12 CARROT. 



chrysalis cases are cylindrical and of a rusty or oclireous colour, and from 

 these (in summer) the little blackish green two-winged fly, with a rusty- 

 ochre coloured head, comes out in about three or four weeks. 



The few following notes are given just to show the mischief the 

 attack is still causing, and, in the first, mention is made of the mischief 

 beginning at the time of the last thinning. 



I was favoured with this report by Archdeacon Henry de Winton, of 

 Llandrindod, Eadnorshire, on the 14th September. Mr. de Winton 

 observed: — "The Carrot has now, for three years in succession, been 

 completely destroyed in my garden by tlie pest known as ' the Carrot 

 grub.' Its ravages are probably well known to you. This year, after 

 carefully preparing ground for Carrots by deep digging in the previous 

 autumn, I dressed it heavily, first with salt, then with soot fresh from 

 the chimney early in the spring, and thirdly with quick-lime just 

 before sowing. 



" The seed came up, and grew admirably until about the end of 

 July, when I had just given the plants their final thinning ; since that 

 date the grub has completely destroyed the most flourishing beds of 

 Carrots that I have ever grown, the only difference between this and 

 the two previous years being that this year the ravages of the grub 

 have commenced a little later. In other respects the dressing of salt, 

 soot, and lime seems to have produced no effect whatever in the way of 

 prevention ; nor have further applications of soot and lime, in the way 

 of arresting the ravages of the grub when first evidenced by the fading 

 of the leaf. 



" When taken up, the root is found to contain several creatures 

 resembling small white maggots, which have eaten their way mto it, 

 commencing at the lower extremity. I may add that mine is a garden 

 first cultivated six years ago, with varying soil from stiff clay to light 

 loam, and that for the last three years Carrots have been sown in 

 different soils with the same result. Previously the crops of Carrots 

 had been very good, and entirely free from any such injury. Some of 

 my neighbours have suffered from the same pest." 



Another correspondent, from the neighbourhood of Kelso, N. B., 

 notes injury to Carrots beginning when the roots are of some size, and 

 that its advent means complete destruction of the crop, although the 

 soil is admirably adapted for the growth of vegetables. 



Another enquirer, Mr. James Somerville, writing from Park Place, 

 Alloa (Co. Clackmannan, N.B.), with specimens of maggots taken from 

 Carrots accompanying, asked what could be done in the way of pre- 

 venting these destroying the crop. " I have tried, year after year, to 

 grow this vegetable, but find, when they are about half-grown, the under 

 leaves turn quite rusti/, and on pulling them up these maggots are seen 

 to be boring through the root. I have tried them in fresh pasture land, 



