1753* on the gooseberry CoUrpillar. 95 



ON HE GOOSEBERRY C -ITERPILLAR; 



Sir, To the Editor 0/ the Bee. 



In your Be£ of the 12th of June, I read the obser- 

 vations of your correspondent C. on the gooseberry 

 caterpillar with great pleasure ; and as he vvilhes 

 every information on that subject, I wilh to send 

 some of my own observations through the channel 

 of your useful paper, I must owa, (being fond of 

 -the pleasures of a garden,) I am an inveterate ene- 

 jny|to the gooseberry caterpillar, and the slug snail, 

 I have tried many experiments for some years back, 

 which are as follow, by which I mean to prevent 

 others giving themselves the same unnecefsary 

 troi.ble. 



I first tried waftiing the bufhes with salt wa- 

 ter.— That had no effect. I next tried a mixture 

 of kyan pepper, glauber's salt, tobacco dust, and salt, 

 all mixed together, and soaked for some days in u- 

 rine ; I then took a brufti and strewed it all over the 

 bulh : — this did not destroy them : I only observed 

 them stop feeding for some hours, and then went on 

 as formerly, as soon as the bu(h dried. I next 

 tried a small quantity of brimstone, and <:overed the 

 bulh over with a cloth, and set fire to the brimstone 

 «t the bottom of the bufli : this destroyed the cater- 

 pillar, but at the same time it also destroyed the 

 whole leaves of the bufh for that season. I next 

 tried a method of driving them off the bullies as fol- 

 lows. I took a small hand hoe, and with that lif- 



