52—1819.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE; 



have been refused for a single specimen ; they are 

 perfect keeping with everything around them, althouj 

 merely employed as garden ornaments ; for it would I 



ornamented in the most costly and elegant manner, 



arrangement. Placed at regular distances from these 



In the other divisions of this garden a marble f 

 of appropriate size is placed in the centre of each 

 partment. A beautiful screen of Chinese tile con 

 the two ends of a semicircular bower. The beds (in ! 

 pattern) are relieved by straight lines, and filled with 

 various coloured Verbenas ; other beds contain 3 * 

 Dahlias, variegated Pelargoniums, Salvias, Ln 



across, gilded in gold, and filled 

 irgined wit! 



i dangle in the air in front of the gilding 

 i scroll heads, and at the termination of stra 

 S3, are IrUh Yews, Gold Yews, and Chines Junij 

 ; into different forms and strictly artificial. The 

 peer-beds are all relieved with broad walks of Grass 



g confusion. The n 

 ured shrubs, which a 

 o form, are disposed and contrasted with the marble 

 tuary is cleverly done, great judgment and taste be 

 [uired to obviate the appearance of repetition : 

 leness. To effect the utmost harmony and to bl 

 i various sculptured ornaments with the ornamei 

 ■ubs, it became necessary that these shrubs sho 

 a partake of an artificial character ; hence they h 



ing, or anything 



ich, and these are formed in the most j 



st be observed here that picturesque gardening 

 ling whatever to do with the subject 

 ation. The grand object, as must be apparent, 

 l to attain the most eminent position which the 

 s used could possibly command ; these ma 

 'es have been selected with every regard t 

 ateness, and without any regard as to 

 s or the difficulty by which they could be pro- 



RESEARCHES ON THE SUGAR-CANE. 



The following" are the conclusions to which the author 



has been led by his researches on the Sugar-cane :— 



red and intermediate (mulatres) soils, especially if they 

 are to a certain extent run out. This Sugar-cane then 

 becomes more woody and less sweet ; nothing then but 

 crystalline and ribbon Canes ought to be set in such 



all the analyses of the Sugar-cane made up to the present 

 time ; inasmuch as, being made on variable quantities 

 of Cane, without any distinction as to the part of the 

 plant analysed, they never give the true mean saccha- 

 rine richness of the individual examined, and are thus 

 very likely to mislead the planters. 3. That to form 



rithmetical progression from the 

 le plant ; and that, if in the othei 



diminishes as we approach the top of the lower third 

 part of the Cane's length; but if we take the mean 

 Quantity of the central third, and also of the upper 

 third ; we find that in them the quantities of sugar are 

 nearly equal. It follows from this that from and after 

 the first appearance of the central third, the distribution 

 of the sugar is nearly uniform. 3. That in the lower 

 two-thirds of the Cane the mean quantity of ligneous 

 matter is pretty well the same ; the same quantity, or 

 rery nearly so, being present in each of the lower and 

 middle thirds; but in the upper thirl 



reason that the mean quantity of woody matter in the 

 ttpper third is much leas than that of the two lower. 

 4. That the quantity of sugar in the middle third is 

 pretty nearly the mean quantity in the whole Cane. 

 if were not for the knots, there would be, in 



the Cane. 6. The knots do not, as asserted by M. 

 - i difference of nearly 4 per 



same is true with regard to the joints 

 lamedifference betweet ' 



wuerin two join 



ug how to weigh dry and boil the Sugar- 

 , either distilled or condensed in the steam 



hing hut the multiplication and division ol 



I Rendus. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



of tropical regions, for i 



fire places, and the field < 

 being expr 



the different species), and at once calling to mind the 

 structure of the fore legs of the mole. Another pecu- 

 liarity is, that the fore tarsi, although broad and three- 



peculiarity dependent on the subterranean habits of th 

 species, which of course render such an instrument n. 

 iry. The female forms a large cavity in t* 

 by means of her strong fore legs, within whic 

 she deposits her eggs from which the young are hatche 

 in rhe form of thrir parent, except that they are et 

 tirely destitute of wings and wing-covers, 

 recently hatch 



*t feeds. (Nonv. Cours. d'Agricnlt, v., p. 163) ; 

 ild kept a specimen for months, feeding it on ants, 

 Mr. Wighton kept six of different ages in a box of 



ised to eat the roots of different plants given them, 

 attacked each other ; they also ate grubs offered 



ificial to the gardener. According, however, to 



r animal, and that of 



Turpin also observed that some 



dmirable essay upon the anatomy of 

 Philosophical Mngazino " for 1825, 

 ;estive organs of this insect more 

 » bird than of any 

 >d they preferred 



at greediness, and 

 without food, they 



» height, M. 



U.L the' fourth 

 > West Indies, 



r commits great ravages t 

 s in those islands, of which 

 unicated to the Entomological Society by Mr. 



theory this may possibly appear correct, but in practice 

 much of the analogy is lost ; and when we come to 



sant with the skill of our best gardeners can abon- 



dantly testify. This success is to be attributed in a great 



e to a knowledge of the connection between light, 



ent of vegetable life. Air and hgl 



It would appear that many persons consider a plant- 



>use as an illuminated prison, in which plants may 



sickly for their own especial gratifies ion. They 



hedgerows to obstruct the light, and pre* 



to the moving air. Descend into the sheltered plant*- 



