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farms, from which the insect had undoubtedly spread to his own. Wild 
vines of strawberry and Potentilla were growing in some abundance in 
the vicinity of tne strawberry beds when these were visited in May of 
1893, but were little troubled by the weevil, the cultivated varieties 
"Sharpless" and Charles Downing" being greatly preferred. Mr. 
Behrend reported that a neighbor of his, Mr. W. E. Carrick, had also 
sustained some loss through this weevil. 
The insect was again destructive in Anne Arundel County, at Arnold 
and at Harmans. Mr. E. S. Cole, of the latter place, wrote that there 
was a shortage of at least half the crop in 1892, and in 1893 about a 
third was destroyed. The species had been noticed there for upwards 
of ten years, the principal damage being to the "Sharpless," "Hoff- 
man," "Michel's Early," and "Bid well" varieties. 
Mr. L. J. Atwater reported injuries to "Sharpless" berries in Mont- 
gomery County, near the District line. One crop was completely ruined. 
In Virginia, in Alexandria County, Mr. W. T. Sprankle, of Falls 
Church, who was one of the heaviest losers in 1892, gathered good crops 
the past two years, the weevil appearing in injurious abundance in only 
one portion of his fields. He reported that those who had lost entire crops 
in 1892 did not suffer much loss in 1893. Capt. William S. Patton, West 
End, Fairfax County, reported complete loss of a crop of " Sharpless," 
and added that the fruit-growers of his vicinity had abandoned this 
variety on account of its susceptibility to weevil attack. 
Information was also received of the presence of this insect in a 
number of other localities in Maryland and Virginia but no serious loss 
was incurred. The insect was noticed in Delaware again and reported 
to Mr. M. H. Beckwith, of the State Experiment Station, in strawberry 
fields about Clayton. It was also troublesome in a few localities in 
southern Xew Jersey during the two years past and so reported by 
Prof. J. B. Smith in the preceding volume (p. 191) and by letter. It did 
not, however, do any special injury. In fact, the insect has been much 
less abundant the past two years than in 1892 and appears to be on the 
decrease in these States. 
Extensive damage was reported to the strawberry during May of the 
current year by a correspondent in Columbia County, Pa., and as the 
injury was d-ue to the severing of the stalks there can be no doubt that 
the strawberry weevil was the culprit. 
Accounts of similar injuries in recent years have been received from 
New York State, but with no report as to the extent of damage. 
A number of our correspondents have complained particularly of the 
damage done by the destruction of the staminates used in the fertiliza- 
tion of pistillates, the product being dwarfed and useless fruit. 
The presence of the insect in 1892, when the greatest damage known 
in its history was done, was reported too late in the season for experi- 
mentation withremedies, and circumstances were equally unfavorable the 
past two seasons. Such remedial experiments as were performed were 
by correspondents of the Division, and we are particularly indebted to 
