796 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Dec. 2 
ing the arpa not to buy, in the present state of 
e market, any guano at all that is not either 
Peruvian or Bolivian. About the latter there can 
be no serious mistake ; with pet others ee is no 
e defen nce inthe 
rtainly have choused Mr. 
five,” in spite 0 
is ba 
e had done anything to reer it; and so he was 
e in the meshes of the lav 
Ot this we feel penaa that if buyers of guano | | 
p the Jow sellers will 
tch them again ; ysi 
will prove that some fertilising material is added t 
e sand; and then, not having e called it N 
olivian Gaio but “Jones’s patent guano,” 
“ Smith’s impro e i eruvian,” or “ the new as 
starch refuse, spent wood, logwood, sumac, gyp 
pounded limestone, and all — farrago that belongs 
to the business of a “guano grin — will rise in 
5 in consequen ce of F the increased deman 
— 2 oes: 
It — nga ved as well for} an 
the fa r to look to it. It is clear 
3 o as to deceive the u „are in the 
mar 5 il we are to Sailers the de ondait in the 
late . he had his receipt “ from Mr. Evans, of 
Liverpool, who has made some — rd tons for a 
merchant there,” a pleasant announcement for the 
Cheshire and Frenne farmers ; and we ma 
e the 
We have seen a N of the rubbish i in question, 
and ne T but the greatest e could have 
been ta y it we cannot e 
like a asi of mortar dus 
ese 
se We 
gi e history . 3 (1841), still nt 
their certific ates, 
in the fraudulent —— eh drove 
om the society of honest tradesmen, men w i 
erve a connection with the stan which once 
a 
heir sim ple cus penn use 
in the mistaken idea that they are thus am the 
foremost in the modern practice of manurin . 
EN TOMOLOGY. — 
¥ (CH LOROPS 8 
A). 
In Mr. Curtis s e series of artieles upon the 
te which attac corn crops, ‘published in the 
Journal of the Royal Agricul Society of 
as injurious 
sea Pumilionis of B 9 
the 
or 
and garden 
“that instructions for the pre aration of such com- 
acre 
par 
n Society), under the =e 
be pulled up and burnt whilst the neni is in the larva 
or pupa state, and by this means one or two eee 
might destroy many thousands of hem in a moii 
having picked as many as 350 stems in a few 
ee insect is a itl more pa a line Fay ef 
head yellow, with a blac ngle at the nape ; eyes 
black, agers: get black, fares yellow ened black upon 
back a wit er yellow lines the 
whole bh; he n e l is a yellow 
fore legs with two 
3 beneath, and 
composed of four segm white, wings iri- 
descent, as greyish at ae black * the extremities, 
wick’s insect infests young plants of Wheat 
va 
oF 
m just a 
latter end of March ae larva was 7 in so 
bu e in others was already changed to 
onth earlier in its habit its than Bierkander’s species, 
root. This stem is inva aby destroy aa 
[the insect devouring the —— ear in its earliest 
state]. This gives the crop a most disastrous appear- 
ance, so that at first sight there appears rays td a hope 
e larva has changed into 
root is not so 
its throw zee on fresh asg 
ers ter 
jured as to 
on each side, or alicking itself a as the farm 
t, at harves 
=e 
affected, and the pi but very little. 
In the stars ag, a gr April me bergen fae a cor- 
8 who the signa cgi 0. Frant $ 
A plant in cere mott y in the sa 
e. those described by Mr. Markwiek. They 
were e, i laterally (fg. a)i but the heart was entirely 
— sume wh the interior was found a brown and 
yello rather 
As it is 
species 2 insects which 
Me Markwick’s insect, — reared 
circumstances precisely similar to those 
rtant in our investigations of the various b 
12 289, being ra ger 
probably the ‘Chlorops oe of Fabricius, 
3 the site e of C. tion io 
the dark rings of the hind tibize — — noticed by Mr. 
3 oe iced by Mr an 
ossy. It is 
and I should 
Mr. Cartis 
eigen, except that 
also regar nsect sang Epp b 
must have a desperate e heat, as it comes en io 
in the shade have, besides, 
never questioned — A of the, eatin, — 
liged 
= ed, or hps n renewed se ain daa Re 
produce and retain at all tim ui 
0 ; 8 es a — heat of 
where the thermometer not unf 
ke frequent] 275 
but 
— “the bark bed is ob 
fre 
2 of 
s 
annually, and to double the Meese 
because, in their af 
e 
a pupa, being thus | i 
in a flower T 
arkwick states hat ho the 
white When was much at 
autumn, as if a man in health pring and 
or the other. * cir 
he men above alluded to are of believi 
ng impos. 
incapable o 
wat oe think the thi 
sible, that, at M Pelvilain 
ey are protected by coy, 
d sudden variations of cli ine e ar ke 
ced, 
frost an 
rather than fo 
Mr. Flem entirel 
practice being in accordance with the — Fron 
He keeps his Pines in fruit pihi night in fine weather 
58 al 1 weather he allows the 
perature to recede to 57°, 
phere during Me 
to all of them night 
ing s success 5 results 
4 
never wholly 
nes are not a yard and a half io oie, and an inch 
with a stake to keep them upright, scabby, fetid wi 
umbers, a 
h | sulphur, or the colour of rip 
common enough, e ve a ‘reverse of — is the 
case, as all who have visited Tre 
9 ia Ape like those jast mentioned will not 
of course c that Pines of the 
ink, and. to distinguish themselves from the 
ne s clay which exists in the gardening world about 
Tt is 2 known to intelligent cultivators that the : 
Pine- een more fre to 
t believ grown successfully, gaini 
peaking, in the open air, in the climate of Eng 
8 ntend that its menpe cultivation eax | 
be satisfactorily attained in a law night temperature | 
than has hitherto generally been 300 to it. G. 
ON THE 1 AND PROFIT OF . 
ne protein na 
ed from 
John Wi 2 sa derte whe wrote on “ Cide 
and Bees,” i in 16 155 bserved,“ Bees are kept and 
st 3 ut the a for the del. 
modit 
fiele out 2 t u hese 
e | aled é à 8 8 3 
tu ed“ ict 3 Peal or M 8 0 
y g a y sey aa Frat . 
Profit of B 
66 1 
reserve them, which 
heir nature an 
t 
make it one of yo 
* —— E er T (whence the THE PINE-APPLE+ aera to rob them of 
S aye - me given e goa he larva oes white,| THERE can be no question that, in these days of in- his author speaks of some “ Travels 
2 ond ee ten-joimted, ES head pointed at the quiry, ‘gardeners - investigating the matters under written by Mr. 
pane assumes the pupa | their care with a tness entirely unknown to the in the beginning of A 
state to towards the en — of of Mas, cheat iti is yellow, shinin 8 1 
more than a line — and ring 
appear at the middle of June. Bierkand 
e th 
en no f whence he conjectured that th 
eggs or lanes must enter at the top of the leaves, The 
decay 
; infested stems 
p The flies 5 
* This plan, wuich a 
means 
t first a appears so feasible, is D no 
to opted, since the numerous parasites whi h kee 
1 xious species in hs gent poe 8 be destr i yed. ay 
or 
J. L. M.“ and Mr. John H — 
- | extract may be fí 
e 
of Bees,” by 3 afo: — 
penland, i ,ih 
0 ee 8 
from 
te Clover. 
