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Addition of Dinitro Compounds to D.D.T. to Prevent Outbreak of Spider Mites - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIT is frequently observed that the use of sprays containing D.D.T. on fruit trees leads to a severe outbreak of Tetranychid mites or red spiders. Research workers who have obtained excellent ...
Calendar of Customs and Festivals - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoA rite practised on Christmas Eve as well as on New Year's Eve in many parts of Great Britain, but especially in the south and west, was that of wassailing the fruit trees. A bowl of eider and ...
The Caterpillar Attack on Fruit Trees - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoA GOOD deal has been heard recently about the caterpillar plague on fruit trees. In some parts of Kent, Sussex, Herefordshire, and Worcstershire orchards have been denuded of their foliage, and many more partially damaged.
Scientific and Industrial Research in New Zealand - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoAN admirable survey of the work carried out under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand, during 1927-38 has been issued by the Department as Bulletin No. 69. It includes ...
The Pollination of Fruit Trees - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoINVESTIGATIONS carried out in this country, in America, and elsewhere have demonstrated the fact that many of our cultivated varieties of apple, pear, plum, &c., are self-sterile. They have ...
Quarantine in Italy - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoALLOW me to say a few words in defence of the prohibitive measures taken by the Italian Government against the introduction into our country of that pest, the phylloxera, and which, though subjected ...
Reduplication of Seasonal Growth - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoFROM time to time instances of this in the case of foliage have been recorded by correspondents in the pages of NATURE. This year I have noticed not only an unusually early appearance of this ...
Bibliographical and Intelligence Services - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoTHE Proceedings of the British Society for International Bibliography, 1, Part 1-3 (1939) include a paper by J. E. Wright on the special library and information bureau established in connexion ...
A Founder of the Royal Horticultural Society - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoTHE Royal Horticultural Society was founded at a meeting on March 7, 1804, at Mr. Hatchard's house in Piccadilly. Charles Greville, whose biography forms the subject of a paper by the present ...
The Fumigation of Fruit Trees - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoTHE systematic way in which fruit crops are protected from insect pests and other natural dangers in California has often been mentioned in these columns. Among the enemies of citrus plants ...
