THE GARDENERS* CHRONICLE. 



[Aug. 



e a serious annoyance tn I i" **•' °«**iik 

 »ts of Grass and othe^Sle? ^ S?J 



depth of 2 feet, where they become pupTtl* * 

 viouslyconsructed an oval cell, ve?^* 

 inside. In the following month of FebrtarT * h 



■■; 

 callet whic^mustTe afterwards XKj X? ** 



are'too wdi y awai°e o^tS* r^ *"* 



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cause Y 1 1 gnor * nt P ersons . been supposed to befe^J 



rmer mentioned by' Mr. SpL^fcf «^ft 



raws pull up all d' Grass, and*£ 



; d bairns to lung up some aud clonts to fiq ■ 



by deep masses of overhanging boughs, "and now 

 emerging upon open portions of lawns, bathed in a 



the deep green background • 

 bold rehef the noble Hollyh 



Most gardens admit only of two styles of arrangement, 

 sure ground. Although each is esse at i 

 should be no harsh separation. We shou: d 



' t no attempt 

 should be made to mix the I 

 Each has its own merits, each is adapted 



In extensive grounds the landscape gardener will 

 hare scope to apply another style— the natural. This 



masses of foliage. Here the Gora^and^rwD^ and 

 Heath creep down the slope to the very edge of the 

 abrupt bank of the river. As the bank - . 



noble mass of fohage. In planting or improving a 

 scenery hke this, there is ample scope for « massing" ; » 



i". But yet masses of flown 

 teoduced with exceUent effect. Acres of the yellow Gorse" 



away, gin he'd 



letten en alean they'd sean have 4J 



up all d' close 







ate ; thus Anderson in bis " ReerS 













er 100; and from experiments I*. 







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rs, which is employed in greasi™ ft 





Amphimalla 



8 July bug, is ne 

 le former, differing 

















ong, and may 1 



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rgans and flesh of the 

 greater extension, splits open and J 



period of its last moulting (and not before), . v 

 obtains fully developed wings, and is enabled to fly about 

 and propagate its species. Whenever therefore an 



ings, but also in its caterpillar state ; and 

 ly be seen at a glance at the accompanying 

 woodcut, the May-bug and July bug are quite distinct 

 from each other, belonging in fact to different modern 

 genera of the family Melolonthidse. The larger of these 

 two figures represents, of the natural size, the full- 

 grown male cockchaffer (Melolontha vulgaris), and the 

 lower figure is that of the curved larva from which it is 

 — ^..~ e d. The beautiful 7-branched fan-like antennm 

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■'-■ d pin, i .uir! \. , ich th« 



in their way. After coupling the male soon dies 

 he female deposits her eggs in the ground, digeine 









half way and grow just as he pleases ; sometiawl 



trained in the form of animals,*^* 



and deer, and at other times they weremi^ 



>le the pagodas, so common in the coonrj- 



The method of cultivating the CbrysMibw"^ 



supplied during the growing "™W"fj rfc. ** 

 visible in the luxuriant dark-green leaves 

 the plants. 



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 with due deference to Chines e tas U>h ^ 

 irettier than animals and MT f E . " tninei ^ 



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