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get the garden into good order, and the spider will 
not do much harm. Forking seems to have a better 
effect than hoeing on plots of land subject to spider, 
Where there is a free passage for the wind the 
blight is not so bad. Titea Part has been tried as 
a remedy, it was cut and laid between the bushes, 
but the result was not satisfactory. 
Green Fry. 
This is much more serious, but. still scarcely 
so bad all round as it might be, but it is spread- 
ing every year, It used not to come until well 
on in the second flush, but last year it was in the 
bushes nearly all the cold weather, and came out 
in swarms during the pruning. Cold, rainy, sun- 
less weather suits the green fly, especially during 
the months of June and July; and it spreads over 
acres a day. The effect on the bushesis, that the 
shoots stop growing, leaves shrivel up, and only 
grow to 2 inches long, showing little eyes at every - 
inch’ the length of shoot being perhaps 2 inches, 
and having 6 or 7 eyes breaking on each shoot, 
Pick it as quickly as possible taking leaves as small 
as can be picked. The coolies will only pick 3 or 
