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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10426, 26 April 1897, Page 6

A few months ago the Horticultural Commissioners of Fresno Co., California, reported that they had inspected 2035 orchards, embracing 1,575,323 trees, of which 1,483,616 were deciduous fruit trees, 48,267 orange, 11,267 lemon, and 32,173 olive. The deciduous trees were classified as follows :—Apple, 31,425 ; pear, 225,791 ; peach, 789.657 ; plum, 51,851 ; fig, 90,574; oherry, 3462; almond, 20,979. Of the orchards inspected, 988 were found to be infected with scale. During the season 341,099 deciduous fruit trees were brought into Fresno County. To, this number must be added 65,360 orange trees, 725 lemon, 270 grape fruit, 5945 olive, and 3000 chestnut. All of these trees were inspected when they arrived. During the season 158,467 deciduous fruit trees and 2261 orange, 234 femon, and 7856 olive trees were exported; 50,000 grape vines and 390,000 cuttings were also sent out. Fortybve orchards had been sprayed by the commissioners, tho owners having failed to obey the law. The expense of the treatment stood as a Hen against the orchards. The commissioners found that the oodlin moth, once such a pest, in Fresno County, was yielding to the influence of Paris green, and they hoped to wholly eradicate it. The commissioners estimated that between 25,000 and 50,000 trees had been saved from the moth during the season. The red spider pest had spread to an alarming I extent, and caused great damage throughoak the county. .