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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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sss Algo mall 9 a tg om mature leaves. erepeere this sex a quarter of an inch long 
Every plant then contains within itself, during winter or | it is grey and freckled, with little wings slike fins, not hal | 
its season of rest, cqroenge ee era sap, Bs which its | the length of thé bod across 
re suppo! is not, how- them. The abdomen is stoutish, ovate-conic, brown on 
th , With a double line of black _— down the cen- 
state, nog before it can ee made available for the support | tre. The are spotted ow 
of leaves, Xe. it must be dissolved by es oF sap, ab- e males first make thei r appearance at the end of 
hod | al 
in spring ; and whatever 
or diminishes the of 
roots at this period, i 
the plant ; for in 
prepared which 
contributes are 
diminish the quantity pam aqueous sap hietbed by ‘by the 
nereases or 
ut a week later; but they 
Jan bein; 
paling, ec. Aft iri: 
be the trees, and —— eir eggs on the fruit 
ikewise upon the twigs, and eyen upon the few 
| freed ner oe — he ae - _ branches ; these 
Pri 
now return, with extracts from some corr di 
Mr. Billington. — 
Ld ‘1 ell ree sllect hi 
; well recollect, w 7 was stare ward the plant. 
to me by the old hy amar manke rs there tg 
*«knot-acorn Oak,” from the sige wing in clusters 
or knots close to ag sal, without petioles, and as being 
than er kind. They said they 
2 ape 1 e to 1 whether 
oe 
While 
, I got so secustomed S pe Eade it, from 
their encomiums of its superiori my own feelings on 
f the ae thet T could Se aes the 
race wat d one female 
| grill 1 often lay 200 and nce agy 
U ted by the storms and frosts of winter, these 
y 
rest uninjured, until the genial warmth of spring 
— if of a large size t a co rable distance, from 
trees of 
Q. ‘acai are pints a different from the other: 
ing, Sorte with little risk of sy oF injury from atmo. eggs = “yh get ve a hei ‘ker hue and more glossy a appearance, 
spheric infl i s branches, subdivided i into a — 
roots. mover, and of «ey tnt but an they ct 
‘In my earliest ening days I had been led to pay date skin pas Aree at eens MRRP finally are | tl diverging from tl ntal 
ag 0 the days of the Gusaibiasy by spe) yellowish-green, with a blue line down the ba I he b hes of the other sp ,Q pe 
way of pafiromer ner long before I remember to have and two yellowish-white lines on each side; these are — diverg I t ight 
read any work on Vegetable Physiology, so my | little aay) and oe them is another broken line of position, and d d y " 
opinions t infil d by any th views, [ | dots of the same colour. ey have a very few short h cl 
had arrived at the conclusions that if I transplanted a tree | hairs scattered over them, and the head is never darker “The greater part of the Oak timber growing on a 
soon after to fall, I hay vigor- | than ie _ ; iy vary, however, hang in pg are | banksof the river Derwent, in the county of Tg gr 
ous growth of wood and a good crop of fruit in the follow- | al 1 a considerable distance, from it, in the vic inity © 
ing year; if I transplanted in , when leaves | ral, tro siaiediaad, and two anal feet, por are perfect of whi 
had fallen, T should have a feeble growth of wood, and a loope ae} he charge, is, I poptil Aram 
p of fruit; and if I Borer nge in Kollar says, the most injuri us insect to fruit-trees in mood:menger (Gee in timber) Pe its oper nn | hard- 
whe! were about to burst into leaf, I | Germany is undoubtedly the. igre caterpillar, | ness, uality.” 
should have a vigorous th of t little or no | which is produ by ~~ pri ane a last Spring 
fruit. And from my subsequent experience, which has | they proved very divire rehards in this COTTAGE GARDENS.—No. XLVII. 
o very extensive, and confined, moreover, | co try. My notice was sinauanil b them the first Berore concluding our remarks on be treatment of 
le, Pe week in May, when I w the leaves of the Hawthorns, at | fruit trees, W e would par rticularly direct € cottager’s at- 
oe and ira have had no reasons a differing from eg the extremity of the shoots, drawn to; few which we consider to be 
e conclusions. I will mention one remarkable ; th en out some of the expanding leaves, | of great utility and importance. We mean the occasional 
eutsl of the perfect success of ‘of transplanting at the time and consumed so much of the _— ones be portions | root-pruning of such . prc of a luxuriant ger so as to 
T recommend. Several t trees o} the Lancashire Prize ere complete and only ng byt he threads ; rt their ifs pepsi nduce them wach — 
berri but b h i Th old one, ani 
crransiag, t paina tong. be too near 
ee be buds (fig. Ag Talso Tetected them amongst Lime- 
L 
£. ses 
fe aries I was obliged to remove, owing to to its 
ee 
ay J 
At eat +h 
oS pi 2 
A shat. 
lic, and the Sn ae ap ak 
is admi eal suited ‘for gardens 0 of li- 
soon after the leaves see ae falleag — 
Ei 
ones second prizes were a % 
plates much smaller, and 
Opponents, first prizes yr awarded, 
taken into consideration, 
pone 
t will hardly, I think, be believed, butit is certainly true, | 
from that ioe expel in ci te tines WE & 9 
from that tree equal in 
mod extent, and ck ys 
mmend as the only one ra which fruit-trees can be ad- 
vantageously cultivated and bea in a small co mpass. Mr. 
Rivers, 
P 
ted ¢ 
ten full of holes. About the middle of the same aporsn 
the = Aagpieed in Suffolk were destroy: y the sai 
kind of caterpillars; but many of these hi 
stripe down the back: and near Exeter they 
havoc in the . Towards the end of 
May I observed the Elm- ery much defoli by 
them and a variety of other larvee. e hedges now ex- 
hibited a blighted appearance, for terminal and scat- 
‘tered leaves on the new shoots of the Hawthorns wei 
also became on $5 
I found a few feeding oh the Hazel and broad-leaved 
Willow. Shortly after this they deserted the trees and 
were seen descending by a shade to the ground, in order 
Hadise themselves two or three inches beneath the sur- 
3 to have limited the action of the females 
the ‘Hortien tural ger in m Apel i810, and of which a 
hort extract will be found at page 39 of the Gardeners’ 
Chromic icle. = mode of fe and may! be thus de ection: 
ung tre 
Supposing a 
two or par! , per! erhaps, before roo! 
ing will be necessary. This, however, will ig pend 
| on the nouns and appearance of the ; for shoul 
co! 
vigorous shoots oe 
= November or at this time, when the ground is being 
g for winter, take out a trench all round the tree 18 
vs Bag Besa parte or e distance from the stem ; then 
wee. a knife, or a a sharp spade, cut every root that is ~ 
Nature 
by depriving them of the oro of flight, and has thus 
assisted man in checking the 
widel @ 
so as to i tens and cu roots that a 
taken a perpendi directs Allow two jous again 
to shapes without disturbing the tree, and when it vegan 
its for: t habi on 
befor 
the larve are bid ahedersrgi a tree, although burnii 
straw under or branches a may afford some relief. The 
alluded to ptt <rwsceae the male 
strip ; = 
» and then paint it over with 
3 this however, 
s > 3 
> a 
> 
pa ot baer pal ya 
to'be washed in by the rains of winter 
his own difficulties; _he amuses 
great measure will obviate the necessi ra 
; but on old trom, ¢ L 
with caution. — 
ardy fruits 
NDENCE. 
HOME Jagr prac sk Lande 
‘arnation were the 
him down again; he tre heapieches 
rye rey ae erent to be ot sae aes | , 
he start: tion that an over- jous soil is : 
