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{Annales de la Soci«tc Centiale d'Horticulturp, Paris. 1850. — Traii8!ations.] 



LE HANNETON.— THE MAY BUG. 



Bosc says there are more than one hundred and fifty species. 

 Four years ago a gardener at Meiix showed nie three live on^s, 

 each of which vomited a white worm. I cariied these to tlie Ag- 

 ricultural Society. The members had never seen anything like 

 this. All these bugs, says Bosc, live on the roots of plants, in 

 the larva state, and at the expense of the leaves when in the per- 

 fect state. The common May bug is of the color of rust, with a 

 black and hairy or velvety corslet ; it has a white triangular spot 

 on each side of the rings of the abdomen. The female digs a hole 

 in the earth in which she deposits her eggs. These eggs produce 

 larva, known to cultivators by the iiam-es of white worm, man, or 

 Turk, &c. These larva? lie in the earth four years, and then ai-e 

 changed to nymphse. The May bug lives only seven or eight 

 <lays. After coupling the male di-es, and after depositing her 

 €ggs the female dies also. 



SMITH PARSLEY. 



In Autumn, 1849, 1 visited the superb vegetable garden of Fa- 

 «hette, near Windsor, established some seven years ago by 'Queen 

 Victoria, on the model of that of Versailles — containing about 

 seventy acres. I admired the rich and singualr appearance of 

 an umbelliferous plant forming very thickly tufted borders of the 

 beds. This was the frizled parsley of Smith. I asked the gai'- 

 dener, Mr. Ingramm, about it, and he said no other person than 

 they had it. I am convinced that this root will soon take the 

 pla«e of all others. 



[Annaks de la Socicte Centrale, Paris, 1851. Translation.'] 



DRAIiV TILE MACHINE, BY THACKERAY. 



The various modes of draining wet lands by the use of brush, 

 stones, S:c., have all given way in favor of the regular tile, on oc- 

 count of their superiority and economy. The incessant repairs 

 demanded by the other systems vanish in the use of tiles, at suit- 

 able depths. The machine, of which we give a drawing, obtained 

 tor Mr. Thackeray a silver medal, at the national exhibition o' 

 1849, because it united all the conditions required in a tile mak- 

 ing machine. The moulding of the tiles is a continuous opera- 



