1. -ANIMALS INJURIOUS TO FARM AND GARDEN 



PRODUCE. 



THE STRAWBERRY EELWORM. 



Aphelenchus fragariae, Ritz. Bos. 



Two cases of " cauliflower disease " in strawberries have been 

 reported upon from Worcester. In both instances the disease had 

 obtained a considerable hold of a large number of plants. 



Once a plant is attacked no treatment is of any use. The diseased 

 plants should be dug up at once and burned, and a liberal application 

 of ground unslaked lime applied to the hole and surrounding soil. 



INJURIOUS EARTHWORM. 



Allolobophora chlorotica (Sav.). 



From various parts of the Midlands large quantities of this earth- 

 worm have been received, and numerous complaints of the damage it 

 has done to flowering plants and garden produce. 



The species is easily recognized by its yellowish-green colour, and 

 when touched it bends into a circle, and exudes from the dorsal pores 

 an inodorous yellowish-green fluid. In length it measures from 3jin. 

 to 4-in., and has 100 segments, the clitellum extending from the 2gth or 

 3Oth to the 37th. The first dorsal pore is between segments 4 and 5. 



Autumn dressings, with ground unslaked lime have given excel- 

 lent results. 



MILLIPEDES. 



From all parts of the country complaints have been received of the 

 injury done by various species of millipedes. Potatoes, turnips, 

 mangels and swedes have suffered severely from the attacks of 

 Blaniulus guttulatus, Bosc, and Polydesmus complantus, Linn., whilst 

 the following species have been received, from various localities, 

 chiefly attacking flowering plants in gardens. 



lulus niger, Linn., 7. pulchellus, Koch, 7. terrestris, Linn., 7. 

 pilosus, Newport, Atractosoma polydesmoides, Leach, and Brachy- 

 desmus superus, Latzel. 



