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iype are best worked on peach roots. Burbank, October Purple, Wickson, Red 
eart, and Kelsey are about the best kinds. The trees are apt to overbear, and the 
fruit requires thinning. Unfortunately, the fruit fly is very partial to this fruit. 
Fras.—This fruit does best on warm, well-drained soils, and in situations as free 
from frost as possible. Under such conditions the following varieties will all be found 
to do well:—White Adriatic, Brown Turkey, Brunswick, Coldi-Signora Nero, Large 
Black Genoa. 
Otrves.—Although there is practically no demand for olives in this State, there 
are, in my opinion, few places better adapted for the culture of this fruit than the 
Downs. ‘Lhe tree is a strong grower and most prolific bearer, and would make one of 
the best breakwinds or shade trees for the plain country. It does best on chocolate 
soils with rotten rock subsoil, but will thrive on almost any soil once it becomes 
established. I cannot say what varieties are likely to do the best, as only a few named 
sorts have been tried, all of which have certainly done well ; so that 1 feel sure that 
most of the very best varieties for oil and pickling will do well. 
Cirrus Fruits.—No citrus fruits can be grown to compete with those raised in 
more suitable parts of the State ; hence their cultivation is not recommended. 
Loquat.—This fruit does well. The Gigantic variety is the best to grow. 
Mouserrtes do well. The Black is the finest fruit where the trees can be got to 
grow. ; 
Watyvts.—Though not cultivated to any extent, the walnut should do well 
wherever there are any deep alluvial soils, and, once it becomes established, it is likely 
to become a profitable tree. 3 
Prcan Nor.—This tree will probably thrive in soils such as I have mentioned as 
being suitable to the walnut. 
Berry Frouirs.—With the exception of the strawberry, no berry fruits are worth 
owing. Where water is available, the strawberry will do well. Pink’s Prolific, 
ffrollope’s Victoria, Royal Sovereign, and Laxton’s Noble are some of the best varieties 
to grow. ‘ 
Qurincrs.—Apple-shaped and Portugal are the hardiest and best. 
Psrstmmons.—This fruit is not a success on heavy soils; on free soils, however, a 
few trees may be planted. Seedless varieties, such as Hacheya or Yemon are the best 
kinds. 
Cuerriss.—I cannot recommend the growing of this fruit on a commercial scale, 
but for home consumption the following kinds can be tried:—Early Purple Guigne, 
Belle d’Orleans, and ‘Twyford Bigarrean. 
In conclusion, 1 may say that, for commercial purposes, apricots, plums, and 
peaches will probably be found most profitable, but any of the other fruits I have 
mentioned can be grown for local use or home consumption. 
Mr. F. W. Warmineron (Degilbo): In respect to this matter of the 
conservation of water I may say, as some members of the Conference have 
at various times alluded to other countries, that in my native county, Devon- 
shire, there are rivers which without conservation would empty themselves the 
same as the creeks in Queensland do. There, as in the river Exe, for instance, 
yarious dams are thrown across the natural courses of the rivers, and sheets of 
water are thrown back perhaps a quarter of a mile; and I think if a similar 
system had been adopted with some of the creeks in this colony water would 
have been conserved for starving stock in many a district that now keenly feels 
the want of it. 
Mr. Owrn Jonxs (Peachester): Probably all over the world more money 
has been spent on water conservation than on railways; and in Italy, Spain, 
India, China, Egypt, Japan, and lately in Florida, immense sums have been 
spent, Spain has a lot of alluvial flats, and to-day 4,500 square miles of the 
Tberian peninsula are irrigated with the dams made by the Moors 600 years ago. 
The water rate charged is 26s. an acre, and for that you get 80 inches of water 
in the year, which pays enormously. The population of Spain is 81 to the 
square mile, but in the irrigated districts the rate is 1,600. In India the 
