TOMATO GROWERS.
The Christchurch Tomato and Stone Fruit Growers’ Association met on Saturday evening, the president (Mr H. T. Falla) in the chair. There was an attendance of nearly a hundred members. The Dominion Council of the Tomato, Soft Fruit and Produce Growers, Did., advised that a levy of Is per member of all affiliated associations had been decided upon. The Cawthron Institute advised, in reply to a letter requesting information about parasites of the Cabbage White moth on cabbages and the potato moth on tomatoes, that the Cabbage White was partly controlled in Europe by the braconid wasp (Apanteles glomeratus), which was the best of many parasites. The potato moth had two important I parasites—Habrobracon johanseni and Apanteles scutellaris, of which the former was the more important. Both parasites could be imported and prob V reared in New Zealand if funds : t' d So far it had not been poss b'e +■• consider the Importation of either. The letter was received.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 194, 17 August 1931, Page 14
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