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hatched in March, from eggs that had been laid the pre- 
vious autumn. 
Perhaps the ae bens of extirpating them would be 
to search for the caterpi illars between the leaves on 
Magnesian oMr. 5.4 
Murray says ae ot aegis an os sig is not inj urious 
| to vegetation. If this is cig oy lim estone here must 
have some other ba d quality, f orl 
with a small ; pair of Pres such as are used for micro- 
scopic 0 obj ects ; but as some might be too minute at that 
early P this opera- 
tion must be repeated. Pie saiteees the e maggots in the bud 
as well as dusting the plants with 
flower of sulphur, which I fear would be of little use. 2 
have tried it on other plants 
suffered by it. His Grace the 
examined every mo: orning, d the insects found in it 
killed. Another species seo pipes) eet pe causes 
fts by the buds jus' 
ro) 
if precleae when, —s from the instinct of self-preser- 
bones or from stunned by the lie as if 
dead, and is ney ~ = oe of the earth, they 
cult 0 disc therefore necessary 
through to 
thin k, however, t th 
ed or painted canvass, which could 
be pla laced over a a bush or * small bed off flowers when. it is 
attacked by insects; and it would t easy to 
Thiting, iM fay 11. 
‘Vegetable Vagaries. —In the winter of 1833-4 I pro. 
Nurs 
ug 
been analysed, and contains 60 per cent. of magni 
rsery a plant of the purple 
ety f Cyti which 
William Tillery. [it is so universally believed tha’ 
limestone is paotbeoritg pe 
gate any \ sugae Fy means of an ni with a oan of 
leather plia ible material, which could be bapa 
plugged 
catanhe life, that we should be glad to receive some 
r | proof of its being harmless. assertions are so 
directly op each other as ges of our two 
of s jm ch a Pick last would in ten minutes pit Sai 
living animal within the enclosed space.—Ruricola. 
ME Conk 
pos: ary 
mdents, one is forced to goign fe = ere is 
ted with what is sian 
been from a seed of that species impreg- 
soieit or the, ay “of Cc. pompnesen and it =o a 
rapid rai growth, and in five years attained 
height of nearly 20 je The stock upon which : has 
ines budde d a appears. tc 0 be Cc, alpinus. For five 
paseo. connecte 
which requires further ex: 
‘ummer Transplanting.—In reply to. to the inquiry in 
pa of uniform racemes, and retained much of the | ge- 
f neral character of a Laburnum, but diffe red in having all 
—I we bd see in your paper 
Sat Pan ime think Sir com seley had given his his own | 
report of the Honey-dew S chiniee which 
| tees in full leaf, I Thee to state that at the Sheffield Bo- 
tanical Gardens ve for r some time > practised what we | 
= orter, not being m ore than six inches long, and “oe 
leaves smaller than is usual in that species. Pyne 
ae 
The facts therein state peg 
ieee generally y-receiv ved notion 
of 
-. ‘oy found it rere * ie 
le ti 
rk four 
success in every instance. Ind deed, 
this method trees of considerable size 
ubt not that b 
y other 
hal-way up on one 
r more slender bran pies pr — About 
of these two m: ranches, I was 
pocedies fence ewer 5 of the year wi 
und when 
in the circumference of t the spot, on which the pies aca 
stood; and where, trickling down from leaf to 
last it fell Bol the extre 
li whatever lay un 
| Or screen, 
y 
in a situation fully exposed 
which come! 1 transplanted 
sored e of shee orm 
n bran 
find that a aot Ciatarel shoot Ho 
ced pu rple ax illary blossoms, and small 
pletely answering to Cytisus purp' 
continued to grow exactly as if 
Sanaa there. This spring my surprise rise has been increased 
t hes, of a 
upwai 
Horse yield Spanish ditto, Limes, ‘Syeamore, 
and Birches, all from 10 to 18 feet high, i in full | eaf, toa 
ree which I 
oved. In the first joe's we emake the hole 
‘appearance of | the 
mon Viet, and these racemes and the leaflets which 
surround them are much larger h 
bri 
inches at 
beyond the f gravity. All thi 
quite ii ral observation. The only ri peel all at this time exhibi 
circumstances to support the theory of simple having | been re 
secretion from the leaves, is the ity of aphides 
ah 1S y tae 8 age 
at full le mgth, and in “removin ng 
the tree oF care is areal to avoid cating or Hire 
uch 
i If a ball of earth is retained, s e better, | extreme 
their number. If it he might have seen reason to | as it will assist in steadying the tree; "bat ‘if well a it — four pase are here and there orna- 
retain his o' original opinion. = the county of Kent is not of mu ch importance. Asiti is essential that the by a few race! common Laburnum, al- 
fords ab we pro cach there is not any on either of the subdivisions of 
the agency of aphides in ‘producing Honey-dew, particu- vide sufficient earth, either sifted or finely Saae by a the main branch hich has produced the C. purpureus 
very | spade or rake, and have in readines acco cg buckets of L. W. Dillwyn gs singular circumstance has been 
fill th already t p. 265, among Notices to Corre- 
intelligent and observant friend Mr. Golding of Hunton ; 
the 
who assures me ae after sp 
observation in eighbourhood, he is perfectly satisfied | over t ts, the Pant ot which will be sported by it, P Clintinie reais —W. Dumbrill, Chronicle, p. 294, 
hat aphides ar c producers of Honey-dew. | the: te pe is _ cera sprinkled o he 
That certain trees do, occasionally, secrete a ra i surfai ace of the water, and gradu 2 = ai the | Ifi he pe, in t third 
fluid is admitted ; but in general (according to my Kent tabil na ty to ro tree, any e further | mould and third yess a little sand, 
ish friend, alevays, so far as the hop is conce may the secured by three sakes bisaed at right angles, which | > soil firm enough to P event the 
lant is free from the fluid until the leaves have been a arth must not be trodden, as | See ed s rom ‘em dislodged in Bi I can cale te 
visited by aphides.~ On this account the mother aphis is | is aoe dene —Francis Wiltanson, aa id Ley olane deine a return of ger? ith as much certainty as fro 
as anxiously looked for by the hop cultivator the | —[We shall take as early an opport ing 0} S Mus tard and ices s. Where it istutonsiot, to have 
mother wasp by the apiarian in May. e had a Honey- | reverting to we 5 subject. ] in the flo lower-garden, it ; may be planted o t in 
dew in s last summer, which the practised roy Wasps.—A, J. D. says that he SeaseOgs | the b PP 
eye of Mr. Golding enabled him to Sespinaee about the eit gat pet about a pint o: into thei me will injure i it. I have planted it on the 
Thiddle of the preceding May (when he was upon a visit which prevents the insects ever Dye oe out. Those ae {Se Merch and found it succeed better than if = out at * 
at my house), purely from his detecting the poaching that enter the hole afterwards g the same time o r later in May - There intone here 
7 t ra es 
congregate on the under and eject their . — themselves of it, , the ey Fora it-over bes bodies, he leastinjured. If the ig opps” “aah es 
side of the 
fluid on the upper surface of those ‘veneeth them; “and 
if,”’ says Mr. Golding, ‘a ted 
ides, fi m Honey-dew.’ 
In support of this statement, we have furthermore the 
opinions of Lin » Hiiber, Knight, Kirby and Spence, 
bss oe are } som om affirm that they have watched 
nserting their emer into the tender vessels 
ot die le et absorbing ~~ sap without ission, and 
ary passage, but 
expelling it, not only by t by } ha 
setif tubes it. Mr. Knight once 
reeive a a shower of ' Honey-dew (off a branch from one of 
are killed i in four or ‘five minutes. 
may be performed with safety at’ any h n the day. 
H. K. also testifies to the value . thie relia but he 
prefers filling the holes with ae at 
[pomea stans.—There is some ma ae exist- 
ing in the minds of man persed es mcerning the hab 
| the said mn early eno aoe root 
| the winter, there is no Soabé they ars —— as eb 
any of the Californian ann gen and, like + Succeed 
better in that way than if sown or planted out in the 
spring.—John sp oy ¥igken Hail, 
Failure of Potato Crop.—W. S.C. of Pe: rth, believes 
that the failure of the Potatoe — in many places is 
f 
mcerning 
a several individuals 
e thro ms have wi » be- 
living it to be dead, and f anliae it may be useful to 
you the following — | Fespecti ing it. 
of some proper 
e of se 
Potat, 
r, with the in- 
quire if ex — pend for a 
and air, _He took abou! f 
the pit, Sy they hed sag “all a winte’ 
oe om mt Mosley mic of. 
a host ot conjectures ; but in 
opinion; that it not only 
but is <— of being | se 
T hope these remarks 
servation, and elicit such 
in te the when h 
with sons fare 
- sing le fact overturning a 
which, pacar lam of o 
pia loes dae: — see opposition, 
eres int accordance, 
ead 0 more ex 
Itis a = oy Pipes havin; sa ings but the a was bene 
nT: eon 
Convol of our agin has a fieshy tub ee for a oe or Rien 
root. Although it di , the tuber will be ich the ey were pe ted. There pon, homens e 
found perfectly safe-in the pot, ready to start into growth sufficient to fill the HE and enough for two rows w. 
with the return of the season. If it does not “ break’ taken out of ces same pit and planted imm iy. 
freely, a little artificial heat will b d been age rag of the atmosphere 
rice, The red-spider is very fall of it, and unless spree above ground mo week before 
care is taken, it will soon from th d as healthy as 
get dis 
— of this i insect, T bel believe it has not yet bloomed i in 
gland bat i 
possible ; 3 those last taken from the ook 
ere question.—. 
pit n 
seg leaves = curly, aad some had tot jee for 
. He has marked that a Po tatoe exposed bove 
—R.F. 
ee Double F Fellow Roses.—If * evs 7 wi 
The Deodar Catan semaine uae “shoots of ce ould 
Deodar in the pinetum here, “I -find one has double yellow roses in a north border, t the rays of as soon as it is put under ground, it starts st 
feet two inch y The tree is together mer the mid-day fie cannot fall on them, prt would be an sctivity oe once, though of course it must not becom 
eleven feet high, and the habit beautiful and interesting. | end of thei complaints, and E. R. would have the grati- | “frosted,”’ or the labour will be useless. To insure pa 
Ithink they will grow as fast as the 5 aoa fication de pecsig his plants in perfection.—O. f late-planted P » they should t till planted. 
established. eh ting some of all the Vi eevil.__Otiorhynchus sulcatus is by far the most Stocks affected by the Scion.—In the Gardeners’ Chro- 
imalayan species, in what remains of S ‘orest, | injurious vine weevil, an every means icle of a 15th a rea appeared a very interesting 
called Birkland. — is a broad turf pies from im Wel- prevent its i foul * had once the om article o n grafting an ennobling ” of trees : the question 
beck through it, to the err oe of ah in which this i ¥ app t the probability of a stock ~e in 
park; ad drive is ae I b he beginning of 3 d yet y way poorer by the _Scion. Will y ou allow me to 
erect a in the middie of the Foret, taken years I had never ed any; no doubt ex- | point ub 
from the “old abbey pasted Yat Werke when fnished | isted, but certainly not many, ‘ore they must be| ject? I =a po 0 the Lith chapter of the Epistle to the 
it will be a feature to the grandest forest in Eng- | exceedingly prolific. My attention was first drawn to mans, ore Dh ga to the 24th verse:—* For“ 
land, perhaps in £ W. Tillery, Weibeck. | them by observing the margin of thé leaves eaten into all | if thou ae “ae of rie whichwis: w 
{Thanks to the patriotic exertions of the C of Direc- sorts of shapes, and ‘for some time I was puzzied to find | nature, and wert ntrary to me ot 
tors of the India Co in this} out the cause; for the weevil always feeds in the night, vo ive-tree, how 
country of plants of the Deodar and j hiding i day the leaves or loose bark of th branches, be graffed into then’ oak "Oi 
other Hi i lants; and ones confidently | vines, or in any similar to avoid the light. I took | Bloomfield says in alluding to this pter, ‘* 
expect that in a few years, the former, at least, will be advantage of this habit to destroy them, b Y placing a rs have assigned m many reasons for the d 
forming woods in the domains of the great Eng- penpesnttey Sepeertie = rn orm Sesnog the brtaches of | > usual mode e of grafting trees, but these ‘ar 
lish noblemen, It is one of the handsomest of trees, is the vines, by way of trap, and hes of Bredenkamp, wh 
Perfectly hatdy, and hag most valuable timber.] at the approach of day, a eyes rere | new ye acs of Breton 
