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rubbish in which the cocoons are sheltered, would be to some degree 

 practicable. Or an application of strong soap and sulphur would do 

 good. 



Whether anything could be done with regard to shaking oflf the 

 infested and prematurely ripening Currants does not yet appear. In 

 some other kinds of attacks in which, as in this instance, the infesting 

 maggot destroys the seed, the fruit consequently drops, and if this 

 should be the case also with our Incurvaria attack, we might get rid of 

 much of the pest by shaking the bushes, so that the fruit should drop 

 on to cloths, and, destroying this before the maggots had time to 

 escape, and re-establish themselves on the Currant bushes to form winter 

 quarters. 



HOP. 



" Strig Maggot." Cecidomyia ? sp. 



Hop catkins, showing effect of infestation ; " Strig Maggot," magnified, nat. length 



given by line. 



The Hop Strig was again troublesome in various places, and its 

 presence was reported in Kent, from the neighbourhood of Canterbury, 

 Maidstone, and Gravesend, and in Worcestershire, from near Tenbury. 



The mischief is caused by the little white maggot tunnelling in the 

 central stem of the Hop-cone, so that this is destroyed for all useful 

 purposes. It may only wither and turn brown, or the damage may be 

 so great that the attacked part, and the little side stalks by which the 

 separate flowers forming the " cone " are attached, may decay, and on 



