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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
. 549 
hich 
mall burrows, and your long nets 
aa a of F holes of a large burrow, keeping the bottom 
f ‘ds d the 
the former may n orbid secretion from an un- 
line of it towards the holes ani 
outside ; then turn your ferrets in and seize the rabbits 
| fall vig 
health hag hile the ‘atter i is extracted from & plant in 
tage above stated; and I doabt whether peat and Aga 
under: any ci reumstances, wo se the quantity of 
aw ners 
3” 
that way “while daylight lasts 5 then go home t to supper 
d turn , and two still 
outhed dog ~ en-nosed and swift of foot. Proceed 
silently ae thie wind to the warren, ai poe set your nets 
contrariwise | to the morning, viz. wit bottom line 
the 
e 
rabbits are feeding , and t 
well 
as by Mr. ‘Satan 8 ame to see narod Morey? s “aves: 
“*So far, — the latter, ‘ _— the Hop-plant 
being in a sick] - rms attacked by the aphides, t the 
insertion in the bed. it ts necessary that the 
pom should be ioe: a not i in du st, which will con- 
solidate and prevent the fibres 
tion, as they do when it tis of the ‘Proper size. 
Tn some 
t of the process fi 
ys 
injury is inflict upon those Ith 
fo ‘or if any of the plant get tree an veka season, it is 
but I think ‘this is rather j in the coins afterwards, and 
st species, succeeds 
4 
ro) 5 
prop-atick bh 1 
aving an canes at 
t with his hand on the top li ine, 
5 
way 
sufficiency of nutriment fob d development o 
+ th 2 
of 
pena 2 re << Such (as is st! was poo case last 
that you a have gone far enough “to entrap the rabbits be- 
loose the dogs poms ~—, your 
w Hops were gat! there d in the ected dis- 
ans on the dae plants in vigorous health were So | 
ey 
| al of ‘ite 
et From ‘what has bee stated, it 
cane. pail of y fiued pit, 0 i 
ry hot water, would answer Pereey purpose ; though in an 
ground, making but little noise till you 
Bd 
afforded them 
in. 
A oa sudden jerk the line gives their hand; Wee must 
run down the line, kill the rabbit, and quickly return 
- their position. —A Subscriber. 
An Improved Watering-Pot.—As impro watering- 
pots are ee cribed and figured at pa’ me 298 oo 454, 1 beg 
to submit ‘he following one as well a adapted for cottagers, 
ney-dew of the Hop is never 
st are aeipeity 
eets, it is uniformly the produce of aphides.”” I state 
t lett and warm at- 
ee essential to the (Production of honey- ney not 
wtisce ee t from 
oH | to the as, owing to a 
enrea rsery, or even gentleman’s establishment, th 
one on purpose would be of trifli 
} 
mall abel = Wit 
f the self Ppadking the results we are 
considering T roc hethe doubt that the ey c consist princi- 
a. A bi eee fl be perfectly 
The and m are constan tly present and passing 
tu 
without 
In the annexed sketch, fi fig. I re 
those’ in general use. repre- 
moveable tubes, hay- 
sents a section of the can; 1 1, are m 
ing roses on their upper ends, while the lower ends slide 
ts effect on the vigour of the insects, neve ay become | 
any saturati ion or aera: or rand 
tion, ang place e may b 
pansies 2 ies veerenatns te e degree of cold, an d if i 
nsiderable y last holl 
said 
of existence 7 the teypethests of secretion were well 
es material as 
any o! yet known 
rae propagation. ” Many of o- plants on which it suc- 
“_ pone pe 2, fixed into the ; 3 isa valve placed | fou aded, why should the ants so diligently wait for it to | ceeded are known to be the ost difficult to strike. There 
and having a small i iy Mag of June) 
bloe — re on the top like Nowe in common pumps ; it in a direct way from the leaves, as the aphides ‘Ih = 
the bottom of the can cae wood, selves do? This _— was witnessed by a Waite doube that ‘hie is a pets secret or ma 
it, as shown at 4, i manner as to be easily taken | Hill, a nd E thank him fo: own rd of ope- 
off w it requii repaired. The rod, 5, is con b ‘take hi ' Trise exactly analogous to the methods followed by 
nected with the valve 3, and the spring 6; w used, are not only capable, but in the } ne co pointe sac- | nature in the High Alps ; 
pe pe be hel a handle, aitian in the right hand | charine juices from the sap-vessels of plants. This _- 
; by dra with the fo 
peers the valve 3 is is Fated by Be ki ns of the connecting 
rod 5, a nd conseque' ently the water flows in to the tubes 1 
from the spring, 
is Tremov = 
the valve falls, and the water is sto  sprin 
mitted, all appears simple and easy of explanation 
Edward ee 
tians and other seeds of dita growth might easily be 
made to germinate by it. Lukas recommends sand 
young plants, en thee first appearance ; but 
fine woul 
Caterpiilars.—No. 4. If t th 
eberry 
of Nematus “Ribesi whi ch qT oe your 
opped. Th 
fixed on the under side of ts: handle, and gah all e 
closed in that t part, made fort e- repre- 
ts th h jotted ties sasibteg fae 
ize of the valve : 1, shows he "eit at Pim ma the wate 
pre into the tubes. lM. Saul, L 
x ire “water the cue first. with a 
] it ubtful ary to id not answer a better 
pond S. om ap riots 
lily killed by Old Specime Tv vy.—I t hink T must be under 
a damp evening ; if dry delusion, for Lh n this day, growing by the sales 
a syringe or water- | rable ruins of Seaneainc’s Abbey, Ash tree which 
utifal Ivy in rich luxu uriance, | the ~— 
pot, but let it be late in the evening, or after the sun is 
gone dow I find this a most effectual remedy.—C. M. 
a 
is encircled by bea 
of which Ivy nee attained th 
in girth Can it indeed be correct that Ivy ever attains 
nee 5. Last 7ome the oe illars eee vera a 
hole break o seberri this s garden ; the ey m 
7 
| bushes, tramping a 
same thing. On their first t being Suniel wreats 
| them by having them picked os nas b> a — men 
Ree ha 
of the pickers king the 
— this stem; ving néver read or heard 
of Ivy r sora this size, eo am "nen to think myself 
TT delusion, cre whee {it es wee soe : 
e Ivy as: you, cribe 
and bea eating t foo into 
back of the spade, Id wak Mr. Loudon mentions an instance at 
end of the row ser were to be seen mounting up the Brockley fal in 1 Séanncanevhtne dk an Bre de _ me Ign in 
the other. The next Poor was a| diameter at 1 foot from the ground ; Te- 
the syringe, so that b ides of the 1 i hly | a rough stone wall by a cota, “which at the erator 
+, nd’ 1 + a 1 hntall bia e Oo ft Pe nm Aiameter De Candolle 
pos speaks of another at Gigean, near Montpelier, which was 
hat id be re ne. The last. ane tried was eae a six feet in circumference at the base, and divided ono two 
ralptint rdlated ee over ol bushes, t two to five feet in circumfe: ese 
leaf hi: had a part as this was applied they trunks grew at first erect, and Peng rested uw upon a 
PI whether wall. The branches of this saree .72 yards square, 
to come back again I = not ae fi t i appli igh we ft et 
sebrary 2 first I took to be the effects of the “sulphur, but 
the other gsi ae the same break not dropping any of 
433 5 pO 
Flower~ pats.- —Seeing i in p. 449 an article on the im- 
their r leaves, 
7 
Honey-dew.—I was glad to perceive, in the C1! 
of the 17h 17th ult., that Sir Oswald Mosley had a taken 
Up bis pei ubje 
—John pena Elmham og? Ht. 
Fuchsia Corymb iflora.— 
beg to offer a few ‘remarks which my experience 
I has 
suggested. ae on burnt and glazed pots are at variance 
n January 
mall plant of this, 44 ean in height ; 
heat j in the early part of the season; in a ‘short time it 
grew rapidly, filling the pot —- roots; the oth i io is 
pea at, lo in and sand, with @ ood drai nage 0 
1827, in the 5th Potty of the ‘ Honey Bee,” that I 
it etn found that there are t 
honey-dew th 
of t 
a deposition from the body of the sphis.” 
a No pot, i in which Ie patg 
kept crowing with no hopes “of its ‘owering AsI ware 
strong feeder, I . 
the oth 
: made = “statement purely on th 
tree; as disposed to rely, not from ‘actual observa- 
liquid | manure, which prokenne pe Nand te 
sphides during the presence of honey-dew. In this fail- 
S eventually | shifted it into a 
last I purchased a with the ni ns Lplent Sy ot they might _ —— = 
hose that hi = ss — fibre: 
worinees in ie summer when mosphere rayaccen 
and dry po for aquatic oor 
y will do for ‘plants g erally does not agree 
i ss have had six een houses of plants 
flower, fog it | to water every day, summer and winter; I have therefore 
seen the difference eae hard-burnt po! id 
s with | pots, both well drained. ‘The water passes ly 
dark | well-d: porous pots, and the plant receives benefit 
pc mia pot. | from the water, because i i ance with ni “ 
for instani passes. th ‘ough the , and does not 
lod d th lants, and cause them to 
now stands i i: _ conservatory, 
peed — barbie pone: ae = aed dong H piygeer with 14 large ng een is cover- | UP “more than i is good igen = a ae ae = 
i ties nrc ree aig lege coor Pill, ion a eee render the earth Sour; | and should the plant be delicate 
rs to be a close observer of natural phenomena, ot. i fom nee ing | wind and water, that is, just under the surface of the 
prone dancin we ag an instance of hon na Profess eee ta ot | Hard barge pols las Ge pO a n fr plants of 
Mr. Murray’ marae aphi fully peubrer e inventor in “the Gar a el — ~ — at cll res for te the fibres Bie 
dewin ae setts the eilwed ot Zo > maseieale f° 1 Gaec 2 Gard. Ma ag. "of Jane ia Ht) that little anaes ‘o be = es - vex emis ee to them: ig 
and T ea é a a ve it to have existed where the added, Leer. ssrlpr ae te ape for pros stead at the same ys not, 
aphis iy ld aan Thi s I conceive to have hap- | that the plan i s good, is, Ss oer ee bia 
ig == ; oe — rooted; then the eas of rocks ab be seen. Ido 
crn ated hone on “the inferior branches of the tree 
certai 
removed. to Ratisb on ; for it is ‘well “known that _many 
ot agree with Mr, F of moving 
are indebted fo! 
Superior Had such an instance fallen under my 
own chert, I cial at once have concladed that the 
y-dew had trickled down from those branches, and 
have immediately arched aloft for the aphides, in the 
foltest confidence of find » Ido not 
hor have I access to, ‘* The Journal of a Naturalist,’ but 
I think Mr: White has taken a very unphilosophical 
of the matter; and aff monn 
4 
abet 
either ‘pinion certainly he makes nm 
Shake ase tact oaeaaane hs eto, ro ieee 
advocates of 
the leaves of particular Semanal a saccharine 
Prone sweinrepie aura -doubt whether it is of the 
r their 
ntion of the parent eye, aud that, from passing into 
hes hands, md are frequently allowed to lang: uish and 
pir og at every pottin 2, f foe it is not he its to remove 
them in all cases. For — if: plant comes off a 
mountain re @ air — - e, would that 
decay. - Nothing can be F 
paral rf 
inag 
plant do as’ well i a damp valle ere the roots will 
not ri: oe caine with mater, but es — ves bai 
Ih no plants 
p= 
tus. It is nothing m with a 
fiue along the middle, on piney is a reservoir a water, 
the si from. which passes thr spr nag a! bed | 
ich 1 above it. U small g! 
sion ie slug eye d are placed, to exclude the 
it may be sug- 
deprived of a free current of air 
35 is th 
e-hol t I would 
practice, ‘yecanse w ated is the tim: 
frames 
air from the cuttings in their early age. 
gested, and in deed would inmoeliatly st 
examines the apparatus, that the seccess may b be owing to 
the the. 
thy } ra 
yet plants require yp and i 
drain soickly from them, or else. the menld 
ine vefore 1 
moist heat in which 
No question it is so in part, bat Tam one satisfied the 
have favourite pic 
