February, 1910] 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER 
Interesting Orchard Notes. 
The present apple season hag un- 
doubtedly proved the efficiency of the 
arsenate of lead mixtures to eradicate the 
codlin moth 
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Last season’s citrus plantings in New 
Sonth Wales were so extensive that many © 
of the nurserymen were unable to provide 
the trees required. 
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The free distribution of trees has been 
carried on by the South Australian State 
Forest Administration for 27 years, 
during which time 7,266,525 trees have 
been given away to 34,998 applicants. 
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The principal kinds of trees planted 
last year were:—Pinus insignus, Euca- 
lyptus leucoxylon, E. corynoalyx, EH. 
largiflorens, E. 
excelsior, Casuarina glauca, and C. 
Lehmanii. 
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Mr. Walter Gill, the conservator of 
forests, states that during the year ending 
June 30, 1909, 277,616 trees were sent 
out from the seven Government nurseries 
to 1,680 persons, and that catalogues, 
with instructions as to cultivation, were 
issued free, 
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The Pennsylvania Railway Company 
are doing a big thing in planting trees 
for sleepers and other purposes. Already 
nearly three and a half million trees have 
been planted by this corporation within 
the last three years, and preparations are 
in progress to plant 1,000,000 more. 
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In the Pacific north-west, the States of 
Oregon, Washington, and Montana, the 
production of apples is increasing at an 
extraordinarily rapid rate. At the 
present rate of increase, it is calculated 
that in another ten years there will be 
produced annually in the aboye localities 
100,000 car-loads, or 60,000,000 boxes. 
It is thought that the demand for apples 
will increase in proportion, as the pro- 
duction of this fruit expands. 
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We post ‘The Australian Gardener’ 
direct for 3s. 6d. per annum. 
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Vodlin Moth. 
she Horticultural Instructor (Mr. G, 
Quinn) writes the ‘Journal of Avricul- 
ture of S.A.’ as ‘ollows anent this pest : — 
‘During the present apple season the 
inspectors of orcha:ds have been actively 
engaged in attempting to reduce the 
ravages of the codlin moth; and, with a 
view to carrying out the requirements of 
the Jaw more strictly, a great number of 
useless apple and pear trees in the Mount 
Lofty ranges have been cut down by tho 
Hardy Catalpa, Wirrabarra Forest, 
20 years old. 
inspestors’ instructions. - It is fully 
recognised that, as the law does not 
empower the officers to cleanse the 
gardens at the expense of the occupiers 
who refuse to do anything themselves to 
destroy this pest, it is only a waste of 
time and a danger to the surrounding 
orchards to prosecute such persons, and 
consequently the law which permits the 
destruction of neglected trees is being 
put into operation, because when the tree 
is removed there can be no further 
infection of the fruit of the careful neigh- 
bor, and in the long run the process is 
far cheaper for the recalcitrant occupier 
or owner of the useless and neglected 
tree,’ 
