662 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [SEPTEMBER 26) 1857. 
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oils the tubers are of all kinds of ugly shapes which , is J kg aek: H eii our, but larra while the latter is one | rare m moth, A Aplocera flavicincta, taken on 
ralas | them yeere although good fi i for t sha. Tie ha te argest Pears, and w Any inform aa a Schihalleon. Mr. Samuel Stevens ernie ae sr 
Sulphuring G —F send you the following inte- Biase ‘ats waa be thankf fully aE i pa Oce ijwa en of Dynastes Mars, taken by Mr. B ates on n the foo 
re a sein from ‘the Naib nal ro garding z the see Panne [To these questions: Mr. McEw wen replies as of the Tiver ‘Astin only two or three bh then 
n the —“ Baron de Forrester, to w or 
pat att dation: and particularly the Douro district, owes | if generally considered, table and ‘kitchen Apples. But as exhibited a number of fine insects recently colias 
so much, has made the g uy wil ie rts to discover aja general rule quality will regulate the decision on | Celebes by Mr. bape: aaa g new and if T 
remedy fo or fie Vine eais for h prais eworthy act geim ‘fruits, a bse! that on grem sorts. The s: ARETA 5 the genera Catadrom s, Papilio, Daag aoe 
re owe the good result uia Arian in the following | rale applies of course to Pea: ae vith greater fre, Cethosia, Mr. F. Bond exhibited three new or very 
rept We have seen samples of beautiful Grapes In the case of er soitin be ould prefer the petite, “of Tineidæ, recently reared by himself, Ei 
om the Vines in a certain Quinta in the parish of St. | Broom Park, as the. Bourn Sou pate such penia G. R. Waterhouse noticed the o > 
n of Covas, in the Douro, T a four A Ya va Windsor w would su mpr ybi in fla porn oak The ej knik ges are ian AL i pay rig on collections, ha hag 
not produced any fruit whatev nd bound t pare the same sorts when pla en chiefly confou wit ely rg 
For Sit obtained this in important Palt: by Pia ae ota a | petition, it w fon there are e different nds i in different notice by Mr. Steadman was read of ¢ the 
soln of the Pepi ide of calcium; and collections the task is more difficult, and each kind must | a web- Finning a species of Acarus on Fusliaise a and Bak 
has been most successful if we are to judge by the mag- | be judged on its sate kai and then co comae notes. In | sams. Various notices were comittiiabed by diff 
nificant bunehes of both black and white Grapes that we | such ane ieas sorts, as Winter Nelis, Ba evi &c., if | members o f the capture of specimens of the migratory 
seen and also te The Vines may ied Bie grown clean and late of. their kinds, ought to be classed | locust, at Primrose Hill, Willes esden, Brighton, the New 
by the farmers until the 15th of the pres as superior o such. sorts as Duchesse ee as hy Forest, &c: Mr. Samuel Stevens also mentioned the 
about which time it is mal probable the iter wt Beurré Diel, even though good of their kind. Thus| capture our a living specimen of Sphinx Nerii Rear 
commence.” The apanb also ae hes some corre- | flavour (not size), eae impi being pte, ought to Brighton. Some notes on the Habits of the Butterflies 
spondence concerning ohteey of Grapes tiie had rerttit w decisio ust admit that this view has | of the Amazon Valley, by Nir. Bates, were also read, 
t to Oporto ees at E ebbonges oe not been att ia be sally but it will so far as 
wae pie to their beautiful state, s ite mike n- | have influence.” ] Tue SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL § t has 
dered by the ov on mni way down, a very unusual Grapes at the Crystal Palace. Pecan your reporter’s | issued a very useful circular fn the form of a blank 
circumstance it untry ee Gr: rapes are genera rally favourable notice of our fruit at the last Crystal Palace | return to be filled up by the recipients. It includes not 
road as of li ttle walt, Im entio his in corr show one iwp ipt supposed that we ee a ave been | only the price of timber and bark, but the cost of day 
ration of the statement in ond Na acio mat It w pali ts | found among the successful exhibitors in the official list | labour and task. work ; and if fi ed u Pa iie A 
appear that sulphur has-once more vindicated its claim | of prizes. i “fin d, How wever, on refereing to that list that | and fally will form a body of v very important: statistical 
to be the conqueror of the Vine disease where people there i x no mention made of our three dishes, altho ough | information. We presume that it is sat to ont parts of 
have — ry and Ror Meann enough to t | w d, I believe, an equal first prize with Mr. Fleming. the United Kingdom, and not 
roperly.** v eh i ido first for the ait pect of Black “be gn The | Those gentlemen who have not recived a la, eop of he 
To Keep ruit from Wasps.—Place bits of lum Aber aed ought to be more pay icular. It is not. the-| form. in question will no hey be fur 
a the fo pit of a Tg sien about 2 feet apart: first t a similar occurren ii Yinppienedl ts me. | they apply to Mr. James Alexander, Sea to t H 
aod t the trees liable to their depredations. - Half a At “the fist o exhibition Ai ' Cod pany had, I was Arboricultural Society, 6, York Place, Edinburgh. 
of sugar is sufficient for a large Peach tree. | award prize for a single dish. of Peaches. 
e the bits of sugar securely. J. C. X., Weybridge. On pt kera Mr. ere had the credit and I i i 
A good plan of keeping fruit from fruit like to Woticeg of Books, 
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a thin layer of wadding over each fruit, Take care, the fates “of its Being faithfully recorded. Wm. Hill, 
heaven that the wadding is secured at the back of the | Gardener to R. Sneyd, Esq, F.HS., Keele Hall,| Lectures on Roman Smet pe delivered before’ the 
fruit, as the reer make many a dart to pull it off! A. | Staffordshire. [We can only repeat. that Mr. Hill’s| University of Oxford, Sc. By C. Da Daubeny, M.D., 
Barcey, Gibside, | three dishes of Grapes were in every respect first-class; F.R.S., Professor of Botany and karig cones 
How a White mites was got from a Purple one.— | productions, quite equal ps those of Mr. Fleming, and the Diiverit Oxfor d, Parker. a 
As nobody has answered Mr. maei! respecting. his gsi de E a first prize, which we hope it will be | In this t 
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ort ‘Araki ; nica:—I find t 
R. J. Coleman, Reis when Racine district (Norfolk). It will aie an Came 3 be iy power. T We es more. Ee le author. oo 
Bile Fortyfolds turned out one with a white eye; with the loss of more or less of the upper part of the | us an invaluable Comm n the hee as of 
that Potato was saved, and at. planting time the white branches from not having the pithy wood sufficiently | those old agricultural: apa upon a whoa N 
eye was cut out and replanted, and plenty of the said ripened. One severe winter a specimen I have was husbandry of Western Europe was: certainly 
White Potato was the result. I believe that I could | killed down to the ground, but it threw up a strong | This may be said without an: iskr 
get 50 sacks En Mr. aiki at 12. per sack of 12 pecks, 
hoot, which. i fine b hed t d h An iha Ts, 
shoot, which is now a fine brane ree and at the pre- | wh b: of th ients, with all its m is. 
Sim L D. ener, Cadbury House, Castle Cary, pre- | whose Husbandry of the Anci 
sent esami Bei sages Py thick clusters of its elegant,| immeasurably inferior to the volume before us. 
pale gree spikes of innumerable little| Dr. Daubeny ove is tas an examination 
Ribston P Pippin Apple.—T have to-day gathered flowers dob ieni thote « of the Vine, but smaller: The | of that “ first great book least understood” the crabbed. 
pe very yen galbe game mee of this Apple. I uation if spikes es vary from 18 inches to 2 feet in length, 6 or 7 Liber de re rustica of | am ae pani then follows a: 
the at Ribston ever bore finer fruit when of them branching off from the tip of each shoot, | notice of the three b he same subject by Varro;: 
in its sens “Tiia I could find weighed exactly and contrasting with the darker green of bi handsome | the remainder of thea a A portion o of the lectures’ 
11 02.;;.it {is a handsome finely shaped fruit. any | Fern-like leaves beneath them. I find some protection | is occupied by cm more ample important 
of -rI a heavier fruit of this kind? IZ Saul, in winter advisable, and simply effected by a double | treatise of Bs ee with frequent dies to the 
Stourton, a tia: oo gas» phay-band y mappi close round the spiny stem an rgics and Pliny’s Natural History. It will thus be 
Pm ur mae rass d setina ospe o ren, ri ches tig hae thi o bottom. vr When e is eee in | seen that the agricultural reader’s ay te is confined 
D: KA 1 with spikes of (the spring extremities are generally dead, but it | to the Roman practice of farming u 
feet high, i is now in bloom at Chelsea. Is it the fine. breaks freely immediately below, and throws out stout} of the. first puite our oe Nee oursélves we 
> er that has caused it to flower and grow so beau- | shoots which flower in autumn. I know of a tree how- | should have wished to see the fourteen books of 
tifally > S. A. R. ever, if it may be so called, which has no protection at | Palladius examined with the sere 
Manuring Forest Trees.— Your “ Enquirer,” who all in winter, and is 10 or 12 feet high, flowering freely, displayed in the comments on his predecessors, for thus. 
wishes to have recommended a gi manure for forest. The Paulovnia imperialis shows abundance of flower | would have been shown what changes 400 years had 
trees, cannot do better, I think, than when digging ae this Ried after the hot Haig which however will produced. This would be the more interesting incom 
among them, as proposes, to inco Digan with the dly co to perfection. The Yucca loriosa has also aaa with the eno oe rise in the price of 
clayey soil as much good turfy loam or any well en- | rrien inam of places, K.——We have aplant | agricultural produce till, in the time o f Diocletian, 
riched garden soil as he possibly can ; but I would of Aralia growing in the shrubbery here that was ied of beef or mutton ido above han tp dried 
O p f $ 4 of coarse br or caligæ abo 17s. T the 
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they not attempt to penetrate the clay. | stems,thelarge one 15inches, an 'thesmallerone 10 inches |. i : bushels of were WE 
It i is.a Wall ices fact that fresh. soil laid down on. the in rari at about ar fromthe ground ; at pre- pe ay od ta Socks, eon buy a a coat. 0 
AR E fhe ground in the immediate ea upi rhood sent it has 20 reed s flowers on it at the points of |. Palladius, who is supposed to have lived a century tat 
rae &c., soon becomes vith the roots, s growing in rich sandy loam, | would perhaps be found, when studied with the acute~ 
and. ii O the trees a and any protection except a ‘Tittle ean Fern ness of a critic like Dr. Daubeny, to have thrown so 
‘at oi, i was | by oe Tn this dilemma, 1 have taken the li 
app ly you for advice, and trust you will be able to 
Nenad wat Theriot of t assist me. F. M. [You can drive away the. ants un- | in 
oti mpg eather. G. Cooke, Badger | light upon so deplorable a state of society. em 
ents his Calendar of rural work is a curious 900 
nd Wall Ties. —I reside at grisea and rates his li m. about grafting, or as he ane 
1 in my garden Within thee lást Ekee aiis Si thalami specie felices jung it fer sor, 
lly 2 ri CE ub es jungere i 
e Fowever, Pars have so infested the walls as to ee yeas Ut soboli mix atrigat re gpm moe fot ee 
: ‘faun of my choicest fip Loe will be useless to | is. worth examination, and ve at AT with the i 
e expense of planting others, unless ess T can get | subject e Oxonian I unde iè i 
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WC. owth of iei growing questions Asean Peruvian guano. in. their|. We cannot hae oie to follow vaca 
guano, nests and runs. ne détails 0 Bap agric ultare as 
to Pines or P Contferons plants af| Hareest Bugs.—*Cornubia Dolorosa” ( ) | Cotimell ape 
p. 646 
will n T be voheved of harvest bit 
ing ree Zi the application of vinegar, but very scrote Mbr) 
e will prev any such future attacks.. After w 
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“age the arm or leg with such soap,.and she | however" serv: ra 
i happy in her skin eke. Marei eredite, ie oe a Leap ggtr va elucidated: when ser et é 
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