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beds. Its attacks are shown long before it be- 

 comes visible, according to Mr. Forsyth, byUie 

 '• leaves curling and cracking in the middle." 



As a remedy in this situation, he advises, when 

 the weather is warm and sunny, the watering 

 them all over the leaves trom a watering-pot 

 with the rose upon it, or an engine, about six 

 o'clock in the morning, and about eight to siiadc 

 them with mats, whcTi the sun shines, shitimg 

 the frames down close till towards eleven, then 

 to admit air in a small proportion, continuing 

 the mats till about three in the afternoon, and 

 then removing them. In this way the leaves are 

 prevented from injury by the sun while wet. 

 And when there is a south or south-west wind, 

 the watering may be repeated about three in the 

 afternoon, shutting up the franies, to produce a 

 strong exhalation and destroy the insects. In 

 the operation, as much water as possible should 

 be thrown on the under side of the leaves, gently 

 turning the vines for the purpose. The lights 

 and sides of the boxes should likewise be well 

 watered ; and before the frames are made use of 

 again they should be well washed inside and 

 out, first with water, and then soap-suds and 

 urine in a state of mixture. When Melons 

 have been infested with the spider the preceding 

 season, none of the earth or mould should be 

 luade use of again. 



In sprinkling the leaves, water that has been 



rous glandule concave, spreading : the stamina, 

 margm surroundinii, ending in three very short 

 cusps : the pisiillum is a large mferiot germ : 

 style conic, thrcc-cleft at the tip (five-cleft) : 

 9tign»a single, with a thick, convex margin, 

 creeping upwards and downwards, three-ciell: 

 the perR'aipium is a pome (berry) three-celled; 

 (three to live) cells mejiibranaceous, soft,disiine.t 

 (two-'iiaried) : the seeds verv man v, compressed, 

 ?\\»)llen on the margin, obtuse, placed in double 

 uri.ler. 



The species arc: i. C. IjOgrnaria, Bottle or 

 Long Gourd; 2. <7. Te/^o, Pompion, or Pomp- 

 kin Gourd ; 3. C. verrucosa, VVarted Gourd; 

 4. C. Mel'jOepo, Squash Gourd ; 5. C Cilrullus, 

 Water Melon. 



The first has a trailing, thick, downy stalk, 

 branching into many spreading runners, extend- 

 ing along the ground fifteen or twenty feet in 

 length. The leaves arc large, roundish, heart- 

 shaped, indented, woolly, biglandulous at the 

 base : the flowers large and white, being suc- 

 ceeded bv long, incui vated, whitish-yellow fruit, 

 shaped like a bottle, with a large roundish belly 

 and smooth neck, from about two to five or 

 six feet in length, and from nine to eighteen 

 inches or more round, having a ligneous, durable 

 shell. 



The chief varieties of which are: the Com- 

 mon lon£:-fruited, the Long- protuberant-bellied. 



several days exposed to the sun, or made soft by the Long sickle-shaped, the Long Uper, and the 

 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Long turbinated Bottle-Gourd. 



The second species has thick, angular stems, 

 extremely hispid, branched, climbing by means 

 of bifid tendrils, or spreading to the distance of 

 forty feci. The leaves are cordate, large, 

 ronndish-angidar, toothed, wrinkled, hairy on 

 both sides, on long, alternate, thick, flcxuose, 

 hirsute petioles: the flowers are yellow, lateral, 

 solitarv, on peduncles resembhng the petiole's, 

 but shorter : the fruit is roundish, ovate-glo- 

 bular, or oblong-ovate ; of a pale green on the 

 outside, and commonly hispid, with bristly 

 hairs; within having a spongy insipid white 

 pulp or flesh; divi3ed in the middle into 

 three primary cells, each of which is double, 

 and these are subdivided into the proper cells 

 of the seeds. It flowers from .lune to August. 



There are several varieties, as the Common 

 lar^e round-fruited yellow, Oval yellow, Oblong 

 yellow, Whitish-fruited, Stone-coloured, Flesh- 

 coloured, Parti-coloured, Marbled, Small round, 



wood-ashes, should be employed 



The author of the Scotch Forcing Gardener, 

 however, observes, that water at some periods 

 cannot be thus applied without much injury to 

 the plants, and that the leaves and vines are so 

 brittle and tender that they cannot be brushed 

 or touched without harm. 



It is of course obvious, that much care and 

 circumspection is necessary in extirpating these 

 insects bv the use of water. 



CLCURBITA, agenus comprehending plants 

 of the herbaceous trailing annual kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Monoeda Si/n- 

 genesia, and ranks in the natural order of Cuair- 

 iitacece. 



The characters are : that in the male flow ers the 

 calyx is a one-leafed perianthium, bell-shaped, 

 the mararin terminated by five subulate teeth : 

 the corolla five-parted, growing to the calyx, 

 bell-shaped : divisions veiny-rugose : nectary a 

 gland in the centre of the flower, concave, tri 



angular: the stamina consist of three filaments. Orange-shaped, Pear-shaped, Turb.nated, He 

 converging, connected above, distinct below, mispherical or Semi-globular, Egg-shaped, Strip- 

 growing to the calyx: anthers creeping upwards td roundish. Striped egg-shaped. Striped turbi- 

 and downwards, linear. In the female flowers nnted, and Striped pear-shaped l'on;pion, 8cc. 

 the calyx a perianthium, as in the male, superior. The third has trailing stalks, very branchy and 

 deciduous : the corolla as in the wale: ncctarife- spreading, running t^f^O" tl'c ground as in the 



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