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to a mixture used with success in South Australia (under the 

 name of " Bur ford's Soft-soap and Sulphur Compound") 

 against several kinds of bark attack, as Aphides, Keel Spider, 

 &c. Probably any of the common soft-soap washes, especially 

 those that are mixed with sulphur and mineral oil, would be 

 of use, and if a stronger application was needed, the following 

 recipe for " Burford's No. 1 Kerosine Soap" might be of 

 use : — " Take equal weights of kerosine and soft-soap and 

 stir together in a convenient vessel, which should be placed 

 in the sun in summer, or in a bucket containing hot water in 

 the winter time. In from ten to twenty minutes' time the 

 two ingredients will coalesce, when it can be diluted as re- 

 quired " ; * probably in this country the hot water would be 

 more to be trusted to than the heat of the sun at any time 

 of year. 



To the above suggestions of preventive or remedial treat- 

 ment may be added, with regard to date of clearing infested 

 boughs in winter pruning, that it is desirable this should be 

 done, and the scale-infested boughs cleared from the ground 

 and burnt before the time when the larval scales will be 

 hatching and dispersing themselves about bushes. It should 

 he done quite by the commencement of February. Also it is 

 desirable, after the prunings have been gathered up, to stir t 

 the surface of the soil under the bushes, and to throw a little 

 quick-lime, or any preventive mixture preferred, on the soil 

 just round the stems to prevent the little scales making their 

 way back to the branches. 



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Hazel and Filbert Bud Mite. Phytoptus avellmm, n, sp., Nalepa; 

 P. vermi/ormis (Vallot, Targioni-Tozzetti, Nalepa). 



The mite bud-gall attack of Phyto2)tiis avellana to the Hazel 

 and Filbert is so very similar both in appearance of the 



* The above, and other useful recipes, will be found in the ' Eeport on the 

 Fusicladiums (Black-spot, Scab, and Mildew Diseases), Codlin Moth, etc.,' by 

 the late Frazer S. Crawford, Inspector under the Vine, &c., Protection Act, 

 South Australia. E. Spiller, Government Printer, Adelaide. 



t In mentioninji; that stirring the surface-soil and throwing on quick-lime is 

 useful, I most particularly wish to observe that I do not advise " deep digging " 

 under the bushes as a preventive measure for this or any other Gooseberry 

 attack. As far as I am able to form an opinion, such a measure would be 

 injurious in the extreme to the roots of the Gooseberry bushes. — (E. A. 0.) 



