Bed spiders may possibly hibernate in the cracks of the hop 

 poles, but these are taken down and put up again each season, 

 and are removed generally before the leaves have become quite 

 withered. 



Fruit plantations and hop grounds should be kept clear of 

 chickweed, SteUaria media, and other weeds which live through 

 ordinary winter weather, and serve as harbours for red spiders. 



In sheltered places and gardens where plants, as violets, for 

 example, preserve their leaves throughout the winter, red 

 spiders may be found upon them in the most severe weather. 

 They ought to be banished from the neighbourhood of peach 

 trees and all other fruit trees. 



METHODS OF PREVENTION AND REMEDIES. 



For gooseberry bushes attacked by red spiders, the most 

 efficacious remedy has been proved to be a solution of soft soap 

 and extract of quassia chips syringed upon the stems and 

 branches. From 10 to 12 Ibs. of soft soap and the extract of 

 from 7 to 9 Ibs. of quassia to 100 gallons of water has been 

 found a good solution. This may be put on with " Knapsack " 

 machines, the Eclair, or the Antipest, or others of a similar 

 make, or by a largo garden engine, or a hop washer where there 

 is room to get it about between the bushes. Every part of the 

 stem, branches, and leaves should be thoroughly covered. 



In the winter, and after the bushes have been pruned, those 

 that have been badly attacked may be dressed over with a thick 

 solution of soft soap and quassia put on with a brush and 

 worked well in. Or, carbolic acid or paraffin oil may be 

 substituted for quassia. 



Damson trees have been treated with much advantage with 

 syringings of soft soap and quassia solution, mixed in the same 

 way as for gooseberry bushes. Garden engines, or hand hop- 

 washing engines, are the best for this application to dam son 

 trees, whose stems and branches should also be dressed with the 

 soft soap and carbolic acid, or paraffin mixture, during the winter 

 months. 



Hop plants may be syringed with the solution used with such 

 good results for checking the attacks of the hop aphis. The 

 unfortunate necessity for the frequent application of this remedy 

 for hop aphides has, without doubt, considerably diminished 

 the danger to be apprehended from red spiders. 



All the cuttings from infested gooseberry bushes should be 

 burnt at once, and after an attack in hop gardens the bines 

 should be made up and carried away to be stacked at once, or 

 burnt. Lime should be dug in hot in the early winter months 

 where hop gardens have been infested. 



