382 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
ground isave ry y effective 'e way of 
at the sam me time, forms a rich dres 
a an 
still in full vigour, ‘measures at 3 feet from the annoyed, we enor iie delinquent, f " while walking | 
ground 27 feet in piss No. 12. This tree is | in the en rved a sparrow perched on the 
yards distant ing; it is qui i i als flyi 
kably | , l i 
measuring m the ground 32 er und. All making an awful noise. In the course of the morning ae in Flower-beds.—In directions m this. 
these trees, = age n the gro of Nos. 4, are | I was S from home, but my wife watched the bird important pr is paan left dali omni cube 
supposed to 1000 years old. There is a great a deal, and her account is as follows. er some ate m to n gravel or Grass Ys whether 
r age which m | time } 7 N ret a cio arees 
nearly as much in circumference as these; whilst some | nest, and then there arose a terrible screaming and nothing. re a ep. blues look best: on- yellow, red and 
of them are most magnificent trees whose branches are sound of struggling, and presently the sparrow was | ye ellow on Grass, white equally well on either, panies 
all entire and spread out to a great extent. The part seen to come out and fly a short distance, when it/ look better for Dear i cut off from 
of the park where these old Oaks are may be said to be dropped something on the carriage drive which on ex- | yellow border. Somerset. 
ee a state of nature ; imes -i a of very old Thorns and amination pro roved to to be a young swallow quite dead. ro — Preserved Whole in hey 9 I think Į 
wia ar aprige eas saae Fi tablishing hi aiii a es seta ean e RTE ae- h sw Be, 
shelter E the Oaks will ak for expelling the swallows and establishing himself in their ewak ether the fruit was who - or whe 
the situation ir pather siel ret of these tree this va Tera made by striking the iron pane must | had been bare adet through a which Fad 
Hill i to ite pcos i to fri 
on 
oe 
‘year ficen hes Ppa to Worcester. | as sh 
these Oaks; they iwer in a the apt: health and vigour.| Rose Insee maa ew trees have this year been imenatey of the triumphs of my eae Diss, 
e of t aon — ot the trenches of fested by an salen h has made dreadful havoe, pon Aquilegia californica and eximia.—One of your cop. 
several of ss is 5 130 ae the only on the young shoots and buds of the present year, ss oe asks if the A. eximia is not the same apjip 
old Oaks in this — were taken, “they would of them- but on the wood of the last season, and pra in — A. californi Would he be good enough to say where 
es form an mportant volume. M. Saul, Stourton, instances attacked poe the old: wood—I p: e in| itis described ? If not, how can I, from Ghent, know the 
Yorkshire ” | places where there has been any disposition i in ae init h Saias in England of a plant similar to 
nd National Rose Show.—I was delighted to read | to throw out a bud. Neither do they agar themselves | which I received seeds from Oregon. My plant: has been, 
the first liter: n of course, by “ Alpha”) in reply | to the low growing Roses, upon their own sorts, but | before a botanist, and is described in the January 
to my ion that we should have a Nationa 1 Rose tho ough not perhaps q e to the ian of the “ Flore i ‘Serres, ar; iia Fan Houtte. [i 
Show. “Alpha” writes briefly, but eminently to the same extent. One ni night I made reful e nation | californica is mentioned and figured in our New 
purpose, for he suggests a subscription. tg gaeycer of the plants between 10 and 11 ‘clock, orna dis- | No. 107, 1854, p. 886. It is Jaren the same asA. 
with his name, he begins at the beginning. I trust covered my enemy hard at men upo; wood of last | eximia, and we still think a very handsome variety of A. 
that his example may be followed by his influe nial year. It is of a pale bro psan ani has a hard | canadensis. j 
brethren £ s. d., m then we shall certainly (if we brittle ea am requiring a t tolera air hard pinch to kill} Wistaria (Glycine) sinensis:—There is now a fne 
mind our p.s and q.s) accomplish our object. But it, is from èth to 4 of an inch long, somewhat in shape | specimen of this gear bloom at. the Head 
for the e is consi 
is to arra a sm a 
worthy of the Queen of Flowers, ia the buds are the plant in considerable ria a eating the bark of | England. Within t the e last 10 years it has grown’ a: 
parema on our trees. Will the Times of our flori- last year’s wood so —, Puneet, Peri that it} of 180 feet; its bunches of ce a i 
world help us? And ea me fathers of works its way all round the shoot, and that for some | averaging 13 inches in circumferen and 10 inches in 
pan ays, vesn another will be | length, so as to completely daisy the wood. Its attack | length, cover 24 square feet of wall of such clusters, 
found advertisement on ithe. subject, and I shall upon the old wood is more partial a itself to spots | with which the tree is sateen me a most beautiful a 
anxiously await the “or would ee prizes pe rameni mes beaa but its ravages on the shoots of the} appearance. Arch. Kay, Gardener, Tillesden. 
for nurserymen and ama ail arrange still more destructive, em through ancient 
schedule as to test the relative sist of the different them, though of of the thickness of a quill, and having 
classes. It is, in my opinion, not worth our while to | arrived at a growth of 8 or 10 teed long, and of Societies. 
attempt a national show unless: we can offer at least | course vies wholly destroyed. It is curious that no 
. 1002. in prizes. Surely the lovers-of the Rose will not | trace whatever can be fo und of these insects during the ENTOMOLOGICAL, May 4,—W. oe Peer Bae 
prove more penurious than the votaries of the Dahlia day. They are-very easily removed from their hold at F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
ation? S. R. H. [Is th i i : 
arrai u exhibited: fine imens i 
8 , if success is the object, 1858 would be a better | mere effect of the light, without being touched, appa- | versicolor taken in Scotland by Mr. Foxcroft; also a — 
year. rently bac s, and are lost i iately, bein e pair of the rare Eastern ucheirus longi 
a specimen egies ofa much the colour of the ground that: they cannot be manus, and several — insects which perp i 
Sports.—I forward 
Laburnum now growing in my garden. ew years | seen. Upon making this discov: 
since three of the Cytisus were inserted, and now | strong mixture of lime-water and sprinkled it plenti- | rare species of Pieris, 
ki 
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ee 
3 
sE 
i 
- irl etærius 
producing the short wer, as you see, I|same evening as had been on the previous one. | nests of Formica fusca. A number of rare Coleoptera, 
am not aware whether it is an unusual occurrence, but I find they do not confine caper oct entirely to Roses | including several new British species from the neigh 
rO- - | bour o i 
ters, are now in full Word sais Park, Siow — Roses are attacked | various members. Mr. Dillon Croker presented a case 
Purser, Clapham Park. [We have another | by that com on garden he Otioclarnetins sulcatus, | of Indian locusts, and also a musquito flapper of beauti- 
letter on this subject, to which we shall return next oN bs (larva ) of which f Fead upon the roots of tender | ful manufacture from Constantinople. Mr. Trimmer es- 
week: ]. p ey are destroy ved la sheet | hibited a b from South America, 
Ancient Seeds.—What: do you consider the contents | under the trees in the dapi time, yed by 1 airim ai esaa er , 
of the accompanying box tobe? They are found most | night, on the introduction of a light, they will so emer interior of the trunk of a tree. Mr. Smith exhibited 
plentifully 5 feet beneath the surface iy sandy oe: in | or the trees may be shaken when their dark c will | Tropider icola, collected by Mr. 
various parts of the new cemetery at Earlham, near | render them conspicuous. og may then be ‘elected Robinson a drawing of the larva of Polyommatus Arta 
Norwich. The groun und had been under the piesti for | and ee dest: aga W. e have seen a quart | xerxes. Mr. Westwood exhibited a gigantic species of 
some years eon to the aes of the cemetery. | collect a night. elles poe is to put them into | flea, of which a single specimen had been ; 
Beneath the surface is gravel, and then the grav aly a gas b bottle and to aia it with boiling water. ] Gateshead by Mr. Bold; also a sphinx (S. Atropos?) 
sand in tee they are found. z= [ They belong to so Mule Pink.—You would very much oblige by giving | which he had found imbedded in one of the combs of & 
common Chenopodium. um, | + me rag true name of the common Mule Pi The only | beehive in his garden. Major Vardon exhibited several 
Eurybia Gunniana.—This has a Toe ay account I find of it is in the “Annals of Horticulture” | remarkable insects collected by Dr. Livingston in the 
here, a plant of it having stood out of rs during the | for 1846, p. 304, where it is said to be Dianthus barba- | interior of Africa, includi a species of Acarus which 
last five years without any protection pret Ga tus var., a very beautiful hybrid, supposed to be between | sucks the blood of men, getting into the flesh between 
in 1855 the thermometer fell to 15° Fahr. When first | Sweetwilliam and the Clove or Carnation, of which there | the toes, and causing inflammation and fever ; also several 
sent here, I think from Kew, it was treated as a green- | appears to be little doubt, and if so, why barbatus var ? | larveewhich when crushed emita poisonousfiuid 
house plant, but appearing pretty hardy it was planted | If it has no other name than this, I think hybridus | the natives dip their arrows; also a larva of 
a where it has done well, and now | would be better. I hope erelong that the public will species of beetle, which buries its head in the sand, leav- 
bush 4 or 5 feet high, and as many | be favoured with a correct catalogue of plants by Dr. exposed its bifid with which it seizes ants or 
vered with fi . Shepherd 
i the | em paithiden tite th oii 
Variety salicifolia, the leaves being obtusely serrated, | 12 years ago seeing what I considered a good catalogue | Blediva M . per. on. sterility Í 
F T an. forming a 14-pointed star instead of a 12. | lying on the table a of the council-room in the Horticul- | “apenas es outa ee he had observed Lae 
"3 Carelew. tural Society’s Garden at Chiswick, but by whom I do} double brooded species: the summer proods are destitute 
. cae Keep sa tp al Young = .—By SRE not recollect. Be that as it may, however, I am sure that | of the s necessary for the development of the egg", 
have tried method of p newly-sown | a catalogue e correspon: with Dr. Lindley’s Vegetable | A Grant ee 
pr^ from the ravages of small birds, and have found it | Kingdom is much wanted, even by botanists as well as Canada, pl abe by Mr, Douglas, b Douglas, being the 
sound or broken~-along the row S yard or ino epert {corte eo gardeners., Interim. [There is no! lation of a Memoir on oat 
; — the row a or two apart. I. se nomenclature for garden Mules. D, 
should like your correspondent to try this, I shall | bad name, ~~ there may be othe rida ie thn ere er ee + a held 
be greatly mistaken if he does not find it answer much proper form of the word would be D ink aise CALEDONIAN HorticurTvRAL.—At @ Gat re folowing 
better than any method he has as yet employed. J. B. | phyllus ; but St is too long]. — other r day i in the Experimental Garden, the 
Clark, Wingfield, Wilts. Peach Trees not Setting their Fruit—I have a house awarded :—Greenhouse Plants, Nursery, — yana 
The Sparrow Story which I promised (see p. mn i Kin heer 7 jan have se ate splendid crops of ist, en. J. Dickson & Sons, with a and Pimelea 
‘re ; 0 or some y but this season th nd Prin bert mariage Drumm sctical | 
-years ago. At that time there was a stove pipe pro- | have failed, most of the i aaiae having set, me vias Niep eppergiana, “iy Stove or Greenhouse ae ni 
_ jecting nearly pame ss out of a landing window | have set appear to be falling off. They ea received ape Ist, Mr. "Blair, gr. to G. C. Arbu an 
th i w Leschenaultia formosa and Pimelea spectabi ti 
use Delo Saal , & pane of glass o ears, Leschen 
ing been removed, a piece of sheet iron substi- | of nothing to have induced failure except that we had Mr to R Esq., with j 
for the purpose of supporting the pipe. Just | six weeks of cold rainy weather while hey were in flower, | aultia formosa and Pultensa stricta ; 3d, Mr. eg 
ethis and under the eaves was a swallow’s nest ; for | and that never visited the blossom, the bad weather | gr. ceolaria violace® 
two three mornings my wife and myself had been | having kept them shut up in their hives, Af any of your | Pimelea dreni r. Rit j 
Awakened early by an unaccountable noise, such as would | correspondents, fore, simnitas: ed, or can | Erica:ventricosa-coecines minor 
. a es forcibly against the sheet | show cause why my fruit has not set, I shall be obliged Mr. Lockhart, with Beaumontiana 
hil 
was the canse. errr three mornings had passed, | promising, Ån Amateur, aa: Lockhart, 
| SDSS, oie eri a ai Siage-=Soct freely applied to the surface of the | demoa el E. 
