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SMALL FRUIT rULTUP-IST. 



cannot be recommended as the best, because mildew doea 

 destroy plants under just such circumstances. No effec- 

 tual remedy can be given, nor the best location pointed out, 

 because the experiences of different cultivators are so con- 

 flicting, that the one which appears to be the best in one 

 location, would seem to be the very poorest for another. 

 Wherever the foreign kinds will grow without being at- 

 tacked by mildew, they are certainly far preferable to any 

 of our native ones; but my own remedy against mildew 

 is, to cultivate none but the native varieties, for with these 

 I have never experienced the least trouble, nor as yet had 

 a berry affected by disease of any kind. 



INSECTS. 



The Gooseberry and Currant are so nearly related, that 

 many of the injurious insects are common to both. The 

 Currant-moth, {Abraxis^) is equally destructive to the 

 Gooseberry, while the Currant-borer seldom, if ever, at- 

 tacks it. Harris, Fitch, and other entomologists, describe 

 quite a number of insects that are occasionally found upon 

 the Gooseberry, but thus far their ravages in this country 

 have not been very extensive. The following are occa- 

 sionally met, and if they should become numerous, would, 

 at the same time, become very injurious: 



Lecanium €yn0Sl>ati»— Gooseberry Bark-louse. — 

 (jP/^cA.)— Attacking the stalks of the wild Gooseberry; a 

 hemispheric, smooth, shining resin-brown reale, commonly 

 freckled with dull yellow dots, and with a dull yellow 

 stripe along its middle. Remedy, close pruning, and an 

 application of potash dissolved in water; one pound to 

 eight gallons of water, 



Pieciloptera priiinosa— Mealy Flata— (A^c^y.)— A small 

 four- winged fly, of a dark bluish color, covered with. a 

 mealy white powder, which attacks the leaves late in the 

 Bcason. puncturing the leaves and young shoots, sucking 

 the juices of the plant. 



