THE 



COTTAGE GABDENEBS' DICTIONABY, 



ABE 



ABE'LE TREE. The White Poplar 

 (Populm alba). 



ABE'LIA. (After Dr. Abel, Physician 

 to the embassage of Lord Amherst to 

 China. Nat. ord., Caprifoils [Caprifo- 

 liacese]. Linn. Sys., 5-Pentandria \-mo- 

 nogynia). Half-hardy evergreen 

 shrubs ; may be turned out into the 

 borders in summer. Cuttings in 

 summerin light turfy loam and peat, 

 and layers in spring. 



A. floritu'nda (many - flowered. ) . 3. 

 Rosy purple. Requires a little 

 peat. March. Mexico. 1842. 



rupe'stris (rock). 5. Pink and 



white. September. China. 1844. 



triflofra (three-flowered). 5. Pale 



red. September. Hindostan. 



uniflo'ra (one-flowered). 3. China. 



A'BIES. See Pinus. 



ABO'RTION. Too early or imperfect 

 development. In fruit, this frequently 

 occurs from a defect in the male or 

 female organs. If from the first, it may 

 be remedied by using pollen from other 



ABR 



a band of pale orange across each of the 

 fore-wings. The hind-wings are of the 

 same colours, but without any orange 

 colouring. The body is orange, spotted 

 with black. The female deposits her 

 eggs upon the leaf of a gooseberry or 



A'BRICOCK. An old mode of spelling 

 APRICOT. (Armeni'aca vulgdris.} 



ABR A' x AS grossularid ta. Magpie Moth. 

 The caterpillar of this moth often in- 

 fests the leaves of the gooseberry bush, 

 as well as of the currant, sloe, and even 

 the peach, in early summer. It is com- 

 mon during the evenings of July and 

 August. Usually about one and a half 

 inch across the expanded fore-wings, 

 which are very slightly yellowish white, 

 variously spotted with black, more or 

 less like those in ottr drawing, for the 

 marks are never uniform; and there is 



currant tree, and, from these, little loop- 

 ing caterpillars come forth in September 

 (see a drawing of these and of the Chry- 

 salis in the Cottage Gardener, iv. 15), and 

 surviving the winter, begin to feed again 

 upon the leaves as soon as these open 

 in the spring. They are full grown to- 

 wards the end of May, and enter the 

 chrysalis state between that time and 

 the end of June. In this state they re- 

 main for about three weeks, and then the 

 perfect moth comes forth. The cater- 

 pillar is yellowish white, with an orange 

 stripe, more or less complete, on each 

 side, and with numerous black spots, the 

 largest on the back. The chrysalis is 

 black, with orange circles round the 

 pointed end. The caterpillar prefers the 

 leaves of the gooseberry and red currant ; 

 but, after stripping these to their very 

 stalks, it will feed upon those of the 



