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"Victoria, December 31.— In regard to the gooseberry bushes infested with 

 larvse of Xylocriics Agassizii : the plants were sent into the province from Oregon- 

 shipped by ' the Oregon Wholesale Nursery Co., of Salem, to Victoria, in November, 

 1897 In all, 500 plants were condemned. These were a portion only of a shipment of 



Fig. 23.— The Black Gooseberry-borer: infested 

 stem— reduced |. 



rig. 24.— Larva in stem— slightly 

 enlarged. 



10 000 plants, and every package or bundle of the plants found tocontain infested 

 bushes was condemned and destroyed excepting only the specimens which were retained 



