334 THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONIC 
LE. ‘(Max 99, 
draw attention to the fact of a ara aa gneri b. san 
Clarence railway — ving taken fire fr 
the engine, and im 
(See — ry, Mi 
t of adopting the suggestions 
of 
eds 
he inexpediency f\s 
e embankments planted, 
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reco 
— the Willow 1 think ‘would not thet 
ae ould val as ide “kel to 
ould be nam 
Wasps.—The ane given in las ies 
8. 
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co 
killed in th 
s of ench om ee 1000 young, the number o _ 
was sometimes un ore 
16,000, and a h cell s ara for — 3 in a — 
80 that a stroyed sage the production 
of at least 30,000 — in the after of the year. To 
van = — 5 therefore, a wasp in spring is 
very chea 
me 
Scorching Es 2 5 British ty ee wise should be 
ents who 
ve mein British n 
upwards, in latel 
what effect t the sun has ha e glass, and whether 
y scorching has been felt t during the last 10 days, even 
in well mpn houses. om cer — 
any s Roberts, Hay Castle 
Select ‘Dahlias. —The las k in Ad foe the best 
for planting eing a very successful 
grower, m tolerably — i cues 15 ~ constitutes 
tion in that flow the following | 
dist of some of the very 
unity of 
clita 
do not do anything like justice bee. the am 
bi 
eer kinds in . on, as a mii 
eda, | rh 
; | dissatisfied ma 
rah, | than the starlin sa 
Mrs. | i ised, 
although I lament, that they have i in one Rin aH fallen 
uckily I 
competency of the N At all events the anatomi- 
cal construction o mals should exhibit a gr 
purpose s it meant t 
stomach ?* The e puz — I 
as arisen from — ee that some of 
these = are * —AL 
ings v. Pig —The opp ia of the elu- 
sidation of facts of. natural history often falls in the 
of th aged in 1 yy the 
itunes of correct asai guar re 
birds and i ects was 
i be 
as interest, demands that, as 
d early described, the claims of the 
3 friends nm the gardener sho uld be * A — 
sed. In the present instance I wish a few 
n in defence of one of tho ee — most useful 
* ing, which, I am sorry to 
displeasure of oe corre- | 
epondent « a epa (Apai 29, pag ge 286.) In com- 
8 of bird the chance mani- 
ro 
nised as a clstingushing feature in the family) is often 
istakingly which the whole 
ib Ro 
and . against them. The jackdaw, starling, 
magpie, do 
able in the birds in 
markable 3 faculties possessed by birds, c 
d wit ior and improvable inteligence, — 
ribed many eocentrieities, £ such as that described 
by Orbatus” in so of s ronge v. pi pige 
advoca 
ons. Ås 
may be per- 
of apology, the striking ex- 
m by their emcee of the 
thes uch b 
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s to imitate rpris 
into error. 
sta th 
lilac; Cap allner, maroon; Stan 
tion, Ae yy 
of wallis, white; Victory o f Sussex, crimson ; 
Essex, rosy ing. : Pike A dark ; Bertha Von 
orange ; 2 puce ; Lady St. Maur, 
light-edged ; Non Bios s ; Lillywhite, blush white ; 
Marquis of “Aylesbury, purple. The following are the 
— Shylock, scarlet; Gem, 
u 
edged; Nell Gwynne, e į 
fiery orange ; T meson d white.— E. Ber 
nett, gr. io £ x ovelli, Esq., D 
Polmais 
of « 
a 
used, and if single be “thiek 
enough? Fire bricks I suppose are used. The col 
mend su 
arm air is conveyed to 
through wooden pit ipes. Do they not ee 
the tig * become defeetive 2 Would n 
ware ones be better ? And what 5 
tion eg a for which I 
shal f bel e «l obliged Dit Bath, May 
Gardener.—One 
accoun oe a was 
published last year at . 
Snakes. — Some of <r 
— ning wheter t ee 
eey a imt 8 
t when alar As we 
te 1 doubt the 
t 
Gloria Mundi, shaded buff ; eee 
n instance o 
lo e intruder re- 
„ Hatfield, I 
laz ae In the | present cheapaes of glass it anne | 
to m much more extended use might be made 
frames e constructed with 
che eapness, Now this would tas the hy it the * 
ealing in much nioo kept on iron rolled into the 
form o The 
wooden N of the light sight be made 
by oa village carpenter, lengths of the 
th 
arding the habits | 
Th 
ty (not, pe 8 before recog- 
to 
mployed as evidence conelusive go much of our room that 
for 15 plants w 
e 
e that 
of it for sheltering ath in apres winter, od jibe Tights of 
ould dib 
internal anatomy with that of ihe Pelé taa a 
to en greatly in the structure of its Showy 
as in other parts, the canal s canal, 
—— an sepma elongated — sug hich —— 
backwards as far as the middle of 3 abdon 
t the — 1 h 3 and 
origin of the large gastric glands wh at itg 
wport clo : aa — in Perla, 
e affinities of the , and on 
ni 3 ed that as their 
which Mr. wW 
ook part. The latter gentleman 
— — he was the only British n naturalist who 
er ſor uecari reign Fellow, Bete a 
Wallich informed — Sori — 3 he had received ig. 
formation of his dee 
Royat Soutu Lo —— — 
of “the ‘season senna 
c 
regards — ——— 
warded to Mr. 
the 2d — Mr. — of — and pr 1 to M. 
Hamp, of South — — In 10 Lee, Mr. Yay 
of Camberwell, was . Inthe 
Mr. Pawley was — — he also b 
or a specimen of Eriea ele Vari 
e H 
res 
mark able were Pine-apples and Grapes. 
oP 
very fine parapen well grown, and the colours 
mmr of — 3 the 10 
Class, M 
— ve Lord — ie 
Favou rite, 
arc — — 4 
binso n, of Pimlico, for Prine 
, and Vernalis ; 
m ‘his bed. 
isle di in spe dg 7 — ey p the 
prany siren mes this ere it ot soon become 
f High Wycombe, 
Matilda, Hamlet, Aglaia, Pr 
Jarius, “a Thalia, S 
and B 
com —Pyracmon, [Be sash bars of wood, 
by S . sell 3 in a useful lengths. ] 
Soti 
Lin 
dent, in ie chair. M. 2 
pia 
May 2.— The Bishop 4 ere f e $ 
reig Super 
8 
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1 
forme, Violet, an 
West Wycombe, in addition 
rr Tulips to the are. of 5l, 
Su flowers 
‘Aclai 
I 
8 
Fellow, Mr. John Frazer hag A paper was 
read by Mr. Newport On ihe, Anatomy and Afin pore — 
Pte teronarcys regalis, the Insect Proteus.’ The a 
stated that when he first no ence of nag 
chiæ in a win 
insect, was 
clined to look upon their accidental, but 
ro nappa in same, 
as in the ig ap flies (belts), — are 
others in the May fl 
situated pria the sides oft the abdome 
ir occurrence as 
that he has since found that they exist, im- winner 
at | perfectly preserved, in all e 
—.— of selecti 
Camuse. 
a eontained ee 
— Eclatante. Polyphemus, Calaten 
Marshal Astonishing, 
say in 
a 
——— ofall insects 
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