524 
money which these 32,000 simple people have 
trusted to 25 management. 
[Since the abov pe in type we find that the 
last report e the Committee, recommending this | 
concern to be wound up, has been presented to 
Parliament. 
Tn opinion is heung common that -the 
Poraro : Disease is not rogress in Eng 
land. SE ars rage noie in Hopkin North Wales, 
. Herts Berks om Somerset, >a 
the small a 
beg on the contrary, w ma pro- 
we fear “that the pars pisans aiaa 
a little later. 
and 1846, 
As to the late e fo so Pai i: 
st o e that i 
THE GARDENERS’ 
y 
mur (Mémoires, vol. 5, t 
cially that it is ry of o gagag the sunna of the 
young, as a means 0 ag habits of precision and 
observation, which cannot fail, in after life, of being 
highly serviceable. 
Selandria is a genus of saw-flies 1 hed b 
in the antenne, and by having two 
second cell receiving th 
third cell receiving the second. The 
British species, a 2 number of which are of 
small size and black e wings, bearing 
also . at least in in s 
snecies was 
CHRONICLE. 
tab. xii, ern ree se as sg ora 
in the larva state upon n the leaves of Pear- ir as well 
as upon the Plum, Cherry, and also upon the Oak. 
Reaumur’s description of the larva sapere — with 
the slimy grub of oie ar-leaves w is occasionally 
injurious in this country, the hay of which will be 
found in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1842, p. 692,where 
the name of Tenthr edo Cerasi i iis appli ied to it. As we have 
this season with eve 
e late crop is fast gute yy the early. | a 
This er pag been accompan toes 
diseased in 1845. In the in anwhile, we 
see no object in e the paris upon the 
rom Ire and our chief returns come down to the 
partial, in another extensive, in a soe eager 
ed; in der Place stopped, in another (Inis- 
some of the Soc aiy of Friends 
affected with blight were 0 “ty reported to be 
recovering, which it with RANMORE’S ob- 
servations in Ma The new Patetoss over all the 
ina a living state, from larvee sent to us s last na fa 
ur correspon prs Ave: tchnowledged. i in the 
me), w situation 
TE 
ts o decide upon its want ot identity with the t true Ten- | state 
thredo Cerasi of Linnzeu resented 
. P 
K 
N 
emi ey 8 tee except 1 4 the four — tibize 
'y-brown 
in our former volume, which we here reproduce), being bi 
t 
Says | an 
la E also, they ge first to 
in the spring, to gare insects a 
of the saw-flies Se 
PRACTICAL he FOR 
D SMALL GARDENS, 
fe neg OF A Th al y 
ese flow whi 
southern district ate, upon the whole, described as that ‘his. T. Lerasl the cee —— — young plants, and to render: 
ing sound an loured, and a yellow scutellum, and (what lves handsome another year. The first thing re 
To the ee iha disease is appearing here of more interest) t it up the leaves of is to cut them ‘tee wn to within a few e pet 
d In Meath it has become more general the Cherry, in order * transformations, | the — ce be ete $ of course, by the size Uu 
though not serious (July 23). In Dublin county, | Now these characters w agree with the saw-fly | which the w them Each en 
south, it i = t; in produced from the slimy eae of the Pear and Cherry, |r 
lone reports are not so ee | (J got 705 3 supposed the 8 1 = inde N eias ed osition it apetar y — sei 
it is w 
e be 5 270 is t Cath July 2 ; 3) a Reaumur’s figure above mentioned to his T. Cerasi, and Great attention m to thi 
1 erea (July 23); | this has led to part of the confusion which exists in the | is merely cut down borer reference 
unequivocally appeared here and there near Ballin- | names ese in its buds an irre 
robe, but not by any means 2 (July 22); The German natu ralists (Klug and Hartig) have ap- | The Der. thus cu 
ditto, Swineford (July ais very few instances, crop pied te this species the name of T. thiops, given by | as ted as itis is thou, 
excellent, Westport (July 22) ; crop thought safe in aione to a t described from Sir J. The eu — pee be about 4 or 5 inches 
of Galw. na (Clifden, aly: enh ; nothing of | Banks’ collection, entirely of a black colour except part to be inserted being of this year’s — 
in Antrim, Londonda d aer per and e erg oe e crops Tr — Ne * authors . 5 — “conditi no 
no ura 0 e observe condition. 
advanced for an opinion ( aly 23), 5 put some reports | the pi description of T. æthiops to the y of the | below or through a Tg 
afloat ; about Rathmul on the shore of Lough slimy grub of the Pear, in an article published in the | for —_* very leaf bein, g retained abore 
; 2 das cases, bu ee or 35 impor Tiere del uly 24); — beneg of the “ Gardeners’ Magazine” (givin rted. = ‘ 
early Patsines of a sli If th the stock of cuttings is but 
larv: 
Against all this we ape 5 oe. the very alarmin pissed at Bed. A 
le etter from st 2, which appears number is req „six or more 
column, and which, considering the sound 3 i 
judgment of d 8 = D ak — — — — cuttings of 
as a just description of te of things in his fi my Kane suff 
bourhoo ich is in the count d i tas plete ae ae 
= ie Boek y ngford. e time when a general propagation 
e Potatoes are blighted, the Irish growers edhe ME menced for next year, 
» think it best to le one; and we ae whe make a gentle hot-bed, and to lant 
agree with them. If the stalks are really dead, it in the soil of 
is as well to remove them, as some advise; but we If the surface 
never ald discover an any 3 in tae To a do e from the g 
o can, however, o ha needed. eg 
Perhaps, di 115 59 eee b th day or two and 
At all events, if Pot s are en practice hentia found moe 
in the ground, where, if they do not grow, the ee N -s 
may ripen. If th ha: 2 Ag and better bloomers than the old ones. In 
y ripen. If ve the tendency to rot, they of leaf 
do so in spite of any a E a light — soil 1 with a mixture 
e they M | p n and take to have a draining 
eea e be cooler than in any other place crocks 
and that is a great point in. M y p at the b —— of 
earth n ini 75 rk N oreover, if the After the old plants are cut 
ded bad ete 2 hard, until new shoots are 
We continue to receive various us letters, reports, The de n 21. 
and speculations, printed and written n, respecting the neces reek e of this point of nomenclature is | proportion to the size of the 
cause of ase ; and we thank the writers for | nected with N insect, which is 3 pot, and treat in every 
their communicati „ however, at | some than the slimy grub oy ang is sil more trouble. until a vigorous growth in 
say that Mr Coors, E Darlington ae n ns we havo xo- [not worth pre 
: $ 0 ing the will be 
ammonia (an old notion by the way), and 5 5 cause of the bli as it has E. grow very fast, and it 
posta agen d consequently ay), and again en to which the oneal shady ge ghee e — —— 2 * — secu 
poles Se 5 „and all the electrical con- subject, and having investigated its history, we — aa niums must be 
were e of which we had thought that sensible | *PPend it to the preceding as “Aegean by | who intend to use them plentiful 
people had M 8 enough already. he real Seland t A be done 
3 8 the mo ien the R may nd there from the 
4 ENTOMO trees need ir energy for the 8 of fine young shoot oe have the samo 
I Tur SAwW-FLIES o or THE Ruas 5 ROSE-LEAVES. som that a many 1 ey had „ just — etre 
N no branch Aitor been scorched. On as this succulent species soon : 
fal examination re as well e ry 3 ith a lens, we however Tapa m 
in the e pie of the the economy o of species, hore va partially eaten ‘one: “ent of the leaf is entirely Home (e; 
te entomology, and itis on this account espe- 8 * kir oia tou tr Ose Dublin 112 ural Society 
ire | 
from the last 
