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found a small maggot, a germ I suppose of some little rascal who comes 

 to lUsappoint me in realizing a rich repast on my expectant ripe goose- 

 berries. Xow, Mr. Editor, can you tell me what it is ? how to banish 

 it ? is there any cure ? Is the little rebel a tliief of the night, or is he 

 a tramp of day light, using the light of the sun to rob me of my fruit? 

 If you can give me any information that may be the means of conquering 

 the nuisance, I pledge you I will endeavor to master it. Nothing else 

 touches the fruit, no mildew or any other thing but the gooseberry 

 worm, and that chap with me has a pretty hard time. 



Note by the Editor. — We have not been favored by a visit from 

 this little depredator, and having never seen him nor his ravages, can 

 only suggest that if he begins his nefarious work this summer, that 

 our correspondent send a few of the berries to W. Saunders, London 

 President of the Entomological Society, for examination. In- the 

 meantime we shall be very happy to publish any information that any 

 of our friends may have to give on this matter. 



HORTICULTUEAL GOSSIP. A^T. 



BY L. WOOLVEKTOX, M. A., GRIMSBY. 



The Borer. — On cutting down an old tree of about seventy years 

 of age, I was astonished to find what ravages the Borer ( Chrysohothris 

 femorata) had been making in its tnink. 

 No evidence of its presence had been seen 

 outside. No cause could previously be given 

 of the gradual decline of the tree, except 

 that it was getting old ; yet older trees stand- 

 ing near were still vigorous. But here was 

 revealed the whole secret, for the trunk, 

 from the Imrk to the heart, was ramified with 

 tunnels made by the larva of the Buprestis 

 Beetle. It was easily distinguished from the 

 Two-striped Borer, {Saperda Blvittata) — which also attacks the apple 

 tree — by its flattenetl form, and enormous enlargement of the protho- 

 racic ring, which gives it the appearance of having a huge head, while 

 the larva of the latter is nearly cylindrical, short and tleshy. This 

 genus of Buprestidae, which infest the apple and oak, (see Dr. Packard's 



