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THE GARDENERS’ CHR 
CHRONICLE. 
Mr. Gat. Borben, the inventor of this substance, 
that —— alone would have led us to regard 
r Ae no s interest. But we happen to have | e 
dere knowledge of the admirable 
qiilty of che article, that we — hardly be 
enti in W T attention to it in this 
cial ma instructions rece with 
in w 
exact truth of these 
acquaintance was so delighted with ‘the biscuit 
ib ga that she bret sh set down the mr id as 
her o opi: nion :— ‘ 
Cut 
or common soup, and prety o convenient yo 
soup wanted in haste, for 
n the biscuit powder, 
carefully mixed and boiled for half a an hour, and the 
called upon to produce 
a food for in — 8 3 where me 3 
rejects all ordinar say, 
eur own we owed, that it . all the e of 
the lightes ed w ith the 
„For the pate: fit “of our country reader 
add (since it has hardly ever been fF beers d that it 
may be had of the agents, at 137, Leadenhall-st 
_. ERIOSTEMONS. 
Most of these e greenhouse shrubs have a 
2 anan of t growth and Doe profusely, and if 
er shady part of a coo! house they 
— i ikera in 
abou comm 
plants for 8 rdering them state that 
only good plants will be received or paid for. Plants 
eginners, 
must be si 3 strong, and dwarf, with 2 good 
leading shoo 
Having obtained good young plants early in Pet 
place them in a light airy situation, where the 
perature may range from 45° to 55°, pat 
a stake ; and 
e plants over-head o sth mornings of fine 
~~ to ako — to an free 
eee er the 
eal 
e | will i caine se Arber, E * 
up; drainage. 
In cases this 
a | woody ee pes as the roots tind the eae where 
galls large as 
be as useful as 5 fit for an or an exhibition table, 
medicinal remedy, It is in fact a 
he 
these will be ob 
end of the greenhouse after the first season; and this 
ere will probably suit ‘the purpose of — gem 
b ai to produce first-rate examples 
The only suitable soil for the ra is rich 
tur BT. 
ditio: 
h 
age ; 
up into pie 
nut t (rejecting ‘a except the primo), 
and mixed with ent h s sand, a qua 
of clean small pots = sage or oneal 
p tered moist s when use 
the pots 
the rrying 
down the fine — ticles vat the et pari — the 
Alpha. 
„ENTOMOLOGY. 
THE PSYLLA OF THE 
of insects u rees and vege 
remarkable 
lopment of E leaves and bud 
ance of the anat conditions : 
occurs in 
tables, none are 
economy. 
as a man's fist d by a 
oup 
A ‘iti is more EPEN, i ahh as pmen 
ach 
s form 
wingless saeg of 9 or in be viele shoots 
tec ch we gave 
a 
Sea (w 
lips ;” in other words, on biting them the mouth is s filled 
with the powder which they contain a e insects 
e the history 
of an insect which pro clots effects of thel last mentioned 
kind, and which may often be observed during the 
Ro 
ike into 
ee r 5 
season, 
them for bert 
e | ven 
o A | or less hollow. 
e 
e er r of these 
t of 
i s, an 
0 result will be magnificent if 
flowering plants should | 
he accompanying woodcut represents a twi 
the centre shoot of which 
growth of the plant, whils al shoots 
exhibit the effects of the arab of the | larvee of Psylla 
Buxi, insect 
wig of Box, 
Sgt ts the sacred mode of 
ible con- m 
yet 
Amonest the various effects 3 by the 1 : 
— 
an the N in the growth and dovo- previousl 
s caus 
1 the ti 
0 
their sustenance e their 
cause of this 
be close to the fore 
a few 
textu 
saw-flies. J. O. 
. 
lea 
he e underside of the bod 
ur with green veins, and t 
° quite — the a 
The — h 
[Aus. 145 
ki — 
æ, which urse find A 
hollow bali of leaves ig x 
g such lon Ong filaments « sf 
OF, on 
lament 
ime 
„ is a short | jointed rost 
mt che body, so far back as to 
wth 
ko of e he action 
days in the pupa state 
state ; Baer ving which hed 
t yet been obser stro 
ure of the — for vipi seems to 
indicate the habit, similar to that of the er. o 
W. 
SALADS. 
RAPE, AND 
blood, as well as an ornamen 
is ak re 
re qu ires 
the soar’ of the shoot bein 
the 8 the terminal wae entirely e- 
that the interior of these little balls is more 
what apama 
extremity of the body a long w 
bit of thick coarse whi ite bisa 
of i 
ese psyllidee 
which constitutes the 
to accoun 
1 
ich could easily be done, from its great 
| probably prove an excellent 
to b 
air, on accou 
less water in it than Musi 
d that he 
vile of the 
or it, I se 
n easily be put 
ee? of straw rem ma esi 
that 
RN 
excellent past is searely known in 
ent in a § 
t forms a good ingredi 
8 . of the 
er 
ood request, 2 3 a fine 
deman 
Market t gardeners will not 
t among other 
treated 4 che botës ne 
e kept moist and more exe clu 
nt of its being a 
hee 
ae iy 82 ' 
over it during 
fon 1 ta cannot 
Lerruce.—This iil w 
blood. 
power pe 1 they ca 
