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THE*GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Serr, 10, 
in urious -_ the plant in question than any other), reco- 
weedy wi th hardly an exception, and flowered very abun- 
dan 
n material for securing the buds (the bark 
of the Lime-te) is not e tic, and either compresses 
ane rain, or oose in dry weather; whilst 
orsted yields i he in the first of these saetnee 
ins a myetrcd epressure in the second. Ther 
is one advantag' 
operator be nice in his Pepin the ligature, 
if white worsted, instead of being loo , may be re- 
pla y a green one ; and thus such sieute as have been 
attended to, and such as require revision, will at once be 
er; an 
aware that I have lost a single are. fe from this oe 
I observe in one of your Pa a query, a ihe e pro- 
priety of allowing a leaf, as w ao ; as a a Sat to remain 
‘Thave found this beneficial, if the 
r be moist, and the sap flow freel 
been i 
d grow vigorously. Ift 
Ys the leaf dies; but I have never been 
ble to ascertain bee any wag ee! has resulted from 
it gg if the leaf had not left o 
renc pa Pater the Virletios of the wild Stock 
court P Laartation fro orrespondent. Some can 
only with difficulty Bae compelled to re 
from ani 
three great advan of and 
health in the tree dn rokiak latter, T uohude a ple 
and promise for the coming year), the be attention 
is elite sis in odes ae Practitio toner. [We trust this 
ill oblige us with his experience 
ie peande Roses.] 
ON THE PREPARATION OF MUSHROOM 
Tue first operation to. be performed in the production of 
r 
—Take from the high road the droppings of horses’ and 
pecey de pean oe ust, and about April or May add 
two-thirds of Heh and aly incorporate 
than ber in doing this do not use water; the more this 
mixture is beaten er the better. Aft 
it is well mixed let it remain in n together i C 
oam 
quare bricks, 
eep it Paces sickng to the hand d boards 
ok which it is e the bricks about eight or 
] three fod broad, and two i 
thick ; ‘i ns “ 
ven on the outside of the li 
bricks should now be turned over, and an t are 
are impregnated should be placed in con with 
the spawn. In making up the pile be careful to place 
a - brick in the middle and a moist one on the 
a ‘ 
ugust, in 
| from its inhabitive Combe and Darent 
n Rose tree is attacked by a — rs, 
their e 
f holes soon make r appearanc 
be 
cs 
ro] 
a 
> 
Dict 
r 
oe 
~ 
Ss 
a 
bh 
— 
under 
mallish caterpillar, either 
stretched out or curled up, _ holding by its feet - 
eaten edge (fig. 1). These caterpillars, which a 
Saaidend from all iiheserens larvee, such as utterflies, 
saat s, &c., by the neg number of their feet, are not 
long : they are nearly cylindrical, ra 
ing a little to the tail: they are br ight green, and covered 
with short upright hairs, witha darker line down the | back, 
and one of a deeper tint down each side; the hea 
horny and fulvous, with two minute bla ck dots on the 
sides, like eyes ; they have twenty feet, namely, six pec- 
+o. 
an" 
toral tru e feet, twelve abdominal aS SA a or false 
et pa o anal feet, which do not assist the animal in 
walking. ving arrived at their full growth, they spi 
e contiguous leaves, or in 
“ drawing the sides of a leaf slightly together; but some- 
mes it is attached to the stem onl k of the 
b anches : in this web they form a eee tees cocoon 
somewha (fig. 3), which is very thin ansparent, 
ing formed of threads united by a gu sags substance so 
that when finished it is papere to wet, and shines ai 
if a snail had crawled o occasionally two cocoon 
are forme d it seems probable that 
ro 
e green larvee rest a short time, losing, it is said, their 
fourteen false legs, and eventually changing to a pupa: 
the flies are hat 5 ed i <A bag or thirteen days. One 
which I pengites need 25 xia about which period the 
petty hee spun pi 38 in a few days, 
and the Saw- “fy 1 hatched ise Tne of Au 
e saw-flies which issue from these ioc no longer 
bear the fener a of Patent but are now separated 
om that exten roup, and form a genus called 
Cladius *, of whic ht ther Php’ British varie ater 
he Bose species, which, from the 
3 
six or seven 
curious form 
i e 
is named by C. difformis : it is k and shining ; 
the antennee posed of nine jo pubescent ; 
in the male the third joint is hooked internally at the base 
ort, and it is wanting altogether in the 
3 » the female the horns are ed te rs eee 
ing 3 > the fou’ d wit 
a smoky tint the s stigma is brown, as well as them nervures, 
_ . a rm many cells, 7 = the group is ina ee 
characterised ; are one marginal a 
sabiateeinal cells in the asc wings, but the little basal 
one bens oes Sercapalsi there are in fact only three of 
these y specim the thighs 
biek, excepting the ee Fig. 4 spprenegts the male, the 
ssed li es showing the natural dimension 
; is was esteemed a rare ‘asaee 20 or 30 
years ago ; 4 now it is found from the end of May to 
the middle gardens around London, and 
woods, as well as 
various other parts 0! of the country, from Northu aaa 
to Dorsetshir larve will 
feed — she Dog. -rose or some of our native  pecies 
ot, perhaps, be an easy matter to get rid of 
these troublesome caterpillars, except by hand-picking and 
shaking the branches ove : aged ; for as they keep on ue 
under as the lea 0 applic sees except fum 
gating with lee: wooldl faitly each them; iti 
2 at sprinkling hellebore powder ove one leave 
nnoy them, but it would not, I apprehend free par Roses 
fie their numerous and succes: oods. 
re have already alluded to sly or “a other species of 
aw-flies arte ave the Roses. One of them was i gmt 7 
e_| out to us las 
year in a garden, where it had giv very 
curious foots ance to a considerable number of Bags or 
a noe T believ 
one by some 
one in the country taking the eeagbes to rear them.— Ru- 
a 
Athnen 
forthe one 
ad 2 
A’ R XXXVII. 
Continvt to Gebleste the different kinds of half-hardy 
lants, for re out in the beds 
of the better kinds of Meters and it may be prin fy fol 
low this up with notices of other thi things which are bn 
adapted for the same purpose. There are several varietie 
LE RARER UEM MBAR I 8 Se 
* Curtis’s Brit, Ent., fol, and pl, 457, and Guide Gen., 473, 
hi 
ing kind ; Basilisk, which has an chia 4 
f the m 
of arpa hee ub such as the Frogmor re, 
fine dwarf free- flow 
r A variety called the Sh bland 
Scarlet deserves a place in all gardens, either in the 
greenhouse or on lawn ; e 4a taller than some of 
When they 
the clump has the appearance of one miane ietee an i pe 
gular c the a Metce as compactum, which J 
hare just notice 2) this purpose, as it is 
at Bagshot Park, the effe ct is oe E ly good, 
The vari ieties of Anagallis, or Pimpernel, are also very or. 
the flesh- -eoloured cat and the red- flowered, hi 
sometimes called nelli major 
t is much more 
likely to stand the winter if it is not cut over in autumn, 
whenever the stems begs to look bad ; and if it does not 
push again in spring, they imagine that the winter has 
killed it, when the fact, is, they have done so themselves 
by improper treatm 
The alterations inten rded to be made in the rps or 
spring should ba € 
he 
som eauti 
le b 
mes attended with the best results ; 
ie da ae of ex- 
BC agi is pro age parent into view an 
tent is give ich the eye rests with a asure, All 
these things ousht t to be pice tudied for some time 
before the work begins, in order that what is done may be 
an improvement and not a mere alteration.—R. F 
ME CORR ESPONDENCE. 
as amongst 
it'was a Be ped seit I do no 
the m 
am 
rpose ; 
me pere yp pega bE 
luble 
A eee oe the # mmonia mma 
unite with carbonic , form arbonate, : 
which case a a aation et the sulphuric « acid mete 
made by means of compoun: but in 
eerie the protowide of iro 
essor wt sre “it is this sp ide whic i 
the harshness or acrimony which is a distinctly per 
ce _ Ae rome pears of ia a4 
pt an 
that © 
gars if ench re of mould [ nface fot 
e 4: 
to use very phuric 
heap, which fener chs be “! “perfectly baags 
the mass as to arrest every a a. 
acid, at the manufactory, 
less than 2s 
cisive against its use.—. 
“‘Lusor”’ that sulphuric ‘gid is cies than 
of gypsum on manure, it mu 
manure contains carbonate of ammonia, & that salt 3 
caustic a ; and when a solution of 
