THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



kind advantageously, depends in no small degree upon 

 those for whose guidance such papers are intended. 

 If the possessors of suburban gardens will supply 

 hints, and explain their wants as they arise, in- 



tinually furnished. But as we have no peculiar 

 power of diving into the recesses of our readers' 

 minds, or of peeping over every hedge or wall 

 round London, we may, in the absence of hints 



and explanations, misunderstand what is expected, 

 and occupy space with instructions which may 

 not be required. In the meanwhile Mr. E. O.'s 

 note serves fur the present as a supply of hints, 

 and as a declaration of the course by which we 



margin of beds containing taller plants, where it forms 

 admitted, however, that this pretty little plant 

 Petunias, Salvias, and many other bedding plan 



on the white Lily, and nai 

 a merdigera by Linnt 



! fbTfeivtTo 



f the leaves. They were at this tim 



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ery shining body, andquite ualih 

 l is represented in this state on the 

 lanying drawing, and its appearance 

 the slime, is shown in the small fig 

 the right side of the plate, and its magnified represen- 

 ts with fine short 



wnish towards men 

 a of the Asparagus 



[both on its upper and under surfaces], 



other instances they had occasioned ochreous spots 



which are extremely sluggish in their 

 n cocoons of white opaque silk in the roll 



were placed, within which Zey changed 1 to pupa at the 

 beginning of J u l y , aD d i n a f ew weekg the perfect 

 insects were developed, which proved to be the beautiful 

 Crioceris melanopa of Linnffius and all subsequent 

 authors, f This pretty insect, which belongs to the 

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ft °a Tusk? mm head* and black "aT 17° C ° l0Ur ' 



nctures. an/the thighs IndVbteare reddish with 

 J tarsi Mark. In the perfect state " 

 ited all over Eng 

 ited of the natural size creeping 



- DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



{Continued fro„i p. 309.) 



[. — Disevsfs Constamit Ste\ical, that I 



; l ^ se ag^. or the separate and prepon 

 mses which produce in plants the diseases 



• it, or rather 

 f bulbs ; * si ng i e 



itionof them may be 'hurtfuT'L 

 smade more than it should " 



produce themselves not only by their seedj bot,£! ?" 

 means of buds, like trees. There are oC «L* 



should only be produced at the undergrottS'lLiS!. 

 of the plant— as, for example, in the Onion, the iv ? 

 &c, which bear seeds at the summit of their «3.' 

 and form bulbs underground. It may, however *£ 

 times happen that bulbs are produced, together «I 

 the seeds, at the top, as we see in the Garlic o! Z 

 gardens ; or that in the axils of the leaves, or on oV 

 parts of the plant, little bulbs may form which on"- 

 only to be found at the root. Thus Curtis and Dm ! 

 have observed bulbs on the stalk of one of our cos 

 monest plants, the Ranunculus ficaria. la th*t 

 instances the vegetable is, strictly speaking, out nf% 

 natural state, although it appears perfect. Bat"; 

 must be observed that plants which often abound b 

 such productions easily degenerate. I do not venturs 



gathered in the Apennines a plant of Dentaria buibifen. 

 Removed to my garden, it bore flowers and leeds 



i lerably. Lastly, I h 



capable of supplying vigorous plants. Although di- 

 cotyledonous ones, they are much more frequent amon; 

 Truly, the knowledge of this species of disorder, con- 



- ■ ■ '„■'-.;■,,. s < .V f. 



tion, which the most frequently will return »» 



primitive form, when deprived of the superabundant 



.phenomenon. The alpine meadov 



i (Poa alpina), has a variety termed viviparous, 



f male organs; single species.-lt cannot well 

 latter of doubt, that every flower has a pre-dete rwjej 

 umber of organs of generation, for securing the rep 

 uction of the species : although it is true that m 

 lasts we are but little acquainted with them. IJW£ 





