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green climber. Cuttings 

 and peat. 



TILLANDSIA 

 Stove epiphytes 



Sandy loam caterpillar of different shades, varying 



with its age, is Ibund in or near tlie 



Thirty-one species, centre feeding upon the tender leaves, 



Suckers or seeds, and sometimes a little family of four or 



Wood, with a little moss on their roots, live inhabit the same head. The head 

 TINKA, a genus of moths, the larva; feelers and horns of our little moth arc 



of which are very destructive. 



white, the latter with a few black spots 



T. daucella. Carret Moth. Head and near the tips ; the thorax is cream-co- 

 back and upper wings reddish-brown; loured, the sides brown, upper wings 

 abdomen gray and white. Its cater- , lance-shaped, very pale clay brown, 

 pillar is greenish-gray with black tuber- , with whitish streaks. Perhaps the best 

 cles, and lives on the flowers and seeds method of extirpating them would be 

 of the carrot, but prefers the parsnep. to search for the young caterpillars 



T. padella. Small Ermine Moth is between the leaves on the first symp- 

 white with black dots on the upper ! toms of their presence, and extracting 

 wings. Eggs deposited in June and ^ them with a small pair of forceps, such 

 July, near the blossom buds of the haw- I as are used for microscopic objects; 

 thorn, cunymus, apple and pear tree ; j but as some might be too minute at that 

 caterpillars appear in autumn, and in- ] early period to be detected on the first 

 close the twigs with a web. In the fol- ; search, this operation must be repeated. 



lowing spring they attack the petals and 

 calyx. Color, dull lead with a black 

 liead. — Ko'ilar. \ 



T. Clerckella. Pear Tree Blister] 

 Moth. The caterpillars of this raise 



Pinching the maggots in the bud is also 

 recommended as well as dusting the 

 plants with fiower of sulphur, which I 

 fear would be of little use. I think, 

 however, that a portable frame might 



dark brown blisters on the leaves of the be constructed and covered with tarred 

 pear tree, and less often on those of the I or painted canvas, which could be 

 apple. The moth is active and minute, ! placed over a bush or small bed of 

 shining like pearly satin, the wings hav- flowers, when it is attacked by insects ; 

 ing an orange ground spotted with and it would then be easy to fumigate 

 black and other colors. It appears in any plant by means of an aperture with 

 ]May. Mr. Curtis says, — "To check a tube of leather or any pliable mate- 

 this disease, it will be advisable to wash : rial which could be tied or plugged up, 

 the tree with soapsuds the end of May so as to keep in the smoke of tobacco, 

 or beginning of June, when the moths or even of sulphur, which last would 

 are pairing and laying eggs for a future \ in ten minutes destroy every living ani- 

 progctiy ; and if a very valuable tree mal within the inclosed space." — Card. 

 be only partially attacked, the blistered Cliron. 

 leaves might be gathered and burnt as ' TIPULA. Crane Fly or Daddy-long- 



soon as any spots began to appear in ! legs. 



August." — Gard. Chroii. 



T. oleracea, the grubs or " leather 



T. capitella. Triple-spotted Currant jackets," so injurious to the market 

 Tinea. The larva; of this feed upon gardener, are its larvae. They attack 

 the pith of the young shoots of the cur- I the roots of scarlet beans, lettuces, 

 rant, which they attack in the spring, dahlias, potatoes, &c., from May to 

 The moth itself is fuscous; the head , August. During the last month and 

 with an ochreous tuft; superior wings September they become pupa;. Mr. 

 bronzed, spotted with purple and yel- : Curtis observes, that — " It is said that 

 low. 



T. poreclelld. 



1 lime water will not kill them, and sug 

 Rocket or Gray-streak gests that if quicklime was scattered on 

 Moth, has its habits and forms thus de- . the ground at night, it would destroy 



scribed by Mr. Curtis : — 



them when they come to the surface to 



" During the middle and latter end | feed ; and all the gnats that are found 

 of April, as the shoots of the rockets , on the walls, palings, ground or else- 

 advance, it is found that the leaves ad- where, should be killed, especially the 

 here firmly together, and those that female, which would prevent any eggs 

 liberate themselves are perforated with being deposited in the ground. A mix- 

 large holes. On forcibly opening a ture of lime and gas water distributed 

 shoot, for the young leaves are con- j by a watering pot over grass, has com- 

 nected by silken threads, a small green pletely exterminated the larva;, where 



