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only half an hours walk from the object of their 
consternation and sweating astonishment, without 
nce going to see its beautiful red flowers; w 
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stand excused for leaving the story as we found 
it, and our readers to form their own opinion of its 
probable merits 
So = hems of the mischief opens in wine 
countri he Ving Mun 
from the flowing facts, the ple of which we 
- 700 quarts, and the average price of which may 
be taken at 40 fr., is now producing 150 fr., and 
even at that rate proprietors will not sell, 
* corre- 
ish gentleman, sio capital is 
for many years 
managed for self, and with great success, ex- 
presses his belief that at least “ihe latter result must 
f anticipated. 
It thus seems that the wine ope are about to 
run 
may be gathered ett 
perfect insect is a minute moth 8 to the ‘aris 
Tineidæ, placed by Sonne in the aiey agr 
and specifically x named By fro 
pale V-like 
measure tater more 8 one-third o 
ex ora and are of a shining brown 
Hav. 
r 
s the fore-wings, at nag ut one-third o 
d 
ad-like, and the 
elongate state ee ao w 
this spe e Tinea Pedella* of cst s (Faun 
Suec. 11435, 7— deen of which is however so 
hort and vague, as not nable 2 to — — 1 
sail Bove as faa e e ase: ssly states of it, that 
aa foliis subcutanea,” it cannot be identical 
with r inse 
da This insek has formed the subject of several com- 
5 * os os in i ee f el munications made to the 3 Society during 
le i that which: latel befe h ie E. Debdi 
Potato 8 11 Madeira, the south of France, arb iod diha w of * as 3 1 March, 164 3, 
pain; the’ north 2 italy, and ree e T whie h had destroyed ag ferns of a oo of wine, so as 
suffering under this infliction, it expected | to render it n necessary to recork the bottles ; and on the 
ther countries wi l escape ; and thus the small | 5th June following, Mr. Stephens hibited e of the 
cloud which appeared some years in the Isle of moths which he had r ared fro - Dou bleday’s s 
„and fi which no one expected danger, | larvæ. Until recently, the 
has already expanded 1 5 zane that has ravaged 
a considerable part of 
nder these circumstances ‘the cure of the disease | 
becomes of immeasurable e importance, and whatever 
appears to arrest it takes ee of a: other 
inquiries. We therefore avail ourselves of this 
opportunity of returning to the e e Pad b 
M. Duvaz, as mentio pai eR our Journal of the 13t 
of last month, We w time 3 
a cure; and we a ur 
to call it “lie.” A correspondent has since explained 
. 774), that what the French call Hau de lessi 
3 prep: thus: a large tub with a cavi e 
base is filled nearly to the top with foul linen; on 
this is pl a thic nie of wood. ash. ch 
ae s E out 24 hours, 
pys the — 155 ‘sid clothes, and cleaned d the 
sep Kt ii by the vent, and is what is 
sive, The clothes are gpi . 
— soap and water, but soapsuds form n 
. “ingredient in, the Lau de lessive, which is a * 
add that French 
e to linen—and thus i y be that t 
lie or leide em employed by L was in akty 
i lime-wat vee r, holding caustic potas n solution. Be 
¿ that as e fear that the isiyo remedy wil 
have Tittle n Watts in vineyards, if the wash-tub only 
is to be its source, for no . quantity can be thus 
ob a vineyard would require, especially 
since in washing much of the water is driven 
o form expressly a lessive havi 
the 1 of that which is sjetted by the Paris 
pone, y peude it should be found desirable 
shed further 
ENTOMOLOGY. ° 
ats, and their contents duly discussed, we ma 
wed to leave the gardens and fields, and eall 
attention to the proceedin ral T of insec 
which haye — —.— to devour the co 
cause the wine to lea 
woful disappointment “a the e 
The most injurious of all these wine cork in 
the — of a little moth which gnaws the cork in in 
all directions, weaving at the same time a ae web, to 
which are attached small masses of grains, which are 
2 e d ried « excrement of the insect. The ra re of — 
and so to 
The ti oni is whitish aned; a 
5 erect ttered se 
scatter with a dark 
id case pointed, and antenne cases 
; quite to the extremity of the body, The 
SA 
It would, however, be easy of the pe ka — 
ing all d 
ars | seems alm 
| fed natura ily on the cork, it would surely be found more 
Europe. 
thereby occasionally producing | been 
expectant co era 
ect ey 
collections, but had 8 “tai found i in slants by 
ell in wine cellars. As it differed considerably 
from the ith species of the genus Gracillaria, 
Mr. Stephens hg . sed to separate it from them, 
r the name of Oi ila, i 
tere 
no taste for the te itself, as 
portion of the cork wh ich is 
eue. Bes ee sars still more re 
us by Mr. Bedell, sae is reason |. 
= donb whether its sedate or perhaps even nat 
ood is cork, and whether te N ae —— w the se 
kas wn food has 
estroye PE Bede Ii in — finds 
aa in the wate. a the London Doc 
n 
rom the recent ob- 
rvations be — mierolepidopterists, the inse 
unknown on the Continent; whereas if it 
commonly in the so 
——— by 
e to the 
Dr. Felkin, 
Entomological Societ ety, on the 
rks were more or estroyed. partial 
—— seemed as if it were — — rts being 
e by the wine oozing out in a single drop, and 
i inse e moreover - 
where there is a 1 caused by t 
ment used by wine merchants in corking ine, to 
ompress the cork, anid make it enter more readily into 
the — — the bot tle. He a remed 
again mischief, to cut the eek level w ith the mouth 
of the ORIS and then to dip the top of the bottle for 
aworth and Stephens have incorrectly given this 
* Both H 
ref-rence as —— ex! of re OR is the name of the | 
smali ermine moi 
ach or the forewings Which 
in i 
with 
w pale day- coloured angulated Resin Mal bar | i 
of Richmond, | 
half-an-inch into a 
and swee 
mixture of io. Lo 
melted together ; “oem — 
ee mot pa 
at porh wre ya 
had never ben 
win n similarly injured, 
es of insects have ‘ee = 
to feed on the corks of wi N 
hare will be 
Transactions of the Entomological Socie 
« 2. 10% and Spence’s Introduction,” 6th edition, vok 
; and “Curtis’s British “Entomology, 
Reese fol. 502. J. O. W. 
LATE „ 
(Continued 
Josephine de Malines ( he ‘Ths st 
Pear seems to be of the a 
much resemblance to th ell-known vat 
pointed leaves, the size add pen of its frui 
bit ; it grows freely on the Quince, and od teas ollie s 
id, even when grafted on the Pear stock, but 
deserves a wall e cool and moist parts of ; 
This fine te Pear is 
Qu 
ap = 
sheltere ee eserves 
west t would be most 
south-east, a eo Be i Batic F collection of 
— — 
Ae ee 
a m 
NE of the most eligi 2 appen: in nA 2 
enjoyed at . . 
weather bid defiance igs 
ent tact on nye part o whom its seep 
trusted (always sa sappan however, 
concomitants , 
may be had, at 
and desolate, 
be ajea wi 
ced to 
indu 
“A seg of summer flowers.” 
„ be, not 
e 
something like a 
ithin its limited space, 
e 
th 
have been pted, t 
the latter deficiency pine hey, 
tained much favou 
5 lass roof, W 
a glass roo 
spring when their attraction v 
