292 TH 
E GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[N° 19, 
convert the salt, 
phate: this is a by muxing it in certain proportions 
with id, and heating the 
The muriatic acid is expe led, an ind the 
of a very learned paper by M. Walc' ‘age 
notices several Weevils thet feed upo 
he 
salt, it is first of all necessary to | has led that scientific nation to a ca areful investigation | wood of next year selected from those which Pepa se | 
ich is a muriate of soda, into a sul- | of the insects noxious to the Vine, and to the perira ion | up from each stool. 
eet in which 
e foliage 
For 
the healthiest stems, and destroy t the rest, as well as any 
cope 
- 
whi ch i is the Carculio apes Fab. ; 
_ Kee watch- 
stat 
as is — as ag Ns 
| € 
| 
Goosebe try 
asit is 
both i in its larva and pate 
geval ‘about this time, or a ile ae, when t 
This 
i 
+ hi 
process is to mix _ the sulphate 
t 
a furni i is decomposed at a 
the “charcoal or carbon of the coal, and a 
Cas reulio sulcatu: 
short stout proboscis, at the e 
mouth he i 
he ca. 
isis one of 
: pests with Which a — an be 
lek 
vie "ty is isa 2 dall black Weevil with a | 
xtremity of which is the | 
th 
numerous me s resorted to Shoe 
commend as an efectual remedy against it. The e pre para- 
ners’ Chronicle isa 
outh ;* the th gran ae and the elytra of the Garde 
containing charcoal a ne an aay LH, compound o lime, ‘ough, with several elevated s and minute ochre- } very simple 5 and ‘il probably - pv useful. It con- 
ot y pouring water on the crud t after being aay dots placed at ‘Goawet: it has no sists of half a of soda, half und of salt, and a 
tak f the fi ce, a clear colourless solution is _ The period fo or the 2 SMa of these W 2 seek ae ae three pie Baty of hot soap-suds, 
procured, which o Nghe yields a clean ant» rly ntioned by pias Ww hen the mixture is cold, t the bushes are to be syringed 
pure carbene. o' . This ** soda” contai a large and June by others, as the months when they y are mis- | withit ill d 3 andin about 
quantity of nd r. t to be Pros 
that he has seen ne ie an early Vinery pak dered the lea 
attract water Poon the air, pang on the contrary, ga mith a sole Castle about the end of uary, when they | has bose ue — ag as ins as syringing “with strc 
a fine powder, which is eager ‘ost ae less caustic than i 
n of this 
is, that when the carbona pa by exposure to the 
air, parts with a quan’ ty ‘of "mater, cp consequently be- 
Somes much lighter, it Ly the same time combines with a 
ond doi ose of carbon acid, whi ich it obtains from the 
| the tase s a iar, always high up, and 
than they are in the common carbona 
The salts of soda are for the most re white, and easily 
soluble in water ; and, like the compounds of potash, are 
pont diffused througho ut nature. The nitrate of so da is 
ndergo the 
spring ; - however this may be, the 
are 
the young frp and foliage $ 
til the end of + they feed upon 
lime-w: ll, perhaps there is 
t after al cog 24 method 
of checking thee bpenigp oe by e 
xamining ushes 
never 
as any Saline are percsived 
4 
in the day. They willalso eat the leaves of the Peach, the | 
and have been rd wn to attack the fruit. fing b, so as to to destroy th 
deposited a little beneath surface of the earth, and t d. 
produce white maggots, like figs. 2 and 3, and these live Those who have ‘Vines avtesiaal € their cottages should go 
at the roots of the Vine, rendering the plants weak and | over the branches, and where the eyes have put eh a 
sickly : some say th ut June the maggots change to | couple of shoots, the weaker of the two ought to be 
up removed, 
See now that the flower-beds and borders are kept neat 
vegetabies. 
and thin 
where any of theds bopigess 
seed remaining, tura 
qa: 
The drones wil rd 
d be Lage and — the 
ted. Accord- 
r. Bevan and g Pree: wha ke have pose 0 re- 
dw: 
a e Bee, 
Swa 
mall a weak, oe in case 
n the chrysal d elean. 
st respects very se maggots : blep dos great a gees support, let them be s 
light deg he property | coulent an nd other plants in pots, as bea the | broken or rendered u 
of A ‘moisture fg “the air, “and  heaee, being border, such as Sedums. Sy Saxifragas, t the Tro ey aoa 
always dam las, and Primroses ots and move i it with a fork or hoe in the sai 
th For other purposes, such | detaching them from the crow ng 
as the preperation m nitric pay mire this nary guy The ret — Curealo ape (fig. 3. ls, and 
Fe signify, it is very ; advantageous! substituted fo estructiv n the Vine well as in bepaters sown have fail a and you have any 
salt of potash i le es apa simi an fie o C. Bomba but | up vas renew the soil a nd so w again. 
exert a powerful influence | on the pa of certain eo ler, and forms, with about twenty other indigenous 
_The sulphate of soda i is = species, a genus called Otiorhynchus: they are also nearly basieat tat in n the year ars Bees. 
nd nati d is fi alike in sculpture, but vary in tint, C. picipes being of doubt 5 de their app 
is also Glauber’s salts, and Cheltenham salts, as | clay-colour, the ing- ore or less clouded I 1 col 
is the principal ingredient in the mineral springs of pe yap: spots, and altogether it so much re sho =: 
Chel eltenham. Pe moles in tone the clods a nd bark under and between rearing of the ation 
ai third wa ammonia, has already been befor, t to 
ts pure state it is a iaerlaen: invisible, and very ye pi detected. In the night t these Weevils s ally forth to | m ark ble bour an 
a gas; but, like potash _s soda, it has a very feed u upon wall- frui t trees _and the vines in | aches, vantageous ti a 
strong affinity for acids, i d whi ch | middle of May he middl 
with in its free +» bat al vapoaate it li 
bonic, or some other acid. It is far less et eon 
pris: yanctang yey irae phere 
which contain 
d to fi 
teh has been soe that” reealp insects may ae intro- 
ii the 
0 be 
bad pe will pr obably eeuire to be fed. Late swarms 
again, thoug h large, are 
+ 
which i is by no micas improbable 5 
nitrogen. F 
of ammonia are the gor Pisa the 
bonate, neva is the salt produced daring th ‘the ja of 
waa formerly called salt of hartshorn, | 
re ‘mostly ‘procured by ee horn; it 
obtained from the com- 
they can 
easily gain access Heasag GS crawling be 
sashes, Ngee glass, and chinks, during th’ 
ween 
arms with these Weevils, 
loose 
twee: 
eir nocturnal | 
would prove a greater 
perambulations; Nothin 
to their increase than stopping ng Rasey or holes in 
walls with Roman cement; and 
the interior of 
up a suffice: 
of food to support them rie ¢ the ensuing winter 4 
spring. The usual symptoms which pre ecede swarming are 
the yee of the _ pga the hive, and their hapg- 
| ing in ge bodies u und tool, or crowding round the 
nitrogen, and therefore during burning gives off a small lime : the old k, | become rous and appear in great comsaoiila 
quantity of ammonia, which pene with a porti f early in the spring, and the roots cagecially f the ‘aft con. In this state they often con- 
bapaat ic acid formed by g of the carbon _of prc in Getober, when they exhibit any unhealthy tinue for a considerable time ; eo when they remain oat 
the coal; hence carbonate o ee is always an i ymp a4 cat all get it i is an indication that are near swarmt 
feolient ‘of soot. Carbonate of ammonia is largely o Id be held at that there may he be 
ages the renhes and leaves, when by shaking delay i g tk 
eetles dily fall into the sieves, but ttled.—_M. E. H. 
collect in no naw y Carbonate ofa aay possesses they d drop aan when Soptoushale this operation must be 
the peculiar pungent smell of p ia, though far with gently and wet multitudes may be THE PROPERTIES OF THE POLYANTHUS. | 
less og The peal ah Ra Ides Sw thus yar bott and out of doors, ped: it the person} Tue pip of the Polyanthus s shou Id be large, and the 
called sal-ammoniac, which used also. formerly to be ob- | who carries th light poe or jug 0 of w it should 
tained by burning animal su pl can be emptied into them as occas requir 5 but be free from any unevenness, and li aly flat; the 
from the refuse of the gas-works, which contain carbo! sua the tei Pages are eventually deaciged: iting, edge m smooth, and the divisions in the corolla, 
and other salts of ammonia are first of all con- m water, must be used, as the hardness of their felon which form it into heart-shaped. se; ede should reach 
verted into a sulphate by t ti itriol, When j the eye, but not cut intoit. The 
the carbonic an: kk a tained to reside at the base of a wall, | rounded, ing the di- 
thus obtained is decomposed by mixing it with salt ai : fing Gaia a Bes ch will Kill them as visio ween em 
Sonia ks seals ote | the mixture. of a ill tk Il and shallow. The 
. lts of is volatil “also reco ded} tube must of a fine 
at a certain heat; that is ta say, it becomes a ve vapour, and tat if el ane ‘at “he root Ish should fear hey might relow, round and aes 
the solid form when cooled again : in the p _ UNe fear of this.] Where | defined, well filled wi 
psc i obtai the muriate of a there: refore, pemnsed d eaaene 
verted im to vapour by the “heat oo to the mix- | spe as it aT te over the tender larve a: in a narrow ridge 
re, a and set ered Been in the earth. Other or ‘ot | slightly above the surfai 
t hb g wh presi: & Strawberries es, Raspberri ofthe eye. Theeye should = 
on purpose. The uses of oda ammoniac in the arts are | Gooseberries, Caecaita be of a bright “ich yellow colour, of a uniform 
numerous and ell in known; its principal consumers ar: the : on two Weevils, tT shall return to this obi t r The ground pir acy must be entire, entire, free 
the dyers and workers in metals. soon as I a ib anee with the necessary materials from pg or Senties, of or rich crimson, not 
_Ammonia o often s eems to combine with substances for | illustrate tine aon the edges, and uniform division. The 
ag eer wea east y. The lines and tg. ‘F chow the dimevaiong of the Ividy U-defi nabg 
3 such e power of absorbing a | animals.—Rurico wad ig borderin ah ment, an 
large contr of the gas, hic is condensed or packed | > 5 he each di ‘i to the eeye. It is essen- 
up in the pores of the ogr tial that the edge an e be ‘of a reer a 
it, and is ran to be gi | These gy in the ear the flowers d 
heat, or any acid. Thos Taiioalt and, wndood most porous pact well above the face on @ rm yer 
es, absorb or condense a a large volume of this right s tem, ‘will constitute paifostion the = Poses 
gas.—E. The following and a few of the best vari 
ENTOMOLOGY. Backs Gone ah 4th Fletcher's D 
ucK'S 
. Crownshaw’s In 
Xe Vitae = AND Cuar-cotovrep Vin peppery ma ia Cees ee 
northern latitude of this countr Eckerley’s Jone Dragon Collier’s Princess Royal 
seems to protect us from the hosts of insects that infest Cox’s Prince Regent Nicholson's Bang Europe 
poeiBidar peering? shears nds tes ne-| » vide Cartis’s Brit. Ent. pl. and fol. 690, for the dis ESPONDENCE. 
many insec 's Brit. pi. and fol. 690, for the dissections, RRESPO 
cod destroy thos ia he ieee tae 75 hagas — oy kk ee oe eerie ce « Foe -ona Sand-wasp, called Cerceris lacta, . 5 * (OME. CO E CORRES hoped there would have been 
Germany. G ay be considered as a luxury in ————— an eal before this to the prolonged discussion 0D 
England, but the vineyards of France are of immense im TTAGE GARDENS.—No. XVI. merits of Mr. » Sean’ heating, Secign mt et Oe 
t t cing an annual revenue of| Tue os bushes will now require to be | ing occasion Sas ert to gla a 
760,060,000 fr., or about ¥51,000,0000. sterling ; aad this: ‘rough, and the shoots that daar, while iH the footing [ik itisa settled question ; but-with others 
