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Birds. — To protect the ripe Currant Berries 
that are intended to hang- on the trees till late on 
in the season, from Birds, Wasps, and Flies, the 
trees may be inclosed in coarse canvas or garden 
mats. It will require much care to prevent the 
Wasp from making its entrance. The mat, or 
canvas, should be made secure, and if it is needful, 
bottles with sweet beer or water might be hung- 
up on the outsides of the covering, to entrap them 
before they make their entry to the fruit. 
RASPBERRY BUSH. 
The Grub. — The larvae of a small Moth 
infest this Plant in the spring. About the fore 
end of April, when full grown, they are similar 
in size and shape to those found inclosed in the 
tubercle or knots on turnips. The whole Maggot 
is quite red, forms a chrysalis about the fore end 
of May in the leaves of the Rasps, and produces 
the Moth at the latter end of May. It is very 
small, has brown wings, marked with a buff spot 
on the outer edge of each, where they are united 
to the thorax j other parts of the wings are spotted 
with very small irregulai- buff spots. 
The parent deposits her eggs in the summer 
months, which most probably send forth the larvae 
before or about the commencement of the autumn 
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