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season; plants vigorous, numerous runners; foliage moderately good, rusts consider- 

 ably to badly. 



Warfield (No. 2) (Imp.) — Pointed conical, medium to above medium size; deep 

 red, glossy, rather prominent seeds; flesh deep red, juicy, acid, moderately firm; 

 medium quality; early to medium season; plants vigorous, large number of runners; 

 foliage moderately good, rusts considerably to badly. A handsome berry and a good 

 cropper. 



Williams (Per.). — Wedge conical large; bright, rather deep red with a white tip, 

 rather prominent seeds; flesh bright red, juicy, subacid, good flavour, firm; quality 

 good; medium season; plants vigorous, large niimber of runners; foliage moderately 

 good, but considerable rust. 



Wm. Belt (Per.). — Irregular, first fruit wedge shaped, others wedge and pointed 

 conical, large; bright red, seeds fairly prominent; flesh bright red, meaty, juicy, sub- 

 acid, good flavour, firm; very good quality; season late; plants vigorous, with a large 

 numher of runners; foliage moderately good to good, but rusts considerably to badly. 



Insects and Diseases Affecting the Strawberry. 



There are comparatively few insects and diseases which cause serious injury to 

 the strawberry, and in this paper only the most important are described. The informa- 

 tion in regard to insects has been ta,ken mainly from the reports and other publica- 

 tions of the Entomologist and Botanist of the Dominion Experimental Farms, and 

 that on diseases from the bulletin on Strawberry Culture prepared by the writer. 



White Orub. — The white grub often does much damage in strawberry plantations, 

 and sometimes gives the fruit-growers a great deal of trouble. If, however, the life- 

 history of this insect is known and proper methods followed, it may be controlled. 

 The method is to take only one crop of fruit from a plantation and then plough it 

 up, thus preventing the insect from passing through all its stages and so destroying it. 

 Land for strawberries should be prepared by growing some crop that the white grub 

 will not touch, and thus offering them no inducement to stay in the soil. 



As the growing of other crops, which the white grubs are fond of, near the straw- 

 berries may be the means of introducing them to the strawberry plantation, the 

 following description of the life-history of this insect as given by Dr. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, will be useful in controlling them : — 



' These insects in the adult stage are known in the south as the May bugs. In 

 the north they are called the June bugs, as this is the month of the year when the 

 insects themselves are flying around The white grubs are found in natural grass 

 land and when such land is put under cultivation the white grub attacks tiie subse- 

 quent crops in a similar manner to the wireworm, and it is on such crops that the 

 greatest injury is effected. Sometimes the white grubs are in such large numbers that 

 they will frequently destroy whole patches of natural grass, and you sometimes find 

 whole lawns destroyed by the presence of these white grubs, which feed on the roots. 

 Not only do the grubs themselves feed on the roots and grass, but their parents, the 

 adult beetles, are also injurious. In Europe the June beetle frequently occurs in such 

 numbere that clouds of them fly across the country and eat up everything before them 

 almost like locusts. The adult insect feeds chiefly on the foliage of hardwoods such 



