SOT Se Nee ee We Ne Ee ee 
33—1850. | THE 
ledge of bi toe physiology since the last report to 
the Association given by Dr. Lindley ; ; from Dr. Lindley, 
nkester. 
M consis 
of Mr. R. Hunt, Dr. G. Wilson, and Dr. Gladstone, 
be requested * en the influence of the so 
i n mbinatio al pheno- 
view, of th 
hat the committee on the influ- 
wth of F 
e 
ae to continue their investigations 
The next meetin 1 in n 1851, is to be 
held at Ipswich, in Suffolk. No tim appointed, 
rd it stated that it is ma to take place} sa | 
name — natural hist we must 
he meeting — held i — this 
nth, At this time none of the professors — 
> te ckay, Joshua 
Clark, Esq., Dr. George Johnston, and John Ball, Esq. 
We shall proceed, as we on previo 
ccasions, to lay before our — port of the 
in so far as they 
tematic botany and vegetable arpay. 
VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING, 
THE Strawberry has long held a 
A 
sued b 5 large cultivators he eae may therefore 
be instructive to the 
va e point is —— new 
and even common hae gro 
‘Strawberries. Land of rather a stiff texture 
und; 
„ which 
up 
mp is always 
air basis * . A 
rripa Kanai meting ‘plants m Wee 
in getting everything in 
id manure was given | 
e is swelling, the ero 
w the air is admitted by a 
hich N 
aperture. The tube is nearly filled with che. following 
Camphor, Jüss.; nitrate of potash, gr. xxxviij. ; 
rectified (rS 3xj. 
2. Committee for | ordi 
isto: 
i these storm-glasses. —— Ji — 
nie acid on the gro of Ferns, be Hurstbourn 
is e o | sub 
propa | be thee 
4 
ut 
S | ceived various 
cc Garden 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
riate of ammonia, gr. xxxviij. ; water, Six. 
Dissolve with heat. 
inary temperature of the atmosphere, plumose crys- | 
n are fo 
n the ne yengi of N weather these crystals are favour 
pra observed to occupy only the bottom na the tube, i 
pear * be compressed into a poe the 
on the 3 — during the fi ather, | fact 
racter, and ext tend a 
— results depend — 
considered to 
517 
; Sirices are parasitic insects, depositing their in 
At = timber 8 attacked by other ligaivorous 4. — 
aud that pyr are not — destruetive to timber. 
Th length of the ovipositor at first also seems to 
reac 
repeatedly o rests 
— that had it it been a parasite, and y» a xylo- 
1 
sects upon which it subsists 
tate n 
very low temperature, the compo - camphor liniment | 
bottle pase ds the same appearance and indica 
— ENTOMOLOGY. 
internal paras hi 
begang < = the month nth ri ety ag 3 cr been observed of all sizes without there being any other 
t, an 
s 
the pe 
. e lar ve, not bal grown, without any coo inset ‘aig 
ork, correspondent “had — ote This is sufficien maggie th 
pr bas Seah = - 1 al parasi gat — — ——.— 
at the N of the "E Ceng the ae —— | the formed — for my eg ee oa e Sirex is eminently 
this instrument with 1 represents the larva full grown in its 
basso in the wood ; and * 2, one „$ e peagers 
with four sharp teeth, and a large 5 
Lamb informed us 2 of pre a ie 2 sted n re 3 re 
e larva state, specimens of | female Sirex gigas apd the natural size, and * dae 
m. | 9f its mandibles. J. O. W. 
ory 
captured . but . at a spot 199 
ed 
prone aa injury to the insect. 
nth Mr. 
ral specim 
woo 
winged sta — — 
Patched, A f the other British silos, Sirex e Home Correspondence. 
arden Gossip.—I have at last bloomed the 
Mr. n mending it to every one who 
can plant it in the -drained border of a good con- 
ry. flowers of my plant are much 
than the figure in ns ine of Botany,“ and 
eh uced as many . e. 
purity of their snowy hue is considered, their huge siz 
fragrance, the plant m ad — — styled the 
nest known conservatory climb as Mr. Beato: 
nothing new to recommend in — of plants t t 
neiscea grandiflora has this sum 
ll in ry 
— A others not 
oe wever, on the injurious ees a thie through the last severe winter (seve 
ith i 
r: 
conceives that the disease or death of trees ey due 
been attributed erroneously by en 
the attacks of this insect. Such he setts te at le east to 
e habi en the common Laur 
gigas eserving, however, t ery font thei 
of Sirex juvencus fi for a future article, we for groun 
the case with S. juvencus, consi 
i ts baat 
pieces o a wood eee ‘pia at I must 
pring ca ge 
a of pre-eminent beauty; a plant in my garden, 
d to the | against a south wall, is now a road and Sena, 
been | and 1 which 
been a mass of flowers. 
Journal ” 
the o — of the 
quite y Eiee them. i 
he subsequently observed the female inserting her 
| into a of Ameri Ar 
cut down only a few days previ 
long the rough 
unte, or ra 
of — f beauty. 
In a pond, the ivory 5 Senses a “cata ‘she 3 
ce, and | been 1 exe t, though the leaves wWe 
stroyed in ter by pet ta did not, how 
e app — the sa — 3 rowing in. 
minutes to sink a hole, inserting no numerous as Nes the ng Ap young 
than š an 1 in April, 1349, my . wer of my 
p | wh kavint plasi the leg at the proper 
e perfeetl 
1 — 2 deep, of strong 
