204 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. - [Marcr 
Lie oe a vengeance, if truth is to be left 
uildings then in various styles are to 
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and . ah preg fo ro hanger rats the breast ; but it 
~ moreo furnished each the fro 
e re with eight, long, threadlike filaments, 
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sani as long as the entir yr rens gi in — (analo- 
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midges, Chironomus), and 8 is e ‘ot these 
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But besides these elements of beauty, there is | ture is farther shown by ‘this insect : from the sedition 
another which adds charms to each peculiar scene. | ; 
It is the introduction of living creatures, forming a 
most inharmonious medley—at least according to 
our degenerate taste. Gold and silver pheasants, 
ea-fow golden he 
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gravely advised for introduction into England! 
Well does the rat pen or ee result :— 
Nor L E s our r ma 
sage soa of Kier bark in ee gro 
Here parrots wee cats 1 cruel love: 
In — epia fuir island wi will we turn 
rlades, 
Where hiss our snakes, where sport our Tartar maid 
But these Chinese artists know well the essential 
importance of Contrast. If, therefore, they create 
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well as all that is r aeg on thrilling, from the | ma 
records of human cr was this system t 
work in England? "Our poate friend gives a 
capital answer: — 
** Now to our ola of e and — n 
Join we the groves of horr roe 
This to bb no foreign ai 
nee shail'rattle Ma gold chain 
And * that fane, on many a Tyburn 8 
This is tea ally no exaggeration of ‘the feature of 
the TERRIBLE enforced by CHaunERs seriously as 
an element of what he would ave English Land- 
scape Gardening to be. But we have only tasted 
a few of the dishes that E this wonderful ban - 
quet of gardening 
a 01 sur 
which is magnified at figure d, f be me ks cocoon, with | anx 
ny the upper part cut away, as above des ibed. 
pupa. In this state the insect is quiescent, with the w ings | 
mid 
| filaments should be 8 to the action of the water, | 80 
which it parts readily ; exceedingly melti 
ith a rich, vinous, e 
te vineuse, Sm et sucrée). 
s the best I know, ad de Bag, Peach, what 
Ake 0 stot pisik nber ‘pens in the 
Culture he tree will un succee warm 
pi aspect 12 ate vier, colder soil, it 2 
aspect ; a west aspect is stated to unsuit he 
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n as 
Fenn, 5 1 pee: 
SMALL GAR Ns. ATEU 
A con 3 the nema aen 
Chronicle brings before us several of — g 
it for information, the interests of all of whom ne 
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8. 
is W tee by the eross lines marke 
are black, 
E The males 
with a golden silky maga A "E the females |t 
blackish- brown, with a grey silk n both sexes 
the thorax has a narrow silvery oad orton hove 
rupted near the head ; the legs are naked and brown ; 3 
urtis), they are enabled to inflict a 3 severe wound; © 
in pepe some of the species i = 2 toe s are amongst the 
ank 
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n those whom me employ. 
are presumed 10 be eee These various class 
eir pleasing vice fou 
on experience, so that the aprile pl e much 
— land observation may be ae easily a available 
o their advantage. This ee will 
wae ext aa we shall. proceed in good earnest with 
5 88 matt 
Ok all the 88 which are presumed to tend tothe 
improvement of the mind and the heart of for: g 
: 3 ät 
x, ENTONO — on culture, the faculties of the tanding are called 
n tereresses are The species above deod s aay Ror z o exercise, and th i nipulation 3 healthful 
eaten in great numbers, it may be as well to warn our blesome in high latitudes, where its attacks are ee bine penn e ere dif $ 1 pers, 
readers against a small insect aa we ayin Se is quite equal to those of the musquito; in fact it and ‘pleases-- our various ban “ene = bri 15 and 
oeir ri ana, antan, diia larva affixing its cocoon |o by rubbing the exposed parts of the body with and cabled us to make fon Sete scenes more brig 
very firmly to the underside of the leaves — siems |a greasy mixture that the Laplanders can defend | ‘? Pesuile hour the open country 
of that and other water plants. eg against its innumerable hosts, as fully con- If horticultural | pursuits re required a1 vicinity 
r 5 en Diptera d by the most trustworthy . N a a ae not be successfully cultiva sone" — 
pa * See genus Simulium, of which there are stout Ins. Ta app., p. 802, Fries, Le.). But not to the of towns and cities, the greatest part of hu — 4 
British species, the ane co old world nor t o high elimates. that wont bë debarred from the pleasures just ly 
the Tipula reptans of Linne * confined, for Pohl and one have 9 bed a Bra. Bat this is not the case; for there are few ie, 
us (seri 
The transformations of this 3 kawa wd observed | Zilian species Mei obnoxious, 1 tan it is called 
e Port 
by Fri Fries vV Verdat;t and Piane 
are 
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aquatic, 111 ing on the stalks of northern America 8 it is data gecko we 
Sium sm atm Phellandrium aquaticum, &e. These have been informed that it is distinguished from the 
a musquito by t uguese Braz „ whilst i 
re cylindrical, rather slender in the middie | real 8 species of Culex), under the 
of the “ball with the head distinct; furnished, in | name black fly. It is also a species at this 8 
—— to the paris of the mouth, with two short | Which res the cattle in the Bannat and Ser 
two singular flabellifurm appendages; | ° often driving them nearly wild, and not eee . 
raei part of y hess, thick conical and re- even killing them in the space of four or five h 
tractile tubercle beneath, and the hinder extremity is Great swarms of them are seen hovering in the se ana 
furnished witb “nein: eared appendages, which Dr. We learn from a gentleman who has recently travelled 
a regards as respiration. i 
at 315 
lewa ays, showi ing the pai tubercle on the 
eorge, which they e to be deposited ia a cavera 
mountains.—J, O. W. 
pon i 
8 of the thorax, and figure b the larva seen on on one of the adjacen 
are brought to the 
When fall pors this — forms a thin ova 
ater p 8 anc a 
pupa. From observations communicated to us by) of his time,in his retirement, to the raisi 
Professor Audouin, i j i i 0 
the late P udouin, it appears that this tree is fertile an e frala, 
aerer first formed entire, closely pr ry the | finely toothed. The ree pees wee 25 
per Bete 8 eut thes: ate ays fs = tached igh somewhat variable in form; general] ans- 
however, subsequently eaten away as far as a thickened longer than broad, — ; in 4 j E S A e 
whieh is not fst t at Arat sig the obj-ct of this contrivance, | apex. The skin is very fine, separating easily from the 
3 e 0 . an ad. | flesh ; itis marbled throughout, somewhat yellow where 
— — 3 aptatio the wants of the shaded, and of a red more or less intense on the side 
examine — of the inelosed | ex to the sun. The footstalk is short and placed | 
Obs es Ento: tomol " 2 
“there Arent, “ae ogi, Lund, 1824, Part J. 
H Hist. d’une larve ‘aquat, Montpellier, 1844. . dto. 
which are doubtless of use in forming currents of „ 
— their vibratory 1 whereby ae t PÊCHE 3 DE MALINES. 
; uth. 
Ix the “ Journal d' —— de Gand; ” for Jan. 
848, there is a figure of this new variety 5 and a de- 
; 1 on by M. de Bavay. hs is stated 
raised by the late Major Esperen, who stat much 
posed 
in a deep cav ity, 2 Seas it frequently h * 
y happens that pe 
e ssion on the bas 2 the fruit. 
ze flesh is fine, 155 with red at the stone, from 
metropolitan alleys and dere e not ex 
which Flora refuses to honour. The broken bottle af 
z water-jug of the poor, 8 into a flower-pot vn 
agr * 
or 
as eonduci: 
leasure and ornament as ossible . be the ob) 
1 x 4 1 p ? canes the ey adwit- 
2 
ably 1 successful. Neglect — ure 
rs ee the consequence of low habits in their 
piers, but quite as ntly sp ey lie 
cause the knowledge requisite to make 
ie nealing, Whi ile, Shin oe m eee * not 55 
P 
ursuits of t ore practical. am 
have a special re raha to the holders of ree * 
First principles will not be taken for granted, but 
4 4 d to a 
and those details which are presume 
wa e number, @ F. 
series of papers many gardening disciples— 
VENTILATION OF F HOTHOUSES. | 
Amoxosr the many points necessary to Paha d 
gardening, which sav received an extra tinte 
attention during the last lar years, the consideres 
ot to have be 
is ; hen an 
Let ely the moment, in many ca, 
tion of heat would be be eA RAH pro one set the 
9 could be avoided, True it is Mr. 
