50 aT -- -GOOSEBERRY: 
‘with black; abdomen yellow or orange, more or less marked above 
with black. The expanse of wings half to two thirds of an inch. 
Prevention AND Remepy.—The fact of the cocoons, from which the 
‘Sawflies come out, being formed in the ground, just below the surface, 
beneath the bushes, on which the caterpillars fed, is the -basis of. all 
reliable methods of prevention of recurrence of attack. 
It is obvious that if the surface of the ground containing these 
eocoons is skimmed off and destroyed, this cannot fail to lessen the 
‘amount of Sawflies which would have hatched from them. — But for 
this, it is neeessary that the cocoons should be destroyed, and if they 
are skimmed off this can be done; but. digging them in is an ex- 
ceedingly doubtful preventive. 
It is a practice sometimes to scrape the surface-earth from beneath 
the Gooseberry-bushes in the autumn, and to form it in a line between 
the rows, and there dig it in, and doubtless some amount of-attack is 
-got rid of in this way; but for the plan to be at all trustworthy, the 
earth should be trenched in, so that the infested earth should be put 
thoroughly down at a depth from which the Sawflies (if they developed 
at all) could not come up in spring. 
Sometimes, however, the scraped-off earth is left Gis I have seen it 
myself) lying in lines between the Gooseberry-bushes without anything 
further being ‘done to it, and the result was, as might have been ex- 
pected, the cocoons lay uninjured through the winter, and as the 
-grounds were large, the mischief that followed in spring was to a 
-serious extent. 
At a time when I had attack in my own garden, I found that it 
answered to completely remove the soil for a few inches deep in autumn 
from beneath the infested bushes, and dress with manure; and the 
following note, sent me some years ago by Mr. Alex. Anderson, from 
The Gardens, Oxenford Castle, Dalkeith, N.B., is well worth atten- 
tion :—‘‘ For twenty years Gooseberry Sawfly caterpillars have not 
-occurred in the gardens under treatment in any quantity. The surface- 
soil under the bushes is annually removed in winter, a deep hole is 
dug in one of the quarters; and in this the removed soil, with whatever 
may be in it, is buried. The soil under the Gooseberry-bushes is 
replaced by that ont of the hole, with the addition of some manure.” 
—(A. A.) 
The above is only one of various reports given by superintendent 
gardeners as to the thorough success of removal of the infestation bodily. 
As a lesser measure, dressing with lime, or, better still, with gas- 
‘lime, in early spring under the bushes before pricking the surface, has 
-been found very beneficial. The sprinkling of gas-lime must of course be 
given with caution as to amount. 3 | 
