a 
Marcu 7, 1857 J 
find four horse and the fa 
We shall have Th per cot bushels. 
a machine, and they made 
xpense, 
irmers have to find the 
My ig is early al 
and I 
tary to the Gans Company, = 
the Can n Governmen 
tain the — of the ioar 
Mr. Molineux, Secre 
St, Helen’s Place, adds that 
j easures to ascer 
for him in the co 
GETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No. CLIV 
633, PARASITE ng External galls do not always 
arise 
t 
ties for ean Š immediate employment are preparing 
ony. 
f M. P 
, that I am iae 
about a 
an inch long which are Thies: roe ” atightly tinged “with 
mim and ks the summer advances brown. The inter- 
node is of course at first invested with a sheath, but as 
the gall swells the sheath bursts, and 
project curling round and ripen ga Beg the a 
e requ 3 in — lace , or 
plates Tike a oa which are 
flied in "he al pie of ice described b 
— 635. These bodies attracted the attention of the early 
and modern observers have disputed about 
their nature, some considering “them Sgi mere tu esd 
siventitious roots like those which a uen 
on Laurel, while others, notwithstash din py ms 
bility t to find any ‘insect, reg arded them as true ga alls, 
THE GARDENERS’ 
rest. 
William and James 
002. in fone months 
way the ae saree tumou 
I| tre 
the internode en tireljps external to the latter, and that in 
consequence of its e the g. rnode is modified, 
The Baon still seat gee what 
femantous bodies? Are they m A a r arin 
tion of some of the external ‘calla lar 
sually produced when 
t at se are Neither pa. An agr 
“with 00 A tra 
any tra of pith or rere nals kaoa or bundle 
of fibres with thick haemme which, as is usua pukk the 
with such awe era with r 
give them a appearance in a longitudinal 
section, This bundle | is surrounded by parenchym. 
the true roots, on the con there 
e has just 
T into the tis oe of the intern 
sometimes happens that the puncture of the 
inset not oniy cts Oe immedi te part where the 
the alluded 
any external galls have 
ment aici gum and therefore 
less entitled to be g led mixed 
re the internal section 
se| From 
A kalasan i (An 
a gall as if eapi es 
| se elucidate its hist 
The 
to a is effect 
| gpa head con with lightning-like Ep ae A playing, 
3 
m 
exhibit an hypertrophy of extern 
licate and elongated into bairs, nig in 
tissues, a 
ich takes 
n the Red 
lar estima- 
The riled fa 
nobilis abii by Psyllæ belong pre- 
e peeti with the blistered Currant 
referred to o the in o> b 
i 
F 
zi 
: 
f 
H 
4 
iH 
a 
par 
ee 
a 
y 
avery 
are in any degree kitaro by 
insects may be considered as 
uctions which 
. Balls, which have not at 
: true o 
3 and stems 
common Ivy, i in 
detected, 
present 
may also refer to the large | ~ 
| remain seab the body in 
bit HA are detac 
ra ae of | tai 
have a great them w 
been 
of the procumbent form of | ture that made 
which at present no eggs or larva | 
CHRONICLE. 
15] 
rye oa which frequently grow on the roots of Ash 
an e 
depen us t 
rs on the twigs of Birch 
shall Be occasion > ank. hereafter of a 
curious Tren ed body o n Sumatra,* of 
whic cause is equ di peime though 1 the pro- 
ai is p beautifully symmetrical. M. J. 
RUSTIC FURNITURE FOR COTTAGE 
GARDENS (see page 117). 
No. 14. 
(To be continued.) 
BITS OF ‘EER SLOW WORM. 
aes is recorded in works of reference, ea 
guis fragilis), though the most accessible 
and easily sainagea of t 
sg eS the particular kadus ofa 
HA 
the economy of interesting little 
enabled to give a details whi 
time aii g in oe that is from 
moment the seales become detached from the head till 
urs ; but with assista r perbaps with 
aids as the animal might coats it in a state of of sis ah the 
rocess may be very quickly complet 
i e head pea ars free, if the animal be taken in the 
in such a 
ed in a few min 
orking its way o 
placed in 
rent ecstacy, 
e reptile kag seems to ranni 
w natura! m 
ch may Senas more fully 
su 
the | as lon 
- z975 OF 
longitudinis that i is, rg it the eye tothe stalk, 
ee, attached, tugging in vain for the TAO. Thougl h 
all did not grow equally, they on an average gained 
about an inch in length, with a proportionate growth 
erwise, monthly, for the first y 
This TPH. phys the light, vind is often found in 
ong Grass, or under the new laid swath, where food is 
kedy to be hs 
isplay of strategy i Th 
al hovers over its victim, arches its n and ulti- 
mately, though t tion seems y, darts upon 
slugs, which i pi aia to Ree and w 
on readily— mall fro ane toads, and also ee 
pillars, to whieh it was re atric , taken ; and I hav 
ace ahaa for oe that $ i ts own oung are n a 
The m r of seiz ing its prey would — 
that it E to denl i ina a state a liberty ith animals m 
active than the snail o 
The animal tate salg slowly, If the water be 
on a level with its Bae it gion its head, curves its 
eck, and projects its long, ed tongue into the 
fluid, Epia wy and Beg ay it sluggishly ‘nee con- 
siderable time. When satiated it seems delighted, 
raises its head high, waving it to fro, performing 
ething like smacking the lips, and accompanying the 
ai t with an audible chirp, a soun ely heard at other 
times ny were easily trained to take 
ater be the ye z the finger 
Upon a flat su its motions of the piana are 
awkward and ioina sani ja wh vr 
it urges itself on sweepin Dy. ik ree, the 
sides of pe body and tail being te ‘motive agents, 
reversing action—the r cs 
motion cage pr the oe dew od in eden, it 
has a e power in its tail, I by w 
suspend i ody. e respiration cu 
mal e wn a at distant intervals, bu agi sooner is the 
expiration m made than inspiration follows. In motion, 
like ser animal 2 penet darting aaan 
he 
long, partially cleft ton Wi vig 
fine , the p is like one mat dash ; but ee 
less rie yet cold of the apenas ’ the action 
n be made ou t very distine tly to consist of three dis- 
irai waggles of the tongue up and d pian “I have long 
sought to interpret this singular act without success ; 
but I am disposed to think it has omething to do either 
math the search after food, or with discerning obstacles, 
Extracts from an im paper by Mr, Rankin, in 
the Edin. New Phil. Jow 
| COLOURING OF THE SKIN OF APPLES AND 
i 
DunamEL, in his Trea è on Fruit Tre 
ri 
air pencil 
TE applies more 
M. de Flotow ex- 
y be ren 
by markin ng the i Praa the sun with a 
dipped aan 
sepa although he he says that i in several works ¢ on 
n its characteri we re > its ong ni 
there are states, either of the animal itself, o: pyi 
rom its e eae sloughing e seems i difeult ; the 
aaki oo dry, are comparatively infle: xible, ” and 
rings an 
e parent in my posses- 
e young at this stage 
, not thicker 
from 11 to 
see th nei slug moving on in its even course wit 
by Miquel in Linnæa, vol, xxvi., p. o 
it by |i 
hed. o be assigned. 
ge pe 1845, a litter was hatched all but 
had the th 
fit, shies rdin 
as, no | less 
a 
the slender 
ide I 
os ee The results of the experiments have led to 
the conelneips that the action of the sun’s ra 
wetted or 
ouring of fruits, M. 
w has tried the action of acids and alkalies 
