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Bordeaux mixture, there is no necessity to use sulphur for oidium, as the 
Bordeaux mixture answers equally as well. Don’t spray when the vines are 
~ in blossom; but with varieties that are shy setters it is often a good plan to 
sulphur when in blossom. 
The nursery should be carefully attended to; where not already done, the 
-ties of all grafts should be cut and the scions should be trained so as to make 
a single upright stem. Where buds have been putin, they should be started by 
cutting back the stock sufficiently to cause them to grow, but the stock should 
not be cut hard back all‘at once, but by degrees, always leaving a portion of 
the stock above the bud to tie the young shoot to, Plant pines and bananas 
during the month, selecting suckers from healthy plants and from plants that 
are good croppers, and that produce good fruit, as a careful selection of suckers 
always pays well. Continue the treatment for Maori or Rust Mite of the 
orange recommended in the Notes for September; and where orange bugs, 
either the green or bronze, are present, destroy every mature insect that can 
be found, so as to prevent them breeding, as the killing off of the first crop 
will materially lessen their number for the season. Hand-picking, though slow, 
is probably the best remedy, though, before the insects are fully grown, large 
numbers may ‘be destroyed by driving them on to the main branches of the 
tree and sweeping them off with a broom on to a cloth, from which they can be 
gathered and killed. Take every possible precaution against the fruit fly by 
destroying every infested fruit that you can If there are maggots in 
cumquats or any other fruits, destroy every one, as the cleaner the sweep that 
is made of the first crop of flies, the less trouble there will be throughout the 
season. Where Scale Insects have been introduced on young trees into clean ~ 
districts, every care should be taken to keep -the pest from spreading; and in 
cases where the young trees are badly affected, it will pay the grower to destroy 
them at once, as the first loss will be the least. Where leaf-eating insects 
of any kind are troublesome—such as caterpillars of kinds, the larve of the 
fig beetles, or the false ladybirds that attack all kinds of cucurbitous plants, 
potatoes, &c.—they can be readily destroyed by a spraying of Paris green, 1 oz. 
to 10 gallons of water, with lime added in as large a quantity as can be got — 
through the nozzle of the pump without choking, as this will-tend to make the 
poison stick on better to the leaves, branches, or fruit. 
Farm and Garden Notes for October. 
By H. W. GORRIE, 
Government Horticulturist. 
In is now the springtime, and the careful husbandman saith unto himself, 
“Tio, I will plant vegetables for the summer’; and he straightway goeth and - 
planteth pumpkins. i ; 
This, as a matter of fact, is usually what does take place, pumpkin and 
cabbage, and very often not so much as -that, being the only vegetables grown 
on most farms. Why this is so, it is difficult to say. There are many good 
wholesome vegetables which can be grown during the hot weather, and they 
are just as easy to grow as the eternal pumpkin and cabbage. 
Now is the time to sow beans, and of these there are many good-varieties. 
French or Kidney Beans can now be sown in all parts of the colony. 
Lima Beans are a first-class hot weather vegetable. The hotter the 
weather the better the Lima bean likes it. Sow the dwarf kinds in drills 3 
feet apart, and 18 inches between the hills, and the climbing kinds 6 feet each 
way. ; 
