"J." writes: "My neighbor has some very thrifty Blackcap raspberries that, after sending up stout canes five and six feet high, began suddenly to die about four weeks since, and some are now dying. On examination I found no evidence of the work of any insect boring at tip or root or On the leaves, but the cane died throughout its entire length and in one to two weeks' time. Digging up a very large nearly dead plant. I found nestling in the bark at the crown of the root a nest of young millipeds. The bark was rotten and the stem practically girdled. Could these little millipeds, as large as a knitting needle and perhaps one inch or less long, have done the mischief, and if so, what remedy? The Redcaps were not affected, and only here and there one of the Blackcaps.

[Millipeds, or "hundred legs," we do not think, often injure plants to any great extent. They feed on softer things than wood or bark. The description seems like some of the fungus troubles that very often follow the track of the raspberry grower. There is also a raspberry borer that is often destructive. - Ed. G. M].