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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JANUARY 16, 166, 
£ +} +} 
perity ; and it is not too much t 
admirable moderation and proe lr those pov 
could bs have then been carried out. M y^ hey udg with 
consummate T and irresistible kindlin ner, 
h to harmonize opinions mh aren nily ihe 
s for the e a: of 
a dissentient 
M. of w ‘ing d sted are the 
Weeping ‘Willow, in many stp "with th ese 
insect 8, 
Oxford pecies of Salix are Er a 
seasons is en div “destroyed by this 
s. pentandra, S. decipiens, ard S. nigricans T 
Th 
them.” (W. Curtis, in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. i.) 
subject to its atta cks, and 8. viminalis, o 
Musk bs En 
Ps * 3 ri 3. hI 
HI L 1 H 
but "t extent, attacks Willow t trees; 
not he. same 
whilst a phe bembeciforme or lunar I 
easuy 
n 
um 
moth, is very nan to Salix Caprea, the most vi 
able of the British Willows, the cater pillars boring 
i248 1.4) 
practi 
meetings of the Society, at which he 
as the Tels and that amongst pes the oldest 
tion. 
th 
mo. 
Even the twigs and young dod are yes. into 
gation 
E 
ES HH 
re FFTSSEBHI 
of qf. sho mid dg hee Beatle and eve 
ed. 
eminent s cie entific ‘men in Lond 
f life, Dr. . Bo ott w 
rco of character, bowndles d 
b 
reat t for 
literatur ig 
SA bar Cecidomyia, of which we e have given instance 
in our articles on erage viminalis, Gardener 
Ton le, 1847, e um C. saliciperda, Gar 
m^ Chronicle, 1563, 
the most ine us of these Willow-bur 
rowing iia is a species of weevil, which wo 
ei 
pictures, chier Py: modern Arias selected without 
T rd to names, but with 
rmony of colour ud truth of expression ; 
as select as were his € and all h 
keeping. When 
his 
tockings, for the| 
v bes iat that sombre colours could not but | 
suggest gloomy ideas to the sick ; and was o one of the first 
y be suspected of being s 
the e name, Carculio Lapathi, w 
| Linnzus, and which, ved gp ay its re, 
it still retains, and secondly, because the inju zi ig | 
‘attracted to the spot by dope sap an 
rotten sawdust- like chips of won made by the larvze of 
the. weev vil, hav ave been erroneously considered as the 
Mr. W. 
who adop 
of dressing in ordin In doin g this| 
Dr. Boott adopted the ri Pipe coa "p ‘it butt ons, d buff | 
referred to, n the history of idula grisea, a 
vest of the pert, which he continued to wear o the | small beetle, the arre of whicl yA had found in tl 
ious parts of | the si ies na 
last, and with which d 
urtis, in the article 
in the first ime i the Siren "Transactions above 
Nit 
ld A Mo 
such a culprit, first from | du 
which was applied to to it by | it i 
in a Wardian ca: is sti 
gorgeous whorl of vivid scarlet es measure 
49 inches in diameter, and the plant from which it was 
cut bore three other flower heads of similar 
plants in one stove, 
| | growing ai 8 and 9-inch pots, and having from four t 
eads on each pen nt, and that many ared 
less than his personal friends, will ever associate him. In 
person he was so tall and thin as ng to suggest ill. 
health, and the refinement of h 
is manners, his|found specimens of the i dn insect (not very unlike | useful to our readers, I venture to furnish you wil 
expression, address, and bearing, were in perfect keep- | the common bed-bug in size and app gii: in the} t hem. T Bis plants are partially dried off preparatory i © 
crevices of the bark, The whole o trunk where | t in July. As soon as the youy 
Of enemies he had none; very much, no doubt, | this sawdust was found, rae a smell somewhat like shoots a are re fairly started they are taken out of the pos, 
because he sh con ith unc ngenial spirits;| beer in a state of termentat ore ipae the ball reduced, and the plants repotted in the same 
and he never lost a friend, which is the more examination of the state of thes ral revealed the eal | sized pots. da soon as the latter are filled with roots, 
able, as he often appeared to be over enthusiastic i pes of the mischief in the shape of a the plants receive their last shift 9-inch poli 
his estimate of the qualities of those he loved; this, | similar to that of the common nut weevil vil, and which They are then placed in a cold pit, and kept close fora 
fi t true modesty whic! Curculio Lapat i. Mess hort hich air is admitted freely day mi 
mounted to an unconscious abnegation of 
the trunk of Salix UE and which 4 fell me its — 
in no inconsiderable qua and of which he had 
peci 
me Teen beauty has been the adm 
cem of all who hav n them 
S the details of bis wüthod- ‘of treatment may b 
ion of admiration which he did - feel ; for he 
attack the tree, they eat iie the bark and into 
nove known to alter such opinion 
r. Boott’s ig meri ti were wi 
on several pre 
no e | 
"d was 
and at the time of his death, a Vice-President of tho 
Linnean Society ; in 1837 he was Meter a correspond- 
ing mem the Lyceum ires l History of New 
York ; in 1835 he became onorary Member 
of the A iences; in the 
same Fellow of the Medical Society 
istory ; and in 
me Washingt. ^ of the National Institute of Pistol 
had never been robust, and in 
remaining lung gave way, at fro 
fairly rallied. ,He died at his Raiden 
nifcent ug of vivid scarlet leaves, which remain it 
| ks, and of semi-perftt: 
heir flowers ya 
w being gr 
largely for the London market, and $e po 
har ee off it is peculiarl tted as an ornamenti 
plant for or d wi ng-room A Sen de RU placed. int 
t 
| lengthened, and its beauty long preserved, G. E. 
en 
Tur Ros in Englan yet but init 
infancy : still it p The finer is national Th 
i pede Cone edges much for brin 
inently before - cette a 
ig a a ese iat en believe Ay be extit 
pro 
I 
Strest, on Ch 
M and all the characteristics of his most admirable 
ristmas Day ; retaining 6 de "ast "his 
] 
mae Ses ' wood price Soci e 
tack i trees at or near the 
v bottom to top “oF the 
n, occasionally eating r through the outer bark. 
1. “Would Me be advise me to have Roses on their om 
roots PI can ardly answer such a question as thi 
| without ree o ad 
no one to 
mc hago 
THE WILLO 
NDENT of the vue 
ont re miarka a flete or collection of growing | 
siderable bot of the different. kinds of Willows is of con. | 
several inches in leng th, occasionally winding off its 
rse at "e ero x On loo aque egens = 
ih 80 ko del estroyed, at first Nent they had de! 
ance of some one ns wilfully taken 
| bored Pm for wes wn am 
The larva, as above, white fles 
very iili to, but uch lage than, the Nut maggot ; 
it i is destitute of feet, the bean of which i is | supplie d by 
eshy grub | t 
best of all e 
autumnals—I do not think that Roses | on e 
e 
1 3. Fel 
a rn Mr. rade ome in his “ Arb 
dv. Th 
DER SY J 
IH CES 
There i is, however, this 
Britannicum,” yr gay 
admit and lament 
in. The body is curved, and v very much w 
y. When afar 
vut wooded, the natural 
curved line) it t forms an are 
"OP 
inkled | of a 
oe being iss. “represented in 
dicated by the |i 
im th which | 
a 
, viz., that i 
a previous year is bad i i 
3, 
Was rene famous b ume printed for micis 
circulation by the Duke of Bedford” E. 1829, e 
“Sali Wob species w 
ntitled | vı 
| varies in length from on 
beni of sunt articles of the wood nto fine 
is cell 
eee 8, end 7 the natural si 
within the cell, vein magni fied and wean nece 
berg rinm i in wem Dew figu uring 
of August tha! bx din 
e pupa state not lasting 
Eiai Cureulió 
ine one-third to hal 
| thorax and apical và 
with eg rid 
» | also o mented 
me dirty black 
doubted ; 
white inactivo pu upa, | H: 
ons of eg speci- | Batailles, 
Cpt TM | 
eeds | roo 
to to familiek, then I answ 
of 
ere, 
producin; ucing, so contin i 
Tate a producer, as Der 
arro call i 
The following autumnals here are (besides being a 
ther aime c - their own roots, and do well: 
maison, Glo e Vi is 
s has been partly answered. Co pim 
ts will last longest; = if these questi 
the hardiest all Ros 
numerous, in 
and Spence attribute the e iet to 
name of Lapa pe acci- 
m which the 
me koi thet all es on s m 
nes Half 
Na Jennie 
r. On ranston on 2 feet B 
are bet 
