700 TH 
E GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[N° 43. 
shade during bright sunshine, taking means to remove the | 
| with the foliage ; but I doubt whether sh 
suffer much, beyond oad beauty being seapead rs 
leaves towards the end of sum- 
not then isyirad enough t 
iso to see that the macau is not “eaginted. 
I r which is 
t kind to use. I have been i 
attempting to ths wit kinds of spring- 
water, probably del salt which it holds 
in solution. 
After th 
cuttings have struck root, they should be 
gradually hardened by before they ace 
mall thomb- -pots are the best for be firs 
are and the soil recat “mows be very sandy 
should = 
poor soil, it be a cold and ungenial behboa 
cramps he energies hs the plant, dna Lotte: mts ie de 
aang flow 
elaboration of its nutrient juices, will c: 
and its col 
hee 
of almost vateg Sy 
cater illars 
— ad 
its colours to es iio Ward s 
be eing tantamount to a begin soil, in its lthiaty fects 
on the plan _ And o ce more, ,_ ‘‘ the fla ke or bizarre 
state, I repea hi Iti 
ad 
mee 
=} 
— 
and 44; merely T net 
pla 
tivation, 
f state, must be consi. 
the ey are not very arb epee yest eye a he ‘ae at 
once, or we wait till the 
n the same garden I fi find , great numbers of Ichneum 
oseulatorius, Fab., called Exetaste es st by Gravenhorst, 
which I have always for = 
on | 
o 
nto a 7 e 
der tion, in nrg by a low degree of culture 
ora ndefeti ve spol of su i ; 
Ns 
4 
ai 
a° 
$6 
years old, 
a portion of san all bin 
h es ee 
Yet, notwithstanding 
hairy caterpillars, but I have no direct evidence of thei 
Bouché however tains that 
the larva of ‘Microgaster oe. 
- 
tere in (what, gentle reader ? to Be 
rame dung rather n nem, 
henit is “of a fa tty 
and ee substance ;” and 
” he nst 
| agrent "injery, Boca 
Il receive a ptsrel check at first, which is ver 
Prejudicial. After potting they should be ponrseeti to H 
xy 3 veighs agai ver-nutritious 
colour. Bu rely, in the 
to pupae, ~ parasitic rian come out. ee | Spin —_ ‘to language of Tacta, such “a rank compost of villanoug 
the whole ell” could never be expected to produce any oth 
that it ice a spider’s nest ; ea I have found sista ; cae a crude, eg undigested, bg 
young pra above described. 
Ih ry d th 
ass an * other 
large scale, Ia this case pots are phone se with 
bed being prepared, well drained and covered with a ‘tha 
m of sand. 
stures, attached to stems we 
mo: 
n pas 
bese “half a foot or more from the 
author informs us, that Fo cha albitarsis ray in the 
stratui 
patches, and covered with bell-glasses.—R. F. 
x ENTOMOLOGY, No. XVII. site 
I was very much surprised last autumn to find the plants 
in a little garden near London deprived 7 ‘ne navies 
and almost snaettie in ashort space 0 
ted | the urce 0 evil, lam convinced that should 
of 
nutriti dy it 
is, in ae poten } poison—very different, at all grent, 
from the “suitable food,” “ th 
nourishment proper a rege ‘which I wa 
= tautology, at so uch p s to “inculeate.. 
fs 
in point of ok, 
t the risk 
But Mr. 
Dickson 
the truth of my principles, _ indeed goes somewhat 
further than I venture d to He 
6 bn “old wil ill blo 
the caterpillars of oe th hich were grown in the fine - Inco 
Spotted-bu buff Moth i not a vestige of foliage ‘i will be left I add, that since the appearance of my short essay in 
cheer us. Last year, they attracted my notice by esha the Chronicle, I have receivéd private communi 
up an Elder-bush; they then attacked the Horse~ <—ema from several of the first practical florists, all of wh 
and finished with hav incide views I have promulgated ; amongst th 
this year wate ted te §erpemye atte! tentively 5 mo the 3r d irr now rank Mr. Dickson, for sng evidently agrees with 
May I male, a seg after some of both sexes ; meh ear in principle, ae wi idea of what itutes a 
and towards the end of that month, bod vga est pS bah pyar soe pr ging widdctsdoba soil are ar. R. Horner, M.D., 
abundant in . the © gar rden, de iepasiting cluste f eggs on SSeS Hull, 18th Oct. 1841. “Ps 8. mes bey find 
the | various p ; they were whitish, globose, COTTAGE GARDENS.—No. XL. it quite useless to attempt n Biz: its 
and smooth ; these were hatching during June and July, Co f fin e weather, and _pro- io reoloured Pee yt with "Finks, reaped rose 
and the little caterpillars when first out of t Il were d with the op d purple, it may be accomplished with comparatively 
iomry sty with a few long dark hairs only; the early | ber and opportunities for doing little diffic nity y. 
nds had ior increased in size and n ew so. Remove any crops that are no longer useful, and oot-Pruning Fruit Trees .—In page 673, a corte 
to of fag when they had attained the length o pond “for information about root- pruning frvit 
: inch; at this time, they made a seri- nary purposes, like the Onion, they may now dh planted trees,” I 
ous atta: pabdeayn me Indian C ) in dry situations ; bu at in n gar arde ns tha ut are I dopt Whe came here in 
ee as men as of B p Som ovem 39, I eae thet trees on "eke north border 
xe Vs prefer pine. nen in at this ‘season, in consequence at (chiefly Pears and Plums) in a very bad state, crowded 
n left on those ins re great at attention those which are planted in spring being more liable to be | with large gouty wood, and the breast-wood and old wood 
been paid to the destruction of the snaalenerd, = which py by i insects. his, h que will seldom be the | spurs ‘standing out in formida’ , some of the latter 
were far off two or three times a day; they were about | sal r cafe is wee e} bas ap gee Be in good . — bre a foot to 15 inches long. “The ~ operation 
conaiti ion, not ove our opinion the cut out about half the shoots that were laid into 
Upon as Bider‘beth and some | failure wg occurs in ity crop more  Reueeatly arises the wall nage ge ice half the old wood spars, shorting 
siege Pei ips, a the Carrot d Mint were not neg-| from the roots coming in con with dung, or bei the t half of = “y tap fest 7 this, the 
lected by them ; pil of ose ‘which had safe the eye | planted too deep, than from m8 cause. Atten remaining were Teg ulat na ok Hi laid in. 
Micheel- | what is stated on this wnbiert at page 14 hed t es 
oro feasting upon the “leaves of the Scarlet- anne beauty of moat of the —_ which enlivened the deep, with the exception of ‘about three feet, round ‘the 
pre ba Radishes left | seed ; at that period they wer summer is now over my 
aboat an inch and a half lo ong, and as thick as a —_ bic gh t this time, perhaps, are some late-flowering finger, or larger, back ‘to the ball ; ; the border then ina's a 
goose- eer hina et ; the sr is dark — and the u Phi 
£nIOsSS and the 
ich in a fine autumn are extremely ornamental when 
flowers to advantage. Cut n the stems of all the 
prt “plants that pnt done aly and take up the 
side with a white line down each pr 
from the | Asin! to the tail He spira Faces e white; 
the whole animal covered wit rust-coloured | 
cushions, which produce brushes of longish gcc brown 
that it resembles a little bear’ s-skin; like the rest 
of the Bombycidze, it six sharp-joint — Sastink feet, 
eight minal, and two anal feet, more fleshy and not 
_, When t full-grown, ee retire to the stems of plants an : 
chrysalide 
an oval loos n, of silk and the ‘haiva 
pay their skins (4 (fig. 2); vars oe well are they concealed 
ected by this dingy cloak, that although I have 
injured by soag _The Dahlia is gets i among the firs 
pman 1 
top, which was forked i ~ in the spring. The first season 
— effects were evi ident ; the lu xuriant growth being 
ecked, shoots formed. 
This season ihe Plums have bees loaded with "fruity and 
e Pears have about half a crop, with ba fine a supply of 
most sanguine could 
ast the ‘readers © a the 
Far? VW 
I find no fat with the prety wel in which it is gone up, 
o a Be 0 
should recommend t o be ta taken up with about six 
and are 
searched for them in winter, could scarcely ever find any; 
they will travel ‘ie terse 
same way as Potatoes. This is a good ti ime for reducin ing 
ie a ay 
ad leaves on the ground, which are blown abo 
bush o 
any plants that pup th ~ — too large, or removing 
ted ; after whic! h the bor- 
may be winter. 
The eit of roca Preven, Ranunculuses, and 
nemones, with thos 
de: 
pots are anne amongst the stems of 
where they — through the win ater. 
nder ra name of Spilo soma* ; it rests with its 
g. 3), it is ofa oe = or buff colo: 4 
the antenne nh lack and b n the male; th 
8, palpi, and 
are 
HU 
i- pecti 
legs are ris black, <atch tg the thi ie, 
orange colour, and the hinder tibia and 
r 
ai fae 1 
pir, wrth wat grow in any 
Run unculus and Anemone both delight ina free rich 
faves 
Sienld —_ 
os here instead of 
stip in the voeiaas 
to have 
of the winter and spring, a f 
loam he roots 
M.-E. 
HOME CORRESPOND. 
Run Flowers.—Your re 
Dickson, in hi | 
surface.— 
CE. 
EN 
spectable correspondent Mr. 
of either any deeper than from 14 to 2 inches wader the * 
H. 
o butter 
fouk " in thes © stven teen ie 
t Ree 
into and misconceptio on. B Vv qu ae and 
joins as ah pa art = iy of t two sentences, a a here and a 
bit there, he has made it appear that vy recommend a 
paw bet ie ikely to be som 
F. flava, greek is finds in situa 
tioned in Ireland, where the 7 
ance. by giving this a place im the 
| over~ “nutritious soil, to preserve flowers n a clean state. 
fter fi i 
istaken practice of ets tae poor 
hangry soil to sake: Sowers elean in Neon what I state 
in the course of the essay is, that “the cause of foul 
of the pots oblite rated, 
pt 
a defeimney of nourish- 
) ee j £ the stran: opimien 5 
specting th ies of Fougi- Peter Macken" 
West Plean. 
Hide-bound Trees.—I observe in yout review 
Selby’s work, bret big a part in whi ch he 
tions hide-bound tree It is 
d walle often 
im May and June, they are ny oicehatrin uns 
to kilt them to prevent the’ Kawoe they’make 
ment "either in ae or me - Piha. “ that 
egle 
of i 
the” running ;” and again, 
“any ee, sere which Pap se the wees 
“® Curtis's Guide, Guide, Genus 317, a 
pores Phi as oe sap descen 
practice to gery eae the = from the top to 
Whether necessaty; ° 
ee ree 
