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tually be of considerable ——— to the country. | Pyrastri, &c., he B, . “they sometimes appear in| amongst which the seeds had dropped. Rhododen endrons 
pra of these I shall refer to in a future communication, | myriads on the suet all a ss ceed with me perfectly in the Peas aa soil, in which 
as I fear I have already too pe of your space. | not even avoiding objects = a thei — = es y and the Arbor Vite are the only things th ‘ 
mc! though it may | probably on their pa to t Saat gro of Kent to = = vigorously.—The fact I have now stated suggests q 
to many that India, be a hot country, has | clear them of the destructive Mphides ak the agency | mode ot which abundance of plants may be es from 
ttle to receive from, or to give to, temperate climates, | of their larve.—Ruricola. ae Is, SO that varieties may be obtained of this fine ever. 
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sons of cultivation, in one of which COTTAGE GARDE bat fh wehok chad ked by hares or rabbits, and oe ae 
pees pa Sage Gece grains are cultivated, and in the No. I.. —Ovr prin rincipal object in the aos notices which | aa finest possible cover for game, as it grows well un 
ther Whea' pang and such acct ~ cago as | we intend to give in this journal is, to point out to cot-| the shade of trees, in a and in dry places, and almost 
are forced in our gardens in summer. The mountains,-| tagers and farm-labourers the way in which thei — any soil suits sf saeey atitude of this place is —_ ws i 
which oatrape over so large an extent e aay towiaey, or small allotment of land ought to be colixaint: and at | and I have no d ike ; 
have —_ agenes, | of climate, and at certain elevations, | th time t ind them of many little things whi h farther north, pi at much higher elevations here than I 
a —— is analo ogous to that of European should be attended to, if they would obtain, in return- for | have yet tried.—G. S. bigest Coul, 2d Dec. 1840, * 
“Of vhich tho: Wheat Mi idges.—In No. 1 of the Gardeners’ Chronic! 
soukieg ‘proof bach rte alayan plants which essential accompaniments of “the cottage are “ capal able of you have given a notice oe a lecture which Ww 
were exposed in the Pigg os = 'sa730 to a cold of from sharers This oe of our paper may be therefore by me before the Members of the 
43 to 12° escaped with li injury, w! many Society, for the purpose of illustrating a report of 
others which sataralised a in our shusttheeien Wi the hago of Wheat, and which has just appeared jj 
perished and wagers —Indophil: coef as penile. No one doubts, the pores of a| No.5 of their Journal. In epenntgon the Wheat-Midge, 
y Pr me to more sanguine than J 
ENTOMOLOGY. att: really am, of the pesca of. piste this corn- 
No. I. ee Hawx-Fox.—Iatimately connected as neha) duces sober, siuucires sat domestic habits pest. But though I should consider any attempt at its 
insects are with plan ortega ad they are to some, but | creates that feeling of independence which is the best s€- | extermination perfectly chimerical, I d i i 
injurious to a far umber, pedi i upon their a = Ee pauperism. Nothing, ado, is so well ravages ewe be very materially check 
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and economy ani unacceptable to t of the practical "retails of agriculture,— 
readers. Whether we ramble amongst the heather, beat the | e struc d that my suggestion ht — or scald the chaff w 
fi and hedges, wade thro the mazes of the wood, | their cottages a poset y= we ey a man gr the ak key to me eet with m voca tes. I was not vat all 
saunter along the plantations, or lounge in our garden, we Was SO 
pes tudy of t! a cottager by the state in which we find his spree — understand it to be as food : bes rete I have n now been 
sundl works. of the Creatoc.” Whilst 1 lave been | con- lishment. If, 0 n looking into his garden |p t at th Wheat, and I find 
templating these subjects under the charming shade of a / ’ that the pupze of f the Midge are driven forward with the 
spreading Beec d d the thistl noxious we she haf fi fall b 
by an object suspended as re before my ike a | cw annee catte mpoverish the oul we nie only to enter t the a space of about three yards. —Finding, also, that the chaff 
hawk poised in the air, but with pa less Sicsioes b aes ; | dwelling to encounter poverty, misery, filth, and disease. | is always sifted before it is given to the horses, and that 
sometimes it rises, then it falls, in an instant it vanishes, Tf, on the other hand, we find the garden blooming and it ocenrmal 
but before you can move it has resumed its station. This | carefully kept, we shall ean ariably find comfort, _health, to me » that if a wire-gauze sieve were psn ee the 
is a fly which I will presently describe, sufficiently well, I and happiness within the cottage. P 
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themselves, 
le the curious to follow up my very t from one of = present day. | ch d then roll from i oe pup would 
perhaps some more favoured student The contrast is striking to the commonest observer, and af cay “and wight Py Lesa with the dust i ina “ie 
t y help out of a difficulty, for with all my | our own observations convince us that the ee on Paced below the sieve. t thi 
ruminating I never could discover what these flies were | has taken prt area is not ‘sds for the better, but that th ctl 
about. If there were a pair of them, the secret would be pra hve s of vere together at an fot sloping wike the 
t; butif had i ing’s walk, they ing to be appreciated by the octet | rete eee - the chaff readily fell off on each side 
are all — ha are thus enjoying themselves. Dencivi This important result i pi in os oe in to the floor, whilst dust and secgeeks ehrough. If : 
But to return, this fly ed Scar Ribesi is clothed agreat measure to be ascribed to of the | si his kind for: in appendage 
with phys rea like et he has tw which oni sprung | every winnowing machine in the pacarend what erin : 
his head, they do not meet above in the females d nd which, by | myriads of the p pup might be collected and destr — . 
horny ello oO the phere Pavey = prizes as the pce of merit, hi ve : 
stuck on the forehead, each having a bristle; his | been th ie efficient instruments bree to a hi 
s : low bob behi ing e poorer classes of the by dl thia minute insect is ah pices than Senate 
community. at all aware of. I Jauch wish that some of your cor- 
and There is, h +1 ‘2 fg 7 £, ta an responde nts 
enaineee cal tion. The gard ef, , | the history of this littl 
g: we regret to say, in some counties in even a worse con- | the habits of the ich desti i keep finch 
tinge on the thicker nervures; when lying flat on his dition than those of their poorer neighbours. Whilst the Ihave thrown out (in my report) upon the 
os toy Be wed Eee pects ios | maaan to the latter have already | subject, which it b ie:to verte 
bey: nd the tail ; di so smash improvement it is 1 most extraordinary or disprove ; but Lalso fi a that there are ma’ ay nchanged. 
= base of the thighs black : he is larger than a a house-fly. that chaff, and whether rsome of them 
think it i f this fi y dens of those to wh tager ought to look for are ichneumonized, as well as pr gsel which quit the ears, 
phemerg y ge ag plant-louse or Aphis, and an example. We arc if our great landed proy Pp which I would 
this is the principal reason for my calling your attention | bad their nd would use | also” beg to call the attention of "ea ee may be dis- 
to it; if not, he is a near neighbour of one which is cele- | their nro with their penn we should Sngos find posed to co-opetate in these investigations. In the mean 
his prowess in that way. Sceva of treosiedy. for the garden ttached be Sede | farm-house and as time i hope 5 shall Bag twes some persons to provide 
such is his name, may be termed the “ Aphis des estroye! i S. Henslow, Hitcham, 
it is much larger going sp r Jar 
form, with a brighter green trunk, the in SR lobe es would strongly urge upon all landlords that no cot- am gratissima,—In your eee number I observe 
dull ochreous ; on the back of the bod 1 irs of or others, creme Beatles rticle by ‘‘ Hortulan culture of the 
withont « certain } quantity of land being attached t Luculia gratissima ; i as thers are many’ people who 
erected without ey might be inclined to grow this most delightful and much- 
ieietyt being 1 ‘reserved for the use of the laboure: t planting it out 
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Pandy We aoe that i in many of the rural districts of yee to be particularly observed, is that 4t is not inclined 
England, the best results have followed the adoption of 0 grow ly, and oe Bows be stimulated, in the 
| the garden and allotment s » and it is to be hoped spring and early aces! that period it should 
| that all who have it in their power will assist in carryifig be kept in a greenhouse bag Saget of May and the 
out so good a work. Much might be done in this way 
the gardeners of the nobility and gentry if they were | rather sheltered from the sun. _ In August or September 
ful vegetabl to distribute th g 1 hothous It will then grow vigorously and fora 
inted with laces w is m fargo age Anata art of the winter. It may 
isting the cottager a and we we sioeseaty p pe emcee s doe 
hope tht others eter induced by this notice to follow ps d ld tk i 
ple. the cultivation of a garden, we | —G. F. 
fa tear nae 2 Management of Birch in Woods.—It may not, be be 
because they are not only valuable in a pecuniary Lepentot of he nei but will thus set ygon is 
uch trouble or expense. MM. E. H. | My plan of managing it is this :—I allow it to roe 
Pe enn ae eg age of three or four be capri a part: ° 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. (be Be ee feo oe 
t|  Self-sown Rhododendrons.—Not recollecting to h ighb send take off all the : 
| heard or read of the growing from seeds pace agent Sap aah nothing from the =~ 
dropped from the tree in any part of Britain, and having | wood until a certain day, by which time their work is =~ 
inkco in scinloge phaita freak sade, et Pe omeaplaced: ———- of the being all tied up 
boxes placed in a warm temperature, it occurs to me | in a circumference. On the day a 
| that you may be pleased to learn that in this north pointe t Swipe of bundles, 
climate I have gathered selfsown plants. A day or two al which they then — me. In three years after ci 
c was removing an Arbor Vite, near to men ina similar 
been growing for about ten the growers sree left, and in fact take off oe 
by him, when he called my atten- before >—~ 
a number of plants which were growing under its i thus have my woods well pruned, and generally realise 
ete and which proved to be Rhododendron Seedlings | a great profit from he brush. I am principally induced 
from one to perhaps six years old, which till the Arbor | to make this (poem gener ged many foresters hate 
Vite was remov ed were i invisible. _ This proves, first, that | an idea that Birch, if pruned in the above age) 
and nex oe that shade | would is not the case. Old growers 
f the plants. The soil | et ae but young ones scarcely at all—-4 
peat hens by moss of dwarf growth | Young Forester, Kidderminister, Jan, lith, 194 
