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532 THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUsT 20, 
ex the latter eee Sot ай ә чока — 
r becomes so firmly attached to the tre 
much difficulty 
— that a 
ac 
ains, therefore, were taken to admit that idis the place. 
Po very slo wly, and the apparatus was so arra ed waxy m 
h c acid could be estimated at once | 
? e that the 
8e 
fi 
® I. 
grain 
following spring, it becomes as large as a hen 
suggesting, when attache 
easily 5 9 55 Wi the of a fruit. cocoons, called 1&- chun ng o 
ia which i which enclose multitudes of eggs, are remove 
times together with a piece of the branch on which the ey 
are fixed, and reserved for the further propagation of 
ed. | the insect. 
This Коне is by no — clear, and has evidently 
1 he 
oniac ie s egg (!), 
r la-tsze, | m 
e- 
d to the branch, the appearance — ee 
been drawn up by persons little accustomed to precise 
contrary, 12 months after the —— of manure, entomologioal investigations, к 
22 to 23 times as much ound, and i condition of Coccus ceriferus, in nich p body - the 
tly manured as mites = 245 times in | femal UE 
8 
If, f, however the object is to ascertain the quantity 
of carbonic acid that is placed at the disposal of the | Hutt 
rowing in the soil, the proportion contained | brittle substance by Flata limbata, which I con 
m E Um de in its por wie ЛЫ not suffice. be e titious ; or wit fact of the ain herbal, Pun-tsaou-kan he Licehung (ms 
is necessary then to know hs quantity of air in a from the different parts ar of white aay | е) эш and La-tsze (wax-son) or 2 
iven volume of earth his volume may be easily | matter by other Homopterous eie wl’s head, praster у. multitudes py per That 
g ted bv saturating the soil with water, as the is last — — d is peo by a species аге not the n ral produetion of the Pe-la insect sens 
ma » di 8 ill e * the | 9f Coce eeus to onally applied the name of — from their being not only at variance with 
volume of air displaced will exactly eq Coceus 8 whic y received in my of any known vem > decens but also with 
à pee cann 
— introduced. England by Mr. Daniel Ha 
e main results of the experiments, | 
instituted. for this second object, are stated by the 
r. Lockh 4 85 
in a erude state as Ex. f tree, in which | it by — that se herbalist ha han misken a ma 
authors as follow a number of the dried full grown bodies of the female | of the bodies of the female filled w th egy Salad D 
. The air indeed 1 in a hectare (10,000 square се аге to be oe el ieces of stick | a uds for suspension on mies 
mètres, 1 11960-33 square bre * arene land, one en e wa th th An of the insect, for a nat n 
year after being manured, c uch ca rbon nic взен агі Бар Б — publi hed by M y on | single female so as to form a case 
acid as 18,000 cubic mètres ae spheric air. | the subject in the!“ 26 та — ve 4 for April, a cocoon, Further information is th 
That is to say, inasmuc taking A. average depth .1853, aecompauie short notice by Mr. Quekeft, needed upon this point of — ы мо viri. 
at 35 centimètres mitres (about. 14 inches), th are | проп pata bgp ame oe: appearance of the атра material. — 1 avin 
tains SIS 0 e com osition 0 e lon о e 
hos owe жа 0 5 the: camis ^ B е І at once perceived that the . wn xum 
mug "n of the bodies of the fem 
acid in the soil in 
vidis for volume, is 
2. In the same entity s км recently n pes 
that саана 1 280000 сш А4 
métres of normal air, or in the proportion of 400 ; 7. 
3. In the loamy subsoil of a forest, taking the 
iae Зарф, asin тм former instances, the amount 
is that con 
These 
under i iar daa. In the dy subsoi 
forest, for instance. n, as com AP with. 
the loans i in No. 3, at only as 1: 2.76. 
^ ENTOMOLOGY. 
x Insect OF, CHINA, Coc 
Ix ihe UE article on wax jme we ie given 
an account of a variety of species, chiefly natives of 
America and Asia, which have been applied i 
the production of wax, and ere shown that the accounts 
gives fe Sir George Staun on and utton con- 
nsect pote apply, as they have | n Exon (ous d 
— supposed, to fe W be insect wax of commerce had pre ously vina made by 
- The true insect wax of China, from the accounts of | M r. B. C. Brodie (Phil. on: y 1848 8), but in ides to | insect, th 
Du Halde, c., as well as the ts pub- | stile us to clear up all the difficulties et with th 
lished by ты ves, has generally been | the „ arisi ros e insufficient description of | co 
considered to be a species of Coccus,* but no the authors noticed above, we require a di stai 
is believed to have hitherto had an opportunity of ex- Statement that the white waxy ex by fleshy c 
nining the living wax insect in its native localities, no Pela form the real of the white wax of | | 
has any о ered until quite recently | Commerce ; or that — —— een, s of the crude larv ft 
of studying it in detail. short ab | matter received fro Lockhart is identical young — uia 
of habi ET is 1 i; from ihe E given by Mr. ie — the article in commerce, 
Chinese natural istorians, hy Me . Daniel Han 
te“ Есен Journal,” April, 1853 :— 
een oe mon yon e 0 
h the mature ы 
tical circumstance | 
both articles i is is -thát т 
ever, > wee at once ae aem radical 
of the tree which is to the secretion of t limbata described b 
rom ^ Hutton, and Meg of the C ea. How fe oe 
are hatched, and the insects | White floccose matter exu rom the different parts 
are white and of the size of Millet seeds) emerge of the body of the Flata is identical with that emitted 
uus ts ds e, 4 m — Coceus Pe-la, has yet to be — $ = 
a itted to express the conjec 
conceal- 1 aves. Some authors I may be perm 
hose that the aedis have a tendency 6 only will they bé fou 
express ure that 
period nd to be nearly identieal, — 
at the — of which, should th ^ — i 
ld 
at if it were possible to collect the 
any re, hes would remain; and е do. matter ape exudes from the bodies of — 
obviate Ў culty, ће Chinese keep the gro d рег. | ° of species of Fu dm, Coceidte, Š of aren ened 
; so that they are to ascend, King properties would be found to be very similar. In our 
en he branches, the young insects speedily o pri the с — ан coccus of the Vine, C. Vitis, 
commence the formation of a white waxy secretion, { analogy of any of the species of 
which, becoming harder, suggests the idea of the trees Coeci 2 with which I a ted, to the Coccus 
ге covered with hoar frost. The insect itself becomes — 9 be very easy to make an experi- 
ly imbedded ? ог], as the Chinese authors зау, ment with its nan ims common America 
changed, into wax, The branches of the tr blight of the Apple tree is another equally com 
| matter constit nde | ins of the p — 9 same material which 
A eri LM collecting, probably varies in 33 en — easy and interesting to experiment | 
August as the period at which de mx lle) vo 5 — 5 " = 5 eee гә 
T feti ly 1, 
cat übte inction = Sr e more 
country to such an extent as DEDERIS | 
е | procurable from them at all, to bee ow of the Wax, 
> A ast — a 
commerce; 
sent 
. 
with detached wings and legs, 
rovided hee short. les (ез 
en off), and of the insects at ale 
| blooming. ort joi inted rather 
wood, planted in sandy mm, soil, 
glass, an and afforded a a qe ө boiar ae 
if properly supplied w 
damp ; and . will probably b 
course of a month or so. 
the Reports of the Juries of the Great Exhibitio: ; 
2 JJ of tale | weak pe qe cee Sinensis having beon applied 
that € — named is —— ad ay br. ce. Leoni it will be advi 
ay Mr. 
dye: 3 From British 
te чата ae isti fro what foli and 1 
— is the female, and not mák ME — The 
— 
> ба Chine 
e appear its vernacular Chinese 
му the mee e, C. Pe-la. "The 
dip sem vnm | to be: serous applied to it by Mr Walker t too near to ceriferus 
— to adopt th the | tem 
the in a temi 
from pi. А» and ud guinea i into Msi a ma 
proper management will form m large 
abundantly from early in June 
