Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . currants untouched if black currants are planted among them,Tiltons Journal, 8 : 35. Copperas dissolved in water, Ibid, 8 : of lime. Ibid, 9 : 149. Tansy decoction. Ibid 9 : ashes applied when leaves are wet, Ibid 9 : 309; also Ru-ral New-Yorker, 1897 : 375. Carbolic acid. Horticulturist,1870 : 221. Picking off leaves at base of bushes where most eggs are deposited before theyhatch, or immediately tar dissolved in turpen-t
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . currants untouched if black currants are planted among them,Tiltons Journal, 8 : 35. Copperas dissolved in water, Ibid, 8 : of lime. Ibid, 9 : 149. Tansy decoction. Ibid 9 : ashes applied when leaves are wet, Ibid 9 : 309; also Ru-ral New-Yorker, 1897 : 375. Carbolic acid. Horticulturist,1870 : 221. Picking off leaves at base of bushes where most eggs are deposited before theyhatch, or immediately tar dissolved in turpen-tine, with slaked lime andwater added. Ibid, 1870 : off the worms tolet them fall on the hotground when the sun is brightIbid, 1871 : 159. Howe Cavefertilizer, Grafton mineralfertilizer and Colburns cur-rant-worm exterminator men-tioned as ineffectual, Ibid,1873 :172. Mixing wood asheswith the soil, Ibid, 1873 : with tobacco stems,Popular Gardening, 2:129. Mulching with coal ashes. Ibid,6:220. Air-slaked lime and tobacco dust. Insect Life, 1, Ibid, 1:229. Decoction of foxglove. Gar. Month., 1874:. Fig. 77. First work of currant worm. ?Tiltons Journal, 8: 23, :213. Gardeners Monthly, 1874: 149. CUBRANT WORMS 425 254. Soot, also rue and chamomile planted among the bushes,Tiltons Jour., 4:233. Decoction of elder leaves and tobaccowater, Ibid, 7:187. Young chickens, Hoveys Mag., 1854:527. In 1869, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society offered a prizeof twenty-five dollars for a safe, certain and economicalmethod, better than any now known, of destroying the currantworm, or preventing its ravages. It is easily controlled by the application of white hellebore,half an ounce or a teaspoonful to a gallon of water, as soon as theworms appear. The eggs of the first brood are laid chiefly on thetufts of leaves at the base of the plant, and Paris green or LondoT^purple may be used for the first application, while the larvae areyet on these leaves. Th
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