Blighted Raspberries.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1748, 19 October 1885, Page 3

Blighted Raspberries.

♦ die- following later apjcars in the Lytteltun Timet of u late uule :

Bra.- In a later id in Mr W. 11. Perryman, coding attention to wh.it i.e te-uu’, the " 1- igh: oh the i.it. li nv c,iLL<," i.e oodiy ll.eiitlollS rill.;!-, at li.O 3.-lUJIJ tUIIC 1t& 11 II g that he cannot .'.lCoUi t for the uulut.gc. lit eiys, •• My t.,,.-.t or i.,ua rows of strongly t owa cauu i- I. lk mi.-i-rr-h.e, ri.lv about ten buna out of tveiy hundred are growing, themm ty ate dean, calm out ny Eomt- small ariib ot mall, luo not know, neither can 1 account tor, ilia taUte of this destructive hiigl.t. ll.e licprtdator is the larva of a small liiOtii wnicli I l.aVf: lift Jet identified with any described =jte;o.-, ana which ho probably been mtioJUdd whi. me tece-nth imported raspberry cat.es. Iho nitvi enters the cane by a rinan h.-ie, which it puncture.' tear the base of a young shoot, c-t axu t.f a leaf, add feeds in the interior, eating its way up or down the stem, lam afraid there is a ; practical rtine.iy that wou.d be ui.iiio.j £!i-cti:ah Inc most effectual would he to loot op and turn the cants, and replace them after a season's interval with new canes from an uninfected locality. But the burning would Lave to be universal in the Island, .i.ua done every siiere at the same time. It wou; i be i.selt-s to destroy the cant.-, in any ; n'-ii-Oor garden, for the moth., would soon 1111,1 their way from other gardens to tneiv planted citit-s. And, if suen n medy were a; otei, H even then poss'ble that too motos ~j.v survive by taking to some ■’..ot piant ’"1 f. i, 3!i d attack the new - ill-.S wnen plauted. I tamM tne d image- might be very materially lessened by making, with a iuatp knife, an incision in the ride of the cane iioin the punctured hole, lot,owing tne track of, and extracting, the larva, or by pruning back the canes to below 'the atiVctea part and burning the cuttings, but the former would be a vt ry tedious process. Probably in a few year., ’the moth nny be comparatively harmless ; parasites and insectivorous birds will prey upon the larva, and moths, ami other causes combine to reduce- them. I used to drees my fruit lee-; fur blight and scale, trying ail tiie recointnsnded specitics with very little success. I have found it better not to interfere- with tuem at ail, only keeping the trees weii pruned an i the blight and teals are now so reduced ns become comparatively harmless. All tiewiv introduced plants and animals thrive in a wonderful manner, but find their level in Bthv, i am, Ac., iitor W;j Feee/mv,

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