QUESTION BOX. 445 



*' What is known as the spineless gooseberry offered by C. 

 H. Hunter, New York?" 



Mr. Philips, (Wisconsin): Better let it alone. 



"Who has a remedy for the currant borer? " 



Mr. J. S. Harris: Do not have any bushes for him to live in, 

 and he will soon disappear. (Laughter). 



Mr. Elliot: The question is what to do with the new growth 

 he gets into. When Mr. Peifer was here a few years ago, I 

 put that question to him, and his remedy was to grow willows 

 next to the bushes. 



Judge Moyer: It is the saw-fly that lays the egg and devel- 

 ops the worm, and the way is to cut them off. 



" What are the best five varieties of Russian apples? " 



Pres. Underwood: I think Mr. Somerville has answered that. 

 Can you tell in a minute. Mr. Somerville? 



Mr. Wm. Somerville: As far as my experience has gone 

 with Russian apples, I would say the Longfield, the Juicy Bur, 

 the Rosy Aport, and I am at a loss to know the other one; I 

 think the Repka, and I have good hopes for the Anisim — I 

 would make that the fifth. 



Mr. G. J. Kellogg: Is the Anisim the same as Patten's 

 Greening? 



Mr. Somerville: No, it is not. 



Mr. Harris: It is the same as Mr. Tuttle's Zuzoif. 



Mrs. A. A. Kennedy: I set out some raspberry plants this 

 spring, and something cut them right off square as though they 

 were cut with a knife. I want to know if any one knows what 

 it is. 



Mr. Kellogg: Is it a worm? 



Mrs. Kennedy: I do not know whether it is a worm or what 

 it is. 



Mr. Harris: At what stage of growth was it done? 



Mrs. Kennedy: It was done all along during the summer. 



Mr. Harris: A lady in Lyon county wrote to me asking what 

 ailed her plants, and before I had time to answer her letter she 

 wrote me that she had found the fellow. It was the climbing 

 cut worm, and they had come up in the night and cut the 

 bushes off in the growing season, and they came up on the 

 apple trees and cut every leaf off. 



