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found them all a-hop with beetles, I had now made another step. That 

 the beetle did not come from other plants, I had found before j but now it 

 was clear that it was not in the earth or in the water. Fifthly, with a lens 

 1 examined the seed, and found on it a number of white flattish substances ; 

 some seeds were without any; but there were generally one, two, three, 

 four, and, in one instance, five, on a single seed. These I concluded to be 

 eggs ; and thought that the only way now left me was to attack them : it 

 would have been easy enough to have poked them off with a needle, but I 

 could not see how I was to employ a needle and a magnifying glass on a 

 sack of turnip seed. I recollected, however, that I had found that some 

 salt and water, into which I had once unintentionally dropped a paper of. 

 silkworms' eggs, had killed them to an egg : it was, therefore, worth trying 

 in this case. I accordingly made some pretty strong brine, and soaked the 

 seeds in it for twenty-four hours, and then dried it thoroughly ; and, with 

 all the precautions I have mentioned above, I sowed it again, and with a 

 kind of success : there was not a single fly, but neither was there a turnip. 

 Nothing discouraged at this, I tried again and again ; and I found that, 

 without weakening the brine, if the seeds were only kept in it three hours, 

 there were no beetles : but yet the seeds came up as well as ever. I now 

 practise this with turnip seed, cabbage seed, and, in fact, with the seeds^ of 

 all the cruciform flowering plants in common cultivation (all of them being 

 equally infested by the beetle), and with very satisfactory success. I can- 

 not say that I never find beetles on the young plants ; but never have a 

 crop destroyed, or even seriously injured, by them. The whole of the 

 experiments mentioned above were made on the Swede turnip ; which, I 

 find, is generally more infested by these beetles than any of our older 

 sorts." {Bicsticiis ofGodahning, in the Entomological Magazine, July, 1833.) 



Art. V. London Horticultural Society and Garden. 



July 16. 1833. — Read. A communication on the cultivation of the 

 Chlidanthus fragrans ; by R. W. Byres, Esq. 



Exhibited. Acanthus spinosus, from Mr. Joseph Kirke. Thirty-two 

 seedling varieties of heartsease, from J. J. Allnatt, Esq., an amateur 

 florist at Wallingford. A collection of georginas, from Messrs. Chandler, 

 Nurserymen, Vauxhall. A collection of roses, including i2psa multiflora, 

 white-flowered, Champney's rose, &c., and of other flowers, from Mrs. 

 Marryatt. Four Fuchsf^ globosse, heartsease, and georginas, from Mr. 

 George Glenny, F.H.S. A collection of georginas, from Mr. John Maher. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Flowers : Quisqualis indica, Ges- 

 nerz« riitila ; iupinus ornatus, mutabilis, and rivularis ; Salpiglossis integri- 

 folia Hook., which is Nierembergza phoenicea of D. Don ; CXkvkia elegans ; 

 Calochortus splendens, luteus, albus, venustus, and pulchellus; Calliprora 

 flava; Brown-flowered nasturtium or Tropse^olum majus var. atrosangui- 

 neum : ^Salvia Graham? and foliosa, Fuchsia virgata. Coreopsis lanceolata and 

 Atkinsonia?za, Cacalia coccinea, CEnothera densiflora and speciosa, Jsclepias 

 bombjcina, Macleaya cordata (see p. .565.), >S'pir£e^a arigefolia. Digitalis 

 ferruginea, Zmma elegans, ilfalva miniata, Calampelis scabra; Rosa. 

 indica Pallavicinz, Indica fragrans, indica sanguinea, rubifolia, and Champ- 

 neydna. White China rose, Wells's Noisette rose, and rose Clare ; Chelone 

 nemorosa'and barbata ; Pentstemon ruber, pulchellus, and roseus (hybrid), 

 raised by the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert ; georginas, hollyhocks, 

 and hybrid pentstemons (between Pentstemon pulchellus and P. atropur- 

 pureus). Fruit : Muscat Robert pear, Blanquet petit pear, Muscat de 

 Nancy, or Aurate pear, abundant bearers as standards, of little merit 

 besides earliness ; Spring Grove Codlin apple, figured in the Horticidtural 



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