J8—1849. 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



Clotes.— There are two species of this odour or oil, . was of very little depth in proportion to the r. 

 ft, one distilled from the Clores, the other from the ments of the roots for their extension and suppo: 

 b- i of the Caryophyllus aromaticus. Their fragrance I am persuaded that although it may be more easy to 

 ^ B,ble each other ; the former is most in use by the ; prevent than to cure this disease, by adapting the plants 



jEperfumes, and also for mixing with Lavender oil jects are not old the cure may' be attempted*" It would 



Florence seeds of the variegated curled Kale. Upon 

 •owing it repeatedly in Lombardy, I could scarcely raise 

 tore and there a plant which showed some slight trace 

 "spots. And this always happened the first year only; 

 ttesecond year the whole crop entirely resumed the 

 r™ c ™. This perfectly agrees with; the above 

 *?&r e 8oil of L °ml>ardy being much richer than 

 J* of Tuscany, by the abundance of nutriment it affords 

 »• plants, puts them into such a state that they fulfil 

 w tneir functions without the least trace of weakness. 

 ** the same reason all variegated plants, of which we 

 »*ive the seeds from Paris or London, soon become 

 PWeetly green with us : that is caused not only by our 

 *» soil, but by the action of heat. The French them- 

 Hjjyjji 1 that with aU tneir care the Melons of Paris, 

 J"oor of our Italian one's ; and who will not admit that 



g* W* of them as are near the surface of the earth. 

 «J£ w «?*' "Pe^y with krge trees. The Elm 

 JJ*» Maple have them often. The Olive tree is in 

 ^e^countnes very much affected with them. The 



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^emselves freely, and in some cases to 

 2* Proportion to the wants of the plat 

 "J«7ed .the roots deformed bv these call 

 ffituTn 8 naturaU y 8 terile, but also in those deep 

 ^^^^eallositiea must not be confounded with t 

 ■Owrt.^? 8 ' . often of consi derable size, caused 

 3 ■ rf^ or '"J" 1168 ; those of which I speak sho* uu 

 li^H"™* 1 ° r ° f external disorganisation. They 

 IK? ? vw * **&*" in form - aDd have of ten the 



earth. The perfect insect appears at the beginning of 

 August, in the shape of a minute black-winged sawfly 

 (Foeuusa pumila), measuring about one-eighth of an 

 . and about a quarter of an inch in the 

 of the fore wings. It is glossy black, the ab- 

 """•*! the lega 

 e tip, dusky 



Fir plantations. But othe 



which they adopt for concealing a " ' " 

 ves ; thus the Slimy Grub or Sli 

 Pear and Cherry (Gard. Chron., p. 692, 1842) i 



species (Selandria JSthiops, Gard. 

 Chron., p. 524, 1848), feeds on the under side of the 

 " ' aves, leaving the upper surface of the leaf en- 

 a defence. Other species peculiar to the Rose 

 zel form remarkable moveable spiral tents or cases 

 >rtions of leaves, in which they reside (c.arri. 

 , p. 684,1847) ; whilst anotherspecies, first observed 

 by us, materially injures the Apple crop, the larva 

 eating the core of the young fruit (Gard. Chron., p. 852, 

 1847), exactly in the same manner as the Apple 

 Tortrix ; another species (in the same way as the 

 Cynipidae) forms and inhabits galls on Willow leaves 

 (Nematus intercus), long ago figured by Swammer- 

 dam, and whose history has again been recently 

 published by Leon Dufour, in the Annales of the 

 French Entomological Society. Other remarkable mo- 



jung shoots of Roses, by burrowing into anc 

 5 upon the pith ; and we now publish the historj 

 ither species, which mines the leaves of the Rasp 



::r :', 



i of July, 1847, we 

 ery fine Raspberry 



s covered with large 



an pruned moderately close, upon the spur 



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Km ing season, accompanied 



. The bunches are thinned 



ood being but moderately strong. The bunches are 

 ily of moderate size, but well thinned in the berries, 

 hich are large and well coloured, and covered with a 

 eautiful bloom, all of the sorts being Black Hamburghs. 

 hroughout the whole house there is not an imperfect 

 unch or an ill-coloured berry ; they are produced in 

 style worthy of the first gardeners of the age. Let 

 te amateur, therefore, not despair of being able to 

 trnish his table with good Grapes of his own growing. 

 ittle is wanted to do this except courage and perse. 



mber Dueau.-Thm year has baffled the skill of 



f our most experienced Cucumber growers to 



; that fruit in perfection. We had little direct 



e up to the 1st of Jnne, except a few bright 



K>ut Good Friday. Under such circumstances, 



or gout, or whatever you like to call it, killed 



rhich I treated 



mine this spring was as follows : When the mould, to 



the amount of about 25 or 30 cart-loads was put into 



o solid manure to tl 



. very regular in form, and have often the 

 g*J«boils, by which name I should have designated 

 SniW*' had not the word already so 

 ■"•nXff* .^Almond an 



2**h'eh w,th us are the most frequently covered at 

 la.^ .?, ,. these callosities. The distin- iirty green caterpillars, furnished with ; ration from the leaves was carried on so Blowly thia 



*J snrfT ^^ most "g"K> M : '. and a pair (!) of anal pro- | drop of water for two months after they were planted. 



feseences. The assertion of first segment next to the bead I ns from saddles on the hot- 



=-rvedly recognised by the i nt, the head fulvous ; the * moisten the 



SWlT™^ 8 * 8 of the a S e ' confirms 



0fij£ I , hav e formed, thatth* -a > 



CL^ted in Italy, and 



^nea? I f eXteDd,is the P rim a r y 





plant or Ml 



i in the greatest leaving the exnvia within the blotch. When full grim u - n. a season like 



the vegetable soil | they eat their way out of the blotch, which by this time | the past, and with the addition of water now and then, 



