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berries with arsenate of lead for beetle. 

 End of month spray apples and plums 

 with nicotine or paraffin jelly for 

 aphides. 



May. — Spray apples with arsenate of lead 

 just after blossom has fallen for codling 

 and winter moths. Plum and damsons 

 with paraffin jelly using potass-sulphide 

 if mealy plum aphis is present. Goose- 

 berries and currants with hellebore for 

 sawflies and magpie moth. 



June.— Possibly cherries and currants for 

 aphides. Straw band for codling moth 

 larvae. May have to spray cherries, 

 pear and plum for slug worm. Trap 



strawberry beetles by placing meal in 

 sweetened water in a bowl at ground 

 level. Spray nuts with arsenate of lead. 



Sept. — Spray for gooseberry sawfly and 

 currant moth. 



Oct. — Grease band first week for winter 

 moth. Destroy leaves, shrivelled fruit, 

 prunings, etc. Inject carbon bisulphide 

 round roots of apple for woolly aphis. 



The illustrations in this article are published 

 by permission of the Ministry of Agriculture and 

 II.M. Stat-onery Office. The illustration, figure 

 2, of Woolly Aphis, is from Mr. G. B, Buckton's 

 " British Aphides," printed with permission rf 

 the Ray Society. 



