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serious extent, and Careless is believed generally, if not 

 always, to escape. 



Fungi. — Some cases in which gooseberry bushes have 

 been attacked by the disease known as Gooseberry Cluster- 

 cups (Puccinia p rings heimian a , Kleb.) have been reported 

 to the Board, and there is some reason for thinking that this 

 disease has been rather more prevalent this year than usual 

 The most noticeable cases were reported from Stepaside 

 (Pembrokeshire), Whitchurch and Stockbridge (Hants), and 

 .Raven ingham, near Norwich. (See Leaflet No. 209.) 



Two cases have been reported in which Coral Spot (Nectria 

 cinnabar ina) attacked and destroyed, as it appears, living 

 trees. In the first case, apricot stems at Feltham, Middlesex, 

 and in the second gooseberry bushes at South Winton, near 

 Winchester, were affected. One half of a small goose- 

 berry bush withered last year, and the owner cut away 

 the dead part; the remainder grew this year and fruited well, 

 but died in June. A large bush next to it, which is thickly 

 laden with fruit and foliage on most of its branches, has, 

 during the present year, lost two or three branches from 

 Coral Spot. (See Leaflet No. 115.) 



Potatoes have been sent to the Board from Montrose 

 affected with Rhizoctonia violacea, and from Pilsworth 

 Whitefield, near Manchester, attacked by Dry Scab, Spon- 

 dylocladium atrovirens. (See Journal, April, 1909, p. 31, 

 and May, 1909, p. 125.) 



A fruit-grower near Ballasella, Isle of Man, forwarded a 

 fly for identification in May, and it proved to be Dilophus 

 febrilis. The larvae appear to have done some damage, but 

 no exact information was given. (See Journal, July, 1907, 

 p. 219.) 



The Asparagus Beetle (Crioceris asparagi) was reported to 

 have appeared in several gardens near Yeovil, but not in 

 large numbers (Leaflet No. 47). Otiorhynchus picipes was 

 forwarded from Sheffield and Leicester, and the Raspberry 

 Beetle (Byturus tomentosus) from Hevingham and Blofield, 

 both near Norwich. The Pear Midge was reported from 

 Layer de la Haye near Colchester, Trewirgie near Redruth, 

 and Eversden (Cambridge). In each case the writer stated 

 that the pest had been present for some years (Leaflet 

 N o. 53). 



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