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United States imports form three to four times the — of prunes 
produced by California, there is still a large field for our domestie fruit, 
and that with our continually increasing population, the danger of mius 
supply is still very remote, and prune growing in California may b 
relied upon as a profitable industry for years, if not for —— yet 
to come, 

CCLXXVII.—SUGAR-CANE BORERS IN THE WEST 
INDIES 
- A Bulletin for July and August last, pp. 153-178, eon- 
elaborate report by Mr. Blandford on tne borers (more 
mdi, the * shot-borer" Xyleborus perforans) that infest sugar- 
canes in the West Indies. This account was illustrated by figures in 
different stages of the several insects known as sugar-cane borers. The 
subject appears still to occupy a good deal of attention, and the 
following letter received at Kew from St. Vincent shows that as regards 
the moth-borer (Chilo d saccharalis) a are being taken to 
deal with it in a practical way by planters.* It may be well, Aree to 
state that the cireumstances vary a good deal in the several islan . The 
prevailing sugar-cane borer in St. Vincent and Grenada, for shitilvony 
may be entirely different from the prevailing borer in Barbados and 
Trinidad. This fact has not, so far, been ully recognised as it 
deserves by those who have written on the uii ect, and hence a good 
deal of confusion has arisen amongst planters as to the sem t steps to be 
taken in their particular circumstances. For the pur of assisting in 
the identifieation of the several borers the illustration sively en i 
the Kew Bulletin will be of service. ram ene (Chilo 
Er b Rony of ie occurrence now vds in one case at least over 
‘ew from time to time by Mr. . Hart have been carefully examined 
but the results so far obtained are by no means conclusive in favour of 
rosae the fungus theory as sufficient to account for the wi widespread 
injury to sugar canes that have been reported from Trinidad and else- 
where. Many are “inclined to believe that the vitality of the eme 
ba biy 
more powerful factors than is usually supposed in determining the 
health and vigour of the canes. 

moth-borer is indifferently referred "e as an saccharalis or Diatrea 
BY oe, The former name is adopted in 
