550 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Dec., 1901. 
methods of pruning, so as to produce high-class fruit, which must be given, 
and every possible means used against that arch-enemy the fruit fly ; then some- 
thing worth haying will be the result. 
The great fault of many of our settlers and farmers is that even where 
they don’t grow for market they plant a certain number of trees, which cost 
money in the first place, and then let them go their own sweet way. This 
condition of things is just one of the evils I want to combat by this article and 
these pictures. 
“Oh! but,” the farmer may say, ‘you can do all sorts of fine things on the 
State farms, because you don’t consider expense, and you have the Government 
at your back.” 
This is a serious error, and I want to assure my readers that we are 
striving to show that it is possible for the farmer to grow as good quality fruit 
for his household as we can grow on our farms, and that without excessive 
cost. But we are trying to do more than that! We are trying to clear the 
way of difficulties ; trying to show how best to combat the various enemies of 
the fruitgrower—trying to show how to do things better, and so get better 
results. 
From the peaches we go on to the apricots represented by illustrations 
9and10. These give a fair idea of the growth of our apricots, and are part - 
of a row of Royals which bore a good crop last year, and promise even better 
this season. These trees have proved their suitability to the conditions of soil 
and climate on the Downs, and readers of the Journal may remember my. 
report of last season on the satisfactory quality of fruit and the prices obtained 
In Nos. 11 and 12 we have the Bartlett pear. 
No. 13 is another of the same variety, and they give a very good idea of the 
habit of growth of their class. These trees were very slow in getting into 
growth, as is the way with pears, but last year they got hold of the ground 
and went ahead in a surprising way. 
No. 11 was a very wayward specimen, and a difficult tree to prune satis- 
factorily, when future tendency of growth, the constant action of wind, and a 
few other things were taken into consideration. 
I fancy I hear some reader say, “ Well, you've murdered that tree, any- 
how!” 
My reply is that I did just what I thought best, and it is my intention to 
follow the growth this season, and by a bit of judicious regulating and 
checking to make that tree what I want it to be; and later on I hope to present 
to our readers the result in another picture. The fact is that, with the late 
rains last season, after the long, dry spell, there was a furious top growth, and 
the tree was distinctly in danger of becoming top heavy—a thing to be avoided 
when we think of the strong winds. — 
It has got a severe dressing down, but I think the results will satisfy my 
critics later on. 
No. 18 is put in as showing a better average style of the growth of this 
class of pear. 
No. 12 plate was unfortunately broken, and that will account for the line 
across the picture. 
Nos. 14 and 15 show a pair of a different variety and habit of growth. 
The wood is very sturdy, shows good bud development, and gives a good idea, 
in the unpruned specimen, of the arrangement of wood under last year’s 
treatment. The pruned specimen gives further promise of a useful and 
shapely tree. 
No. 16 is a single specimen of the growth of our apples at Westbrook, 
but, as they were hardly ready for pruning, I have not cut it back at all. 
However, we have here a good shapely growth on a well-established butt and 
lower limbs, and, on the whole, a tree which should give a very good account of 
itself later on. 
