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BUSH-FRUITS 



Remedies. — A history of the remedies which have been em- 

 ployed against this insect since its advent in this country would 

 afford spicy reading, with no lack of variety. It is interesting to 

 note that the use of kerosene emulsion seems to have had its be- 

 ginning in fighting this insect, about 1870.* The following brief 

 mention will show something of the range of ammunition brought 

 into play against this enemy. Salt and water. Gardener's 

 Monthly, 1881:17. Tobacco water, Ibid, 1881:241. Sulphur 

 sprinkled on the bushes when wet. Ibid, 1882 : 148. Smudge with 

 burning leather and sulphur under the bushes. Ibid, 1862 : 213. 

 Red currants untouched if black currants are planted among them, 

 Tilton's Journal, 8 : 35. Copperas dissolved in water, Ibid, 8 : 23. 

 Carbolate of lime. Ibid, 9 : 149. Tansy decoction. Ibid 9 : 246. 

 Wood ashes applied when leaves are wet, Ibid 9 : 309; also "Ru- 

 ral New-Yorker," 1897 : 375. Carbolic acid. Horticulturist, 

 1870 : 221. Picking off leaves at base of bushes where most eggs 



are deposited before they 

 hatch, or immediately after. 

 Coal tar dissolved in turpen- 

 tine, with slaked lime and 

 water added. Ibid, 1870 : 222. 

 Knocking off the worms to 

 let them fall on the hot 

 ground when the sun is bright 

 Ibid, 1871 : 159. Howe Cave 

 fertilizer, Grafton mineral 

 fertilizer and Colburn's cur- 

 rant-worm exterminator men- 

 tioned as ineffectual, Ibid, 

 1873 :172. Mixing wood ashes 

 with the soil, Ibid, 1873 : 192. 

 Mulching with tobacco stems, 

 "Popular Gardening," 2:129. Mulching with coal ashes. Ibid, 

 6:220. Air-slaked lime and tobacco dust. Insect Life, 1:17. 

 Alum, Ibid, 1:229. Decoction of foxglove. Gar. Month., 1874: 



Fig. 77. First work of currant worm. 



♦Tilton's Journal, 8: 23, 176.-9:213. Gardener's Monthly, 1874: 149. 



