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MONTHLY SUMMARY. 



Is so good as 



and 



condition; cannot be expected to bear so bigh a price, wbicb at 

 present is as high as 405. a lb. Improvements in bleacbing, &c., 

 may, however, remove this inferiority. 



The caterpillar itself is a handsome object, particularly after its 



chansre 



Like 



pillars, it changes its s]dn several times. The nupaber of changes 

 of skin in the Ailanthus is four. At first its colour is yellow and 

 black, with black tubercules. After its last change it becomes a 

 beautiful emerald green, with ultramarine blue on the tubercules. 

 It is scarcely possible as yet to form any estimate of the money 

 jreturus that might be obtained per acre ; but they cannot fail to be 

 considerable; andoneverygreat advantage is the very trifling amount 

 of care or trouble that is required to procure it. For months no 

 attention at all is needed, and unless where the cultivation is 

 fgyried oq on an extensive ^cale, the whole might be attended to 

 by a servant girl in the intervals of her house work. 



Hemoranda 



Meet' 



on the 5th, for the Election of Fellows; and Meetings of the 

 Floral and Fruit Committees on the 23rd. 



On the 10th, the Autumn Flower Show will be held. The 

 plants for jwhich prizes are specially offered are Eoses, Holly- 

 hocks, Asters, Gladiolus, Phloxes, Verbenas, and Dahlias. 



The Aloe is now in full bloom, the buds having burst into a 

 fine golden yellow flower. 



