n8 THE FRUIT GROWER'S GUIDE. 



away from the stools, taking care not to injure the sucker buds, supplying fresh, taken 

 from the spaces between the rows, over a little manure, burying the removed earth 

 deeply where the fresh has been taken from. Then examine the stakes and if there 

 be any crannies likely to harbour pupae wash them with carbolic acid diluted with 

 twelve times the bulk of water, not allowing it to run into the soil. Tarred trays 

 might be employed for catching the beetles before and up to the flowering period. 



Raspberry Mite (Phytoptus rubi). Quite invisible to the naked eye and only appear- 

 ing as the merest speck with a pocket magnifier, the eggs (buds) are deposited upon 

 the scales and internal parts of the leaf and blossom buds and the mites appear in a few 

 days. These mites feed upon the tender growths, distorting them and preventing the 

 putting forth of leaves and flowers. The lower buds of the canes are attacked first 

 and the mites move up the stems from bwl to bud in the spring. Eemedial measures 

 comprise cutting out the attacked buds in the autumn, and dropping them as extracted 

 in a pail containing gas tar. This saves the unattacked buds from molestation in the 

 spring, when they should be scrutinised and any abnormal ones extracted and placed 

 in tar. In bad cases, the canes should be cut oif close to the ground and burned at 

 once, as also should canes for planting if the buds are blackened at the tips and abnor- 

 mally enlarged. The mites live only in the buds. 



Raspberry Moth (Lampronia rubiella). This moth is shining light brown, with 

 golden spots upon the forewings, hinder wings paler brown, with lighter fringes ; its 

 expanse of wings is T 7 ^ inch, and the length of the body T 3 F inch. The moths appear at 

 the close of May and early in June and deposit eggs on the receptacle of the flowers, 

 between the stamens and calyx. The caterpillar emerges in five days and buries itself 

 in the receptacle of the fruit. It soon, however, goes down into the ground, where it 

 remains in larval form during the winter. When the buds move in the spring it crawls 

 up the canes, enters a bud and feeds on it, and passes from one bud to another ; but 

 after feeding for about a fortnight it scoops out a hole at the base of the bud last 

 attacked and turns therein to a chrysalis, from which the moth emerges in twelve to 

 fifteen days. 



Preventives or remedies must be directed to the larval condition of the insect, 

 which is passed from midsummer until March in the rubbish or earth among and around 

 the stools or rootstocks, This rubbish should bo cleared away for a distance of at 

 least a foot all round and buried deeply in the space between the rows, soot and 

 wood ashes in equal proportions being sprinkled among and around the stools and 



