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Gooseberry Blight. 



the larvae come in seven or eight days, and at once begin to 

 suck up the juices of the plant. There are many generations 

 during the summer. The winter is passed in the perfect 

 state in the earth, or in the bark of trees and other similar 

 shelters. 



Methods of Prevention and Remedies. 



After an attack of this insect, peas should not be sown 

 in the following year near the infested spot. In gardens 

 where peas are trained upon pea-sticks it would be possible 

 to spray the plants by means of a knapsack machine ; but. 

 in fields where sticks are not used, and the foliage grows 

 densely, this would be almost impracticable. The best 

 mixtures for spraying would be 6 lbs. of soft soap and the 

 extract of 5 or 6 lbs. of quassia chips to 100 gallons of 

 water. 



Gooseberry Blight (Microsphzria Grossularia . 



Perithecium with branching filaments ; much magnified. 



This fungus has been unusually troublesome this season, 

 and has caused many of the leaves of gooseberry bushes to 

 shrivel and fall off. Upon casual inspection of the bushes in 

 the early stages of the disorder, the upper and under sides of 

 the leaves look as if the}- were covered with white dust, or had 

 been powdered with fine lime or sprayed with lime-wash. 

 Under the microscope it is seen that there is a dense covering, 

 which has been aptly termed a " felt-like coating,'"' of slender 

 white or greyish-white threads on both sides of the leaves. 

 These form the mycelium of the fungus, which does not, like 

 the potato fungus, live within the plant, but merely sends 

 down short branches — suckers or Jiaustoria — into the cells of 

 the leaves. Upon these threads, or filaments, summer spores, 



