ä 
Solid 
lo uted separately. 
count of th of the Squash will serve to show * this Ameri- 
catalogu 
12 up: 
* S a Os 1 .—Sp. Calab aca) =the divided into r 
an 
is a native of latitudes, and m 
ered with warty e 
more warty the better) ; ; ‘olor bright ua shell, 
very hard when ripe. 
tender, which may 
nd, for fall and winter ; necks, long 
and solid + 3 colour, pale yellow, the 5 Ra colour 
the better. ere is a ges variety of the same 
quality, with eea this is usually er 11 yields 
we i ent for pies; ee 
crop for feeding Koga and catt 
a small ear 
a farm 
Canadi Crookueck is is 
n market, Form, ovate, pointed; skin, ex- 
Petia thin, bright orange or salmon-coloured ; flesh, 
deep 1 finely grained, and excellent flavoured ; 
eds whi 
grained, i sweet 
has gone by; they ar ly 
watery, opiy fit for stock feeding. 
flavour a? 
Mis cellaneous. 
An Invalid’s Gar den. —I am, a and have been for 
ure Bensi 
delighte lings, and Fur 
— mee! paradise of flowers The 
following ac- 
d were 
verage weight, 6 or 8 Ibs. 
i i | observations 
Small 
es are uniformly finer grained and richer | by companies of 
: dagger-shaped polished mark 
the hinder 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
combination and contrast of colour be carried o out, 
affording information of the most interesting k kind; and 
ere A I, or an other i invali 
really natiyes of the ir 
Celestial Empire ? 
rather that the national epithet has come to be identified 
| with any duodecimo edition of an ordinary 
AS 
-0 
B 
— 
8 E 
TE 
c 
e and De a 
to fill rave respective pans or 
bea Now, 0 an think m * possible ? an 
ot be es beautifal t L » Manchester. 
[ We like the idea much, and if well pa out it would 
indeed be beautiful. ‘Midland Florist 
3 
ecidomyie of the Willow, Rose, and Rock-rose.—It | B 
has recently been discovered by the German naturalis: 
attention of most observers, briefly 
indicated the fly (Cecidomyia Alles), which he reared 
the red larva w hich oe 
n 
umerous had the 
and * LN with the antenne 17. 
jointed in the male 
gna, and the 
The Cocidomyia Salicina of 
e 
second Ar Cin poamumS. 
De 
r too, 
N y the size of the hol 
plant. About six weeks ago, when ne the 
of my Dahlias, I thought I might as well strike one 9 
id not flower this season, t 
2 in Beck. Florist and 
Garden Miscellany y Sor Septemb 
Mitcham : its ic ä and Medicinal 
Plants. — More A 2000 years ago the physicians of 
reece were supplied with herbs, of Which th their 
joints in page 
tennze, pt — the w wings hairy an 
ightly — 
Willo 
Length 2 lines. The woody W 
are in expanse. Bouché, on the sihen han 
describes from this gall an insect which he likewise 
ee, Cecidomyia ina, as 4 8 long, with 
brow There is thus a £ 
iti 
arisen from inse y 
bos 1 review of “liffore nt observers. 
2 ard another ‘species | o 
as recently bro 
Pund i in the pm förda of Salix viminalis and S. rubra. 
This he names C. viminalis, and in it the antenne are 
attenuated to a point, with a pair of 22 1 
ow like wise en a n 4i 
his 
et | cultivation of medicinal h 
h 
t the present day, and in our own country, the fiforduor 
Romans 
ens, of the Greeks and the a rpari of the Romans are re- 
ed | presented by a c 
ass of Pat pes who 
about the countr eollecting ti 805 medicina a 
and 
o wrote in 1796, says, that 40 years 
there were 92 a few acres employed i in the 
d | of medicinal herbs at Mitcham, Merion, and Carshalton, 
behind it, a dusky spot visible above and 
on the f. 23 of he 
» Sligh 
breast; and end is su tly | w. 
; mottled 
from another yellowish grub often 
the underside of the leaves of garden Roses 
fit earthenware vessels, like seed pans, wi ae acd F 
Margins, and à arranged artistically. Now, would it no 
be possible to have these wi beautiful 
and why not thus have 
er garden! 748g could the effect of 
r, more | lowing are 
About 1768 or 1769, Mr. Potter began the cultivation 
of physic lnis at Mitcham, He was ee his 
relative, 
with the info con in his work relating to 
heleni pi Geos ee Mitcham. The fol- 
are the names * the principal growers at the 
present time, with the umber of acres of land ea ich 
person has under . and the number of 
in use: 
88 be os 
35 —— ft <i SORES 3 
31 Mariia pe oT au not much used, 
Newman 
No, of Acres. No, of Stills. 
350 ae 
nce, however, 1 
ing the 
B 
a 
= 
. 
z 
6 ao 
E S* 
* . K* 
| 
n 
i 
2 
© 
C 
their somewhat egg ae Bad prede- 
cessors out of the Nn into thi borders. And 
truly there are * flowe 
ose. But is it that E these. diminutive species are | 
* Cinerex, a sectional term applied by Mr. Borrer to the 
Sallows. 
3 
8 — oe . Re 
a. Vene re 2 8 
Several other growers te a few acres of land. 
"g cultiva 
A considerable number of 3 plants are culti- 
larger number of 
. Journal. 
Odariferous Principle of. the 1 — 
Tie leaves 0 
Angracum * 
also by th ge E ances, ann 
8 — the Mauritius ; they are obtained 1 
lant first described b; y Dupetit-Thouars un apei. ma 
ope x 
plants than any 
„:; . Ee 
