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a first-rate manure afterwards, causing the trees to make good wood 
for another year. 
“ The caterpillars always first appear on leaves in the middle and 
bottom of the trees, and may be detected first by a few small holes in 
a few of the leaves, resembling prick-lioles of a pin. This is the best 
time to apply the soot.” 
Sawfly-caterpillar ; cocoon, mag.; Sawfly, mag.; line showing nat. length. 
Mr. Kay, Barone Cottage, Rothsay, N.B., mentions :—“ The cater¬ 
pillar made considerable havoc not only amongst the Gooseberries, but 
amongst the Currant bushes, a thing that had not been seen before. 
I may state that I did not give the ground the usual coating of para ffin 
in the spring , and probably the grubs may have made headway on that 
account.” 
The attack of Sawfly-caterpillars on Gooseberry leafage is one 
which appears certain to appear more or less every year, and often, 
and especially in bush-fruit growing districts, causes great loss to the 
growers. As it has now been reported yearly since 1878 inclusive, 
with various methods of prevention and remedy found to answer for 
keeping it in check, it may be of use to give a list of the most service- 
of these under special heading.* 
Handpicking the Caterpillars , or shaking them down and 
destroying them. 
“ Handpicking, if taken in time, the best remedy.”— Alex Forbes. 
“Handpicking found to be the most satisfactory remedy.”—C. 
Grierson. 
.“ On attack being observed put on hands at once, and 
* It will be observed from the names appended that the information with which 
I w T as favoured was almost entirely contributed by well-known Scotch or English 
horticulturists, or by large growers in the bush-fruit district in the South of England, 
of which the addresses are given in full in the respective Reports. 
