74 General JVo/ices. — Foreign JVotices. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



To destroy Insects by a Solution of Chlorine. — In the May number of 

 the Irish Farmer^s and Gardener'' s Magazine, p. 227, a correspondent, 

 Mr. H. Hall, states that he has employed this solution for the last three 

 years. It is " made by mixing with twenty gallons of spring water, a 

 pound of the chloride of lime (or common bleaching powder), in a large 

 jar, which can be easily made air tight; to this add about a pound of 

 sulphuric acid (vitriol), which disengages the chloride, and, uniting 

 with the lime, precipitates in the form of sulphate, leaving a clear solu- 

 tion of chlorine." No mention is made of the mode of using this solu- 

 tion, but probably by syriniring the plants infected. — Conds. 



Mining Insect 07i the Rose. — The peculiar appearance of the leaves 

 of rose-bushes, which is frequently observable in the fall of the year, in 

 w:ii :h thiir uppsr suffice are marked in various (Jirections with broad 

 brown lines, having a narrow darker colored one down the middle, is caus- 

 ed by the sinall cat rpillar of a minute moth (Microsetia ruficapitella,) 

 which feeds inside the leaf. When full grown it is nearly two lines 

 long, of a yellow orange color, with a brown mark down the back, the 

 head very flat and sharp, and light chocolate. About the 24th of Octo- 

 ber, when full grown, it eats out of the leaf and crawls down the stem, 

 until it his f)u;id a convenient place to fix its cocoon; this is very flat, at 

 first of a pure white, which is changed by the first sliower of rain to 

 li.'ht o'-ange : it afterwards changes to a deep brown, nearly resembling 

 the col »r of the bark of the bu-:hes, and scarcely distinguishable to the 

 eye. The jjupa is light brown, of an oval shape, about a line long, and 

 hilf that in breadth; the perfect moth appears about the 12th of May. 

 This is the Tinea ruficapitella Hawnrth. The wings are gold colored, 

 with the ape.v purple, the head ferruginous; expansion of the wings, two 

 and three quarter lines. (Entomological Mag.y Vol. I, p. 424.) 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



The Metropolitan Society of Florists and Jlmateurs held a show of 

 flowers in Vauxhall garden, on Aug. 20th last. Prizes were awarded 

 for pansies, dahlias, China asters, roses, picotees, carnations, cocks- 

 combs, orchideous plants, Clethra arborea, &c. &c. A plant of Magn6- 

 \ia grandiflora, under a foot in height, was exhibited bearing a fine 

 flower. " A box of petunias," of various sorts, cut from the plants, and 

 their stems passed through holes in the lid, into water, we infer, was 

 contributed by Mr. Dennis. The visiters were numerous. — (Card. Mag.) 



The dwarf fan Palm {Chamce'rops humilis) has flowered in the botanic 

 garden at Oxford for many years. The plant is supposed to he nearly a 

 century old. The whole height of the plant is five feet six inches; the 



