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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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markable for the joint-like 
nde are attached to the stipes, 
act like ey Lesca red 
breeze 
gans of Endlicher. It is 
process by which its fro 
borescent character. Once, wh 
rei Bay, I passed through a dense an 
this g were plant abounded. I gathered two specim 
toma of whieh rT now forward to you) and much wishing 
to preserve them entire, I carried them both for many a 
iced mile through thick owes and forests; some’ ieakeain 
ing them _ ae § ap of myc d sometimes 
with “ony e Ruébus and other shrubs which 
neem on pyran a wy pri d the 
of bearing them home uninjured.’ 
Rooks, Grubs, and Slugs.—It is of great impoctane 
in all cases, to kn ely the enemy w called 
to contend with. The farmer spares no la niet to ‘exile 
te from his s ny cases, 
nows not what to do in order to avoid the depredations 
bs, slugs, wireworms,' flies, beetles, caterpillars, 
w, field-mice, &c.; and, le he sits bemoaning 
his fate, a Druid sts him, and among er precious 
s bids him invite the rooks to his ground, protect 
sacred asp cam? and leave the vermi <tc their care.— 
The larve of the imost the only species of 
extensively hurtful in the fields. 
rubs feed wholly below 
ground; while age — "eat, if not w nine above 
tubs are by moisture only at the tim 
ious n (into the pupa sharing oo 
= 
eag 
weather seen 
weather they come out at night, or during the dew 
Grubs ame live for a time, and crawl freely, in dry soil ; 
‘ae oie e aslime on their body, which oe song or 
cept on moist surfaces. Grubs ve 
or oven, and do mos injury in ra I and 
.s 4 Liao not when 
anon 
n to live, hott in the 
than pin heads, 
of Ma 
ond, Which 
low. these they re either grubs or — but after 
ermination, i ot ae vain to expect many gru 
under clods. By: fat e greater part of them are tien 
ispersed over the soll, and preying on the roots. J 
sowed a few acres of a five-years-old lea field on 17th ult., 
and have often eG it since i 
the first week after the s 
; may say hundreds of siiehs ser 
actly as the hens scra god 3 an ere a a0 ae 
he r 
gr 0 least t rage number whi 
the rooks might take, by turning over the clods, one on 
t of ace. Itis ) 
easy 
e been moved after rain has 
allen on the soil. The above estimate makes it impossible 
for the rooks to take more than one per cent. of the grubs 
fro 
doubt that s so ° many “f = gru 
shall copy 
ral Magazine for September, seat 
d I 
Northern Agricultu 
as nat NE the thet 2 am acquainted wi 
pe appear 
dvised me na. plough them up, I peer had an ex- 
nt crop, and sold the whole for 11/. 1 er acre ; 
while those around me who persisted in rolling ‘during the 
ght sustained a total loss. The proces le, and 
the se from 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. pe When th 
at a sickly and yellow, be assure ub 
7 
se no time in rolling ( 
sur 
ae hen put two or three 
en on each ridge, accordin a breadth, with i iron- 
hod potato di dea, and let the roceed, enterin 
about six inches, and turn it round, ; bering the holes en- 
tire and ut twelve or fourteen inches 
separate every way. — night approaches, the ms 
(grubs) move about, and falling into the holes remain 
ere. I have often found eight to sixteen in each. 
i and in 
boas course of the day 
count for the crop, when thus ar and treated, being 
always the teat in ~ field.’—I shall no 
. facts ¥ with r espect t to the farmer’ s aonb the wate ‘lay. 
in win- 
at night; and it is in belief of this that ae ers roll their 
oat-fields during night, in ho 
And the 
ope of coe grubs. 
ling the 
tell us that the roller becom 
bs. 
¢ grub within la ani fan of the to a: but In 
case of rolling decidedly killin ng th 
or spring 
ny ie viewed as portentous 
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Sacto: saith, et 
aki enough for this; 
grass, they eter a the grubs Py its ri 
fo would it re 
so hard for grv 
£ te: 
‘oots, 
Phe a season 
rec 
Mp and when t 3 ci 
not before, the oats germinate on the sown elds. and be- 
what aif dap er 
had | and 21st March, and 
Td edn 
unlike the sagacity of ee which. 
ay: Springs eats a a ee white: slugs. ts 
at all seasons of 
pie A onareced I ha ve often seen them follow the 
ped cg them up; but I never Rok’ them eat slugs, 
thoug ee have often seen them s places where slugs 
seeped Therefore, I consider their eating slugs as a 
ae 
winter and spring of 1840, m 
ruary, gave the rooks at least the us 
ing slugs; but what were the e 
four-years-old lea, a superior gravelly loam, pretty uniform 
in age ag and only from three hundred to bal hu ceti 
yards distant from an extensive rookery. umstance 
compelled me to shone and sow this field in different lots, 
and at different times. 
slug in going | over four or five acres, and the 
rans had no ap’ bei 
ridge on 
end of lot Ist, at least equal in soil. It was both ploughed 
wn on 3ist March. It had, on wn saraga Too 294 
oat ey Lot 3d con- 
ee 
ts | sisted acres contiguous to Ic 
end. It was 2 ig on 13th and 14th March, and 
pr 
a few 
en 23d March and 1 ‘April, aarp ened 
It lay west — is Ist, and separated 
of d 
y the alane mai 
80; that only some threa 
half 
rest 
have been employed as condiments | 
Though in the parts of Asin earliest in-| 
or less 
portion, several species 
or as medicines. 
t of an ance ‘Yon the A 
they have = ages gy of a spoo of common train 
oil, And unless it be from this om yialese seeetin’ 
additional nourishment to the roots, I am at a loss to ac- | 
the — spurred 
habited th the a tye are less abundant, yet ma: many a are 
by t 
men Persia iters on Materia Medica, 
piobs ass e, p bly, of their Biekig indebted es their 
informatio the Arabic translations of Greek anthors 
The Onion, Garlic, and Leek, called i in Arabic Busl, 1, Som, 
and Korras, 
Bible (Numbers, ch. xi4 v. 12), a 
BodBos euerucos of Dioseco- 
er literally translated’ Bush al-kue by the Arabs. Squill 
obiquet was realled Asparag 
sparagus racemosus and of A 
medicinally in 
in form an 
apartment is close 
in an earthen dish, the 
* a 
the whole, he blew the ke strongly against the combs, 
but removed the straw the instant it took fire, to prevent 
t fi i 
ag: 
ota) Seat the outer 
that this nga f would take 
vol. ii 
Horn 
p- 
ade or Spurred Rye—It i is rel known that the 
uses its grains to 
ite 
dee fr tfull unt hey 8 are com- 
infil at Xi and groan, 
that 
rgot which geben with a white 
has no 
3 as m) 
poh se 10 drachms of the Ergot, without any 
riune,—In a late Number of the “‘ Bo- 
n te Num 
4 figure of plant called Mr. Wailes’s 
this tioned, ex 
R ome : hat 
Bs ye Natale I is announced that the 
meting wil be be held at Neusobl and I2liacs 
a peculiar peneel. which by au- 
