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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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js easier: all that is required is to obtain four ot the Number on this ‘agi it may not be uninteresting to 1854, ge with the seeds of other Pine trees, some 
finest agen s Tight and and dark eo hybridise them | observe that in of famine the roots (rhizomes) of| of which proved new. n an account of their 
carefully. when ripe and wait the | these plants jal in former times been employed for | expedition, “eal ‘of the novelties discovered by van 
forthcomi gts oT there is every prospect of | food. In the English Chronicle for 1377 to an pub- | which en the ‘hono f ding 
possessing many pl anı sorts at ete little lished by the SG Society in 1855, I find the | Society, I noticed the fact that, in almost ev bore 
trouble and less cost, and to me the waiti ving passage (p. 55) :—“ And the nea yeer aftir, | of P. nobili were being eaten by a small 
i cy is a source of very great er am - the xii yeer of Kyng Harri, the grete frost,” &c. | cate re i ene had found these caterpi in 
e interest, very opposite to the feelings e eee 4 cai nexte yeer afti well as in the mature cone, their 
on bl x of the sad Kaana now sent ou dert of corn in this land, the whiche endurid ii yeer, evidently having are deposited i in a kernel ror the 
prices nly be med disrepu fable the so fiat a bushelle of Whete was sold xLd., an e ae r two 
mildest term to ug ad this ‘traffic which is b poer peple in pa partiez of the North cuntre eet subsequent importations of seed. (the Ia last a very p large 
a serious evil and most disheartening to the amateur breed maad of rotes.” Thomas Bell, the Wakes, of the 
class; but such practices must in the end recoil o TA Aamitiation) proved to be also to a greater Saal 
those fers to them. ht of Beech wood.—Your correspondent should | infested by an insect. From these importations th ne 
Grape. —Enough has already-been sa 
yee the qualities of this Grape; but by way of en- 
ent see p. I will give ot 
. I bought a fine roe Vine of i 
he was st, sent oh Woe planted it in a lat 
urghs. It grew strongly the first 
season ; ited it veo have thrown a 
er following spring, 
a bun  roinód one almos 
bab ei 
w bunches | § 
W. 
at | are used to transpo: 
wo 
e third year it Pp 
thie is year e broke with the same success. 
1856 it yielded two 
e same seaso’ 
here it was 
On 
ung I think ot would 
No doubt 
Even 
bear x. pa every year, unless unches 
If ea 
ti 
A im when travelling, and from him t the stock h 
r = being 
PoE 
ppear young | 
which i was stomped by aha.’ The 
as on 24 hours i 
made unparalleled progress ; a Tot = was eat 
by again the third time 
ust named. 
bserve on the back of 
aii me he dried up 
green excrescences with 
which the under sides of Vine leaves are se affected in 
p ill houses 
Smoke a Remedy for Jor the Potato 
to ara it likely that seo 
wea u hink th 
ttack oes eoii 
smoke mena asr ak. that 
uantity 
em a a specimen of 
E aeaee, and i is is it ty ta ie realise the 
rmed of its beau’ I was not at _— 
first, tim 
this. spring, which ncconnte for thes diminished size of 
and flowers. 4 Dev 
Enid 
ery useful, so 
—In reference to an article in a late 
and 
A reee a strong Vine of the | one-t 
In 
’s | produce on 
it; in fact, ta agi it 
t 
Dr. Maclagan h mpared 
a eae nereifilia ket the Indian apen e vith 
d|b 
arrived here I have been unable to ascertain wi 
The fact that 
per 
pore 
. | any quantity till J 
52. These proved all erage and pasean had suffered | sand hills 
ravages of puet Mr. Beardsley | 
fro 
jand my brother next ii 
that a yoria rA B Bese we ighs 
; therefore a 
tlie ‘Temember 
not by 
hird heavier than ad Bee 
i ; and § x 109 = 
coal, we sha 
given by the eet eithoelites: Ad Ros 
Societies. 
o> wana Bowie Me May 14.—Prof. Balfour, 
., inthe chair. Among donations was a specimen 
W- Cider frota. Soe, from Mr. A. Hep 
Hepburn re —Three are of Atile produce | me 
bred the insect, and find that it belon genus 
earn, in or 0 
and in inn prae y 
sect eme sls , which 
case had they fallen victims r Ichneu ere 
thus appears no reason oubt that the larva in ques- 
tion is that of the Oaks “which afte 
and it follows as a corollary, 
one hogshead d cides (pure). 
ogs 
In Devonshire, this matter is overlooked. 
oe a tee aad 
the 
a 
Saata $ priere 
nett malic mt 
he new r 
ev 
nating, and ag somnolence and other cerebral pheno: 
ma being, in Dr. Maclagan’s goes probably as such 
thase 6 carat as of tru The: 
rs twood, 
of rh har the 
insects. came 
| orat from the normal mode of life of pem 
ich I had gi 
eds. | scribed only the ier not comes A seen then oe 
e proper preparation | i 
a | tively scarce. 
ears for herent sia the highest ape: | 
hire Hor kn 
atphtay ae bas satis factorily sh 
cidites, are Parasitio 
why a similar aber- 
should metiera, ip m The description of © 
the species is as follows te.—Since this paper was 
read to the Society, I have eae = April Num umber of the 
: ch I find th eee descri 
us — 
I see no 
pa 
E 
4 
E 
en it. 
.®© 
seems to antici = 
th, which 7 have anne hi ‘the iets bape 
The male is smaller than the fem ee diff 
r preve 
sible, is  ikely, I Nir, Ase Keep thie’ Pine always top 
it er- 
pea- $ 
young work order to into better- 
shape. In doing i a Tittle pi Feer the Hi fr artis and 
, of course, adhered to esh i 
time 
vomiting oti a e 
the cases contained ions plant sufficien 
enable Dr. Maclagan to identify it as Thevetia nereifolia 
Juss. (Cerbera Thevetia L.) This plant, now naturalised 
in ren apps ceo to have been introduced p robably eo 
South A 
peruvii Mathew’s catal 
had no tot of the identity of er’ tyre “ih 
are give synonym De Cand 
a Euit oe the a Tnsect which iots the Soult of 
Picea nobilis.” , Esq. F.R.S.E. This 
gs 
had'been potted an 
in the en i led: wor dia A of them would yten Eed. 
infiuen e Moon on Vege- 
The author alluded 
beautiful i ia (ie Picea nobilis) was as first intro 
ee into this the north-west of America, 
y Douglas, in 1831. Th what state the sont sent by him 
seem to indicate either that the quantities i imported by 
las w han we have to suppose, or 
other y batt not been uc- 
tive. essor Lindley informs me 
that he never irern thai E Dop s pr tions were 
- see Be bis tacked b y inea, Horticul- 
London 
r at the kind 
joka 
effrey sen e packages in 
ae sent e agra in 
n | moon mies gar 
the coast 
the preva 
= iraa is the time ien th the 
are garnis 
| fommha the growth of Lucerne in the plains and valleys 
home a quantity in| 
p 
| is greatly stinted. In these wet months, as they are called, , 
