410 Reports of Consulting Entomologist. 
31st of May : — " All we can say about it is to its advantage. It has 
succeeded admirably. The trees look healthier and better, with as 
much (if not more) on, as anywhere else. They are beautifully 
clean. It has not injured them in the slightest degree. "We shall 
always use it in case of blight." 
Messrs. Salmon also noted — relatively to recent unfounded 
objections to the use of Paris green on the alleged ground that it 
killed the birds — that the writer of these knew nothing of the sub- 
ject, for that they had not found one bird dead, nor signs of harm 
to one. A large number of reports have been sent me ever since the 
beginning of our work — and from very various localities ; but in not 
one of them have I had the slightest reference to injury occurring to 
birds from the use of Paris green, and I have also definite reports of 
injury not being found to occur where under careful special obser- 
vation fowls were allowed access to the ground beneath the trees. 
I have taken the above reports from different kinds of localities 
to show the success that the application is meeting with both in 
private and regular business use, and with our common engines as 
well as with the more elaborate methods of distribution. 
For security, I always give the most careful warnings as to 
requisite care in use, and not risking presence of sheep or other 
animals under sprayed trees, and warnings are repeatedly published 
— but with regard to success and safety, with reasonable precaution, 
I do not think we can have more complete proof than the service- 
able use of the green for from ten to eighteen years in Canada and 
the States, and the constantly increasing use of it there up to the 
present time. 
I am giving all attention in my power to the inquiries as to these 
attacks, and carefully pointing out where, as with some of the infes- 
tations to bush fruits, such as gooseberries, raspberries, and currants, 
these can be satisfactorily met by measures based on their habits. 
Attack to Strawberry Plants. 
I am sorry, also, to have to report a very serious kind of attack 
to strawberry plants, which appears not to have been previously 
observed — a large quantity of plants, of which a box full were sent 
me for examination, have been ruined by it on a fourteen acre straw- 
berry field. 
The effect of the attack is swelled and distorted growth. The 
whole of the shoots are in some cases greatly swollen, sometimes the 
whole of the flower stems and buds are stunted, and so enormously 
swelled at the ends that they can be compared to nothing but a bit 
of mis-shapen cauliflower. In another form the primary and secon- 
dary flower stems, although they preserve something of their shape, 
are only about half or quarter of their right height, widened, and 
crowned at the top with calyx enlarged and standing upright, 
abortive petals, and still more abortive stamens. 
At a glance the state of the plants pointed to eelworm attack, 
and on microscopic examination I found great numbers in most 
