Excerpt from Fruit-Blights and Diseases of Fruit-Trees: Interim Report The appointment of inspectors, with power to order the destruction of any affected trees, has been advocated, but no absolute necessity for such a measure has been made out at present; and with the more general diffusion of information about the diseases of plants it is not probable that such need will arise. The codlin-moth Act is strictly permissive, and at present has not been adopted in a single district, although the insect is generally distributed' through the colony, and in some localities has materially diminished the annual yield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.