ee 
June 21, 1856.] 
THE GARDENERY’ 
eee 
42] 
Mr. Fish asserts the “ paisy in Calceolarias is, or wil Specimens ot , the 
m Eana and m my neig! Role parasite-nests are figure uae ables dee s’ Chronicle, | leg SET ed line d 
ft wate 3, 1853, resembling via ar the prio produced | middle; E oye were pra ea the jaws dark at the 
re is, think, some reason in this ey for by Balanophore one ier uce oe by v species | t tips ; ; the leg re 22 i in pu mber, Reaumu £ hia faro 
being very badly supplied with water, reial thus, _ The form in Aieri Kini is fifth volume, pl. 10, fig. but 
plants show the most diseas ympelled to | Thibe i hich ché 5 A Benia 
ase when 
a hard-water well, thoug 
expose it to the zeion of the air for some time before 
I use it. Now, for Mel lons and Cucum bers I find the 
rT Fa care to|a 
gre ce pri en the tissues are arranged in the 
most cement =: while others are worth only | 
a few pence. 
of posi Se the most suitable to prevent, or at any 
Ist. Use simple and well sérated compost, con: ad be 
of ramen ned turfy peat in n je abr =} =“ 
of th mer to one of smee) adding PaA 
my th charred c 
wo quar 
ang to ome pot or bill of pla 
given no Falete: of it. Bou 
horticulturist, who has so carefully investigated 
natural history of garden insects describes the larv: sii 
with dorsal line, 
. Main ntain a nice; bottom- heat of 70° to 80°, but 
a precti steady, hardy growth, and if in ‘houses do not 
= the Laer until they have attained th 
o 10 or more feet. anew no fruit to be pro oduced 
ont the ira are thoroughly established, and then 
ping res i too many fruit on the plants at the 
sam 
= 
age the heat of the bed or plunging 
ris 
. The 
are nip incorpo orated 80 intimately ring it seems as if 
Ss the other, 
cylindrical, dark green above, a pale d 
504. The seeds of pein Viscum, My agree pe ith the sides and belly greyis ish green, a double row 
and other the b f bl tted with black 
d y d orbits pitchy black. This cine 
oat yor by tenth ery” appenda; ich difi ding to Dahlbom (Clavis Nov. Hym. Syst. p: 
on of the slime and curl io aa th igs like littl 1 hich b P 
tendrils keeping the seed firmly fixed. As in the other | timate change. 
cases t the Toot penetrates aici the bark till it comes F; rom the statement of Bouché it Tae appear that 
i a feeds on the 
1 dy lah +, “oe ely gle inter 
h is more or Jess, ling he p l Li ł I ca te, but as I have seen 
species sof | parasite, but i like the t ffe p fiy dep g its egg h eaves in 
I he first or second week in May in fi y seasons, 
vascular system of t and parasite | and have subsequently found the young | in the 
bud stem 
aw-fly this insect ag a — several 
t the young 
however I believe a fallacy. 
young parasite is like other Gish sg: the kind, formed en 
its 
e: 
ecomes pare it by putting > peck o 
fresh cow-dun mmon salt, a ump 
lime to 20 "glens of ‘of eommon Mix it vell over “night, 
and 
f | ho 
> 
larvee will indifferently eat the Rose “sso or burrow 
strain it through a sieve before using g 
ntilate as freely as you can, and endeavour 
e Sain as hardy as possible. If the plants ie 
hate them with me r Haythorn’s netting ; 
en 
the apare ra yes of the two 
are at length perfectly i incorporated appears quite cer- 
tain, a according to Mr. Newpor et is aoe e g 
something o pete rip Baw kind Pee regards t 
tracheæ in 
takes 
ruly parasitic insects st 
ty s, a ced by then BPs into the twigs. The perfect insect is the Tenthredo 
od of the vascular tiss he matrix. f 
is in fact very Mike that of adventitious roots a buds, h y f tl rely black and glossy, that of 
which Iar tis ways forme in ighbourhood he fe i but is distinguished b 
having a ste band across the middle of the abdomen. 
It is this p 
Pea tiers cross lines showing the natural s 
leg s are reddis| h brown with the thighs } black, the coxse 
e pa 
Dr. Hooker’s Antarctic Flora F AR a A 
; ne oid extremes of tem 
perature, a cool moist heat "especially om on warm una 
1h 
is provocative of disease. 
If these rules are observed no one need fear the 
‘disease much, but if you allow the plants to carry fruit | 
before they are thoroughly established, you deserve to 
pay the pen of your indi I have mentioned | 
-charred cowdung to 3 let me 
or i inclosed j 
a 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
HE ROSE-STEM BORING SAW 
glossy, slightly stained with ‘brown, with a 
| stigma on the fo re ope ard of the anterior A. pe They 
~ ine anda oa the perfect 
piriana en 
-FL 
Neuxtots, to a surprising extent, are a evils 
|which the Rose fancier is subject. The gree: 
he twigs 
me 
in coccus pinar t of his favourite plant, 
d 
deta the larvae. | m to rey destruction of a ee 
of m moths and saw-flies 
hilst the caterpil any 
feed on the | leaves, either “opety (for the most part) 
n mo oveable cases, formed by themselves 
= in the sunshine shila i in ses act of rimier o its 
ggs. J. 0. W. 
inps Davit ighted the fire throw on 
layer « of the dung, then more straw i RL and so 
aid 
fm xposing the dung to heat to sehen: me sects an 
ovaria re, ca eye in it, than to co i 
charcoal. Thi: 
uchsias, i en 
— it may be used quite as ‘safe ly as if three years 
colou 
ried is more 
d! eult of detection, whilst a few insidiously “burrow 
ed 
sailed as 
by the dditepitlans of | 
ail 
which fi young leaves and buds a mass 
within which they also “ take their 
inn.” All these insects are, howeve ore or E ion 
visible to the, observant t Rose fancier ; at the ael 
Kec conclud ing t hese remarks let me impress Sii) 
gardeners the importance of getting their seeds saved | 
over as oii om sce nt of sen oy! a8 pos: age 
of the t garden ngland, they were | 
brothers, “ved respectively in ie Shropshire, a 
Devons! Pi n produced such fine vegetables, and 
why ? £ seeds were always running the roun a 
— three nties, and hence were annually in 
h soil and inite Let the seed trade es cation 
to this fact! Quis. 
Three | it 
ote: re 
ious, as it co m pletely conceals “itself until ithe 
snisehict se ch it effects is completed, and its pre: 
is oo ing own when By ped which part esc apa 
re 
kes its appearan m 
some ‘specie of little moths of “the oa ogy pc 
the 
re 
ease in gl eir own 
e Correspondence. 
Cucumber Plants to root. — The 
be 
a to be gained by thei 
indeed any soit “of 
or 
tubes, for as it s the air r which i is continually circulating 
s jus ady ti ard the 
| the roots to their an and notany virtue in the articles 
and i 
| ANE ove falls dowo, A gemi slightest bree 
pees 
tains a considerable amount of charcoal in a rough 
I will e u method I a Soph te 
eei iu which T my k yag grown. 
9 feet yet floor 
eae th, 3 feet, or i 
VE EGETABLE P: PATHOLOGY.—No. CXXVI. path, aioe iy? 1 an nie te cae vering of tanks 
503. Parasir® (Phencgams. Broomra ti to the kerb; partitions of Finch den yoy divide the beds 
Balanophore).—The Dodder after it has germinated into 4 feet spaces, the allow of room for a ~~ 
throws upa slender cord whi ch a ttaches itself to some plant, the whole res a pas of bri 
lives upon arches. The pipes for heating the atmosphere ae 
its Juices by means of suckers (adventitious roots) sent round the tween bed and outside walls, 
out from thisstem, There are many plants, however, as ventilation Si conducted by opening a series o 
á inanthus, Orobanche, and possibly the far ventilato the walls, connected to a hori- 
oræ also, which after germination attach on zontal rod, which mov t orce. T 
of their rootlets to the root of some Phænogam, which apertures aro below tho pipes, so that no sooner does 
pene to the young wood and thus imbibes the Boi r i before 
jui The connection T e matrix may be more ming in contact with the folia d ir is 
or less absol ute, bu t at a rate “hoa ee portion of provided for by moving the ridge the ae length, and 
number oi in ilators, p 
nally be derived aa the soil. r. Mitten | = inte the middle of the pathway, com- 
T aapear the first to point this o out in 1 Thesium, B muniecating with 4-inch tile drains led under the ho 
it has of | followed out by Decaisne te just as “ when rude hands the twin buds sever.” The} from each side, having a number of grated openings 
lardeners’ Chronicle, 1848, p. 636), Cas nepary, and others, | cause of this ‘vive and unexpected breakage of the into the exterior <aneee along the walk. Those in 
insomuch that the cultivation of many of these plants | stem is a small caterpillar or grub of a species of sa in summer, and the air from 
is now a matter of comparative facility.* The disturb- fly which, having entered into the gai a the bud at them sees a comfortable feel in the house even when 
ance | d in the matrix is very various in degree. | one of the eyes, A eaten its way wards, 
If it 3 only annual, destruction is almost certain. At e plant, l| which, ia aa forcing houses, sb never bo lost sight of. 
ce it is a difficult matter to vena ay are on burrow down the ‘centre 2 or 3 inches } ong. at is | Before anting out I pepee eat broken n the 
AAi ee a species of pe, ani own f June that this mischief is chiefly slates b 
country, especially ally towards the south of England, , Beans S, | effected. I at found “the Jarvee in “this is position on then 1 foot of soil, composed of two in turf, ape 
hpi and Hemp occasionally suffer material damage. | the 3d of Jun n the stems of the buds, but during the loam, one part | leaf mould, and one part prp: com dug, 
winter aiso tne; 
-in may not be so grea to destroy life, and = and d they mayb resembling in this respect the lighted for one day i vam th throc. ‘The 
‘strong perennial roots eie re i simply a great amount | small black caterpillars of a Tortrix, whose history I pa nts are now pat out, and a em watering given. 
sc without absolute destruction. The parasit trust t aplete for i tion in our entomological are trained on a wire actin the g 
often extends gradually at the base beneath | series, larva which I have found in the middle of are stopped when pac reach a first wire, after 
the bar bark, same time swelling out, to which there | February in a dead s , and pee E oe are trained very much like a Vine, having 
48 a corresponding swelling by the matrix. As this is| which had ut an inch deep into the ed Spe three rods, on on the short spar system. When the ey have 
pero en life than the parasite, when the latter closing. the mouth with a fine web, and which ob g i 
the tissues y break up or shell out and n the acompanyin figure, was of a pan 
leave a distorted cup marked with irregular plaits, the sar ta aes fine black hairs seattered over tl ads layer of M Tannemaat stumps o! pros 
* Several species of Or: raised successfully from seed 
= the Berlin aas by Fitelbac an adjunct of the Institution. 
zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues 
in d. k. Preuss, Staaten 1s 1853. 
f It is on this account tbat buds 
leaves. In Heeei pss and nig Me Lie one above the other, 
the tho: rn, are often 
besides ieee Sr, vol 9 E 
are formed in the a of iI Ae 
rocure the Moss as free from Grass and other plants 
ible, as these draw too much nourishment from 
In about eight da the roots begin to 
