340 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
; ill be ing stone at 1 and Ufford. i 
ntly, of all that may be called the cases; the hottest or coldest regions wi nin = at coy 
piace, a sna s — of Europe, as well as of those ra or colder as they stand respectively. more e pies ich I w much amuse am : 
te e ine species w which do not thrive by north or 9 (on the same meridian); it is the vail 3 1 9 re busily . 5 — 
but whose 1 depends difference of maximum an minimum not mead beiden thé be büt wh oh to pull the Mortar from 
conditi of all these, temperature, that i is the circumstance so remarkable eee eee e = — this was to prepare a 
common as W common, are ue ta upon | ou the same parallels ; a fact so well establis rap x night ta; aabot det rA wer to pass the 
the smaller mountain ranges and Aeh ounds on |its prin ea gmi nilan that it might be possible to | not ascertain.” Kirb „Mon. Apum Angl., vol. 
all sides, and make up a great part of the zo of | represent it by a diagram In the great lime pit at the west end of Gray, 
the hilly and inland districts of Italy, s outh of = between Rosherville-gardens and the river, a lane 
France, Hungary, Turkey, &c. This is only — ENTOMOLOGY. of ee reg 1 with narrow strata of Mag 
eee to complete the ane as i sa is a o thew eee dam A arge as a house, r been left standing, the gravel, 
tliat calls for no remark as imate, and is in One of the earliest, and consequently pleasantest | °; i i 
what might be expected. indications of the return of spring, is the appearance of ane N e Ace naa I spent 
But the co extremities of coil central region, a particular species of wild bee, whose Lancer motions nests, and had only to pull down ac l their 
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the eastern plain garden. ortion of the 
—— rm the S — — connection, cabot velys To those 8 have not paid much attention to ento- each y Strata to expose great ear of the nes 
between een the contigu he “ean e 5 e it bee, an e nd the he different nds of be mbes ll 8 ler its escape at its appointed fy Inst 
Saana fori aride nort to be: desc 8 haigena live in 3 either permanen or annual, fe Pep sale? nh rvæ full grown ang 
taking in the — ess of the one and the extreme s eat eee pore belong | Unchanged ; in still fewer the pupa; in some the bee 
character of the other tithe anabo fats amily (Aide) — solitary and not of a previous year arrived at its full perfection, by 
The Northern region hye remains to be o ial in amaa habits, aah of Which: A hat mould a 0 the 
; so much na r than the rest of the quently no w paom or workers, each — ema — N its ait ot ne Actin 8 Re bee which is re 
European ‘continent, ade so o mitch divided by waters, | own nest, an d proveiiig i its cells with a store of food for RE 
it offers far less t o botanical observation than the the supply of the young larvæ when hatched. The bee 
Mr. Rennie, in the interesting little of a ane 
Architecture,” p. 33, describes the nest 
middle and nde 9 already described. Its which is the subject of this notice is one of these soli- Maso 
Flora, however oe, scanty, is e iently | tary specie — e are usa from hi T 
remarkable, being partly a small repetition of oe eee ber ‘aia t from 
Ipine Flora of middle Europe,'an and par ly e ; dicular line of cement between two bricks, hand 
sisting of its own peculiar and delicate Nad 5 er * e 
a Limited in extent in Europe, it is nevertheless the a handful of wet road-stuff had been taken from tart- 
only Flora vihi in general character, and eyen in d thrown against the wall (though upon closer 
many of its species, encircles the whole globe inspection the ea e sm 
within its own latitude, stretching through Reais: ly oc 
dinavia, Canada, Siberia sony Arctic lands. 
Even this northe region of Europe (by whic t oration of some insect, and w to 
intended generally the lands north of the Baltic, 444 be the orifice of a oi a aA an inch deep, exactly 
c` thei lel di f that sea) of the form a fie of lady's thimble, finely 
bears its 8 to that law of western mildness e and of colour of N of Paris, but 
ned in various gets with yellow.. This 
and eastern intensity of climate, though, of course, 
within narrower limits . arm er of the two more 
favoured regions to 5 80 
Taking first the eastern u of it, we find that 
Lapland, and in no rthern ye uii 55 the 5 a 
Anthoph -A — 
to the winged state. — 
& prevent the v sents the interior . — yet “the ‘patch 0 
tation o f many common vase n trees, ad of 8 oval cells an es 
course of smaller plants; in the pe depths of the forests ever, seem ue an n common ta 
towards the Oural eternal i found a few feet as nytt plan of karg ing the cells in a | 
So the soil; at 3 and in the “White yy brought by themselves, ‘it by y bit, from 
a, waters are annuall frozen, and the peculi r not the ordinary habit ph 
ts of the country, P. A * nlir | The earliest flowering of the common white Alyssum that of the Osmize, an allied genus of b 
óf t may seems to be the NN when this bee first appears. that Mr. Rennie’s Anthophorze had simply 
i ee F resist the arts of cul-| Then may be obse 2 darting about with wonderful the deserted abode of we — the Osmie 
a tivati cli h agihty a brownish nge sloured k , with a body much | Ir. Curtis informs us that* Mr. Mathews “fant 8. j 
ë ion in a better climate—they shun the heat— th : : tiey 
> thes Coi the odid. - Ari focesth diaz | ieker and more hairy than that of the hive bee, which nest of this imsect in så i at Chiswick, where 
_ they | orests, on proceeding | ever and anon stops, and poising itself with remarkable | destroyed the ‘Grapes A the garden in September; — 
- become dwindled and scanty, the Grasses | ease i t of a fi i 8 i i box, 
a to NI. di nt of a flower, it un ongue as long asits | having caught a male and confined it in an open box 
er way to ; ground is covered with ole body, which it thrusts into the depths of the blossom, | he was enabled to take imens of the female 
um, Andromeda, Vaccinium, dwarf Willows, | to extract its honey. Should you approach too near, the | which eame and settled there. This led him to think 
5 Oxycoccus, small Rubi—reminding one of the shores | bee, ever on the alert, wheels round, and facing you, that the first w female ; “he so observed a ¢ sf 
À ind, g you, rst was a : Seal 
of Hudson’s Bay. regards you for a short period, during which it seems to | siderable number of Melecta punctata bea ei Brey 
Vet the heat of their short summer is such as to pa immoveab . Its large eyes and peculiarly-spotted coming out of this nest, as if they lived together, “that 
render the cultivation of corn, especially Rye, not ſace give it a strik ter, whi my Kirby’s supposition very » The 
only possible but successfu to quality acco, | ae duaintanee likened the other day to the face of a they deposit their eggs in est of A. í 
f th and oriental key. This orange-brown bee is a male insect, and is appearance of the insect mentioned in parle 
60° ; Ci bers of kinds are 2 bay the remarkable brush-like | and the fact of its ir “l 
| grown in lat. 60° ; of some : s 
n ‘dh fi x appendages to its middle legs. In about a fortnight | worthy of notice, wie the supposition arl 
so e open fields at Petersburg ; = after the first appearance of the males, vie other indi- of 8 ta is rendered positive, 4 
i à d l heir appearance, quite unlike the former, it in th — Is of the An 
l in er ane „ are capable of perfecting | being entirely jet black in the bat ne of their coating. nioe “NES An 
t ‘their 3 on at e neighbourhood of Moscow and | These are the females, which, in addition to the habit of} Our figures represent the male and female A 5 
: Caan, e our Furze, Laurustinus, Tree Mallows, sucking the honey from flowers, in in the same manner as the phora of ibe. ation size, the female 2 
i Mee ** a i a 0 7 4 
les, oeeupy then n collecting the geth 
climate of = = tami! into little masses, and carry ag e larva in one ‘of them. J. O. W. 
4 te: 15 hich are formed for that . — 
estern portion of 18 rare to see one of these females, unaccompani 
cil reversed, - The by her attendant partner, whose movements einan _PLEROMA ELEGANS à 
y Iceland „ the ee ring round her, or hovering over her, while she, Ir was predicted when the Elegant : 
nelude the north and wit great coolness collects the honey from flower to tnbeoduands that it would prove the most 
as inde ittany, form a flower without bestowing any attention upon him, are very house plant hit known to cultivators 
lands in which the Vine may be grown, e C * h if she retur soft, rich, violet-purple colour of 
ucumb “rns eise, remaining as it were suspended in the | which are p a in bountiful succession 
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+ i be a artificially air, while she qui il 
| quietly pillages the sweets from a flower. time, and 
1 z p epsa ~ ge wl el r pln shoe of 1 Rac the cultivated, fully justify the ed. Outings 
‘matured ; many of the trees and ever : 3 — ve observed | It is very easily propagated. on 
; greens of the 2 pair of males fighting in the air for a consid ide- the i 
pera may grown in all perfection, save fruit, | length of time, 98 to the ground, and Wig ah UE yer r a pen 
z sometimes they barely flower; but the sea | Other with the ir powerful jaws. ; in 177 ntle botto j m-heat, root KANE 
oes not freeze; open winters are the rule rather aa ae: Season of courtship „ says Mr. Kirby, | n ene ager ts, before 4 i 
— pie ter of felan e ie places, as for sins — eae Š -yt fiile seems to be to young sedi: should be Sintered i t 455. 
e west of Ire e Y TEN T 72 — a 
am north h and Watt ; | partn he i aer 45 4 | lace mperature averages abou near 
; turning brown coat into i 
rehending these 1 * i h a dirty | given unles 
: — F slands, clay s-cloured grey, so that he is hardly to be re. | thi 
Mes dni admired, he same individual we had at first so much | are in; admit very goad air, 
r southern, Europe, which was The female makes her nest in hard bank 
“in the beginning of * paper; just or clay, containing several cells of an oval “tp elli 
MEAR iad reaching from the O r i 
an extreme prolongation of that e eet in 
uite half-an-inch in diame in no i 
tthe vegetatio baba et connects the frre, Tn No n e 
an eber eal Asia. | it mikes its nest in stone walls, I found it myself 28 ie t during e 
! ein great abundance frequenting the walls built with Ketter. | foli 2 is li 
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