i-1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



i, the tree, r w»- which w iU root immeai 



rf the best ^ ^^'fat management of these cutnngs 



tfd let the «d tobe «je J ^ 4 jnche8 fee buj 



taSSJdoa the buds to be preserv 



^ttKe Tire positive 

 suckers proceeding 

 \m parts of the stem 

 previously no bud. Do all you can to 

 J,d its existence must then be provid 

 w manner afterwards, should it occi 

 h«ds, and they may then be placed in the situations 



rtXds or espaliers, the latter mode being adopted 

 with success especially in the case of those Gooseberries 

 rf a trailing habit of growth, peculiar to some of the best 

 varieties, which makes it very difficult to form a good 



the training of the bush must 'be regulated from the 

 first, bo as to make it an espalier or standard. In both 

 cases avoid /lose planting, by which nothing can be 

 gained, but most probably much will be lost. Keep the 

 •oil around them free from weeds, and dig in every year 

 a little well rotted dung. To prevent the ravages of the 

 caterpillar, it has been recommended to remove the 

 surface soil every autumn, and replace it with fresh, 



eggs are deposited near the trees, and are thus 

 removed. A little quicklime sprinkled over might be 

 equally effectual. 1 must confess I feel a little ashamed 



preserve a compact and open arrangement of 



•wot the older wood, and introduce young shoots ii 

 place. Gooseberries and Currants bear ou last ye 



itbe^cut TowntoSn' "* '** nmA >. ^^ 

 "jjjW, tor the future enlargement of the tree. The 

 «pian may be adopted with the Gooseberry, but it 

 crowded dlsadv antage ; the fruit will be too 



Peudent fom t ° f P ro P er e *pansion, whereas the 



I bunch of Currants allows o 



<iX? n e fruk is " 



btis <:ne8atonce ^ n ° on P rac '»ce of stripping whole 



Tbj Entomology 



U lT i Hthkh ft a t t ? i L nUt fu tWO - win g ed ' fl ?' Previously 

 , 0l we basU* i entirely valueless for the 



S|S tb •«"?£• P ? e t insect w . hose hi8tor ? 



T?** or hurdl P r, , ' ren ^ering them unfit for 

 £ r Dar Hornet Mmlfi 8 P J ar P < *«- T *»* insect is 



J ft** (*«>L i„ STfT* ° f the Linn *an Society 



gjM* 6-10), under the name 



5?- ^t which ' Z, **', l rom its resemblance to a 



^ &ee Poens,ith ag l ~> althou gh adopted by Donovan 



^°C T S U8ed X some' co a minent r al J write™ for 

 ^ »Pifcrmt Tit" ° f hornet motl ° 8 - which ™ the 

 £.***» nad«, I„ lnDffiU8 - The species is therefore 



•alpi are yellow. The thorax h 



wo rather obscure lunate marl 

 s of the hind part of the 1 



ark veins, margins and fringe along the apical n 



tie thighs are brown, with the tibise very densely clothed 



This is a comparatively rare species, occurring 

 ver, in many widely-dispersed localities, and app 

 winged state in July. I have met wit 



r grounds on the Surrey s 



respecting its habits, t 

 " " Sallow (S 





bout June. 



The Rev. W. T. Bree, in an article upon this insect, 

 mblished in the first volume of the " Magazine of Na'nrai 



and slight:.. 

 brown spot formed by the spiracles ou each side of each 

 joint of the body above the legs. It t\, 



mt which we believe the larva itself has the instinct to 

 uake, spinning some webs together to form a defence 

 luring the helpless period of its chrvsalis state, but not 



Mr. Bree notices that in the neighbourhood of Coven- 

 , when the periodical fall of the coppice wood takes 

 ce, he has observed that scarcely a single Willow 

 nd is cut down that does not exhibit proofs of the 



s separate perforations occurring in the same stem ; 



53 



narily sold to the rake-maker for the purpose ol 

 being worked up into rake teeth, or converted into 

 flakes, i.e. hurdles made of split stuff nailed together (in 

 contradistinction to the common hurdle, which is formed 

 of round wood twisted and plaited together without the 



of this insect, the lower, and consequently the thickest 

 portion of each Willow rod, to the length of 5 or G ins., 

 isionally a foot or more, is spoiled and rendered 



bis premature decay being probably, in part at least, 

 wing to the injury inflicted at the base of the stems by 

 le larvse of the insect. 



As the female moths are very sluggish and easily per- 

 eived on the stumps of the trees within which* they 



> be adopted for the prevention of the inj 

 ley inflict appears to consist in carefully examining the 

 oles and stumps of the trees at the beginning of July, 

 as soon as the empty pupa cases are percvi 

 ing half out of the apertures formed for the escape of 

 "he moth, iu the immediate vicinity of which the moth 

 ill be found, and may be easily destroyed. J. O. W. 



Home i 



Importance of h 



plants cultivated in 

 egetable produc 

 ally separated 



gardens. There are cong 

 ions of every clime, and tl 



nes, in apparent oblivion of the gradation of tempera 

 re which obtains from the equator to the poles. Tak 



; guides and rem 



iged. Look among the actual scenes of cultiva- 



and in probably ninety out of every hundred iu- 



;es they would be found so arranged in practice. 



: S the green- 



n borders for those of colder e 

 obably be found a cold frame for such of the 

 as may be thought to require shelter from 

 ?his is usually the sum of all the accommo- 

 provided for the shelter of ax 



and in large establishments, 







is Camellia 



high state of perfection, w 



be sacrificed, or 1 



r ; 



re than is generally believed; they are ik 

 ly stove plants at all, but beloDg to one or otht 

 i to make proper provision in garden arrange 

 i necessary is kept up in structures devoted t 

 ions of so called stove plants ; and probably a 

 lantewill bear, and be benefited by r , ceivi; •_- 

 gree of heat than is usually given them at nig] 



at rest. Hence, as all the plaits in a house mu 

 mitted to the same treatment 



fully as they would, because few under sucli 

 ances can afford to invest th- 

 v „_ rhich surround them. The plant stove is. in 

 such cases, for the most part required to It 

 oasis in the desert. As to the rest, most of the good gar- 

 of the present day are prepared to adopt, and 

 ' low night temperatures, as might be 

 .roved ; and admitting and adopting the 

 few indeed, if any of them, would have reason 

 oppose the carrying out of that principle to the 





which they happen to be placed will allow. They will, 

 be passed with impunity in this no less than in other 



