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eee, = » considered habits, I shall = obliged if some 
ot the Bocas 1 e how many years’ 
In fie me plants will, Lif ‘ne ae er each 2 Mr r. Doubleday also 
other, at any impede much each other’ wth, | thinks the larvze aaa a lad to the fruit; such is 
if genera or species that do not suit each 8 er are not the case, although I am fully aware of the injury 
planted together. Thus plants of vigorous and rapid done to Pears and Apples during the spring and 
growth, if intermingled ea others of slow develop- summer months under cove the lea 
ment, will d the latter as their roots Doubleday also states that he has never observed 
extend, rob all 1 from them, and finally choke these larve on the gar 
them. This sho 
8 Eee it is for those who 
deli elight in uniting a mate variety of crops in one field 
to attend to this mutual interference of the differeut 
plants, and also how essential it is to keep all crops free 
€rom weeds. 
can judge in the larva state), o 
Pear trees; yet after 2 searching an 
extensive Laurel belt east, west, n and south, I 
l 
Mr. | one or both sides 
roll till quite hard a 
et | bindi 
a good w The last must depend on the 
quality of the Ere the ~ first are secured the 
an ie ot walk, 3 it an 
close 5 cover with 
ing gravel. the 2 
gravel serves as 
earth at the sides, into aee it sinks ; 
can pierce or will touch the gas tar. 
portion of the Pergl strain through the surface, till it 
is the advantage that channels 
—_— — — ead t find one; and on ne on the Apricot, are not made in pegs ravel. Again, the concre 
M. CHEVREUL’S SCHEMES OF FLOWERS which Mr. Westw nsiders their rage soar’ pro- | presents a hard surface, sect which and the roller 
FOR O E ER. vision. It appears, 3 bees t these caterpillars | the gravel is press und mass * 
Ix the month of Oetober Chrysanthemums are in per have different tastes in di ren pla 1 have, ho w. The tion 8 1 to save walks over 
fection, and beautiful arrangements can be made with ever, found similar larve on 5 ot shrubs, and tar, that black patches are pr does not apply to 
the white, i rose, ora mee, and yellow ae a with placed them upon Pears, in the crevices of which they | this plan. mode in whi a concrete is 
which too can be associated with „cons aeaee e advan- | spin, and 1 7 on the rind. It is clear, th Ar that and applied preeludes the possibility of its appearing 
tage the — blue. flowered Aster; th — they are * particular, which I nev ed | the surface, unless, ind t of gravel is 
are the more easy to ý can be they a am fully aware that insects will live a stinted of its due ‘thickness. For the mode of i 
fully 22 in pots. long time without ng but in all the trials which I | the gas 3 see Gardeners’ Chronicle, p. 637, 
The following arrangements will be found to be of | have made, a re not a 2 I have not myself 1849. J. | 
considerable beauty; the colours to which the name of | been able to ee a sonia as ass through hi Way ohio Toads shed their rhage e 1 a 
no flower is attached, refer to — ep several mace and become a ee imago without feed- small houso under my care for growing C 
. Chrysanthemums in lines.—1 one te, ui ogee ing him ; and I am certain that aeg larvae fi re is a bed in the middle of it, and the soil i is apnar 
rose, yellow, large blue-flowered Ast ge during the winter mont oung bark of the | 3 feet high pom the ground (i. e., to the top of the hills 
ogany coloured Chr nthemum : oa sept 3 in ya Pear trees. Still the injury fani to the full wn | where th are i A n therefore 2 
same order. 2. White, red, yellow, large blue - flowered Pears is not to be compared with the loss sustained in | in the h examine an object pl n i 
Aster, oran me e Ch rysanthemum ; * repeat. the spring by the larvæ of this or some other Tortrix, with eas Last Saturday, about 7 o'clock A. u., 
For lin ith a symmetri which feed he young fruit as soo are|I uncovered the house, and went see 
the ing are recommended. 1. Red, yellow, white, | form d etimes destroy the entire cr can- all was right, when to my surpris y 
orange, ee blue-flowered Aster, orange, white, yel- | not say whether this is the same species or not, as I companio ne toad, apparently in the 
low, orange. e arrangement may also begi have em; but it has been my practice for|agonies of death. It seated at the end of the 
d end with a Chrysanthem 2. White, | some ave my trees examined, so that mst ridge or hill of soil ; its mouth or rather under jaw 
range, large — Aster, yellow, white, yellow, eee 5 ay sd I much re ning every few nds (the top jaw did not move) 
large blue-flowered Aster, orange, white. And Chry- | gret tha entleman who pro essedly delights in in| the eyes shut, and the body violently convulsed ea 
santhemu may be added to the beginning and end of | tracin he) histo: en ot an insect, should | time the j ned, and with each convulsion of the 
e last arrangement, if there is room, boldly put forth an opinion that = ow 1 ob- se the * p Aad pa wa ee, A, 4 1 
erving ce enomena is sufficient to justi im pla in front of it, and perceived that it was 
— — — — in belisving that no one el e e more successful ; drawing something into 8 mou uth h ti jaw 
white white blue for if eve an to go over e groun moved ; at that instant the t eye opened, it then in- 
0 shall od instead of advanc 2 While I have the fl the body on the left side, kai d ea in the right, 
. yellow orange orange pen in hand, I beg to inform Mr. 1 that he is placing at the same time the left fore foot on the head 
blue blue yellow > ere; N dedly in apse a 3 that the titmouse behind the eye and drawing it down to the mouth; it 
o 0 does not feed on buds, as well known to every gar- | then appea to hold its foot in the mouth for 
2 — — 8 9 dener he o bird e more. F. J. Graham, | about cond, when it drew it out, and I dis- 
white ello 1 tinctly saw the points o that 
0 E 0 ef or "What kind of sips An že for the conveyance | off its toes outside its — till the next opening Fond 
. Water I w: o lea water from a pond jaw, e drawn i 
aa sameness “A tien ey sree = stank ab about 120 yards 4 "These is a pe fall. | it drew its foot ite its left eye “Some beos 2 
5 ave any of Naer i experience of gutta- roke out as r of the ski 
= es — x m N - percha silos for this pu ay d can e say which adhered to the left leg, but three moti F 
is the , gutta percha or i what is the | the jaw they were gone, and i poa a minute the skin 
w B w * B w mallest size which, for ya distance peee: sufficient | was off the lips—the toad had eaten its D skin, 
Y 1 Y fall), may be used! and how deep, ~ as toa st? and there it stood with its new covering as tas if 
it necessary to bu — iubes i 7 n ad been fresh varnished. I end e- e touch 
p z B Ro Rough Plate Glass.—In re Air r observation | it, to feel if it was clammy, b a 
w 73. w that “itis entirely false that there only one so sy rg jump, F the soil adhered to its legs. I 
stance and quality of rough plate,” we beg to o looked at it in an ho rw 
R R the ut sing. chain par quality of patent rough | to resume its dingy brown colour, The time it took 
8 plate” manufactured by Messrs. Hartley for horticul- | to its hea was only a m It 
In the above diagram the colours are marked by their | tural pur „an that is one-eighth of an inch thick, | appeared to ch time its jaw opened it drew 
see ctive initial letters, R standing for red and Ro for and about 26 oz. to ‘oot. tent rough plate is an skin e while it ee the body on the 
t position, something m 3 to the nane than 
2 ween the plants in cna |i 
of adifference of climate or other 
nees, those plants which are above stated as 
made of various 
1 inch in —— 7 gg ons 
conservato plate manufactured Fac 
M i a separa 
rough 
essrs, Hader and sold by us is quite a 
| distinct article in quality and in its character d 
rough pl made by other man urers. James 
Phillips and Co., 8 
‘potting of the Le in Forced Strawberries.— 
hep std se See the leaves of my wherries 
ave uch marked with black spots a 
areas the “foliage that has been on the plants sa 
winter, Peradventure this may meet the eyes of som 
r. 
in similar seme ts: e 
a yé arrive at some knowledge of the of 
My own opinion is that, during the mild eat 
— bees, and in the e begin ming #3 this month, ati 
air, ay, wh 
that, by era zea 
this | i 
her 
Ba have given the young . aten: 
the late 3 
being in hoi ae lang ge 
the exception must be replaced 
g else R the same colour and of the by 
as itself. 
lants sta 
1 flower in the succeeding 
ears 
experience, it is still insisted u of 
accident. kind are 
upon larva 
this moth occupies the calyx of the Pear merely by 
Now if repeated accidents of this 
singular 
mal falling 7 1 3 a * 
readers know 
g a on a shelf along the back 
ave erred in 
e temperature 
ts respectively rejoice, would, wi 
a my a 
sys 
pag hye than either, I find thes he ei in the best 
drained pe eee 
after all there may 
the 
ow they ripen their crop. Ventilator 
ee als aise tite eee 
are worms, and 
a binding surface, — 
| ducing mA colour and larger 
| sized, 
e to be uncove 
Hates dising the Poly 3 ea shall be glad if the 
attention 
following state as the effect of drawing at 1 
to the further development of the capabilities of this 
favouri 1846, I obtained a plant 
eepest yellow, and crossed 
talled, . age flower and coarse 
It was “hep by itsel 
flowered and s 
with a pair ur of f fine rented — The seed obtained 
was sown in pots; as soon it was ripe the young 
seedlings pricked out into larger pots that autumn 
and lanted, and flow the su g sprin 
(1843). Their characteri that in robustne: 
f gro enlargement wer, they strongly 
partook of the female parent; but in shape, colour, 
, they bore the e and 
is in so remarkable a fathers and 
their progenies (the mother-plant being the same to all) 
Id be ly > yw m-eyed, and 
several were even hose in e the fecundating flower, 
yet partaking of the larger size and yellow colour in 
different pr ions of th bearing plant. I 
fertilised one of eed] ogany colour, 
yellow and a little yellow on the a a 
but not laced down th petal, 
in the way, an 
y like the enrolla of the ‘male, with a 8 
bee three . 
aways SEPE e — seedli 
to cross ollen from which may 
sition to ick in ‘the direction of the 
