' 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 14, 
316 
i i a eearens supply of rain-water in the house, but it is | from eight fine Apricot-trees which were in full blossom. 
true ; ak Api A ghd is “ge always near t the Nisporstare of the soil in which the | bud and promised to ps Ng well, only six Apripalll 
of matter whic he . ts. t P riks thats vigour. | plants re , and does not hold in Fe sais any substance | could be found he di e of May on the whole of t 
amish ak ps io fl of the Shay ” | deleterious to them ; besides, th ra expense of con- | trees, in consequence o ye ravages of these Weevils, 
By all means, then, des e flowers age spar ble structing tanks is comparatively triflin ng. ambridge shire, Sral hundred feet of wall were plant 
as soon as they appear ules it.is really desirable The hot-water system of heating is by far the rar last winter wi ith fruit -trees, and the buds young shoots 
to obtain a crop of which can be employed, and when the house is small, v pens = ry) : eg at = or two toa 
, MOWING MACH mon size, no particular method of he ve considerable extent, the Peach an ectarine Re ha = 
Bear ma bo, MACHINE: fi h- | Will ‘hg: the conical reas some of its modifications | ing suffere ost se sg bag On referring to ‘ iz J 
Havine bh ree 90 many Maniete cae ay ” | either in e y in ort t easy and perfect | British Entomolo ogy, * we find that this Weeril attacks af oe 
bours respe <i i f chi “s paves ‘ “i system of regulating the apparatus, cystine g it is well | variety of plants “e Xt arrives at its perfect state, Ip 
mowing lawns, I cannot help thinking an agen of i constructed. Artificial heat, in the management of Cape | appears that five or six years since, multitudes of the # 
would prove interesting to many of your readers; an Heaths, is only necessary to exclude frost, and should | O. tenebricosus were observed in the gardens rd | 
ee oe ee coer the oe ba mews d never be applied ashes the ‘eitiaaobtie sinks near the | Eldo ae Encombe, Dorset, where they were reported by 
eras ne neers Sta weak 81% freezing point. r. M‘Nab in his excellent Treatise | the ad. M. olson = oe destroyed the roots of 
freer the perusal of your ae Geers i h li ys, that Heaths will sustain no inj house with | every Castakte as side the smaller fruits, such ag 
@ inechine in question is eo ee er tc Gd Beat lights open day and night, until the thermometer | Strawberries, Raspbe zy ndbenics s, and Currants; 
ie he to the wy - . t The + oe wo — jg | falls more than ei degrees below the freezing point. but in this case it eae have been the larvee which didthe 
a h : sserban Spe . te Seca. d rh) ae If the frost by any accident gets into the house, and if the | mischief that these insects are gr emi the’ 
< z ve or <aig BA yes plicability . te gh sone e to | thermometer is not likely to sink much lower after it is = #3 we : ae Pisin bret ck ree aah the — 
4 e s v r és 
large spaces had lo bject of regret to me discovered, the best plan is not to raise the perature | roots and the sa y the bu a ; 
The 
for England only, led t to my em oy en a very ingenious 
mechani r. Shanks, * Arbroath) 
to essere the implement I Sy used. cess was 
mplete, and I have had the experience of a w whole season 
to test it. My isti 
assed, if “ual by the 
oth comman 27 i 
easily ; but 
g the horse’s pape when working (as answers ae: in 
ary apie, left k on the grass 
necessary antil 
repetition of similar w 
r 
ed a further i improvemen nt with a 
he 
ore bg and the ground eel 
ted by the pony, 
ularly where 
es £6 desired. When th 
+a ee is produced very sialies to velvet. 
house with d shade the the morning 
sun. Experience has prove t if frozen plants be 
thawed gen oe. will in most escape uninjur 
whereas, the igutiatare been ges raised, the 
worst effects would have been appare 
men, who hese et in age ‘quantities for the 
poet keep them in low pits during the winter, covere 
with dry straw or litter in asuie Arete which answers 
ir 
A free. circulation of fr ésh air at all times is of the 
er 
e daily open ree When here is 
no danger from nigh ~ high winds, the sashes should be 
left open 7 om 
S$ saat ‘growers do = sagt of putting 
n green ayes ese 
e summer months if there i is room for them in 
la 
we for the finer kinds in summer; when the 
can be} a 
— — pager fine weather, end fires lights —— 
drawn over when it is wet an my. ‘The fine 
short-leaved Kins, such i E. aratts, are greatly bene- 
fited by such ae ion, — 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF “THE PETUNIA 
_ Havine been ae paccreatal in the gerry of this 
fines 
as added a opbeskats ery for the pur- 
poset rag ort 
are foun 2 omen ae 
well, and enables a Mokena 
pp or ronact but these cases are, 0 
ated by an any one ; I 
would — uch 
exceed 20/.; but for this I mus partie ie 
Shanks himself, who, in the present satcanateeasite de- 
pressed state the machine-making business, will, I 
e 
pir al puiiaaneaee: ha ough to sey that application 
et Tra! Stroud, Gloucester- 
r 
shire, the agent for Mr. sive 
of machinery. He came d last and 
himself acquainted with the details of the machine, and 
has, I believe, arranged wit r. Shanks as regards the 
English patent. I hove only to > conclude by saying, = 
have omitted 
t 
I shall be happy t 
through the sa same apa WP. Li boy isa sta it 
ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAN 
HEATHERY, “eerie 
OF 
Whe SE cae (Cee 141.) - 
plenty of light and air, A houce with what is commonie 
called a lean-to roof will answer the Purpose, providing it 
. and the plants are kept near the glass ; 
ee their Pm geass 45 
the 
ee 
gee 
2 
BE 
nt be. put a 60- 
a6 
ny 
sized pots, a and placed i in the: front of a hotbed until they 7 r§ 
have struck root, whi ch wil 
c 
as drainage at the pot uring the time 
‘e growing in sree they should be watered two or 
object: 
or stake of an y 
grown mixed plants of three or four different colours five 
feet in diameter, and the contras s been strikingly 
beautiful. —G. Fielder, gardener, Wadhurst Cast. 
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ENTOMOLOGY.—No. XXVIII. 
—— Passe the Red-le 
Orion 
den Weevil. r* we toe ws the bis- 
tory of two ipidales “of of Cantal which are destruc- 
msi to the Vine and fruit-trees; an piped cthen 
ther allied species as soon as sufficient 
ihdoresatiod — obtained; we have now h_ plea- 
sure in returning to the subject. The O. teneb us 
so nearly ralatua. to the two beetles all 
] 
and fr 
oedeat that thee fee is pretty nearly the same. T 
maggots of the Red-legged es Weevil are ip round 
the base of the Fer wall 
quantitie 
bee 
out only at to feed 
wall-e, aig: — Cincher a Apricots, Peaches, Nec- 
ums, 
mersetshire, ay crete to be at that Ga snele 
uarters, were infested by ae bcs of these 
first destroyed the fruit, quently peers 
the bark and leaves, so as not un Pragesatt to endanger 
supply of rain-water shor we be lost sees Book the life of the trees; they commenced their depredatio 
ae one, anks sae the purpose, a in April, by eating the unexpanded blossom-buds, clear- 
rected under the stages or front shelf; if very tee ‘Ing out the centre and leaving only the external bracte. 
a Wehig tank may ade of bricks cement along | 8nd occasionally fray ts of the immature leaves ; they 
each side under the hot-water pipes, in the same way | Will manag. a branch until all the b ode axe 
as large conservatory at Chiswick ; in either cage | destr nd afterwards demo ng eyes which 
* fanks Att, of course, communicate with the gutters | ought we u com until nothing is left but 
t The water of many springs, as I mentioned | the bare brane: ches a bud escapes at the extre- 
before rode the worst effects upon Heaths; not vr 
is there a great deal of labour saved by havin, 
mity aaa eventaally} pave tate leaf. In one instance, 
wide the fade. = ; 
me herbalists C. tenebri- 
stout, “aad dila a 
back (fig. te the thorax - Sinely, granulated, reset 
truncated, so brigh 3 Scutele — 
lum invisible ; elytra codered together, more iy less finely 
scabrous, sometimes distinct longitudinal punc 
the Peg wings none 
colour; thighs “aggre pe sha ti 
pectinatied, dilat and truncat feet four-jointed, — 
cushioned b ng ‘two sal joints obtrigonate, Ist the 
ngest, 3rd pieve d, 4th slender and clavate; claws 
ved, and acute (3, the fore leg); male nearly 5, female 6 
lines lo 
rve of thes se Otiorhynchi pas as ppoy iy as 
the perfect beetles, the main object o od : 
the former if possible in the roba a 
would be most readily effected by sna the earth al 
e und the stems of the 
se insects under, wh 
troublesome i in our hothouses and gardens.— Ruri 
SeAteur’s GARDEN.—No, XX 
Ir may be neces remind wh 
upon ee rafters of nhouse, that much of th 
oo n erated summer prunin: 
s 8 
. them well. Much of the strength of the Vine 
ad as —u the thinnings inte 
vs many Sp ep berries left are nécessari 
© scissors, and afterwa 
Unsightly. The should always 
as they are fairly set, ov before they get as 
smallest Pea. Vines out of doors u upon 
* ‘Gard, Chron., No, 1g, Pe 292, t Ibid, figs, 3 and 4, 
* Fol, 690, 
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