and productiveuess, and freedom from disease, under the ordinary 

 conditions of soil and cultivation. 



STRAWBERRY LEAF BLIGHT. 



All the varieties tested have been grown by the annual system, i.e., 

 only one crop being taken from each planting. In this way we have 

 escaped with very little uijury from the above disease, which is so 

 destructive to the older varieties, especially in beds of more than one 

 season's growth. A portion of each plot was sprayed at intervals 

 during the summer with the Bordeaux mixture, but no marked results 

 were obtained. 



THE " STRAWBERRY FLEA " OR BLACK PARIA. 



Rotation and the annual system seem the best means for combatting 

 the attacks of insects, especially the above insect and the larvae of 

 the May beetle or June bug. The former probably does as much 

 injury in its larval state as in its perfect form and the new planta- 

 tions should be made, if possible, at some distance from the old bed. 



THE MAY BEETLE OR JUNE BUG. 



The plants set last spring for fruiting in 1894 were somewhat 

 injured by this insect. The land on which they were planted was 

 occupied by strawberries in 1892 and after the berries were gathered 

 the plants were turned under and the land sown with barley. This 

 crop, after maturing, was plowed under just before winter and early 

 in the spring the land was heavily manured and set with the new 

 plants for fruiting in 1894. About the middle of July the " white 

 grubs " began to work badly and many of the plots were seriously 

 injured. 



The eggs of this beetle are laid only on land where their larvae 

 can find an abundance of roots of some herbaceous plant like the 

 grass or strawberry to feed upon, and never where the land is clear 

 of much plant growth during the latter part of May or earh* June, as 

 is the case with any hoed crop. If our plants had been set on land 

 that was free from fibrous roots the previous June they would have 

 escaped. The larvae require two years to complete their gruwth,and 

 infested land should never be set with strawberry plants until it has 

 been clean cultivated with some other crop for one year or better for 

 two years. 



