FRUIT DISEASES CONTROL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17659, 21 December 1920, Page 6

FRUIT DISEASES CONTROL.

KEEPING OUT NEW INFECTION.

The control of fruit diseases was dealt with in an address by Mr. G. A. Green to the Te Kauwhata Fruitgrowers' Association last week.

Mr. R. H. Travers presided. Mr. Green said that the aim of the Nurserymen's Association to supply the best and most healthy trees was largely discounted by the introduction from overseas of the codKn moth, plum canker, citrus varaccsa, citrus collar-rot, pear midge, brown rot. and fire blight. Speaking of the work of the Central Fire Blight Committee, he said eternal vigilance was the price of success and while the aim should be eradication, the growers must not lose heart if this ■was to be accomplished at once or not at all. Mr. Green urged more liberal supj port financially by the Government, the I passage of an Horticultural Industries Bill. ! the establishment of a Dominion College J of Horticulture attached to the University, and the setting up of a. Bud Selection Association. All these were approved J by the meeting, and copies of resolutions j will be sent to -the Minister and departi mental heads.

A further meeting is to be held at * later date to consider what steps should be taken to prevent the introduction into New Zealand of the fruit tree root bom. citrus canker, and other diseases cot known to be here as yet.