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say pret Mr. Samuel N the ve very ex- He e subsequently took it on the Orange o © Orange tree 
reference to these productions. All is pleasant now, it |t ere in Botolph-lane, for 1 reared 11 in the middle of the month EN 
is true, but shortened days and lengthening shadows, and | of th the fran (ig a) of 3 — found , from pupe found on a decayed Lemon and re, 
cold evening dews remind us that every out-door beauty | rotte n Oranges from St. Michael's, and wenn is jo bë Gin | lect eted ities — he rater st from Peaches, Re de 
i ill id 2 rimary cause of the mischief in question. mentions a smaller a er Wart but 
of an exotic aom cter is doomed. Soon there will come | sidere get E g a description of this | no other r 89520 whieh were . = 1 ia 
y with a | larva, as Mr. MacLeay, in his paper on the subject, | from Oranges Mr. MacLeay had also Lern : 
published in the 4th volume of the “ Zoological that a maggot in infests the Oranges in the West Ind 4 
mpressed upon amateurs to r al,“ reserved its eg e for a supplemental ig ew as me e in — — had 
icable i e thi $ on aper, which has never been published. ith respect to the prevention of the loss j 
e eee 888 tl 15 j On examining an infec ted . Michael's Oran ie —— reo ata, Mr. Mac it one — that tit the be 
now be par to ex “ry minute pun iat be observed, by which, according fe the proprietors of t ge groves, of 
poly 1 hp ve ‘old ee; therefore, gi 500 1 Mr. MacLeay, the parent fly in introduces its destruc- | the shippers, it would be siete interest to pay sie 
ted in the soil. Hyacinths A tive offspring into the fruit; and sometimes it is only by | attention to an insect by which the public at 
and Crocuses are now protruding roots if they | yi this Wee not larger than if made by a pin, that the suffer so much; and striet attentiou on rfl 
been left in the ground all the ap agin and e he | mischief is to be inferred, but generally it is surrounded during the spri ma two o An ree consecutive geh 
bulbs which nera para kept i in a dry plac e exhibit } r A withered and discoloured spot, varying in size from the rao P 8 e — . en shipped in the Aziri, 
season, you must not only talk but act also in 
rodu 
t and healthiest increase from their bulbs who we find the larva in question. The larva is a white 
legs » 1 ase i „ 2 85 the lat of ee | fleshy grub, destitute of legs, very similar to ants 2 mas a a appear — the hin —— 0 ; e 
i i ostly made, | Celery-stem fly, and like it, it possesses two small black | for which 1 propose the name of C. concolor, Anote 
L tengr eee 8 ee — 4 at the fr oat of the body, which it species has been described by the Marquis de Bremei 
In a good catalogue like that published every year by — protrudes and ot thereby tearing the the N ah 5 rench 1 Society unde 
Mr. James Carter, of High Holborn, you will find | delicate membrane in which the drops of juice are con- | the name hispanica, brought from 
every variety of bulb fit for growing in the open air, (tained. The body is gra mrii attenuated in front, very M. 8 i nearly resembling C. capitata; JiQW, 
with the colours of the Hyacinths, Tulips, and Crocuses | indistinetly articulated, the anterior segments, including 
indicated. Buy in time, or the best bulbs will be picked the head, being retra ctile. There are generally several e Correspondence, 
out. In former papers we have urged all who can | of these oa æ in each Orange, and when remove and e hee of 1 Class. 
afford to do so to be liberal in the purchase of bulbs, | place ced u been surprised to observe that, for some kepe 
because oe afford great beauty and exquisite plea- ing toa 8 nsiderabl e distance, mS 7 me manner as great outery has been raised against the 
sure a season of the year otherwise desolate. | the well known cheese maggot. a fall grown they sheet glass for horticu purposes, 
ud ~~ kato a stock by you, look them over, and plant | eat their way out of the Or: range, Si ag go the change | alleging as a reason that the plants k 
our beds allow you to do so, and continue to | to the pupa state on its ou glazed with it are in consequence scor 
fill up up all places intended for bulbs as the withering of The pupa (fig. b) K miM], ard, woen, oval body, the | rially injured. I must say that, to me, this 
other things permits, To prevent a 1 out of the | outer 3 searcely indicating any traces of articula- | has ever proved perfectly satisfactory, both int 
ground, which must be in 2 N us, keep your bulbs as dry ar ing the dried skin of the 3 within ich the | and in every other where I have recommended i 
as possible and spread o for you bin ea find ied m a is enclosed. From some larv ived on the tion. At Chatsworth we have nearly 88,000 
roots emitted where they are ‘kept i in mas 2d May I rence ges in 3 e peren insects | in use, and having now had the experience of | 
But it is in elas to bulbs intended fi for pots, and | on the 13th Jun years, may be eer eapable of fo a 
early blooming in rooms, that this paper x pags te 8 estima’ f its real value fo pron i, 
i d you should immediately poses. I believe I pon safely say that during 
Hyacinths, early Tulips, and Crocuses, 83 ‘intend to whole of the above e not a single instance 
devote to this pu e the pots be long 60s, or injury has occurred which could be fairly sti 
buted to the use 5 sheet glase ; and yet we hi 
on an 
for Crocuses. The soil should be a mixt it employed for every form 
mould and sand, well drained by crocks at th MA ar and inclination, dad with e 
of the pot. The bulbs should be fi pressed into the of t I am ectly satisfi satisfied 
hould cover the Tulips and Croeuses; but slight. Inequalities on u the surface of this 
it is best to let the Hyacinths sta f sione 0 by 5 in which it is 
the mould about half an inch. When the pots are filled len ihe. so extensively 2 
they should be placed on slates, to prevent the ingress of alleged, inne oe of “the — must: certainly, # 
worms, and then covered over with mould to the sop ne othe ave at wi 
of about a foot. They will shortly be filled with roots. SnD so lengthened a pled gr as eight years, © 
and may thea be taken intothel to be fi d; H. B. owever, een the case, and I m2 
re aes Ceratitis capitata belongs to to the order Diptera and fully convinced of the superiority of this article for 
ENTOMOLOGY, fey Muscidæ, and is nearly allied to the genus MA purposes over every other, 11 
RANGE FLY (CERATITIS CAPITAT. Tephritis, the larvæ of one of the species of which forms riably continue to use it myself, and years 
_ “ WHEN horticulturists complain of the mischief done s on the Cnicus arvensis, as represented in one of 8 adoption whenever my 1 ee 
to their ripe fruit by the larvze of insects, they have | our previous arti e perfect insect is one of t That ma terial i injury has occurred to planis a Mest 
great measure to blame, since the fa- | most beautiful of the order to which it belongs, its | gla it in various f there 
cility of lessening the yout ae of such species is great general colour ini us buff. à with the thor: grey, evident pr f, but I believe that Injury to be 
x compared hah protecting the tr spotted wit Dag scutellum black, with an un- entirely, attributabl i 
itself, or even the blossom, Fangia . oe dulated white me and tw e grey | imperfect ventilati the more one 1 A pat 
g bars across the abdomen ; the basal half of the wing is | Correspondence on the. a ect which 5 8 
on the tree, or if when plucked it should be left un- | much variegated with minute black dots and streaks, | sively communicated ce Agust 1 + 
eh hee gated 
emerge in with a buff and ashy cloud near the base, another across become convinced of the ropriety of me 
safety, of amd propege ma e evil, iagh pe fruit itself is the middle, another along the extremity — * fore | Which I have arriv the statements fe 
almost, , surprised a margin (dotted with black), and an ashy n the Mt intelli — t gardeners would otherwise fer 
result.” inner margin. The male is sin larly distinguished by | both contradicto tory Ana angur 
„Such are the judicious observations of Mr. W. S. having two slender filaments w ange A en 8 of 3 5 sA sited . long 8 
knobbed at the tips (as represented in our figure), a pe- rough the old crown 
— insect, the larvee of which ann annually commit culiarity which we believe is possessed by — oe dip- wt laps half-filled with dirt, there eaters”) 
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i i This insect is also 
into England amounts, he rms us, to about from | Cape Verd i : : A - 
pe Verd islands, according to MacLeay, as well as of is transmitted than through the 
90,000 to 100,000 chests, E —.— the reer part | the island of M ‘iting, jie = Pury aa 150 by M. Cat- aud ventilation must be supp! 
however, only about two-thirds are se en as the = D cue — to Latreille and MacLeay); and by tion; and the true knowledge o! 
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calculate on a total loss of one-third was generally found upon the Mavens the Orange. steely i e the ae the 
n the Copenhagen Muse = Sarra is able to lay enn so 
ae insured, inenrs; in addition | Trypeta by Weidemann, in 1834, Stee kote structed exactly alike, "glazed. with 
An, howater, ‘Wh oni D Male occa, panied by any tagha meee) of the same ingot, su h to the same rules 
charges. A: under nam ar 
caros making up the Jom and leaving Mi a prot o |129; Macquart snbsequentiy gave tot (he gonerio| given time, in many, ease rei ETT ym 
ct ia able who th bi name of Petalophora, which must sink into a synonym treatment ; the e ad humidity ; given to given ! 
3 1 em e to ae debe ee cone! anf | of Ceratiti be too little or too much for the Kri” . 
oe . . T Dr. Heineken, who also found the insect in the is! 1e 
i would do on the supposition of the cargoes remain- | of a states (Zool. Journ. v., 199) that he en 
E Tha served it at rest, as though baskin d with the win 
— — —.— way where. there san be no free 2:pfen ar on the leaves of some niek shrubs in. the 
circulation o ie is "probably true to a great extent, —.— d Spee con ieee 13 fruit 
steamboats from Se Michael’s (10 or 12 days), and the -e but et Jn thes REA m fo sent and whieh it 
z md — and appearance of et of very confined 
whieh ‘ace eee powers and activity, and A seldom saw it 
"there müst rther than ing from shrub to flieting N pus of the wr 
it's circulati jii 2 and —5 upon flowers, or ven the attitude end | Of its use ey speak of it wi 
whieh ise appearance o — either eating or searching for food. terme oo thi others of eq 
72 — gee Seen — „ MacLeay’s figure, | dene rit. worse than 
notwithstanding its gigantic size, RE a extirpate it from gardens 
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