The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . I4J.—THE GOOSEliERRV the grubs were the larvK of the magpie, or Goose-berry moth, and that they emerged from the groundin a state to begin their depredations at once. Abouta month ago I and a friend noticed in his garden thebeginning of the annual devastation. He at oncecaged some grubs, with their food, and the result atpresent is that they gained their bulk, and disappeared. Fig. 150.—THE GOOSEUERRV .MOTH. underground. Several flies like the one figured inmy sketch have appeared, but no mo
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . I4J.—THE GOOSEliERRV the grubs were the larvK of the magpie, or Goose-berry moth, and that they emerged from the groundin a state to begin their depredations at once. Abouta month ago I and a friend noticed in his garden thebeginning of the annual devastation. He at oncecaged some grubs, with their food, and the result atpresent is that they gained their bulk, and disappeared. Fig. 150.—THE GOOSEUERRV .MOTH. underground. Several flies like the one figured inmy sketch have appeared, but no moth. Yesterdayafternoon we devoted two hours to careful examina-tion of the trees, and found on every tree, generallynear the bottom, several leaves with round holes, likeshot holes. On turning these over in every case a rowof oblong white eggs up the principal veins wasto be seen, with the grubs, very small, eating awayat the edges of the holes (hg. 149). We foundthese in all stages, and formed the conclusion thatthe flies come from the chrysalis, which has lain inthe ground all the winter, deposits its eggs, whichare hatched, and so the work goes on, by how manygenerations in one year it is impossible to say. Ibelieve myself that the most efiectual way to stay thedevastation is to throw dust or slaked lime up underthe trees while the dew is on them, so that it mayadhere to the underside of the leaf, where the eggsare deposited. I am merely prompted to make theseremark
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