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Colias philodice. Colours j ellow 

 and black. 



Much damage has been caused, however, to some orchard and farm crops from the unusual 



character of the season throughout this section ; it 



having been generally speaking extremely wet and 



remarkably cool. The principal crops thus severely 



injured are the apple, clover, potato, corn and tomato. 



The first mentioned (apple) is very abundant, but the 



fruit is being destroyed by a fungus growth, which may 



not appear to be of much consequence when the apples 



are being packed but develops enormously in a short 



time and renders the fruit unfit for sale. A sample is Fig 



herewith submitted of a test case, where a fruit 



packer put up a barrel of choice apples which had insignificant looking spots when packed ; 



they were packed in the usual careful manner, placed on board of a steamboat and left under 



the usual conditions of transhipment on board for 

 three weeks, at the expiration of that time they 

 were opened up and found to be covered with the 

 large scabs which appear on the samples exhibited. 

 [The sample apples shown were so damaged as to be 

 perfectly worthless.] 



The potato crop is almost an entire failure owing 

 to a blight which ptruck the vines when in bloom and 

 23. Pieris rap*. Colours : white and black. developed into rot in the tubers. 



A large proportion of the red clover hay was partially, and in cases wholly, spoiled in the 

 curing owing to the continuous rains prevalent at that time. From a like cause coupled witk 

 the low temperature, corn and tomatoes, which are grown in large quantities for canning pur- 

 poses were, generally speaking, a failure. , 



Division No. 3. — Toronto By E. M. Walker. 



During the present year but few observations were made by the writer on the ravages of 

 injurious insects, owing to a necessary absence from the city during a large part of the seasr>n. 



Fig. 24. Tussock Moth : e male moth ; a female moth on cocoon ; 

 b young larva ; c chrysalis. 



and being fully occupied with other matters during the remainder. A few of the most promi- 

 nent pests were noted, however, though doubtless many species of equal importance escaped 

 observation. 



Tent caterpillars (Clisiozampa Americana) were not specially bad this year. A few were 

 seen on the wild black cherry early in the seison but fruit trees on the whole have been com- 

 paratively free from them. 



Another enemy of the apple, the Codling moth {Carpocapsa pomonella) committed consid- 

 erable injury this season, and in one orchard, for example, on Davenport Road, evidences of its 

 presence could be detected in about seventy-five per cent, of the apples. 



