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Seventh Annual Report Wisconsin Experiment 

 Station, i8go. Most of the horticultural matter con- 

 tained in this volume has already been brought before the 

 readers of The American Garden. Professor Goff re- 

 ports a trial of potatoes in which the following varieties 

 were the most 'productive of the named kinds in 122 

 entries : Rose Beauty, Monarch, Duplex, Late Hebron 

 (Late Beauty of Hebron), Mullaly, Alexander, Red 

 Jacket (Seneca Red jacket). White Hebron 

 Potatoes in (White Beauty of Hebron) and Wisconsin 

 Wisconsin. Beauty. These varieties, in order of 

 quality, stand as follows ; Alexander, 

 White Hebron, Late Hebron, Duplex, Monarch, Wis- 

 consin Beauty, Red Jacket, Rose Beauty and Mullaly. 

 Various methods of cutting were tried with another con- 

 firmatio.n of the old result that the heaviest seeding gives 

 the heaviest yield. 



A test of strawberries showed the Gipsy to be very 

 early and the Gandy, Welch and Carmichael very late. 

 For market, the following are particularly good : War- 

 field No. 2, Haverland, Jessie, Wilson, 

 Strawberries Sharpless, Burt, Eureka, Gipsy, Gandy, 

 in Wisconsin. Welch, Downing, Cumberland, Lady 

 Rusk, Bubach, Cloud, Carmichael. For 

 home use, these appear to be best : Jessie, Haverland, 

 Gipsy, Sharpless, WarfieldNo. 2, Eureka, Wilson, Gandy, 

 Burt, Downing, Welch, Cumberland, Bubach, Cloud, 

 Lady Rusk, Carmichael. 



Bulletin No. 23, Cornell Experiment Station. 

 Insects hijiirioiis to Fruits. J. H. Comstock and M. V. 

 Slingerliuid. Pp. 24. Illustrated. The pear leaf blister, 

 which is caused by a minute mite, is figured 

 Pear Leaf and discussed. The mites occasion blackish 

 Blister. swellings or galls upon the leaf, and they have 



been so abundant in New York this year as 

 to cause serious injury to pear foliage. The mites live in 

 the blisters or galls, and here the young are born. The 

 young soon escape and make galls for themselves, upon the 



same or another leaf. When the leaves begin to dry up 

 in the fall, the mites leave the blisters and secrete them- 

 selves in the bud-scales, where they pass the winter. 

 No remedy is known except to burn the twigs in winter. 



A stag-beetle or "pinch-bug" {Donas pnrallelus) is 

 described as attacking the roots of pear trees. The grubs, 

 which are probably several years in maturing, bore into 

 the large roots. This is the first record 

 that this species attacks fruit trees. Stag-beetle in 

 There is no remedy except to dig out Pear trees, 



the grubs. 



The apple tree bucculatrix is a minute moth, only one- 

 seventh inch in length. The larvae feed upon the leaves, 

 mine in them, and do much damage when abundant. 

 The cocoons are conspicuous in fall and 

 winter. They are white slender bodies Apple 

 about a fourth of an inch long which lie Bucculatrix. 

 parallel to each other in patches along 

 the under sides of the twigs. These twigs can be 

 cut off and burned during winter, or the pupa? can be 

 destroyed by a spray of strong kerosene emulsion in two 

 or three parts of water. When the larvae are feeding 

 upon the surface of the leaf, Paris green or London pur- 

 ple will destroy them. 



Two cherry insects are described. Both of them work 

 upon the leaves, both of wild and cultivated cherries, and 

 they fasten the leaves together or cover them with a web. 

 The cherry-tree tortrix works in a web which encloses a 

 young shoot. The scallop shell-moth 

 (Hydria undiilata) fastens together the Cherry-tree 

 leaves upon the ends of the branches. Pests. 

 Both pests are readily kept in check by 

 burning the nests. The shell-moth is single brooded in 

 this latitude, so that its destruction is easy. 



Closely allied to the cherry tortrix is the currant leaf- 

 roller, an insect which has been imported from Europe, 

 and concerning which no observations have been made in 

 this country. It appears to be thoroughly established in 

 some places in the country, and it will 

 probably be heard from in the future. Currant 

 The larva is a small green worm fastening Leaf-roller, 

 together the terminal leaves of currant 

 bushes into an irregular wad. It can be kept in check by 

 destroying these leaf-nests. 



The blackberry and raspberry cane-borer {Olteria 

 hiiiiaculata) is described and figured. The grub bores in 

 the cane and kills it. The first indication of injury may 

 be the dying of the whole cane, which becomes apparent 

 about picking time ; but sometimes the top of the cane 



