cakes, an 
pe placed upon a table (the feet of which were plunged in | fectual remedies is to lay wide-mouthed bottles in theip 
ater and i 
340 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
channel stream into the in hot . = 
$ Sas eater hai tahia the Bova which insects contrived to gain to the r ; salt has also been stated to be. 
of it, the gardener, with his aissade, takes up the | fruit, d particularly China preserved fruits renner edhe Ma wo . the simplest and mest ef. 
first dam in the main channel, with the same * ents e eran 
y surrounded by turpentine), dis- | trae! the mouths of their burrows, “ 
te rms a dam across the ao eee play a most marvellous degree of instinctive faculties. | of raw meat within. The ants will greedily aba u. 
channel; by the time this is done, the water has P 13 England, and especially in the country, it is very latter, and may be destroyed from time to time by 
run to the bottom of the second transverse 1 rarely indeed eg” ants become troublesome in-doors, eee À the bottle over hot water. Of course the — N 
up the second dam, closes although Messrs. Kirby and Spence mention that the | struction of the winged males and females the 
the second transverse channel, and so on till the | large horse ant (Formica rufa) will occasionally plant its time of PETS merits the greatest share of our re 
whole compartment has been irrigated. e next | colonies in kitchens, and is not — * tention. J. O. 
ring is commenced at the bottom of a compart- | Within the last few years some of the houses 
ment instead of the top, on account of the different | Brighton, London, and Liverpool (all seaport ene REZOIL. 
situation of the dams; so, alt 1 * yer Coie been Tt * 2 ‘gh very een ant| Ir is well known that the patience and labours of the 
commen f each yrmica domestica), v which has occasionally in- ho * — are fr uently rendered 
e or a top’ or at the batte creased to such an ex as to drive the inhabitants the appetite of som 85 y red unavailable 7 
this manner a market garden ground n ar fro 
Montpelier, of four — used — be kept i a — — can wood, newly | m 
order gardener himself, two boys his sons, laid down in a kitchen,“ and there can, I think, | feared as the flowers approac 110 
and A. 72 1 A assistant, with one woman to weed, be very little doubt that the species has been im- show Dahlias are thus “ cut off in a 2 WI 4 
i last fe 
ch 
ough weeds seldom had time to res ported within the last few years. Dr. Bostock pub- the hope that the following receipt will offer some 
or se t und is Race ar a Seia" poies, ot tile, eef. mad of „the attempts | to these m „L send it to you, ass — 
ba bed for this pu is perfectly level, which he had made to dislodge it from his own house chea ness and eas 8 n will render it 
a bank of Sary pir or 6 inches high around it; (Trans. Ent. Soc. ii., p. 65). The ants were found in appreeia P ted. yapp t universally 
Mn is let . rat h a cut in the bank till the |a cupboard, where stores were occasionally kept, and “Take of common resin, 14 Ib.; sweet oil, 1 Ib.; place 
whole bed is w and flooded. ‘ on a pear of 3 NN eae them Be a 2 over the fire 3 until the resin x 5 
the 1 ing most numero i together. A 
In a market arden the e which, Poel that of i 2 Rr Wind’ . nee Nes Te me aeg ae — 1 — t at they imay ay be re 
J. C's” y Db “He tile the month of June the cupboa d shelves were | e pezoil” of t — of treacle To 
while growing, required additional manure, erti removed, when in all the parts — any 3 Wa tho resol it should be p wie a brush ws 
ing matter was k = let into the walls, or even where it or any material, and wra und the stem of 
as near as might be convenient to the head of the | been in co wilt the plaster, i the une e found | the piant: if an rt is used thatshould o 
main channel, and thus manure convey Y | in prodigious quantities of t ne considerably pts preti No in r oie possibly, or will attempt 2 
water to the plants of a whole * This larger than t * er, the “larger, ‘kind * cross this barrier; the rezoil never dries, but alwa 
affords reason to wens’ of that the ing parts | rp inde ee the whole. There were also a remains sticky and clammy—its 8 a trap 8 
sewage water would be equally wall 5 — very great number ir Maid’ They Festa therefore obvious. To preserve — and other 
by the mode of irrigation above indicated. settled under 5 beet eth Lond N and especially wall fruit we have only to nail a strip of list upon the 
sketch of an aissade subjoined is from recol- fixed themselves t the fire- place, wall, round the entire plant, and then paint it well with 
lection, but it may give a notion of this useful tool. one were only dislodged by by taking t up p the fonts and the rezoil, on both sides, if it can be managed, to keep 
moving and resetting the W in cem insects from crawling under as well as over. Other 
modes of application will suggest themselves without 
Septimus Piesse, 43, Molyneux-sireet. 
-i I OF Ar Ys, 
tinued from 
Tux mollusca of “the genus Limax, o or sings, are quite: 
as fatal to iculture. 
The blade mare be about 16 inches long, perhaps 
not more than 6 inches wide. The blade takes up 
often at once a whale dam, deposits it at once in its 
new place, then with the under surface of the blade 
beats down the mould water tight. 
ners in the south of France greatly prefer 
irrigation, as they practise it, to throwing water over 
the 
who vegetable production Biby do not devasta! 
— oat 3 * the : mrar Ani eds to ex- dee byalin ce hag a ae gardens, attacking 
5 3 more e Kidney Beans, the agrestis, 
air from the roots of igs esl ma 5 this they Figure 3a represents one of the . of the Agauen very | infests maA k fields ant I have often seen the whole: 
reason justly. In e of the highly magnified, showing the four acute teeth with which it of id d ‘eelinine . of tho „ 
causes which ep impeded the 5 of liquid | * the OPE PA 2c bape. Wheat —.— Wý thems: leaving the fibres intact. For 
manure in this coun ntry is the mode. of using it. The individuals 9 by Dr. Bostock, which are | the former kind it has been recommended, and may pro- 
re of all it to fl tl th are the small neuters or workers, duce some effect, to cover the seed beds with 9 for 
— ore panama it (Fg. 3) which, as in the ordinary an t hills, constitute the b. 
e . upon the from a seasons, and in low ill drained ground, badly 1 ti 
À upwards from a hose so 33 thrown as | have lost their Mir, ri (Sg. 2), an which are of a more they multiply in an extraordinary degree, so as that no 
fat as gegen mn the operator, the result of which elongate apa as well as very much larger than the portion FR 
t the earth is grad ORE n r hare on y reheat anenai i andin- | gardens the eila slugs as well as snails may be easily 
wia incapable of sustaining “active vegetation. Species may be said to be still undescribed, Mr. got rid of by putting eve an reversed. 
Shuckard’s technical description being quite insufficient, — pots S dha s ag so placed as tbat they may 
I ption quite : ced 
z learn by letters from St. Petersburgh, dated | "Overy of the malen (lor which acm aent The dis-| creep under to shelter themselves from the heat of the 
bservatio 
85 themselves, or from hypotheses "heh however 
: idee ms a destru t, have no real 3 on. indeed 2 
gp 2 of the „ males and — the period mortifying thing to see amongst these Pitted 
; 2 of swarming, o rse preventing establishment | those whi 5 mes 
Tur House ANT, of fresh broods. This * takes place at the end 1 8 
THE anes and actual injuries commen y s by | of May, at which time the swarms are in an 
species of ants upon our choicest growing | usual state of activity. The male (fig. 1), measures y 
rarei productions has long been vwa and com- | about 1} line in length; the female (fig. 2), 2 lines ; 
plained of, pags Pow Saag mem sk our stie | neuter 3), = of a line. ma 
economy, in England at least, has suffered from the and opake, except the abdomen, which is glossy, with 
trans i th 
S. 
3 
i 
f 
ise 
colou: and dark : Lag po de prévenir 
they soem ; 8 tain Green that . | graines de blé dans les épis, et sur les moyens de pr 
E 1 k informs us that a the base. “The females and n euters are pale yellowish | s accid 4 i 
detects and attacks i 
i unnecessary. ee iblio he 
a, that consumes or spoils all kinds of food. I may add that they are the first figures which have een in 3 : titled 
— us Calon dei deem, ant, stan been given of the — in any of e states tino- that ol Count p apea: —, “whid 
the same ; 
number of the Gardeners’ Chronicle Dares not here be Gi >} 3 ; i k may 1 
N inanni treated it with more detail, and his boo : 
repeated. Rags, however, well saturated with turpen- += best ve, Much bas i 
| tine thrust into the * | where they abound will e E v p ood. fai 
: e 
e 
+ Proceedings of Ent, Soc., I, xxv., agricultural part of the  Eneyclopédie Mcthodiques 
t a ot mue on of Nat, —] ii, Èr, whigh may be considered as so many separate treatises 
