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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Starting with strong and healthy plants from plantations that have not 

 exhausted themselves by fruiting, and keeping the foliage well covered 

 with Bordeaux mixture, during the first season, there should be little if any 

 signs of the rust at the beginning of the second year. The plants should 

 be thoroughly sprayed with Bordeaux mixture, just as the first blossoms 

 are opening, which will admit of thoroughly coating the flower stalks and 

 the calyxes of the flowers. If the spraying was properly done the first 

 season, no further application will be necessary, but if it was neglected so 

 that it is present to any extent upon the leaves, it will be well to give a 

 second spraying, using copper sulphate solution at the rate of one pound of 

 copper sulphate to two hundred and fifty gallons of water, when the first 

 berries that set are about one half grown. 



If the plantation is to be kept another season it should have an applica- 

 tion of Bordeaux mixture soon after the fruit has been gathered. 



STRAWBERRY INSECTS. 



INSECTS OF THE ROOTS. 



The fruit and leaves of the strawberry suffer but little from insect attack 

 to what the roots and crown do. The cut- worms that are the farmer's 

 dread at corn planting time are sometimes destructive to the roots and 

 orown of the strawberry by cutting them off in feeding on them. 



Fig. 32.-3 and 4, May Beetle; 2, larva or white grub; 1, pnpa. 



The white grub, or larva of the May beetle, often feeds on the roots 

 and at times becomes quite destructive. One of the worst pests when it 

 does occur is the 



