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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
LE. 
rélieve the intensity of the heat. During the first 
two months of the rains, the falls are incessant, but | a 
which causes the 5 of pile. ts thus i 
ke 
attacked were 4 or 5 inches high, 
during the two rine 3 intermissions are 
e, 60 i sai 
to fall in ‘Calcutta, but Narr gives 59.83 as the | 
If the rains 985 early in 
ich i 
during the day is deposited during the night, and 
fogs obscure qh sun till late in the morning. The 
cold being combined with moisture is felt as severe 
but — dreds e and though the thermometer 
o the ee D ice is apee d 
the effects of the 
more frequent during the ry months of the year, 
but the moisture of the climate is 11 en oe 
tation and clum 
8, 
nse forests 
ur to that already in the 
but prevent che free 2 of water from the 
undrained surface. 
In such a climate we may expect that —.— ani- 
mals will abound and insect life be rife. The fa 
s 
re dest ‘ey is seed when sown, a 
en in the ear. But from the poeuliarity 1 climate 
the e field, 
the other 66 some one 
+ Pulao or Oil se 
also caltivat tes te * Indigo, Mulvey, 
Tobacco, Safflower, oat ; but — gece “himself espe- 
cially on his clumps of Mangoes and of Bamboos, 
or his Lien ie s of Coe oa-nut, Aree: or wild Date, 
the last valuable only as yielding sugar, while the 
s flowers for 
e 
rican Cotton, which requires heat and moisture, 
does not appear to be impracticable. 
e 8 FOR AMATEURS 
e, | article above alluded to. 
a at * a pupa of a pale yellowish brown colour, 
s the upper part o ca 125 plant. 
ted mage ified in the midd 
ody ail x mare Pig 
show 
posi towar 
uified in 
e pia 
represented magnified, and seen sideways in 
small right hand figure. The t terminates in two 
small horny obtuse poini 
ect wane was e g from the ‘pape 
at the end of July, and doe appear to us to 
differ e the Chlorops reared ges Wheat i infested in 
manner described b arkwick, illustrated in 
the m 
0 
in the young Barley plants, by the pc 
ring, as described in ou 
were deposited 
fly hatched at the end of the spr 
y = ee SS 
— Se, 
7 5 — rr = 
The Chlorops apaia has 2 forme the subjes of 
a report presented to the Académ s Scie of 
Paris, 2 En Milne Edwards on the Pree pavers „18 848, 
the Aca 
upon relative Wen 
by M. 7 Pentel Professo i 
part o pipi 
of them being bn in | the’ eft haud figure, which havin 
birth to 
a great number of slender leafiets. This figure also 
which one of the larvæ bad changed, having pres 0 
g viously as asce 
the m 
lower figure, and its head more highly magnified in the | ca 
tail 
* 
: e pen, at a much lighter ki 
I 
ing in April, and by 
greater number of A enemy may be ¢ 
ving guak jured the winter Wheat 
a fresh generati lose 
tended to the following ay t 
weeding is moreover very advantageo 
the Wh t. it be 
sufficiently checked by the means above bt 
fields must be again examined in a — a a 
weeks before Seva time, and such dises sed thy 
still remain mus 
c 
rel ew cultivators will u . 
labours of all their neighbours, It would nene . 
isable to ex “he ut cus, in ouch cay 
adv case the 
of the rural police relative to a of 
9 age). 
As the Chlorops subsists both 0 
N 
CUL TIVATION ae CAPE HEAT ATHS, 
In the following statem 2 endeavour jih 
best method of liaii, thee delightful tfal planta 
no greenhouse should be witho oe for even * 
ee collection one or other may be 
e year round. Man 
will not thrive intermixed wi 
had in flo ' 2 
Parmentier rosea, and oth with 
niums, Fuchsias, Azaleas, and other greenhouse stock, 
1 much Moises an I e m do i 
Heathery, where air was more freely 
however, phon be placed at the cnt ad 
iy which I have found Cape H 
best in 20 I have tried several soils) is iam 5 
cannot get the last menti 
Croydon; when 
d to be an e 
find well decomposed leaf m 
stitute. Sa og * 2 parts; ides 
d, d 
es ARDANE: the environs of which city had veuffered from its attacks 
Burzs,—It is a 3 late to speculate in these upo: eat. The ort contains some valuable 
attractive prod enn for * the suggestions, as well as a summary history of the insect in 
interior of a dvellng house during the 3 m for sores which generally appears at the of May 
to the e gaiety of summer, to a season or beginning of June, he female deposits her 
rally snc pa to Sve Hyacin the oe cone. one by one, upon Wheat or Rye, at the lower part 
still be planted in pots, and put i glasses; and those | of the ear. From these eggs small vermiform la 
which have been brought Foran according to - | are soon produced, which gnaw the surface of the stem, 
vious ad rer should be brought in- 2 5 for forcing. | forming a longitudinal channel, the width of which in- 
These bulbs can be grown in baskets of moss with ex. creases with the wth of the insect and its distance 
cellent effect. The baskets may be varied in shape oom from the place where it was hatel When arrived 
size, according to the taste of th teur; they m close to the upper knot of the stem the larva ceases 
have the lower parts impervious to water, either vy being eating, and, prot by the terminal leaf, it fixes i 
de of metal, a china vess el put in of the self in its order ndergo its transfo 
i with sand, covered with | tions. Here it is first changed into a nymph, resembling 
he bulbs are to be plac a small 8, boat-shaped cocoon, and se- 
sure of quently, hav ving cc mplete d its development, and ac- 
whole should be covered | quired its win NBS the perfect inseet escapes from the 
e procured, | sheath and fl The life of my! Chlorops may be 
kept up in the prolonged during s severa 1 weeks, a d the females of this 
urs are properly varied, these | second generation deposit their eggs upon Wheat and Rye 
Hyae recently n. The plants thus attacked late in the 
h or two may be season suffer more than the Whea oak a by the larvee 
care being | of the eding generation; the n qui 
I like much | its proper height, and does no : ere at maturity at the 
— in one large same time as the d stems; the ear is either want- 
are always | ing or remains small, with but few — of small size. 
eig and each flower is set off to better advantage. The report then proc ention the memoirs 
ka ough fav published * Kurier, "Philips r, Dagonet, Herpin, and 
Guérin x: p i this and to set forth the extent of 
The co ns in 5 Chronicle of. — naar its attacks durin the ax ent season in different parts 
the gr shoots of Tulips, tell of France, 8 the perfect insect has appeared 
their s be no such much greater numbers than ordinary, although the 
shoots until e commenced the process of injury to the crop has not been su o excite any 
forming roots. However, plant nowall you can get of Hya- . The rt then proceeds to make some sug- 
0 i es, Snowdrops itillarias, Nar. gestions, in the hope of preventing the future increase 
= ae. Ke. Visit the 3 shops before it is too | of the injury, whic sider very worthy of the at- 
late, and you will rejoice in the possession of = tention of our 2 agricultur 
garden, the beauty of which all must admire. 4 rops, it is true, are subject to the attacks of 
8 several N s of ichneumon flies, which deposit hart 
ep yi eggs in the interior of the body of these dipterous 
ee “> Waar Fur 8 0 insect, upon which they subsist during their larva pe 
e state and | an l these parasites, with other ordin 
appearance several —— of Barley, BEM means of destruction, are sufficient keep these Hs 
at the ath teginning of las July by Sir Walter Tre. noxious inseets in check; but in seasons and situations 
b. * which was at that in which ome oro erm a asint n ree 
period very y prevalent in the neighbourhood of Taun- | appeared ee umbers than ordin nary, it is 
ing a uren (. F in noen feeding upon the base 
f radimental ear (+), which was in consequence thereof 
up and destroyed. The plant had increased 
in diameter consi siderably beyond. its normal state, most 
nen e eren 
he plan The g 
in we right hand — exhibits the the Ch 
and inclos- 
ever, is only mentioned 3 show that no 1 
a 
mould, 1; and 1 part of silver e 
silver nd cannot be “obtained 
the comm . — is ue 2 
ng off the subsoil and the 
begin 
pari 
any time from the 
to do equally well with th 
Scars from 125 shifting in 
fou 
to be necessar 
— 
peed with soft 
feared that thei 
mmer ; a slo 
these diptera 9 in the — inerease to Pea the solo O 
such an extent as to e as great urge to ouse or in pits, alwa 
agriculturist as the fly in the United States, | the Heath tribe requires plenty of air 
the means suggested for the destruction of vu when fresh shi 
lorops, the most b hen taken out of the 
it 
cient appe i 
plants when the fields * 
palling: i of the infected lace it in a v 
By burning the stubble immediately after | through, being careful to let the 
hop haar iei got in, we may destroy a great number | off before placing it i 
of the Chlorops w which ha eons not yet undergone their | give a liberal shift i 2 
ich may have fallen to | from an g- inch pot to a 
e time of reaping. general weed- | to ae 
