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Another species, C. leguminioola, feeds in the flower heads and 

 also lives at the roots during the winter. 



The adult fly of Cccidomyla trifoUi is a small brown midge with 

 a reddish brown abdomen ringed with black, the two wings are 

 yellow at the base and covered with brown hairs and are somewhat 

 iridescent. 



Little is definitely known CDUcerning this pest. 



There is no remedy, but a good dressing of artificial manure often 

 carries the plant over the damage. As such pests may continue 

 from year to year, I should feed off the clover and plough deeply 

 with a skim coulter, so as to bury the larvee and pupjc in the soil, 

 so that when the flies liatch out they cannot come above ground. 

 Of course this is only advised if the crop is sev^erely damaged. Such 

 pests when once they become plentiful may cause endless harm 

 unless drastic measures are taken against them. 



►Some doubt has been expressed by Miss Ormerod of these red 

 maggots doing damage, but I cannot agree on that point, as I have 

 seen acres of clover ruined by them. There were no other insects 

 present, no sign of eel worm, and not enough fungi to account for the 

 haroi done in any of the specimens sent this year. 



ANIMALS IXJUEIOUS TO FLUIT AND FEUIT TREES. 

 Big-bud Mite in Black Currants. 



A number of enquiries have Iteeu received concerning the Big 

 Bud Mite. Diseased plants have been sent from various parts of 

 Kent, from Harpenden, and from Guildford. 



Doubts have been expressed that any clean black currant stock 

 can be obtained. As far as Kent is concerned there is very little, 

 but in other districts a few enquiries soon revealed that such con- 

 ditions do not appear everywhere. Mr. Wm. Bear, of Magham 

 Down, Hailsham, writes that his Lee's Prolific are quite clean ; some 

 infested Baldwins he obtained were eventually destroyed and the 

 disease reduced to a minimum. This stock of Lee's Prolific came 

 from Preston. I applied to the grower and his answer was that he 

 had stock of Lee's Prolific and Carter's Champion quite clean. 

 These two kinds he had grown for years and had kept free from 

 mites ; but Black Baldwins he had given up growing, having found 

 two or three bushes, purchased three or four years ago, with a few 



