State Agricultural Society. 
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ITS PROGRESS IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY TO SIXTY-TWO. 
discouraged, and retires from the contest. In England they 
destroy, we believe, only the leaves of the gooseberry, but in this 
country, where gooseberries are scarce, they commence at the few 
gooseberries that may be within their reach, and then attack the 
currants, seldom leaving while a leaf remains. The black currants 
they do not relish.” And a description follows, similar to what 
has been given above, of the fly, its larva, and the remedies for 
destroying them. 
II. Hubbard, editor of the Chenango Union , informs the Rural 
New Yorker (vol. xii, p. 199) that in the spring of this year, 1860, 
he purchased several new varieties of gooseberry from a Rochester 
nursery, and planted them in his garden at Norwich, N. Y. They 
grew well, until one day in the month of June, to his astonishment 
he noticed they were nearly stripped of their leaves. On a closer 
examination he found the cause to be the Saw-fly worm, which ho 
had never seen before, although he had always cultivated goose¬ 
berries. They before fall defoliated his old bushos also, every 
remedy which he tried being of no avail. 
In the same periodical, June 8th, 1861 (vol. xii, p. 183), a Can¬ 
andaigua subscriber states that large numbers of small, green 
worms, had lately appeared on his currant and gooseberry bushes, 
making great havoc with the foliage. The editor observes, that 
he has been fighting this same worm for several years, and with 
very little success. He is a foreigner, doubtless imported from 
Europe with currant or gooseberry plants, but is more at home 
here and thrives better than in his native land. He adds that it is 
no doubt the same as the Gooseberry Saw-fly of Europe. In 
another notice of this insect, a fortnight later, the editor states, 
“ White hellebore, powdered and dusted on the leaves, or blown 
on with bellows, is recommended by English gardeners, and has 
proved successful here.” It is reported, in a meeting of the Fruit 
Grower’s Convention of Western New York, that Mr. Harris of 
the Genesee Fanner , first suggested hellebore as a remedy for this 
worm. — ( Country Gentleman, vol. 25, p. 413.) 
In 1862, a correspondent of the Rural New Yorkei', at Erie, Pa., 
states (vol. xiii, p. 183), that the worm had been in that place one 
or two years. Dr. Sylvester, of Lyons, N. Y., says (p. 115), that 
he first saw the worm there in 1860. At Fulton, N. Y., C. S. Rust 
{Country Gentleman, vol. xxx, p. 94), reports that it appeared this 
year, completely destroying the foliage first of the gooseberry and 
