September 1, 1908 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
33 
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himself. 
A recent visltor to South Austalia (a 
fruit salesman of neaaly 50 years’ ex- 
perience in Covent Garden), stated he 
had no hesitation in saying that the 
South Australian apples were superior to 
any others he had received from Australia. 
This gentleman also expressed the opinion 
that there was almost unlimited room for 
expansion in our-export trade. ‘ 
German gardening journals state that 
the railway authorities at Frankfort-on- 
the-Main intend to afford their em- 
ployees a course of instruction in the 
cultivation and care of fruit trees. The 
purposes of the instruction afforded are 
the cultivation of the fruit ‘trees planted 
on the railway embankments, and the 
formation of new fruit plantations by the 
railway laborers. 
Orchardists and horticulturalists gene- 
rally recognise the great value of tobacco 
in any form for dealing with many. of 
the numerous pests which attack our trees 
and plants. Its price and sometimes a 
difficulty in procuring a suitabie article 
have considerably interfered with its 
general use, but now we find that to- 
bacco stems and other refuse of the plant 
may be had ata price so reasonable that 
it is placed within the reach of all. One 
pound weight of the stems should be 
boiled for half an hour in a quart of water. 
Then add water to make up for what was 
lost in the boiling, and the solution is 
ready. ° 
A method of propagation we have seen 
adopted in HEyypt and in one or two 
other countries is called “‘ ariel layering,” 
It is adapted only as a method of 
increasing woody subjects, such as 
camellias, oranges, mongolias, ginkyos, & 
where the specimens are standards, and 
have no shoots near tbe ground which 
can be brought down and layered in the 
usual way A French writer M. Jules 
Charrett, writes thus:—First ring the 
branch to be layered below a strong bud, 
removing the bark for five or six inilli- 
metres during the growing season, a 
cicatrix then forming on the superior 
edge, In the autumn or spring following 
he arranges a non-perforated pan just 
below this point, which he fills with 
water; in this he places a well-drained pot 
with a little soil, the pot being slotted 
half way down to admit the branch, which. 
is then bent with the bud in the angle, 
the extremity brought upright and in the 
centre. The pot is then filled up, and 
covered with chopped damp moss. The 
outer pan must be-replenished with water, 
and the resulting growth tipped. Another 
lan is to have two pots, both slotted, 
and filled with moss kept constantly 
damp. 
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