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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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: which a deputy | termed white lac. In its e V Wil Wi hi the preceding, and on a dusky 105 in] its an rio 
knowledge p ae m manage, vbi ehe — 5 by Dr. Pearson (Phil. Tra 1794), as well as in the | When placed in pure water, or ор 
qi ры <, E ү Io pus ch alic expect to mode of its prodneion,t this white lac is certainly different | liquid ammonia б been added, "libe two s 
to ac sevi euge s 3 2 fe rom the true white inseets of China, D ab ce of eolonring matter o 
be called to strict account ; "s s Е е vate | Оха generi 1 separated the insect producing | tint, that given out by the C. Psidii being more 0 
rests can no longer be sacri eges m e | this white lac from the other Coceidee, under the n On plunging the insects, in muslin, after 
intrigues, an the Crown is not to be further vic- | oe Ceroplastes (Spicil. Zool. 7), but very incomplete er discharged, into boiling wa 
ж vad ^s the imbecility or — er эз. чеч characters ha itherto been published its pecu- | waxy portion rises to urface and 
of These gentlemen are by no sto Бе jiarities. From a specimen of this insect in my cabinet in flakes. It begi 
lost t of, because they are — sma jn. 2н 
that the а in e retu 
tell us what the New as become uidet Mr. 
L. UMBERBATCH'S дето по! 
that 
by ex parte 3 such as wWe "oie lately had | $ 
case 
to record in the ї Holt, which we suspect to 
be quite as 
We shall —.— and then 
ntil th at information 
suspend ou 
= 
ek munem Mr. CUMBE 
: Neb to the New 
rge, is a place c called New 
consisting of land pM suited to agricultural 
purposes, according to Major Frerman, who, 
agricultural experi Y doe 
regard the soil as being ofa — quality, bat] he |! 
is of opinion that it — — rendered valuable by 
ent. It contains 250 
duce which was ‘orest purposes 
observe — in eee this little property i is to м 
regarded as of the New Forest, and not to be 
accounted Ач separately. 
not surprise any one to learn that the 
his year in numerous 
en an amoun equal 
1846. In all quarters complaints are hea 
late crops, bot the early samples seem likely to lire 
escaped without material dam must, how- 
ver, ki qm some of the beautiful early Pota 
toes exhibited last T art ed me Horticultural 
Society became diseased the ay. 
What more especially produces alarm in our o 
mind is the sudden e of spots - оз — 
und 
Forest, did forming pat of | Gray has a 
how 
ever, сва not мале - — claimed — стей for in Brazil 
e woodcut), the female differs f all other 
ссі in having body large and nearly globular, 
composed of a hard solid white waxy matte the 
America in the 
10 branches of: the 
r three feet hi a 
arginal plates is ess to the 
edge, that of the dorsal one nearly ce C. chilensis 
is large, white, pellucid, ms рана каче ren; in size, 
the dorsal o tish; it was n the 
branches Ф ре май uncles of a tree with еч бең; ; 
. Janeirensis is smaller, brownish, subops ake, hemi- 
sphe erical, the dorsal plate being convex ; it was found 
ona 8 а alii simple танар leaves. 
Mr. Gosse brought another species from Jamaica, where 
: y alarm, but 
have no expectation that the mischief there will dé 
less with ourselves. 
^ Montpellier very ine news. The scarcity 
of wine is such, that icy which 10 years ago 
б only | o 25 fr. the niuid; are 
éoteersing 
tatoes. Most 
must therefore 
temperat: 
Potatoes were subjected. 
<< ENTOMOLOGY. 
Wax INSECTS 
“ In де tp the opm of wax obtained fr 
other su 
tb Баля ler Eughoriicen 
ds a ve ende Wax, of a 
сул , obtained i 3 the West Indies and North 
nerica, m the b 
mens | the rb — 
eloped by the ‘dilated bodies 
on of | | 
informed of the 
ich the Russian 
on the trunk of a lancewood tr 
he discovered it It 
A in the fase of a candle like wax, and approaches 
he C. Janeirensis in size, but its colour and form 
dierent, pra. yellowish green, 
almost hexagonal, with six marginal 
wo prominence 
) . Adam White in "the 
“Annals of co ies History,” 3 xvii, f. 333, under the 
| name of Ceroplastes 
A r in the Bulletin 
0 
of Brazil, ing 
us with several interesting econo- 
mical details, although his description is not sufficiently | 
termine whether either of his 
species be identical with Gray's C. — ng a or M 
Miers’, white species. M. Chavann 
found in the neighbourhood of Rio айо ( оп gino hills 
near the B Bosafogo. Th he 
names 
—— 
argest 
rre Жыз that of vey con extort ith 
their — is that of 
а great in 
t eggs are exposed, тиеу ibo 
reddish and 
- | approach nearer 
scribed i n detail, but it is pro улаб а pe^ a 
species of | gef Pd a bons tiful white colour, collected | puncture of the insects.“ whilst others have t 
upon t s of v rubs in Brazil by J. Miers, as the vegetable fluid which has been sucked ap b 
Esq., F. RSi &e. ‚(0 о whom Lam indebted for à specimen and then exuded from their 
arrives at the conclusion that the waxy matter 
similar in its e ters to the n seriferus. insects is a real sec n of the skin 
o described and -А- ел (Spie. Zool. 7, , | powde hi ny other Pd 
f. 6), another species from Rio Janeiro, s the name | are clothed, whilst the great analogy between | 
of Ceroplastes Janeirensis, as we rom Chili, | secreti and lac ust | 
C. Chilensis (ib. f. 7) th hat t secretion o 
аге | ex 
appendages ri ing 1 
e | head, not uilike the form 
| а Му. the 
from resins, they 3 ьа the latter in their ¢ ;] 
die 
r. 
^B 
ney's eene r 
usily employed upon small branche 
of a — зена t like a Privet, esch n 1 00 
ceeding the size of the domestic fly, having cti nate 
in a curve, ee owards 
of the ners 
— 
of th 
by subs or powder of that colour s 
by them, “and which was supposed to form 
wax of th t. is substance is a 
Fu. 
d by 
х-Пке в@ ШУ Mm n 
the inse pped sweet sticky liq upon the 
leaves of the plants upon which the insects feed, so that 
they appea thinly bedewed with honey, and whieh 
dens as it dries by exposure into А lite. 
brittle substance, giving the tree 
being white-w: ted 9 
t 
oney dew, one ‘rind at least of which is the ex 
of the aphides, whereas the white ping d 
. Staunton is secreted from various parts $ 
body of the Naht, and is of a 
from that d by Captain Hu 
white fl h 
numbers of species of Homopterous 
less coated, and which in one species of 
mass of threads inches 
employed as a wax, or 
Sir George Staunton for the 
rtained. 
has yet to be Дд 
The cut a PEN of 
fera, the pupa perfect Flata limbata, 
of Ceroplastes ceriferus slightly magn! 
Mr. Miers' allied species 
Exc. ü M fT 
OBSERVATIONS ON. тив ROT mom 
| 
in juiey roots, are t 
cells are numerous minute intere 
cect аге soon disclosed 5 they are 
» The second es was found 2 Dr. 
‘coloured fl 
The vegetable manna of the Pharmacopeiis 
Wy th e punctures of Cocens Fraxini in i 
i Тюш the the Monthly Reports of "the "Вета. M 
