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CHRONICLE. 
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jimensions ceeding their original si As 
a oat never been minutely exalted 3 in 
acanth is produced, it is no 
exusion, or whether it 
its 
nly one 
ster there og effects upon ti the 
at are 1 
Kerth those Dais of the bark and young aa which 
remain healthy. M. J. B 
Home Correspondence. — 
in the consumption o usan 
_ of the common cockchafer, the wirew 
: sorts, and as mention 
the i e of H 
y the nam arry-long- 
oisture of that a 
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tay hare nce of having rooted i : w 
+ e only exposed the depredations of insects 
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all ved from anxiety, dst rk flocked | S 
o birds 1 in general on 
restock toai farms with 
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self much, an 
T|done with an dir as if to sa; 
ed xA => Selby, the ha teower pe of problem 
| ~ great irs Up of = cage in ~~ grove, 
destroyed in a short time.’ 
ago that that there was such an rmous 
terpillars upon great that a devoured alt 
and 
fons 
e by man 
arranged and sustained bef Nature are seldom Mare EYN 4 
toh 
a 
rrong in destroying rooks, jays, po ows, and in 
ur o untry, on some rge 
hir the od rietors „determi am a few 
summers ago to try ‘the result oes offering a grent reward 
for the heads of rooks, but t e pro estruc- 
e arms, for n whole of the 
three successive rita gare and they have 
since been forced to import rooks and other birds to 
hilar r experir ee was 
enze ago ina northern county, par 
with no better —— ane 
roo 
issu 
is 
y ”—not | m 
the pert, long, ct jump of magpie. Ina general 
way the ploug is lenient to what he calls “ ee 
i call i 
gam know 
Éi cna who picked up 
poisoned in 
e wa y died on the way home 
no one could tell, et rr spoiled our shooting for "a 
season. Many persons turn heir noses at roo 
r we call it down here, crow ce to show the deck 
SS Spda by and ee aT I will just quote a capital 
k played b rton on his friends, who 
friend of 
‘It was sees a oie A sage | est that any vara degree of temperature ma: 
S sip I obse 
in | insects which he 
eed 
n their ee particularly moore pes seaso 
| is not a 
kno onLab in the Bo 
| which mere ts produced, on the sais branch 
like C. Adami, 
frie 
had ar doubt Toii „me firth petty strongly on the 
subject :—“ We labour e in supposing 
that the flesh of the young peie panten is rank and un- 
s | palatable ; iti > full rai that of the — and I 
believe -i 
Carrion Crow. 
Tatroiuóing so rai and 
Australia may most inti 
locusts, and the familiar caw of the 
ho i i 
one mar 
stately colony ; for 
Took-pie Ye 
be ined by the same pem, simply by a 
pide: ae less a fani paeh air. 8 B: 
Night-pr eying Insects —In oain your Chronicle 
ve an account from a ad of i 
observed on Roses, hich 
e same insects that were so ps Bieter 
” Jante 
hem so as 
spoil the crop. A few ald be f the day time at 
the stems p- the ae but st" they were ether sp) 
h out 
Fitts 
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eo ap an y reread o 
so nds are concerned, 
realised, I ha ve to acknowledge numerous ren very 
oul offers of pecuniary aid, accompanied by the most 
nial Rapier of sympathy. I Eeee i ‘por that my 
hen first 
make the necessary arrangem As you sugg 
in reply to my letter last amr A oe find that, mee 
I should not hesitate to 
possi asm of apponit committees, cen 
; wing u sched tents, 
music, &c.; and I p iiras to ag oye our first 
show to the wy Bo in July, 1858. To prove the 
ject has been weleomed, I see 
answ pri , allow me 
e thanks, and to assure them that I hve 
cube whatever as to the complete success 
ional Rose-Show in the summer of 1858. 
cay Osea Tee Isee you are going 
for the mere chance 
the cas call 
and raceme, 
yellow a red flowers and one twig of 
isus 
the tru 
issek ? -Th 
if “ie "ones e paragraph. 
e-edged hort y affecting the stock t 
. 
witness sra incident of the lark in 
vE There 
begs leav eisir 
which he often sarani; ith oondign 
imp 
y an arı ng up his arters, 
- | essentiall; tic bird, 
aah not without ete oe cause (for ce Ne ‘hear the 
ma: 
observed, were here, as at Regent’ k, comparatively 
small mn: the aunty they therfore oho not 
mansion, grange, or wherever 
h to suit his Pray and to 
oodly rookery gives great 
grieve all lovers of Nature per ‘the sage gra 
should be aon uch less 
he 
grave 
m the 
mate- 
Heating “and Ventilating. —Among the various 
modes of heating and ventila 
ting gr 
pears to me superior to that I saw in January, 1803, 
i: | nent Derby. It was — a . William Strutt 
e | for heati 
requir 
pane aay 
the ay Olai thay were aila 
ear Derby in 
— were sae oe and vigorous. This 
mode was mical at Oc 
St. Petersb 
which a | str 
y, and sor ely would it 
ird 
uch to a and benefit, which the | termed 
eat i t 
none | i 
others ; these 
ten 
g 
and nüs specimens, bea 
orists’ flowers the Bren ge were 
ormed 
Among w what were called new plants Messsrs. Veitch 
showed some fine things; as did also Mr. Glendinning, 
essrs. Jackson of Kingston, Messrs. Henderson, and 
however, and nearly all foe other plants 
were reproduced at Chiswick on 
ag 
on the occasion, 
| Ween and Thorny Tast a full account of them 
