Grounds of Chester Holme Cottage. 



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Mr. Stephens's observation : " Very abundant in gardens within 

 the metropolitan district. In my own garden (South Lambeth), 

 and at Hertford, I have seen the insect in great abundance." 

 Should the insects succeed in depositing their eggs, it will be 

 advantageous, at the end of the autumn, to examine the plants 

 carefully, and to take up such as appear at all sickly, in order 

 to examine their roots, and destroy such larvae as may be found 

 about them in a young state. If this be neglected until the 

 middle of the winter, experience has shown that the plants 

 will be destroyed. Several other species of the same genus 

 are similarly destructive. R. Patterson, Esq., of Belfast, has 

 forwarded to me specimens of Otiorhynchus vastator, which 

 *' destroyed a vast number of flowers in the Botanic Garden of 

 that town, in June, 1830, by ascending the stem at night, and 

 cutting it through." 



The Grove, Hammersmith, March 1. 1837. 



Art. III. Plan of the Grounds of Chestef Holme Cottage, laid out 

 by Mr. George Harland, and communicated by him. 



The Cottage of Chester Holme {Jig. 68.) was the resi- 

 dence of the late Rev. Anthony Hedley. It is situated at the 



head, or opening, of a deep rocky glen, which runs southward; 

 the bottom of which is washed by the Chinely Burn, which falls 

 from many a " shelvey rock " in its passage to the River Tyne, 

 about five miles east from Haltwhistle. This opening gradually 

 expands to a level green holme, at the north extremity of which 

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