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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
rr 
. ee sufficien 
vegetative wer of Nature all that a 
H. B. 
* _ ENTOMOLO LOGY 
THE SPONGILLA —. 
Alrnovon the times are gone by when ree 
Ses aant history gravely asserted that barnacles were 
7e soem hs e hair worm was a hair 
out of a horse’s tail ah uickened = life by falling 
ould a youn 
require ; 
t to commit to — 1 
large garden 
on | hood of w: 
into | groun 
turgeschichte ; 
uscatus of Fab 
cius—a curious species 
4 has bn 11 * 
separa = 44 ** 
by . r the 
which i is, K 8 
Pnp: ainted with sev 
forms o of npn A (see our last Ento- | fi 
mological e there Pai pc ae no analogical 
and Dr, Erichson himself has sug- | ventured too fa 
n | gested that this borg may be the larva of e re a rule 
ur fig. f), 
pe m Hemerobius I eo to Dmg the following. At this eae 
generally found 5 in . neighbour- r 
eral We gathered early in March, 
n abun 
ar in assertion, at least if he pretends to 
Agoi . one excep- 
ease, and one that contradicts direct] directly his opinion, 
about 1200 
t 
t 
er. assuming su su but a still 
series 
ater, and which 3 bye turn y 
ended fer; on the co 
ive anat 
T we fear there are still any persons e little ac- 
inted 
tural histo aot aware that a whale | 
ry as 
isa mammalian, mea, a Pati is not a or that a cray 
poset yy hovit i the principal 
pret gro upsof n 
288 
tion of living 3 pe are there to = gi 
me productions which baffle the ‘skill even of 
t prolin naturalists to 
pr — . — —_ 
re the various 
l 
N shall hay t the insect 
of the spongilla is che lar va of Sisyra fasoata ; J. O. W. 
Home me Correspondence. 
The yi Disease.— day ved 
from Mr. Thomas ha curator of the P Physic —— 
helsea, some ns of the common Stram onium, 
sas, when the leaves were quite r, such as occur 
very frequently, especially where plants wets vere 
gilla ` 
we believe is to be met with in the Thames just above 
from the substan 
ve i. formed the 
d it is admitted 
neral mass is nourished,”* 
ills, which are constant tly kept in motion, and doubtless 
in the Weges 
me for dx ved to 
be Arak as anomalous i in their structure as the sponge 
itself. ey of a 
elongate oval form, divided in wi seta nearly | as 
equal jength, without any dorsa! appendages, the aes 
ng, —.— thread. i 
neath, fig 
d Baai seen 3 with the 
mouth filaments, and figure 
aving examined this insee 
I submitted 
containing a 725 a ae ae 
FEE 
dem, pape 7 tones, “General Outline of th 
m | clea 
the currents thus con ang permeating every portion 
of its substance that the g 
ob- 
saat will be found infested e — Ae. The 
in vari ous The 
ro se of an | attacke 
g | rules, to 
or the ey are due to the burrowing: Jarva of aian 
The capsules indeed are decayed, but there is 2 the |ti 
slightest trace of fungus in the * 5 nor indeed on the | t 
whole plant, though somew posed when it 
ived 
TPA 
Anthocercis, from t ublin 5 
8 
175 fungus was earls not a 3 r esk nor 
hat 
| for general ral adoption. 
3 1 
be anywhere, or as 
tude there exists in 
d 
Though I cannot affirm it from * it seems 
e en after the blossoms appear, 
ance. Now, if farmers would take up their 
instant they heard the disease to 
soon as the tubers attained a 
t size, the crop m ight be entirely saved. M 
to that has never been a affected, though it it K 
do I believe it ever to be so. Cause and effi 
ed, that notwithstanding some polite | 
hat the 
difficult of explanation, I have no more doubt that 
mal 
t I propose ita 84 
tha e to as a 
rop for Yow > and 4 n try there 
to farmer to . 
che 
8 in time N it for Wheat. 
ma 404 that there is no adv in large 
ahi, Dy are 1. — rotten . 2 heart, 
and there in cookin; 
singular 
hange, however plainly 
who, when 
consider trying ane 
8 
ar how ee Rip — } is found when it resists 
eficial, 1 known 
improvement was pro 
R 
rigid than the o 
phen ay a observ 
of Eu . * the e from their first 
s of dise 
same 
8 
infaney, s show that the 
species which was 
* Feb m ease > pale takes 
ery | for A last 8 or 10 „years, and ich yee 
So greatly | as form 
wa that for a Osl: if 
as usual, staat viendo ices leaves, giving the 
— 3 aspeet of some 28 
e 
33 ft. in cire ranches forming a shapely 
head of 35 ft. in cireumference ; height 20 ft., age bate; 
years s tree has dropy ed its fruit prema 
of years, it produc 
e stem was infected with the Uredo, 1 
he Bein is evidently the cause of the 
n pres oes 
the Germans h have "diatingelabe ed by 
and 5 8 rot, m 
roe rised by the 
heater 2 that of Botrytis infestans ; rkeley.” h 
erry Forcing.—Asserti = howe ver confidently 
eee should be received w aution. ny — 
aequainted with the practice of pe ilar must be T 
aware ps bal 7 sometimes necessar, modify general 
e peculiar ted by 
eee e resen 
a particular > locality. In | carrying out certain operations | 
no one in the nor th 
riod prescribed by an cg tard of the southern 
The n n by thi ie time ia an 
bis IUG 15 surely 
trust he will ee me for pope sige that I think he has 
berries for forein 
week in June, — gam erd of eee a crop | 
King- of fine frui it,’ would make the 
ened at Holkham 
in one of the Jae m 
ransactions, a great pity to 
the 5 in n iter 3 yes 
withou 
[B y no 
s throw it away. oubt; 
the dropping of fruit is asoa | S want of . 
«M. C. M. O.“ lays turf camel 3 to ra tent 
8 — of branch ill have no pre. 
re falling off of the ahs ; * Whitehead, 
if | Banpis Aug. 
Pine-ap .—I am told that some gentleman grew 
ines in ten air, and introduced to their 3 
pipe from the boiler of steam- engine. 
— any — for the den of this plan! t ee 
