242 SUCCESSFUL FRUIT CULTURE 



attack of the rose and many other garden plants in 

 June, is seldom seriously injurious to vines in the 

 large vineyards, but often destroys all of the fruit on 

 vines in the garden. 



Remedy For the garden, hand picking is about 

 the only means of saving the fruit unless the vines are 

 covered with gauze or mosquito netting. If a pan with 

 a little water and kerosene be held under the vine where 

 the insects are feeding, and they are just touched, they 

 fall from the vine and will be destroyed. In the vine- 

 yard, the spraying with the bordeaux and Paris green 

 as used for other insects and fungous pests, will prevent 

 the injury that sometimes would otherwise occur in a 

 few vines on the edges of the vineyard. 



Berry Moth (Eudemis botrana) Some seasons a 

 considerable number of berries in a bunch are shriveled 

 and connected with other berries by webs, and upon 

 examination we find a very active, dark olive colored 

 worm eating the center of the berry. One worm often 

 destroys two berries but not more. The only remedy 

 suggested is to trim the bunches as soon as the fruit 

 is picked and see that all wormy berries are destroyed. 



Grape Leaf Hopper (Typhlocy'ba vitis) An in- 

 sect that has recently become destructive in many locali- 

 ties and one that vineyardists have not learned to control 

 with any degree of certainty. It is a small, light 

 colored, jumping insect that appears in July and August, 

 often in swarms, and, eating out the green color parts 

 of the leaf, gives them a light green or almost white 

 color, which soon changes to brown, and the leaves fall. 

 It also disfigures the fruit with its droppings. 



Remedy Clean up the vineyard early and give 

 thorough cultivation during the early part of the season. 

 All litter, leaves and grass should be raked up and 

 burned in the fall or early in the spring, then a thorough 

 spraying with twenty per cent mixture of kerosene early 



