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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
i facilitating the solution of the a y~ practice, which ma — — 
circulation, even wens oF am should be obliged to 
iblis withou 
pan eye which is the more to be regretted, as | 
— the figures are ne either so accurate nor so 
we N dssigribd as in the later numbers. j 
ammonia, ting 
phates, by — the physical qualities 
iorating 
soil, and iy moderating a 1 regulating the ‘Sain posi- | 
tion of deca ecaying 
ters 
anure — A eE is that which at the same | 
af ee contains 
non animal ‘seal 
iy fo: mene and vegetable 
9. Ta valuing a manure, it is necessary to take into 
y and alkaline salts, ammonia 
ter in a state of . . ; 
the| very useful 
z 1 lighting a number of small 
these fires, yea af great pain Es, are 
ir 
that propagate upon trees, or c 
it is indispensable to destroy their nests. 
A COMMUNICATION Was made at a late meeting of 
Society respecting a peculiar form of 5 
spre 
inspection, remindin mural leprosy of 
Judea, attacking, as it ’ ore or less de- 
stroying not mere e timber, but the solid walls 
themsel It occurred in use near Erith, 
into every e in and n the walls and 
wood-work, se ting the s and mortar, and 
dering the whole so friable that the walls mus 8 
be rebuilt, to prevent thei ing down. 
mycelium here forms a wide ly expanded ek 
in every pos- oO 
2 es Mice — 3 together. ia 
as to form 1 strin 
m 
struction ati o be the only remed 
cums e 1 penetrating into the 
— — and avgis tos xtent appears to 
e do not * to have heard i 
nek 1. the kind befor: 
t can 
ce ‘min is ernie 
seldom 
e 
— 1 ‘destroyed ogi by Dedalen 4 quercina 
and Polyporu color. In Germany the Haus- 
schwamm or atte eae is —— . due to a 
4 of Polyporus (no sents rved in this country 
such a ä — —— been fou nd near 
n Fir stumps), whos ee is — 
to be greatly fav oured by the presence of fo 
from drains, or other receptacles of n 
g 
be positively asserted, in the total ab- 
by analysis, but also the state in which that nitrogen 
xists in the manure ; also the state of the ammoniacal | th 
1 or of the putrescit ble animal matter, and ee pl te of | there 
ae ble amm — salt, or of the ammoniac ag- 
por 
he * of fermented dung which have 
are defective, in that they have not 
roximate 
11. The ere arative value of manures cann 
be 
estimated by em thh reckoning ti the rvp of nitrogen r 
3 beca 
ches manures depends much on the state of the nitrogen 
contained in them 
and n it is Sar to 
frame a table of equivalents for m th 
— ee mounting will adhere, and may be easily 
DISEAS ASES OF PLANTS numbe I say nothing of aspersions and fumigations, 
‘ontinued from p. y as experience has taught me how useless they are. 
5 bins = the means of primei does not appear that ae ee do any mischief 
“ae f the Grillus grillotalpa, L., to hapa Cn plants, possibly it may be otherwise 
(called by us 5 zeccajuola, suce ajolo or baso with aqua ESA 
a zucche, and by the French courtilière). may be — hymenoptera, a a few do mischief. Thus 
e, ae, t „not herbi- the cynips in laying its eggs p galls, the 
vorous, that it in after ps 8 bee ?] which with a kind of — — 
inseets; but it is not the less true that it is one of the Sa shoots of the Rose, for instance, i 
reatest enemies of our gardens, Rice grounds, &e. tolayits eggs; 1875 finally, the ant, which, though defended 
Passi heavy roller over the ground in th y | Py many, 
spring is a practice much vaunted, but of little use. All 2 contrivances bad gardeners for the destruction of 
Deep ploughing in the middle of winter will ca any these insects hav en hitherto attended with but little 
of these insects to per It is certai very | Success. Fabbroni i found that pouring upon their nests 
rish. 
female that is killed prevents the er Te of 800 to 
eggs which she into e earth 
paara co of bee into which these Arapi “ie 
hia ie 
— the pore of — — and han fall to ro 
he se 
level of.the groun 
insect endeavouring to m from tlie 
oil on it. 
water has its 
pone of a small garden 
he will stop the Qril 1 its commencement, and t 
avoid — future hav 
Coleoptera ue doubly ro a 
larva any kill many esate ya 
their roots. When insects, w 
moments of their kris they feed on the leaves and 
attacking 
owers of many plants. Among their number one o 
ies to all vegetation, in the state of 
We learn from Messrs. Low and Co. that one of | larva, is th chafer, o b melolontha, L 
the Sraxwiek Nectarines, purchased at the sale the It lives years in tha here is but one 
other =P was for Mr. Woop, of the N un- way of getting rid of it. When it is — that they 
i and from Ga are much ae tele’ $ a a 2 * t Lettuces 
essrs. GARRA 
Co., of Bristol, that the plant purchased by M 
Hurst and M‘Mutten was on their account. 
our advertisements will be found an 
man’s great collection of Orcas, in aid e fund: 
of a chyrch to be constructed in that gentleman’s 
We und . Bateman’s 
finest a and rarest plants will be brought = 
the ham n this occasion, some of the forme: 
being of ya 10 to 15 years’ growth. 
ON HUMUS AND rer 
. Sous. 
to the sadat the re- 
5 which 
be sown upon voles fond of them, 
and ay = all attach B themselves tothe young plan 
oweve 
theirjravages are always much less where the 
ver and choked a — i 
Im 
troying the first grillotalpa he sees * 
e 
In the state of i 
mg 
fiT 
keeping the soil 
a few drops of a mixture of red-lead and honey, of the 
nsistence of a syrup, Sparas, them, but eyen this. 
method has not succeeded wi 
Q 
© 
and gnats, seem tò 
nd finally, among s 
class of insects ; 
rms, the two others hte 
best means of La oag gardens from them is 
e persons chase the by 
uring a —. of 3 into their holes, which 
them to che ey are 
uses o the surface, when 
easily taken. 
Complaints are 3 con of the ravages of 
he 
known. 
snails, Pi which ther 
cannot here do better riaa 
and m exterminated in of a few | celebrated Bose, auth 
ho An the spring also all t that are found in Nouveau Dietionnaire d' Histoi aturelle. Thousands 
the perfect state should be destroyed, they are alway receipts for the destruction of snails have been pub- 
abundant ges and ditches. This plague is lished, but the only good one is g * 
test after winters ist springs. It has er. À ul — will therefore make 
deen that most of the hich k | the tour of his garden early in rning, and = 
corn are much more — daslep df è the a all find. It is ir hidi 
deposited pae cowdung ; these ought e day-time issue forth from their ae 
therefo to be left ! p „ especially | Places, and it is at such tim erefore that a partie 
on artifici Satya x should be made for them.” My own experience 
Amongst {hem 3 * fully confirms w c id. I have tried a 
the grillotalpa in 1 ‘perfect state. But the nume number of secrets, and all have proved 
series of bags, aphides, cicadse, e and inana eaters, 
the less we are able to 
has been well worked and a in 
- | more frequently easca 
-passing branches of 
experiment is also said to have been successfully tried | especially one 
By the lepi our country our 
crops are 
Ca il hich are 
terpillars, wh 
VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING. 
pen 
gardening, in many cases, depends more 
upon continual 3 than on skill. Peach trees 
~~ . — sag or destroyed, 
mischief 3 3 it causes ! 
know 
ang tae or a to 
0 a fruit trea— m 
whose ma is to be 3 
— is 
4 3 the 
penetrate in eat out their substance, cut off 
— ee: — pn pe and sometimes suffocate 
with their wel 7 age? ect state 
= 1 re A a favourable action on on vegetation, 
ty Siac and retaining the moisture of een 
only g their eggs in plants. 
* Ré generally calls eee by this name, but it is applied 
to all small insects which are gregarious, and here he must 
mean something like the Turnip fly. 
exci 
the boilin about to run over. Nature, 
payin provides e for the plant leaves which elaborate as 
excess of sap, and new combinations are are formed, inary 
some transpires to interfere with the o — 
laws laws by which vegetable life is controlled and dr in re 
ts foliage is destroyed, P 
