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Remedies.—Spray two or three times at intervals of one or two 
weeks in the winter, and after the fruit ercp has keen picked, with 
kerosene emu sion’ or resin ard scda wash or fumigate with hy dro- 
cyanic acid gas. 
Strawberry Leaf Blight (Spherella fragarie, Tul.). 
Better still, collect and procure parasites and predaceous insects 
on the aphis and the scales, which are the primary cause of the 
sooty mould. When parasites are present, spraying or fumigation 
will do more harm than good, and will tend, by destroying the 
beneficial insects, to intensify the trouble. 
