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Vcm Dieman. A promising variety of good quality, but it requires 

 another season to prove its merits. 



No. 24. Of the seedlings produced on the college grounds, this 

 one proves the best, having attracted mi(ch attention from those who 

 are testing it in other places. One large grower pronounces it the 

 most valuable variety on his grounds. 



Select Varieties. For general purposes and the maiket the test of 

 the past few years leads us to name the following varieties in order 

 of their merit: Beder Wood, Bubach No. o, Ilaverland, Belmont, 

 Warfield, Eureka, Middlefield, Sharpless and Crescent. 



INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



The only insect specially injurious to the strawberry on the college 

 grounds is the Black Paria (Paria aterrima), a minute brown insect 

 about ^ of an inch long, which eats the foliage, giving it the appear- 

 ance of having been riddled with gunshot. 



It appeared in the old beds here early in May, and has continued 

 its ravages until the present date, Sept. 20th, though most of the 

 injury occurred in August. It works more on old beds, but where 

 old and new beds are planted side by side, and the old one is plowed 

 under, the beetles migrate to the new one and feed upon their foliage. 



The remedies suggested are paris green or hellebore. Experi- 

 ments were made with the combined mixture of sulphate of copper 

 and lime known as the " Bordeaux mixture," and paris green for 

 the destruction of this insect and the leaf rust, but as yet no 

 positive results have been obtained. As the beetle is a leaf eating 

 insect we have good reasons to hope that either the paris green or 

 the hellebore will prove an effectual remedy. Further experiments 

 will be made the coming season, and it is hoped that any one who 

 may Iiave been successful in checking its ravages will report their 

 methods, for if it continues to increase as it has in the two past 

 seasons, strawberry growing will become a very uncertain business. 



STRAWBERRY RUSTS. 



Strawberry plants, as a rule, have l)een comparatively free from rust 

 this season on the college grounds, though in some sections it has 

 been abundant and wherever this condition of things exists there can 

 be little profit in growing this fruit. 



This disease is caused by a fungous growth {Ramularia FragaricB) 

 that appears in round red or brown spots on the leaves. When 

 these are numerous the leaf function is destroyed and the plants are 



