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nient : — " Htec ipse cxpertus sum, et non sine adiniratione observavi ; 

 quia praeter, iiiio contra consuetura naturae ordincm esse videtur, ex uno 

 eodenique animali, diversae speciei prolem generari ; atque unum idenique 

 brutuni, tribus diversis modis procreare ; quae tanien in his erucis, ex iis 

 quae breviter enarravi, manitesta sunt." * ( See Goedartii j\Ieta)uor2)hosis, 

 Expcr. xi.) Your correspondent, therefore, it appears, is not the first 

 person who has been amazed and puzzled by the production of parasites 

 from lepidopterous larvae, though the natural history of these insects is now 

 understood by all who have paid the least attention to the subject. See 

 also Insect Transformations, p. 59, 60., for information on the 0])inions of 

 the earlier naturalists. Yours, &c. — W. T. Bree. Allcsley Rectory, 

 Sept. 20. 1830. 



Public Walks of Armagh. — 1 saw lately in an Irish newspaper some 

 allusion to certain very beautiful public walks near that city, said to be laid 

 out at the expense of a private individual residing in the neighbourhood. 

 As you seem to have the celebrated Mr. Ensor, Mr. Ellcs, and others, as 

 correspondents in that part of Ireland, perhaps you could through them 

 give some account of the walks in question. — J. C. D. Dec. 15. 1830. 



Hoiu to manage Georgina Cuttings. — I should feel much obliged to any 

 of your correspondents who would favour me with the management of 

 georgina cuttings. They are a family of plants which, in my opinion, are 

 worth the particular attention of every one who has any taste whatever for 

 the richness of a flower-garden ; and, as your pages are open alike for the 

 improvement of the skilful and the unskilful, I hope I shall not be con- 

 sidered intruding with this request. I should like to kno-Cv which is the 

 best method of striking late cuttings, and kee[)ing them through the v.in- 

 ter. I have put in cuttings in the spring in the border, which have grown 

 and flowered in the autumn ; and I have also put cuttings in pots in the 

 middle of September, which are now (November) only beginning to form 

 their callosities : I am at a loss to know whether they would be best kept 

 through the winter in a cold frame, green-house, or stove. 



T/iunbergia a/dta. I should also like to know the best time of year to 

 strike cuttings of the Thunberg/« alata, and how to ripen its seed ? I 

 I'emain, Sir, Sec. — A Constant Reader. Noi\ 8. 1830. 



Q.hrysdnthemum sincnse. — I believe I may give up trying to flower 

 Chinese chrysanthemums here in pots. In 1828 they did middling; but 

 last year, after the flower-buds were formed, the leaves became mouldy, 

 and the flower-buds withered and died. This season the flower-buds are 

 very well formed, and at rather an earlier period than last year, but I am 

 sorry to observe the leaves growing mouldy again ; and I do not expect 

 they will do any good. Can you or any of your readers tell me the cause 

 of this, and how it is to be prevented ? You know I have no green-house, 

 but I have several windows facing the south, in which I place them ; and I 

 give them as much air as possible. I regret very much their going off" in 

 this way, as they are among my most favourite flowers. — A. W. Crosslee 

 Cottage, near Glasgow, Oct. 25. 1830. 



Double Cowslip. — There was once enquiry for a double cowslip by (I 

 believe) Mr. Bree of AUesley Rectory : I l)eg to inform him that I have 

 obtained one from a cottage garden, as double as a rose, having bloomed 

 it last year. — R. Errington. Oulton Park, Sept. 1830. 



* " These things I have myself found by experience, and observed not 

 without astonishment ; because it seems beside, nay contrarj' to, the usual 

 course of nature, that from one and the same animal an offspring of a 

 different species should be generated ; and that one and the same creature 

 should procreate in three different ways ; which yet is manifestly the case 

 with these caterpillars, from what I have briefly related." 



