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t of religious rites—and with allusions to great 
historical = ig gs a peculiar character to the 
whole compositi i 
Nature spa inniy crane re yti art.” The 
Emperor KIxR-Loxd was quite right. 
We learn with regret, but without surprise, that 
the cultivation of the Poraro has been revived i in 
e mos 
order t 
3 result must be sooner or 
of the famine deste has covered the land with such 
indescribable 
There seems i . oe belief among the 
that somal symptoms are not uncommon 
e instances 
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with rapidity. In Roscommon, Longford, 
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the bottom portion s ofa moral stick of 
burrows in the solid part, on 
the right han we d stalk of the leaf, mis the grub is Mauss 
at Y rub itself is dra enlarged £ 
fig. b fig. e, the front a its body i is still ian 
highly magne, showing the two air-vessels termi- 
nating in the two external Sd s, and the large 
horny apparatus of the mouth, terminating behind in 
four 
15 sak moved by strong muscles, and used by the insect 
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of which extends up into |i 
horny points, and in — in two horny hooks (see | betwe 
ramifications, and these subdivided 
cels, each bearing 
number of such branches into the 7 
that fancy can depic 
I know not 
Ae — We aly pecine a 
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the species under n ir 
I have said Cavendishi i 1s noble ; it is the 
tocrat of Ericas. Rich in colour, compact Palen hi 
enge a dane . easy to one 
fiere a hy 
etwe ö rsonii it affords us an in. 
sight into what might be — from ju udicious hybrid. 
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raking up the particles of its food, which it then | isation 0 es with a greater profusion ol bloom, 
3 in Mg er than Pattersonii the compact habit, large blossoms, 
an richer colour of depressa. The former js 
r | somewhat 8 to nakedness, and the latter is top 
AN D scanty in the production of its blossom m to render ita 
FM NNN See conspicuous object. 
HEPAT / haps as a fitting companion for Cavendish, and ii 
Wa E = Y JA Aab rrine e admitably in clu pre. ere 
ee A VE a ppropriately na Its 1 mbricated spikes 
. i A Ñ E blossom, white and sufficiently — ae 
5 AON RN position of the inclosed anthers visible through the 
s Va je) = tubular corolla, render it a . and beautiful 
he p á I object. It will produce blos eh profusion as 
; ba bia to mene flower-stalk for the length of 3 17 6 
with a e mass of spotless purity. It is anear 
tion to Be but en 3 
upon that desirable vari 
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e wers if ti 
measures are not then taken, malformation of the i 
vidual flowers is sure lace. 
Meath, Kildare, Westmasth, Dublin and Wicklow, By blaci f these di d Cel ik A ve dra of — is the genus Erica. No 
ore. Whe ual has been put in, o yD ing ae Picks t ore ceeded in = ery ptem 8 a a | sooner have you disposed of what may be termed the 
Selly by the smaller occupiers ; ayo, Gal- | F ai a eoa d principals, than up start others even more 
l the fly into which these grubs ar transformed, Pre-|than they. Mirabilis defies alike both pen 1 
4 1 sf 2 hi k . 1 peace vious to assuming the perfect — Was er, * insect | faithful] y: pourtray it. Its thick, p 
is prepared or Turnips, which are certainly rising through that of the n which the skin a 
in esti n. It ms, however, that a general | of the 8 beco = es hard, and — shining elongate — 1 8 e, e hand, and change be ne 
objection exists to the cultivation of Parsnips, | case, without any appearance of articulation. Within | yout a to be wished, utterly impossible, 
d su nts, beca ni O enn ae case the sigt ae a is to = found from Jy on the tite 
the other h e ear to alw e perfect insect was isclosed at the middle of thus be ims- 
less extent than formerly, the land having been the month of May. ay very closely 8 ne the — de bene re 1 m on a compact 
th out, and being incapable of carry- | that reared from the cheese m As it does pecimen, a gorgeo f bea ape cs itself; 
oroughly run 
uch a crop. 
The most cheerful Tae which has come 
hus- | 
wh e that 
cottage gardeningin Treland i is impracticable me = 
to be elicited by any ordinary endea We 
the other hand are satisfied that it is 4o ordinary 
endeavours alone that we — look for improve- 
ment among the peasantry, and that all extraordi- 
AMY operations will be failur — 
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our volume for 1841 vill b. be found the 
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crop, 
Apii. It is resen above in ou 
natural size r shown by the Hayy tines at f. The 
— en are entirely j 
e hind feet, somewhat more dusky. 
wings are r-. ekg and colourless, with the 
veins very pale bu emale,* 
of several very slender joints, which are retractile, like 
the . aa * teles cope. 
Although this insect is hatched in the beginning of the 
Enone fi is, most probably, either that it survives till 
the autumn, or that th 
), | least we presume that th the 
A of the plant, by entirely destroying their 
On the present occasion we purpose ma 
Son i er two-winged fly which 
is anity i injurtoas to the same ‘ag, but in a different | 
manner, wing into solid s 8 
stalks, des g its way up the latter, its track a 
well as itself being at 
Hi 
isters — m rather eggs 
l attentia 
„point out a few of the m 
p» to Be 
th the transformation of this | trium 2 
in the Wee and early sprin 
rapping the fly when arrived at the ect state 
When, Nene stalks of Celery * found to be much 
infested, the diseased to be cut = Rev 
burnt, instead of ” being throw. = 
upon the dung-heap, to rot with 
whereby the a 
as is generally th 
other refuse vepitation 
destruction | of of the ly is not effected. J. O. . 
päi CAPE 8 No. IX. 
courtesy o some tim id nt 
Cape I have been e 10 i — tfolios | 
m nature of 80 undreds of 
ss È tthe ens ers in their native habitats. 
enture on my own knowledge of th 
to assert, but I think I might do so iaoa m ahs fear 
of erring, that our collections cannot boast of such 
beantiful species as yet in to i 
introduced, have never 
remain 
been suffi 
But vs object of 
re bea 
ornamental 
firs rank, wh d elegance 
took place in the month of February, and as at 
fom | 
triumphs over the 8 2 of the gaudy. 8 — in 
the * ost assured]; k y 
4 give an idea of the | 
— in number 
a branch 
fal 3 a S foot in length bape this 
with a = Bh os 
. oe isr 
appear to be pine we propose to gr it Piophila f 
gure e, its 
a 
which the ovipositor is aie to be exserted, consisting * 
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shoots ; when such happens, 
glossy, with a vere slight brassy din ê, and with fine 
olden cattered over the baay: The head is | —— ke amiaza 9 „ 
chesnut-coloured, paler near the mouth, and black in| A plant less conspicuous than the last, but exercisi 
the mi e; the eyes and club of the antenne great claims upon otice, is rubricalyx. The pale 
are pitchy, the bristle of the latter luteous. The legs | tubular petals, contrasting strongly with the rich, dtk 
(in all xæ or joints by w they calyx, render it a pleasing object to look upon. It isa 
attached to the body) are very pale straw-yellow ; the very free bloomer, and rem i 
le mutations 
t which is apt to detract = 
its 1 it is apt to make luxuriant shoots. 
flowers . n the branchlets near the base are freq 
abortive, —G. 
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR AMATEURS 
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now may probably 
ted, we shall 
period. 
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quire watering, ; 
able by grr inspection, 
water will do no good; 
injurious by strikin 
hill e 
wy large i in 
to the rest of the body, 
begun 
ton in Dt weather, and render watering “i 
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