This is a small and very useful pamphlet, issued by Mr. Chas. A. Green, editor of the Fruit Grower.

State Board of Horticulture of California, Annual Report for 1883. From A. H. Webb, San Francisco, Secretary.

Although this body is incorporated as a Board of Horticulture, we judge from the report that it has nothing to do with horticulture in its accepted sense, but aims at the development of commercial fruit growing. This is rather a branch of agriculture than of horticulture. Horticulture deals with the garden - agriculture with the farm, and a fruit farm is not a fruit garden. The fruit farm excludes everything that we can properly understand by a garden - hortus - while horticulture takes the garden in as its main idea, making fruit culture a part only, though an important part of its operations. The confusion of terms does a great injury to the cause of real horticulture.

In its proper field - Pomology - this report will be found of great value to fruit growers on the Pacific slope. Insects and diseases receive particular attention. We are especially interested in noting how our brethren are battling with the codlin moth, and it will be worth noting in the future how far the heroic efforts to stamp out the enemy are rewarded by permanent success. Mr. De Long here tells about their trials. They nearly exhausted the fruit crop one season in the effort to destroy the insect. In one night they killed 1579 moths. During the season they killed 11,926 moths. Bands were placed around trees, and thousands of the larvae destroyed, of which no account was kept. Somehow, all this destruction made little difference to the injury done to the crop. In 4018 boxes of apples only 1500 baskets were got out good. In the language of the report "it is found almost impossible to cope with the insect." In an apple house, after apples had been pretty well selected, moths would continue to come out all the season. They were killed by entering with a lamp each day, and the number killed recorded. They commenced Jo kill on April 15; by May 15 they had 86 dead. From this time there was an increase daily.

For instance, May 19, 32; May 25, 133; May 28, 194; June 2, 275; June 4, 308; June 7, 517. From this time out there is a decrease, though slowly, for on June 15 there were 436, and on June 26, 425, and on July 2, a sudden jump to 492, when the decrease became very rapid; July 8, fell below the hundred, being but 57; August 3, only 7 are recorded, and the last ones caught were on August 12, when there were 3.

The continued efforts at destruction must, however, tell in the long run. Lamps set in tins filled with water seems a good plan for orchard work; attracted by the light they tumble in the water and drown.

The report is one of the most useful that has come to our table for a long while.