. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . e troubles of citrus culture are as many and as varied as those obtainingmostly elsewhere, but they are not any greater, and here as in other citrus-growing regionssuccessful culture is largely synonymous with insect control. Apart from maladies of aphysiological character—mainly, if not entirely, attributable to faulty stocks, mal-nutrition orinattention to the natural requirements of the citrus plant—scale-insects rank as the chiefpests. Their successful control is, however, both practicable and profitable. Fruit-fly hasfrequently
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . e troubles of citrus culture are as many and as varied as those obtainingmostly elsewhere, but they are not any greater, and here as in other citrus-growing regionssuccessful culture is largely synonymous with insect control. Apart from maladies of aphysiological character—mainly, if not entirely, attributable to faulty stocks, mal-nutrition orinattention to the natural requirements of the citrus plant—scale-insects rank as the chiefpests. Their successful control is, however, both practicable and profitable. Fruit-fly hasfrequently been most destructive to orange crops, but it is now one of the easiest pests tocontrol, the conditions obtaining during the period of attack being most suitable to the methodto which reference has already been made. The PAWPAW grows almost as a weed along the coast and fruits prolifically. It isnot subject to either insect nor fungus attack ; and, as with the avocado, its possibilitiesin other South African markets has not been sufficiently Kaffir Pears 420
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