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After tlie third change of skin (for like mulberry silkworms they shoot their 

 skins four times), they may if desired be transferred to the oak in the open air ; 

 and this is stated to be a good plan, when they can be shaded from hot sunshine. 

 Protection by means of muslin bags around the boughs is, however, requisite, or 

 the birds may carry them off. Large boughs 5 ft. or 6 ft. high could be brought 

 indoors, and placed in vessels containing water, or wet mould ; this would main- 

 tain the foliage fresh, and render it unnecessary to change the boughs for at least 

 two days. In removing the worms to fresh boughs they should never be handled, 

 but the boughs should be placed alongside the old ones, or the old ones with the 

 worms on should be cut away and placed on the fresh ones. When the worms 

 remain stationary in their sleep, previous to changing their skins, they should 

 not be touched or moved at all. It is recommended to water over the worms 

 occasionally of a hot summer's evening. The worms when arrived at maturity 

 spin their cocoons among the oak boughs and leaves. The beautiful moths 

 appear about the end of August. 



Old Catton, Norwich. Leonard Harman, Jun. 



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HAVE not seen the free-seeding property of this plant noticed so 

 v^j3 prominently as it deserves to be. Our plant, here, having received no 

 SH) extraordinary treatment, can scarcely be singular in producing its beautiful 

 \ berries, about the size of buckshot, packed close upon one another with a 

 regularity which cannot but be observed and admired. The colour in the early 

 stages is bright green and most pleasing, but it is when the various changes take 

 place, and as the fruits approach maturity, that the greatest amount of interest 

 is awakened, tints of orange and crimson, spreading from the base to the apex, 

 deepening in colour round the base until they become rivals of no mean 

 importance to the flower-spathe that preceded them. In this condition they 

 remain for perhaps ten or fourteen days, when the gummy substance by 

 which they are affixed to the spadix, seems to lose its power of adhesion, 

 and the fruit drops. The leaves on the plant producing these fruits measure 

 9 in. in length by If in. broad. It has had perfect health since we received it 

 from Mr. Williams, of Hollo way, about two years ago. It enjoys liberal pot- 

 room, and a soil of light turfy peat, with sand of the best quality. 



Southend Gardens, Darlington. John Eichardson. 



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| E have in this noble stove plant one of the many successful results of 



J hybridization, for which the establishment of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, 



%$M& °^ Chelsea, to whom we are indebted for our illustration, has become so 



L'§S famous. It is, no doubt, one of the finest of the Alocasias, on account 



of its free growth and handsome features. The leaves are laro-e and of an 



