THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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clined to sand, I have ¢ grown hundreds of Rhod a- | Mr. Tapping gave an ne ve the discovery of the pbr: anches have been painted, either with tl 
- drons, Azaleas, an ad Kalmias. When I fret mee” to, remains of a very minute s of Acarus al eg Mr. | recommend with paint oil, ae I ate psn 
my aR to try to grow this class o! A. White identi fied as mkt AREAS h had | fill vpt he pores rot most msama, and so destroy them, I 
plaut ea ridiculed the idea, and laughed at m y. cee e of a pho graph por- | recommend all Pear growers examine their een to 
ignorance in thus ting to grow R odendrons | trait, and had ca ef it Bath he Rev. i prevent ‘his pest, if possible, ab devastating .o 
without p t pent, Notwithstanding that, ho , mar re wkes exhib bited a remarkable pale pect og! of th ere | 
ting out about 8000 poe a n tiger moth, and MA ag r specimens of S. King then Teed the following communi- 
oe ps ý a me far excee vent m sanguine | Melolontha Fullo sal Nec: aii vespillo recently 
expectations; since that tim e I have grown the quantity | Ken alive. Mr. Wollaston P xhibited portions of his that gentleman Sifter To the views of Col, Le 
above stated, electing pened of 100 of the best | remarkable collection of Madeira insects form: ii ndley, and poner the gw ca 
varieties I eould procure. ey in a cases ET, | the p past year, comprisi ng a great number of novelties. | fung insect :—* In utumn of last year, 
freely, indeed too much so, require | Mr. Lubb k wr observations cn the legs Colonel Le ‘Coapeee brought me a py am for examination, 
check them. Their foliage is fne e bright sroil of the genus Mys “Tike, estwood gave an ac-|covered with numerous small of parasitic 
T'have them from 6 inches to 6 fee po oi and when in count of oa ra injury to which the young Wheat | matter, of a kind which had never fallen under his 
m they are a sight worth goin miles tosee. William c: remit t time subjected - iel diteren nt parts | observation fore. One of these patches, t the 
Barratt, St. John’s Nursery, Wak of the co Ey, rent species twelfth of an inch in leng laced upon „a:slip:of 
Plane Timber.—As much discussion has of late of insects: ne Norfolk he had recei ined Fay: s | glass, and su to a low power of the microscope, 
the Plane, I should lil which ha n destroyed i the larv: ts was very much like that of a mussel shell, 
the experience of who have tested i ts qualities as di bro ae bier japtdl apparently Oscinis vast, whilst rounded at one extremity, and taperering away to a 
imber tree ; for it is but little known in the trade, the Society had re eceived a communication from Mr. | truncate d point a at, thp. othar, which point appeared 
and conse tly rs are unwilling to buy it. As a | Dunning, Hurstpe = nai in whi fy gta ne looking much ike Saeed 
ber i ble the yellow-coloured Beech | swarming of the Tipulidee. | of a fa light | 
more than the Syexmors, 1 both in hardness, de: 
cigar, 
ring abe ‘with n ciliated | edges, resebing 8 a pe te 
nsity, _ Descriptions of nen w, Longicor Sa from Borneo 
t I doubt much agar it | | were read by Mr. ‘Pas Mr. White also read de e scale of a Beech leaf bud. The patsy 1d 
will ever become such a erg Oreck e, for amon gst | se riptions of ys new peere of the same tribe of th fruit like a limpet to E Ta margin of its- 
some dozen that I have cut of fair imb r wind es, Mr. twood described a very fine new | shell conforming i to the shape of the rind. I 
I find only mpl epa and the situation they M orneo. r, Curtis com- | regarded itas a fungus ; but Colonel Le Couteur thought 
growing on w open one. I fear, therefore; that | enn mer an Tine m Mr. Maclean containing a de- i= more likely to be an was, however, no 
its merits ee ba a e to its appearance. H. T. H. tailed account of ‘the transformations of the Brimstone | vestige of legs or wings or antennee, of any of 
but erfly, proving that the early spring speci her locomotion or sensation. The glass, the 
Toate ae LA mt rnated. A note by Mr, Newman on the ay tar | specin on it, was put into a drawer, two 
Enocietics. of Dorthesia Characias was read, as well onths or more elapsed bef examined it again. 
deseni by Mr. ERY of a new genus of Chryeomielides i 
i A MA 18.—W. Yarrell, Esq., V.P., in the 
H. Adams, Esq., was elected ee F alow, T 
e seed cove rings. The 
("ge 1 
Society’s Transa: 
nt to that a some peg pers ts f fruit ; also, 
external | | stem, s 
| 
from tropical Africa | appea: 
RSEY a rT : March 1.—The President | 
this occasion Col. Le Couteur 
n 
p 
ars en I no 
r Glou Morceau Pear, with an This i me to loo 
of brownish-looking excrescences all = Bt la 
inati that it 
parasites o: 
n, I saw that it was not | awa amongst other microscopical 
a ot r, 
ealthy orks 
Fe 
lacentary growth. 
extraneous 
nd a of the primine, and therefore a "Lina. of 
heads pointe 
h ero’ 
|w sprinkled over the Pear in all pe val ae 
i qn som st I 
cen Dem un I 
outer coating, simil: substance and co KRII is u 
uestionably an aril, Mhile i in the tribe Garci 
is coverin, 
n- | supposed a pow 
æ also | could not Pon delere what 3 it 
the character of Kan FAN Aen not ap 
Mr. ee one of these h a sharp 
l, it | penknife, pe I 1 pecidentally a the under giin a, it 
prae 
fungi sot 
wi 
might be: the 
I afterwards carefully Ii lifted | o! 
m the Pear wit 
pr life in it, 
scences fro: 
—on which I placed the creature under a powe d 
microsco) di! 
evasta 
sigh ower, when I discover red ten ae a 
y 
gg: ne a laid before the 
present memoir Mr. 
at great length, and in much 
conc clusive evidence in Suppo: 
of his 
vie opted | ges: a 
omson in the recently published The head is mirik ‘Tike ¢ 
dirty 
earn concerning common things. ] 
panna HORTICULTURAL SHow FOR 1856-—- 
anda annexed Me Rages Pensa Re prizes we 
ich may a pi nts in other ¢asês.- 
2s., and 1s. 6d, and 
the 4s ildven of the parish 
mag saN ja about th wild flowers of 
pia Crake 
e snout of a 
ye! ena colos, 
of Dr. Gray, and adopting in support t of his 
ment Dr. Gray’s figures 0 
ie, Magnolia, 
f detailed explanations of the structures in “dispute, 
a s not admi compression within s our limited space, 
is alt padi See technical na! 
Entomotocicat, March 3.—W. W. Saun 
Hott, So President, ‘a ae air. 
specimen of arg iful a diver- 
rio 
argu- 
f the structure of ‘the ovules side. 
ders, Esq., | foun 
Far Samuel A 
nicated 
ded, elon 
down over it, ‘over it low 
When the 
i is form 
pi k, scythe, rake, and three boes 
respectively to the tenants of the sight i hest and. thie of ied 
. Knights, E; hi 2s. to 
eci 
o 
se 
| the inside of the creature. Lr 
Brighton, pro vin; 
: rejected from i 
inform 
the > following re reply :—‘ Y e 
co) 
Wallace's on Pe Rta mrt fes rmai otani 
„ Adam White made some observations on 
acked by t srik 
with eaii tin’ will “ind that your The artist marap 
branches are swarming. _ Wha found under the 
. | m as 
of its own. All you can do is, to cut the trees as ha aa 
i you can— when the, leaves are off— to ea what oe 
with a 
| mixture of lime, soot, sulphur, and water—the old ste 
subterraneus of Leach, and as belong- 
ing to Sendie's blind genus Niphargus. “another 
instance of the gage La at curious species near 
oned by | Mr. Lubbock. 
ag 5 wichay 
thighs, ra orthern 
larva of a eT Lepidopterous in insect which 
vars 
but worthless, ill-gro 
had been |.evil was so extensive that I had the tre 
he graft 
the tr 
painting it, to have the branches 
heated to 160° to 180° Fahrenheit. 
hi imme examined al Pea: 
Marie| Arrival, Process 
‘Mach 
i siderable pudering ; likewise leaves of prs Fir mined 
by the larvæ of Ocnerostoma pinariella. Mr. 
the Arte and perfect 
beetles of whe pent 
f | and a half of peop 
n | contact wi All the es on quiet system of selo organi 
Arem’ mberg, 
has been attacked, commencing from the point o 
meet ith the Marie _ Louise. branch 
Wi ich 
ld az 
hed 
stumps, 
cut off, and burned ; or, it is in few spots, the| how or by whom ; that is indeed 
[Marcu 29, 1856. X 
