CHRONICLE. 



trchant and planter, 

 tovernment (Cotton 



nlrket G 5SS 



uckpore. " India 

 sight of success ; 



•upi '.•.' 

 3 30th of 

 reporting 



ily three months old (when thev should t 

 gour), appear entirely exhausted. They "were 

 Dg up to the 15th inst., at which 

 me the fruit commenced falling without heing 

 uched by the worm ; " others, on the best soil of 

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xiched hythem immediately falls off. "All the 

 rst foliage has .hied and dropped off; the plants 

 v now putt ng out a few sickly shoots from the 

 ;> : - I. which may produce Cotton, but such a 

 suit is scarcely to be hoped for." 



these unfavourable appearances, 

 S on the 1st December, that 

 the 11th September the plants 

 ■gan throwing out new shoots, and the major part 

 these continued to improve up to the present 

 me, and have now more blossoms on them, and 

 ate as good a prospect as at any time during the 

 ason ; and he inquires. ■■ Has the American Cot- 

 »n plant elsewhere ever manifested such a remark- 

 He example of premature decay and complete 



had "been quite different from t 



that yearth re was rathei v scareih of , n thi« 

 «w»on has been a very wet one, the old plants 



nn r ipr,m: r i t„ y,,U 

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:"!., \ 

 ' on of Cotton on this 



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tained from worms and insects," and that the plants 

 will vield a very fair produce ; a quantity of cup? 

 (Cotton with the seed) is already collected, and 

 think from the quantity of pods yet on the plants, 

 that 30 or 40 maunds will be collected during this 

 and the next month ; while of a small portion, 

 planted on a spot freshly cleared from jungle, he 

 says on the 8th of January, " The American is 

 without doubt, the best I have seen since I hav< 

 been in the country ; the plants are weighed " 

 with the fruit, and 





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ted States. If 



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400 lbs. of cupas per a 



o be regretted that Mr. Blount's engagement 

 ring nearly expired, the experiment was not re- 

 ited, with his improved information ; foritappears 

 have been prematurely considered to be an entire 

 lure, as neither the soil nor the culture best suited 

 the climate, nor the causes of failure, had been 

 :ertained. A horticulturist here might as reason- 

 y conclude that Fuchsias could not be successfully 

 >vered, because full grown buds fall off in such 

 mbers, when plants are removed from a greenhouse 

 a warm and dry room. Though 



shedding of the 1 



js, and the falling of the bolls, 

 found to be connected with the change of 

 climate which takes place at the conclusion of the 

 rains. That is, from heat and excessive moisture, 

 with a cloudy sky, to a bright and powerful sunshine 

 with great evaporation, and then to comparative cool 

 and clear weather, with much dew. It was at this 

 time that the plants were found to revive and bear 

 a crop, though they were supposed to have been ex- 

 hausted. A little irrigation, as practised in many 





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Count Le Lievr, of Ville sur 

 gentleman of great horticultural 



He plants in a greenhouse the soundest 

 Potatoes he can find ; and when the stems are well 

 in leaf he layers their points. As soon as the 

 points are rooted, they are sepai A - J ' 



parent with a hall of earth, and t 



transferred 



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rthanahe^ . 1 ^^^: 

 Aoso withiniaj 

 Iso nimblT ^^ 



th supplies for the brood, while thoseWhL*?!** 

 fonl 'to "orient"™ 7 ^ iD8ide C ° ating8 SaT*" 



upon and devour many noxious insects law-P,? 

 themselves ; still they are friendly one withjldu 

 but as they lay up no store, not even one dai'i^w ' 

 they possess nothing worth pillaging. WeconJSri ' 

 need not wonder at seeing wasps foraging ££2* 

 for food for their craving young. This desS2 

 a wasp's nest must be supposed to be taken fej^ 

 " a large cavity or suspended from a bn*h £ 



small stone in its mouth ; when heavy, they droo tW 

 load near the entrance, and it accumulates into afc 

 heap, which may lead to the discovery of th* -J- 

 ""-- "per of the Vespa vulgaris, or common J!t 

 , this quarter, is like that of the Vespa «&» 

 (hornet), very brittle, of a sandy brown colour, like a, 



of a bluish colour, and of much firmer textoit 



similar to the paper of the tree wasp, which is ran a 



tliis locality. The nests of the two last are mow * 



aedto damp than the others, consequently they moor 



be made of better materials. V. rufa dwell. .*,. 



>und and prefers wet places, even the very tot* of 



terials, for after the real object of the founder! of the 



and females), the reari 



" e upper or first-fc 



t off and wrooght over 

 for the purpoM jut 

 ibsence of cells in the 



such tubers, if used for seed 

 in the following year, produce a crop entirely free 

 from disease. This is one of the few proposals 



The time bein at ha^h ' w 



ay not only be interesting, but also suggest the best 

 eans of destroying them. It may be needless to 

 ention that however strong a colony of wasps may be, 

 ey are all the offspring of one solitary queen, who 

 ;gan the nest in the end of spring. Though well 

 iiTnesti WU1 UOt Sttike WhW1 d ' lSturbed . at he * work - 

 mufactui - -x th its strong mandibles from the fibre 

 decayed wood. In order that the foundation should 



_assai 



abroad late in autumn, in search of food. As the season 

 to a close, the workers begin to desert the neat, 



P lTfiwor 



it of destroying wasps' nests, 

 it by gauze * ett ™f™W% 



s escape to attend on the b 



m:r 



Professor Henslow's simple plan of pouring at*** 

 wineglassful of turpentine into the holes "d eWJS 

 them, and giving a trifle, even only \d. a »" 

 queens in spring, similar to the plan adopted bj * 

 Earl of Traquir and others, those swarming phj* 

 would be much fewer in our land. J. Wiyhlon. 



: tne dsso »» "^ 

 111 t™^ S - k" 6 ° r five , Cell f. Sim,lar t0 those of hive a PP ears to me advisable to found a system of «£*J 

 nrT, Z v? * f. be,n ? c , urved a «*«e at the lower . k it necessary to examine tbe»£ 



anwn w L B ° 14 m tl lt lan ' fe ' ? h ° Be hCadS are <*< ****** Wi f ""SS 



ZTSj""? the mouths of I ; -ms, and to fix onr"JJ 



TSTil ! eDded by a ^ Terin g about th «nt question! Bearing in »"j"J 



k aTwt th? o»K *in n j,Ihv n V ?he queen, who of course! I have undertaken to write for the huWJJ j, 



K.r/Jfilj ^n 3 ' ,nhabltant ; lays an egg in eat!: • .- little or not at »U **%& 



days, and the voracious grubs are carefully fed by the 

 mother until they close the cells wif 

 web. The workers appear in about two weeks ; after 

 too heavy _ with^ggT to°oe able to fly fheJtime is solely 

 occupied m depositing them. The workers>on become 

 numerous, and the little structure increases fmm „„„ 





species oi vitality, oy wnicu ^j «- --- --^t i* 



reproduce themselves. They have for tbffl P^bkh 

 power of assimilating, like them also, the ^^Af 

 they suck up, and of discharging themselves ^ 



sients which are useless to them, and whirt ^ ^ 

 remained with them might impede the <u-r .jjt 



