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the fruit would not be of any use, as the insecticide would not roach tho 

 caterpillar inside." 



liaspberry Buds attacked by Caterpillars. — Mr. A. Gaut, of the York- 

 shire Collej,'e, Leeds, sent the followinf,' communication : — "Enclosed you 

 will find someliaspherry-buds containing caterpillars of the Kaspberry stem - 

 hud moth (hf^. '2,i i) - Lft/mpronia riiJiiella, hjiirk — which the Committee 

 would possibly like to see and notice. In and around Garforth, about 

 seven miles east of Leeds, upwards of 1(X) acres of Raspberries are grown 

 for market purposes, and in some years this attack is a very serious one, 

 as was the case last year, 1000. I visited the grounds then during the 

 months of April, May, and June, and noticed the caterpillars, pupa.*, and 

 little moths in immense quantities, in some of the ilaspberry grounds 

 the canes having an appearance as if they had been very much injured by 

 frost. This entailed great loss to the growers. On April 20 I took a 

 walk through several of the grounds ; noticing large rjiiantities of the 

 little scarlet caterpillars crawling up the stems, and very many within the 



Fig. 244. — Lampiionia edbiella. (Gardeners^ Chromcle.) 



buds, I naturally expected a very serious attack again this year ; but 

 fortimately, owing to the warm weather we have experienced during the 

 past week, the young buds and shoots have made such rapid progress that 

 they have grown away from the attack, and although the caterpillars are 

 still present in immense quantities, the crop will not be much ufi'ected. 

 I notice that it is in cold, late springs we get the worst attacks. Some of 

 the more intelligent growers do not suffer so much, as they take the 

 precaution to mulch the ground with soil containing some insecticide, or 

 dress the ground about the stools with soot or lime during the winter 

 months ; and it is curious that those who follow the old practice of 

 digging amongst the canes in winter also escape fairly well. I am doing 

 all I can m the way of ad\ice, but it is difficult to get many to follow it ; 

 and where there are so many growers it is impossible to get them all to 

 combat this attack at one and the same time, as ought to be the case." 

 Fungus on Wood. — Mrs. Floyer sent a specimen of an orange-coloured 



