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drawn from the personal experience of one individual, during a 
longer series of years, than usually falls to the lot of one to enjoy. 
Any questions which your correspondent may desire to propose, 
through the pages of your Register , arising out of the foregoing ob¬ 
servations, I shall feel a pleasure in replying to through the same 
medium, as far as lies in my power. I might have continued this to 
a much greater length, without mayhap increasing its value. So 
much connected with the matter crowds upon me that appears wor¬ 
thy of note, that I am at a loss where to choose, and shall therefore 
conclude. 
J. C. K. 
Levant Lodge. 
ARTICLE III. 
REMARKS ON GOOSEBERRY AND CURRANT TREES. 
BY HENRY DYSON. 
I observed last summer a great deficiency of fruit in this depart¬ 
ment, in the generality of gardens, over a considerable extent of the 
southern division of the West-Riding of Yorkshire; and probably 
such deficiency took a much wider range, than the limits of my cir¬ 
cumscribed observation extended. I allude not to the quantity of 
fruit, but to its quality, which was greatly deteriorated by the filth, 
(vermin and caterpillars,) with which the trees were almost univer¬ 
sally assailed; so that in many gardens, there was scarcely a leaf 
visible at midsummer, on trees of this descripiion; whereby both 
fruit and trees suffered severely. 
Trees of these kinds, (more particularly gooseberry’s) having ar¬ 
rived at maturity, are very subject to foster a coating of moss on 
their stems and branches, which is not only injurious to the trees 
themselves, but is a sort of nursery for the ovaria of caterpillars and 
other insects, which in due time sally forth to their work of devasta¬ 
tion. 
As a simple and efficient remedy for this palpable defect, it is only 
necessary to make every branch of a tree thoroughly wet, by pour¬ 
ing on water through the rose of a watering-can, and then forthwith 
sifting about two or more pounds of quick-lime over the entire tree, 
which will remain on the stronger branches throughout the summer, 
perhaps half an inch thick, and most effectually eradicate the moss, 
together with the noxious embryo vermin it may contain. 
