The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1886. ORCHARD PESTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2464, 30 November 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1886. ORCHARD PESTS.

A veky valuable handbook on orchard pests has been published by the South Australian Government, wbioh furnishes fruitgrowers with more practical and reliable information in dealing with the enemies of apple and pear trees than' any other publication wbioh has come under our notice. The title of the work is somewhat alarming, viz,, " Report on the' Fusicladiums." Technical names of this kind are apt to ' break' Colonial readers, and the work would sell better if it simply sailed under ita minor title of "black spot, acalo, and mildew diseases." People engaged in growing apples cannot grasp the ideas conveyed by a Fimcladium chorus. In spite, however, of hard words, .a very large proportion of i the work is intelligible to all who may peruse its contents, Lists are given in it of tho various varieties of fruits which Buffer least from spot, scile, and mildew, so that in planting it is possible to select sorts which will be fairly free from invasion .by orohard pests.. The main remedies recommended for treating infected trees art simple enough in their character, a leading one being an emulsion of soap; and keroaine, which can ba readily and cheaply prepared by any fruit grower; A very useful suggestion in this treatise is a recommendation in favor ot a small apparatus for spraying trees, oalled " a

cyclone nozzle," which has bean introduced in America, and is likely to supersede the syringe, which lias so long been in vogue amongst gardeners, From a diagram published in this work Dr Hosking of this town has had a cyclone nozzle made, and finds it sends with trifling physical exertion an effective spray with which the ordinary syringe cannot compete. The advantage of this nozzle lies in the fineness and force of the spray which it produces, and with which it exerts a penetrating power over all parts of a tree. We have seen the specimen which Dr Hosking lias had made and the spray it emits resembles a cloud of Gre mist. For cleaning roses it would bo simply in-1 valuable, as it is adapted for using on either the smallest shrub or tbe largest tree. Wo understand that Messrs M. Caselberg and Co, have arranged to supply in this town copies of the " report on the Fiwioladium" to all who may desire to consult perhaps the best guide for dealing with orchard pests in the Southern hemisphere, and all those whose fruit trees are troubled with scale blight, codlin moth, and other diseases will do well to obtain a copy of this very interesting work.