APPLE PESTS.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7712, 18 November 1890, Page 6

APPLE PESTS.

The British Fruitgrowers' Society fell Its first provincial Conference at LsimUn August last. Among the papers w< fas due by Mr A. H. Pearson, s wsi! nown grower of apples, from iwhiei ,ke the following " It may perhaps strike Gomo ens tbst the idea of planting fcr profit i» oat.«! place, when we look around ocr orctanb and see the trees devastated with ti» caterpillar, and all nroapecii of W marred, if not blighted. Some will «« go so far, I doubb not, as to say that Ap& growing Is a delusion find a snare, be? J think there is no reason for ue to e&tfi their view. That we hare aJI suiferti loss this season, and many o! us Ua\ season, .fa true, bu& Ime as caus? for despair; such things have hep peoed in the past, ami h&va paired away in due course, X hava heart mj father speak of a year when oat Apgk trees, which cover nearly 100 acres had eearcely a leaf Mi upon thsm, aaa such a thing as a perfect lea? wai hardij to be found. The whole of the bkwlms the appearance of bi;ing scorched,»« huge bonfires had bjen ligfcted mm them, bat In the conrue of a few d»n« immenee flock of starliags found the way the orchards, and ia aa alme*t 1? credibly short time they practically ems. off the caterpillar. Iβ wIU be Iα Ot recollection of most ot you that a »* years ago the Oate trees we» si many parts of the aountry complex? diveeted of their foliage b; 'ff pillars, and -some few died fea the effects, bat I never heard to. acy landed proprietors gave up w Ides of plantloff Oaks in comeqnence, $& the old Oaka to-day loolc as luiafWDtw ever they did before their trial. TfesPettti disease has not yet frightened oarteotw in the Green Isle frota caltlntiv-K'J most uaefoi tuber, nor are we .getol-f turn our backs upon fruit culture few* B3 of » few difficulties. Is is not my to apeak to yoa upon the cuterpUHWpj but If it were I should adrlso who have large orchurde, and ejwaw. those whose trees are large ™M pareue a policy of masterly in«etl«W«J Instead ofpurchaaiuK Paris green. t£*£ purple, foroe-pumps, and o her ww to keep your moasy la your P?**fc tect the birds, manure the «e»i i,a ! leave the Issue with Nature. i