of taking the advice of travelling agents armed with finely 
illustrated catalogues of fruit, whose sole object it is to sell as many fruit trees 
as possible at the highest rate, quite irrespective of the suitability of the trees 
to the district in which they are sold. A very large proportion of the fruit trees 
sold by the travelling agents of southern nurseries is totally unsuitable to 
the warmer parts of the colony, and the planting of such can only end in 
disappointment and loss. 
ERUIT INSPECTION. 
By DANIEL JONES, 
Fruit Inspector. 
Te attention paid to horticultural pursuits in Australasia during the past year 
or two has in no respect been more pronounced than in the regulations and 
legislative enactments put in force by all the colonies in view of repressing the 
baneful effects of insect pests that play such havoe with the horticulturists’ 
interests. Hach of the colonies, in its legislative wisdom, has framed laws more 
or less stringent with a view to safeguarding fruit-erowing from the evils of 
the unrestricted introduction of certain forms of insect life that sap the 
foundation of the prosperity of the unfortunate fruit-grower—at all times 
