THE COUNTRY HOME [cHAPTER 
will have been laid on the half-grown leaves before 
you will be through with the Bordeaux spraying. 
The larvee must be met at once with a thorough 
syringing of Paris green and white hellebore. If 
this be applied thoroughly it will probably prevent 
a second brood, which would naturally occur about 
June first. I have used a keg, mounted on low 
wheels, carrying a short hose, with nozzle adapted 
to cast a very fine spray. This method of working 
will necessitate two persons, but the work can be 
gone over very rapidly. Those who grow only 
a few currant bushes can spray them with an 
ordinary sprinkling pail. Be sure if you do not 
spray, and that very promptly, your currants will 
be worthless. After the leaves are devoured the 
fruit will sour on the stems, and be unfit for any 
domestic purpose. Still worse will be the effect of 
defoliation in destroying the vitality of the bushes. 
They will drag out a poor life for a few years, and 
then die altogether. 
We are not through with the saw-fly and its pro- 
geny before we must again spray our fruit trees. 
This should be done just before they blossom, and 
now with Bordeaux and arsenites. We are close 
upon the first appearance of the codlin moth. No 
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