Miscellaneous Notes. IMPORTED CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 8

Miscellaneous Notes. IMPORTED CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

Mr T. Wells, of Cambridge, Auckland, has just received a, consignment of chrysanthemumi from England, 39 out of 40 surviving the* \voyage. Thirty-one of the number are belio\ed to be new to the colonies. Mr W. B. JKuckbnd nas alro received a consignment i~ Übvf varieties, and it is believed Cambridge aarf now the largest number of new varieties in the southern hemisphere. I v MEW ±msST IN ENGLISH ORCHARDS. i **h«)t or tne apple trees all round London — anles-" i.aev have had special attention — are I now m a deplorable plight, writes the Daily News. For many seasons past they j have been subject to the attacks of small ' caterpillars — the larvce of Yponomenta cognatellus or padellus. In many localities 1 every leaf has been reduced to a mere brown skeleton, and, of course, the young apples all drop off An entomologist, writing a couple of montfis ago m me News, points out that now is the time to cieai with this pest, which of late yeai's has neen slowly exterminating apple trees from the gardens ~ f London suburbs, and will inpvifcaW-y xtestvoy all that are not looked afto*- The little nuisances having done all thp misrhipf there is for them io do, are pust now m the cocoon stage of their pernicious oxisteace. snugly tucked up bunches in tho nooks and corners of the. trunks and brancues. Now is the time to wreak vengeance on them. Whore they can be reached they should all be smashed, and where they cannot, branches should be cut off and destroyed, or the tree should be syringed with an ounce of Paris green mixed" in lOgal or lbgal of water. If they are left a little longer, the small moths will come out and la^ egg-a toi»leext year's devastation.