ee RRR. A Sc di J ae cal a at » a ba a Le a tee eo REL é a ON Oe ae, oe 
780 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [NO 4g, 
d to i riowst re ned » the larva, addition to the facts already adduced, or, which is the | of the best I have seen, which I place in two class 
Sa a Sens ft rs batt se ha is same thing, extended them t to plants which had not class flowers : — Admirable, Spary’s; Burnha rea we 
f experiment before. It is true, Church’s; Euclid, Ward's ; Eclipse, Catleugh’s ; Da. 
. nd Tourna 
f 
protruding from m the branch. : : P 
The caterpillar is fesby and whitish, Sot an emia that st good gardeners — long acknowle dg ed | Wi — $3 Fanny Keynes, Keynes’; Gra ment, 
dorsal line ; the head an d fou ur horny s — the Pay the principle of Cada. or, they gee called bon Union ; 7 bar Rival, Stein’s; King of Roses, Thom. 
brown ix pectoral rand son’ 
fe 1 or | sin 
Sy Lady Cooper, Jackson’ uy Scarlet Defiance, Con- 
; Tournament, Cat! leug his 2d class ; uncertain in, but 
as i utum n a familiar ‘instance 
e longish hairs are scattered over its | the ces of rare specimens still 
ody ( (fig. 2) Hy moth, which is | now name ed HEgeria better ; ‘and al plants are > invariably more are and TKeyne ; Haidee, his yagers ; Indispensable, Gistng'; 
tipuliforimis, is of a t inclining not ted u It is | Maid “7 Bath, Davis’ ; archioness of Brea : 
to purple, which is beautifully pont withsthe golden | to this circumstance that a Ca vse arg viscosa and Dodds’ ye Queen, Widnall’s ; via Magnet, Catleugh’s, 
rings encircling i its body, _— glittering in th hine ; | other or kinds flower so finely her fter having | —dn ahlia Gr 
collar to the neck, and there become fin ¢ plants, they are wsually pone at the roots Ww Sheanfis ire ae Ee tries the following for r destroying 
di i ions of 4 large-sized pot to that of a 24, | worms on a I a myself he will no longer be 
there are pet three Silat bands ane the abd f 1 i f the former ple opinions on the subject, as it 
the female, but four = she male, and t I would mention, ‘too, that it is not mere ely a reduc- will | fully answer the end ‘required ; T can an for i 
r large brush of fine s olsen | tion of tke ball of earth by shaking it vig po an entire killing the “worms, and it does not in the least appear to 
ornaments the tail; the wings are transparent like a aho use | cutting « off of the Toots | and e ear! rth to the ir red. 3 ; three pplied 
fly, with dark nervures ; urT purp it | gal water par - quarter of an ounce 
margin more or less pees. with golden scales, and tk knowl odg 1 to b ) grown | and flowered wen here 5 ; te of ; limate, and water t 
apex of the upper g d t in th 1 manner this, T can assure “you, is ee the 
uniting bing the a dark 1 lunate spot on the disc, encloses a = seven or cht feet; the F. globosa ik 
transparent oval spot, across which four dark nervures are | ties, and the e conica, to asm mall tree 3 and ie. at atthe t time I have ons seen or r heard of,—A Lary gal should 
visible ; the fringe is fuscous ; the legs are evapo 5 va- | oft the housing of d would kill grass as well as 
riegated with bright yellow; and the horns i pot Iculated t tl 
eo are thickest in the males — gabe gr pectinated : e Gardens.—Landscape gardening is ge 
ed, the 
ti th ur- rool nerally 
cross lines showing the natural di- ing p pecan eee between the root and brai rg In weer aia as the highest a of = profession, and 
or my the cd ix g these plants are shifted, and throughout the no doubt much s study i is requi red of the indiv: idual who 
Tinea capitella of Linneus, Lampronia capitella * su il tk the pots they occ i et ides Shea 
modern writers, the small moth before alluded to, is called pied t before 0 or others. which may have become more suit- many of the essential requisites of Jandscape peste 
the ‘ Triple-spotted Currant Tinea,” the caterpillars It co uld be intr oduced | into cottage saipeonh and if the 
which, we learn froma Mr. Dou bleday, have greatly japactah a pl 
and even sceeee i ghbour- | prune: oat at a yow ng age, 0 else the power of pit Hs cite new | fine arts, I cannot conceive , from the nature of things, 
hood of Epping, in Wines These larvee are jike he fore- | fibres or oar by nade be consi grimy ee aM why the other = be rejected. If good taste and ele- 
going in their economy, only that they feed upon the in the opucegeen' of the gan ce and | char sage diversity be necessary in laying 
terior of the young shoots, which they attacked in such hold i - so it is wan plants i rend of country, in order that the imagi- 
Dp: Wh 
force last spring, that many of the trees were left leafless pots, for though it is possi! cole vt as I shall otherwi be pleased with the Seats and variety of the 
in May. Where the 7 = eggs remains still | show in another paper, yet Poy is preferable to do so in | scene, is there anything to by anc the ,combination of 
to be discovered, and I am not aware that the larva has | & yor e. Moreover, it is scarcely — to disroot | these e graces ces from meeting in 
been described or figured by any reggae but the moths I the second time at precisely the same wound that wa domain? Enc phat sole is pote 
have epee ig fags resting, with their wings defiexed, | made previously ; consequent tly, pee good cultivator of desi in piesa ame’ our manufactured goods mi 
upon garden paling in the vicinity of London, about the Id tak t b arded for Saree throws epene : 
middle of May; der it is said es to occur in cutting and the subsequen it of litth th, 3 
orchards as well as , from the commencement of ea Aer afterwards at rage ‘age say are ag be- uae “Gia fo pe panting pe gilding upon the porcelain — 
that month until the first week in i may cau se they be beco! come —. hoghe Pe and the habit of the = of Staffordshire, and the tea-trays of Birmi t 
The triple-spotted Currant-moth is fuscous; the head | p ke di d to be bush d when their designs are finished, they are often a a 
is clothed with a bright ochreous crest of hairs, from Ne Gases, Hikes led 
whence its specific name ‘‘capitella;’’ the antenn are The Bay Tree.—I on iy received No. 44 of the Gar-| if greater encouragement were giv en for the cultivation of 
like bristles in both sexes; the superior wings are bronzed, | deners’ Chronicle last evening, my ates having by fruits, flowers, and hey aniag apa the working classes 
being freckled with purple and yellow; there is a pale | mistake sent another paper; conseque mtly, I have is from the v _. kingdom that 
c band near the base, which tapers to the | before had an heat of replying once more to your many of these nes are tak en) an hey were taught 
costal margin, forming an ed triangle, and also two | able correspo “Pp, P.’—I{ would not trouble y stone ts then might 
iandsome spots of the same colour a little beyond the with thi arhicny of die. tec avee attention to the facts I I 
_ middle arte tear enesersonm pty and near the | have recorded respecting the Bay. I say, facts; I make | lous mixtures that are often exhibited upon the pees: 
fceouon of teeing He a purple shade ; | no distinction of ‘facts which afterwards turn out to be | tured goods of the artizan. Might not the gardens of every 
ora elas it is three | ee ee fact ;'”.4 vorcaceenge ~ the Aiea | rural district be as schools of d ign? By such simple 
lines long. oo t be false. It means we may a expect to see the sources of 
Although the inj let of “I oP. De is is noun prosperi ritish ingenuity brought toa 
“ 
appears to 
A ugh jury unnoticed my verity oe stilt os must 
larvee is not often extensive, it re fatal to the trees | be queeble I felt it necessary, in my last, to speak y 
when lected ; as soon, therefore, as a branch withers, | “so dec! at ” in p. 662, in eae a @* PP? rat as the British nation apo in the estimation 9 a 
cut it and artic it, to see = Ps has been killed by the oe * sapposing e case overrated.’’ beg . to to refer r your | won nderi ring} world, we are far from cag a that it has ” 
Currant-sphinx ; in which ca to, and to assure “ P. Pp ion h ts des tined —— for the urces of the 
sacrifice the whole tree, or as m' pote oe as can be ascer- oc evicat times directed to the singular fact (as it ap- soil and the workshop ar not yet exha sae) ge mallet 
tained to be infested, ‘cod te wali GP Ces cared d 7 a i ke a Jove 
g P er plants. I have often shaken Bays a Niobe breathe in seuibins ep a pencil guided by a 
in the spring, it is pretty good evi dence that the triple- | sm to to rid them ef ia apparently dead leaves, and Raphael will pales e designs of perennial duration, but 
spotted Currant Tinea has become an inmate there; and e tenacity exhibited ; Leg have | when all is done it is — adeait picture anda faint repre- 
caffe shoots an chong ae S few. Ww, ee have been retain yet : sentation elton model ; but t similar 
to those 
any 
supposed the pf leaves would again wg taal ich guided these — were parce stsbe 
een, which I now unhesitatingly avow is Pca case with cottage ening, we should witne: ions 
many. J am satisfied further observation will tend to forth by means of the sme, the ae and pas _. 
stated, which do not rest on my | pleasant to look upon as those that t adorn the walls 
Se uertin they have been confirmed by the observa- | picture-gallery. In this Eolie. rizes wey been 
tion of others, and I have felt a little surprise that | for the most tastefully laid out endl nee tly kept gs gardens, 
“P. P.” should continue so sceptical. As he referred to | and they have not been off red in vain: much taste and 
“the would refer ‘o | good denieneeael 
e Vv hes of Chickweed 
mark, and make memoranda, and watch the progress of | and Spurrey and Groundsel were in a short time looked 
recovery. 1 am led to dou! bt whether ‘* P. P.’’ tely | for in vai ed rows of vegetables striving among 
th for the mn . 
thi 
in their brown and apparently lifeless ph meseohaghon any | exchanged for those of geo exact 3 the 
and the . 
* Curtis's Brit. Ent. y. 14, fol. and pl. 639, tirely maintai t t trut 1 aid the | thought too good to sora received as much 
j is a 
epee eee of 8 b ppy to 
HOME CORRESPONDEN see “P. P.” and any of your correspondents who feel an | drawing-room. ‘Such keeping ewe | 
they feel ashamed of their own, and man: eae 
: CE. bours 
saute eit ee piece terest ae fe mad from the frost.—John Radford, Winchmore | they look upon the well-kept garde tens of sarees 
Savers, ana Seemed attack on tase Minto Sy Mr: Advertisements.—If those persons who advertise in | up that otherwise would have ave remained to 
d to Mr. Rivers” 
“om — ani 1841. | your d, and died a natural death. Would it not be cot 9 
“seen a so far as it alludes to ee en ter a 
pietescescue, Ss bability of their applications bein eee irr aeanaeedl a peat pcan Thea of C 
their resent 2 as ‘0 persons : 
versed Sten hee tek see pans F present system, ¥ when persons, like myself, | representation a ae eon ee tfal to bebold 
‘more numerous, easel Wie arittig tees apt, weet ties bes ther th the real cottage maide we alling her flowers - 
of plants; whereas it may | price asked would be too exorbitant for rather limited | housewife gathering her vegetables, or the e sunburnt ls: 
that condition in flowering | means.—A Subscriber. bourer dressing his garden, as any imaginary ones 
a _ to: freit-bearing | Dalian: pea Sk ciated 
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; 
Hes heat flower from September till the cad : 
