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spring, in sand, tinder a glass, in gentle 

 heat. Loam and sandy peat, well 

 drained. 



C. cuneifo'lwm (wedge - shaped - leaved). 4. 

 White. April. Cape of Good Hope. 

 1821. 



CHEESE-RENNET. Gdliwm verum. 



CHEILA'NTHES. (From cheilos, a lip, 

 and anthos, a flower; in reference to the 

 form of the seed organs. Nat. ord., 

 Ferns [Polypodiaceas]. Linn., 24-Crypto- 

 gamia, \-jfilices. Allied to Adiantum). 

 Division of the roots, just when com- 

 mencing to grow. Peat and loam. Sum- 

 mer temp., 55 to 80 ; winter, 45 to 55. 



C. gra'cilis (slender). . Brown. July. North 



America. 1823. 



odo'ra (sweet-smelling). |. Brown. June. 

 . 1819. 



Switzerland 

 vesti'ta (clothed). ^. Brown. 

 North America. 1812. 



August. 



GREENHOUSE. 



C. cauda'ta (tailed). 4. Brown. June. New 

 Holland. 1824. 



fr a' grans (fragrant) f . Brown. August. 



Madeira. 1778. 



hi'rta (hairy). . Brown. June. Cape of 



Good Hope. 1806. 



macrophiflla (large-leaved). 1. Brown. 



August. "West Indies. 



pterofdes (Pteris-like). . Brown. July. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 1J75. 



suave? olens (sweet-scented). Brown. Au- 



gust. Madeira. 1778. 



STOVE. 

 C. crenula'ta (scolloped). 1. Brown. 1824. 



cunea'ta (wedge-leaved^. 1. Brown. 1831. 



Iticsonioi'des (Dicksonia-like). 4. Brown. 



August. 



farino'sa (mealy). Brown, yellow. Isle of 



Luzon. 



femtgi'nca (rusty). . Brown. June. 1816. 



lendi'gera (maggot-bearing). |. Brown. 



June. New Spain 



micro' mcra (parted-small). Mexico. 



micro' pteris (small - winged). 4. Brown. 



September. 1838. 



profu'sa (dangling). . Brown. September. 



refpens (creeping). 1. Brown. July. West 



Indies. 1824. 



ru'fa (reddish-brown). ^. Reddish hrown. 



West Indies. 



rufefseens (brownish red). . Brown. Sep- 



tember. 1838. 



sinuo'sa (wavy-edged). 1. Brown. Au- 



gust. West Indies. 



specta'UUs (showy). H, Brown. Sep- 



tember. Brazil. 1829. 



tenuifo'lia (slender-leaved). Brown. Sep. 



tember. Ceylon. 



visco-sa (clammy). Brown. Mexico. 1841. 

 CHEIMATO'BIA BRITMA'TA. Winter 



Moth. This is the cause of more de- 



struction to our fruit and other trees 



MALE AND FEMALE. 



than almost any other insect; for no 

 weather is sufficiently severe to injure 

 either them or their eggs ; and the cater- 

 pillars, in the early spring, will feed 

 upon the opening buds and leaves of al- 

 most every kind of tree. The females 

 being without wings, may be prevented 

 ascending our standard fniit-trees by 

 smearing round their trunks a band of 

 tar, but this must be renewed, as it 

 dries, every two or three days. The 

 male moths begin to fly about just after 

 sunset during November and until the 

 end of January. Their upper wings, 

 when opened, measure across about one 

 inch and a quarter ; but during the day 

 they look much smaller, for they fold 

 them so as to form a triangle, and have 

 their feelers or horns (antcnnse) turned 

 back over them. Those wings are pale 

 grey, marked with various darker waved 

 lines. The under wings are greyish- 

 white, often having a notched line cross- 

 ing their centre. The body, delicate 

 and tapering, is yellowish grey. The 

 female crawls to the top of a tree, and 

 deposits her very small oval eggs upon 

 the blossom and leaf buds, as well as 

 upon the shoots. She will lay from 200 

 to 300 eggs. The caterpillars and the 

 buds come to life together ; at first they 

 are grey, and scarcely thicker than a 

 horsehair, but they cast their skins, and 

 finally become the green-looper, of a 

 yellowish green colour, shining, and 

 with a blue line down the back. On 

 their sides are two yellowish white 

 lines. The apple buds are their favourite 

 food ; but they destroy without difficulty 

 the leaves of the hawthorn, lime, hazel, 

 rose, elm, willow, and hornbeam. The 

 Cottage Gardener, i. 53. The caterpillar 



