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DESCRIP CATALOGUE OF | larva of any of the numerous small species of moths parent fly has the instinct to apportion to their 
Rp can — be ees one — of two] Which burrow into the Rose-bud and eat out its entire wants; but what is su aficiently 5 
penny stamps, to heart). In a subsequent page (299) a woodcut is get they are full grown at this early period (when 
à Por —— or rae Fans ‘ele Dec. 22, 1849, says, Eiven of a Rose-snag cut hopan, showing a number of the the weather is sufficient to cause them 
2 me 23 — ables, with tal noter cells, each of which is have been the birth- quickly 4 * e gs their | Pronger ve yet they 
appended to the names of many of the sorts. Jt | place of these destructive larve. | rem larvee, all through the winter, 
io a well-arranged Ca splogts and will be found of sorvice — the — of these several notices our in “the W 5 of small yellow footless grubs, enclosed 
to dll purchasers of Se tention — been irected to this subject, pe | the |i in a shining . kin 2 becoming pupe in 
The 2 3 Florist,” for January, 1850, says, —— of ou s| the spring, an pra Rig ta e pe 
< We have just received the General Catalogue of Har-] to advise the veer not to cut off the dead | ends of about the end 101 Ma ed the sa 
den, Agricultural, a and Flower Seeds, sold by William E these snags ; since, although in a very few instances, insect in burrows formed i in dea ith o of “Elder sticks 
Rendle und Oo., Plymouth, which, from its excellence, well | we have met with the little black-headed | maggot stuck in our garden; and Mr. F. Surrm states that 
thing more than a pas „bl in question, yet in — majority of cases we have it also 2 into e. in Ay depositing small 
or at be from time to time b Rendle’s per- found that the burrows are inhabited, N in fact, | green caterpillars in its cells. 
fasion) to ex sth ee m, 7 em ti formed by a different insect, whose economy is in This wasp, which belongs to the Hymenopteroys 
the bent of our pisos rchensive and . each variet 7% ſthe highest degree singular, and which deserves the family of Crabronids, is named, from its uniform 
* * y coi Mood, t gives me of du ovation ‘on w protection of the gardener, from the benefit which black colour, Cemonus unicolor. It varies ra 
height. and time of ‘howering. ý will thus a it confers upon him, by destroying great numbers of rather less than a quarter to more a third 
that, from its immense utility, Koyani pen ay too is enemies, the plant-lice. But this is not the of an inch in length; it is slightly covered with fine 
in its recommendation ; and we are sure that the name 28 whole of the result of our * for we have | silvery down on the head and thorax, and has the 
the eminent firm will be a sufficient guarantee that every | thereby picked up some facts i ard to the | abdomen glossy, finely punctured, and affixed to the 
article they send out will not only be true to name, but | natural history of our or five A bk of insects | thorax by a curved footstalk scarcely longer than the 
also of the best possible quality.” inhabiting the e same ee, he pig eg i of which | remainder of the first segment. The male differs 
l Apply to Witt14M E. RENDLE and Co., has . perpa ned u e silve 
Seed Merchants, Plymouth. | researches o „A T i we may safely | on the face. It is one of our commonest of insects. 
HOME GROWN SEE affirm that thes Rose- apt ‘offer a mine of interesi- | J. O. W. 
guano, AH PES Baxonve, or lanena tay pom ipa mae 
best kinde epee! GARDEN, AGRICULTURAL, such investigations in a thelr proper r light. Once upon a time the obj ect of the English 
and POWER SEE S, with prices affixed to each article, ye Gardener was to make what he pes) a COLLECTION 
it la — ae the most useful and convenient of an 
yet presented to the public. of plants. If he had a greenhouse he would — 
2 purchasers he Seeds would do 22 to peruse this i 
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— to effect in their 2 It will was in tha ambition fjer get together. a — 
2 sent AR om +4 — 4 a penny stamp, for postage. lection of Passion-lowers or Ferns, or Lxoras, or 
TON’S COMPLETE COLLECTIONS OF the o an acre of 
) MESBRS. 
2 EN “GARDEN SEEDS are now in course of del ivery at 
ee oned No. a 22. No. 2, ye — and 
No.3 3,2 — Seed Warehouse, Reading 
DARTFORD — Barg E 557. 
D. PARKS offers to the public c some fine Standard 
» Full-trained PEACHES, 2 years moved, and finely rooted, 
Also large Limes, Pop. 
Planes, Horse Chestnuts, various), Acer macro- 
per mgn gry — Silver and ee, pce «igro 20 
— oe Ee- Also, 
II — reny 40. 
‘A wh highly in “improved "SEEDLING gic . 
being a 
and ee ~ 2 2 A for — UNICOLOR magnified, s and of thenatural sise, carrying reckoned a lar 2 ooseberri r 
plants in March, * — ——— a London nursery- anaphis i in in ito mgmt together with a Rose-snag cut open, show- Apples, or ‘Potatoes, than 1 a ae 
man, who has ordered tw ed cell, a ce pooli with the full grown larva, and one | tion of a “seedling” or two, of his 
ae BLP. e ofa N in the insect in elevated him ip : the summit of 3 hap- 
where by post, with a 2d. stamp. . B. F. also undertakes, In the pr ee we shall confine PER pommia d 
the cure Cae . — AND FOREST TREES. p species e ey from its curious 2 may We have — sl of one — -who Ee ep 
y termed the Arnis Sexton of the Rose-snags. |- wild Briar, some among w. c nce 
Lege A RE y P ea, Oa e 2 20th of June, 1848, whilst looking over of which had a little hair on their 
N — apri Cc. z transplanted Thorns, some standard Roses, to examin e the state of — leaves, and some had n some had double teeth, 
a few t —— K ot Oak Ash, Elm, Scotch Fir, éc, & dead ends, w whi ch had been t off 0 obliqu ely, w some had ph mj one sort had ovate bet aot 
pra arat Aeminiat ad to sell them very cheap. 15 N. — a little glossy black ‘ly, fall of activity, oval, and so on. There exists we believe to this da 
8 — RANUNCULUS ROOTS. Selected alight on the top of one of the twigs, and as suddenly a collection of Pamios form m the — 
n pipen, creep into one of the little circular ‘burrows which | enlig rinciple ; and we! bt: 
— upwards oi 40 Bes si — So LN * 2 mal in the 125 W ve § of the | similar collections of Daffodils, Michaelmas Daisies,or 
* for the 7 at 2 N dia twig, Our attention was immedia roused, not | Catmints, may be found in some sequestered garden. 
Sn i anly be sÀ the peho of the insect coat ut ant, alao from r — üke many po pouches, 
le the it carried some small green object in u elements of longevity, cou y 
pm -i mt be han d 3232 2 its — apn v soon flew out of the hole, and after exist, one wou in utilitarian age. 
r — ‘in 115 ich h havo re for the the Jast patiently watching the stem we saw it again ap- | are therefore ore witnessing a at the p resent 7 cle 
TESEN roach, but more carefully, in consequence of our tions giving ey Zo selections ; “hard p 
peg 2 —— ms aro the boat aor a. ing so — to its burrow. We had, therefore, an an Japp in all directions to those old bushes of | — 
2 they are mata orta for Brame opportunity of observing that its load was of sas fid 
— „ . oe otste. aphis, wi which it at length took into its hole, as 
4 Oxford 2 one with the forme 
1 it a rmer. | sticks whic we © 
a Rop 1 5 K yes A Fow' Sead — — 1. te This cheer vation let us into the whole secret af 0 aur worthy forefathers and their ancient sons 
Potatoes 
American Ladet ‘atatoes bel . Kidney .. 4e and the object for which, th 
r the manufacture o 1 N ey remained among us. It is thereforenaba 
Y — — ae — * ay ee ns little black fly was one ‘of. the small burrowing 
Wie, ec arians So Satie race of worthy men upie- 
change in pas feeli 
oné grease — . bos en en to b the heirs aafe — A wood wasps, and it made these holes for the pur- | ‘oontinning. a — *. i per Pathe be Fo of ; ppd 
ists of nw and .seedsmen 
stil ood n was| Some recent lists 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. to consist of — store ai 9 wae then | afford r of ‘this. One grower of 
y engaged in burying. Such is the course o Roses offers 607 sorts of th ; 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1850. ceding of 5 ads af aad ced tak warps |a aP ogne has 
MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING Nn. whose economy has been often observed and is well | grower's 3 or 400 any ; 
. enen. 1 45 12 E e bat this species presented serene! circum- | a „ a i pie to 00 es 38 Br. of Cab- 
Mospay, Jan. 21 šu W ~ y ce. 10 
vil y the wasp in its jaws, whereas many af e allied 
Teens, t 5 —— i ies use either of their A middle, or 
Wasser, suira mere. rA s to clasp their prey, but here it is so weak 
; — s. e, in weight that the wasp is to 
Tauasnar, i PY it — te — of its coll i 
es, eat"? P n the little. aval previous 
Sed of the burro 
an nd then 31e 
our readers will i tako the trouble fo refer back | another cell is then filled, which is of couse nearer | t 
5 * volume for 1 e 254, they will observe an to the top of 22 twig than the first, and so on indicate 
1. enti titled the Lan non tothe hry oneal et ties tin the formed 
e Fes Se e history of | It is im Fio motie at the impriso 
Tie ana insect, wi th reference 1 — ancl o the parent wasp (in w case | than fudge. We should be curious to know. 
man es then =. — in the at ” and 9 me putrid), but 4 ~~ young —— ese Peas are provided from one bag 
mus of the — po when hatehed, have à store of fresh dood ; of Charltons, bought of one of the great London seed- 
s —— di in little eyli ijthey do not, however, keep their -victims dong merchants. It would be wor 
—— in tho — snags — ove bushes, of the in suspense, as they are quickly hatched and ate man to get a complete set of such Peas, to raise 
winter-quarters of a small, black-headed Maggot, | very voracious; indeed, by the end of July or them, compare them, and report the result for the 
which was therein asserted to be the young state of August they have attained their full size and lie good. 
the Rose-maggot (aterm applied, by the way, to the entirely consumed their stock of food, which the In this respect buyers are greatly in want of such 
some sort. ned t 
Fam he — hayo. a * —— of Apples, or 
ears, or Gooseberries ; owner of a few rods of 
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