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chorister’s voice blends with that of his brother musician, Fir timber inland. In the former article mention was, of making it bend round the bows and stems the 
and produces ie effect—the accompaniments incidentally made of the Lymexylon navale, which had ships building, as it becomes pliable by 1 process 
t all ti eliciously sweet. William Kidd, proved very injurious to Oak timber in the royal dock- when put on y after it comes out. If lef t 
New-road, Hammer — ith. y Sweden. Of this last mentioned insect, al- being then used, it requires to be ste This 
though long reputed to be a native of this country, the plan for the destruction of the insect is evidently prefer- 
THE CULTURE OF*THE VINE A HELPMATE only British specimen was taken by Mr. H. able to that by Li ali it of course 
O THE CULTURE OF THE G h, in Windsor forest, in July, 1829. The cap- does not prevent the Lymexylon, if 
OR, TWO BIRDS KILLED WITH ONE STONE* ture of this „which was a female, is m de ts eggs in the timber after it has be- 
[FOR corr 5 by Mr. J. F. Stephens in his “ Illustrations“ (Mandi- 
ee RR e e e a —.—.— 
my vi — will N shows I suc- . house, however, who was present on the o — — sea — — — 
showin; . - 
as e — he and the care be- The less said the N that the insect was caught, , which does not t mili- a res golden mh te nd te tian — 
F .. ⁵ v c ae wine aah eee 
; win rom r brought up the river indsor. i 
hope that after you have pct for z EA age ts The last named gent has, however, further in- of these ame —— 1 
yourselves my be the foolish. formed us that, on another occasion, whilst digging into | varieties, of great ay of colour and habit, and 
ANA 2 — the Tg shed, and J 3 an — Oak tree in the e fo h are all procura in fact, 20s. rer | 
wi a which, from his iption, we have no purchase a good collecti orus: wham 
Finst, Fe let us space where the 4 ot E —.— rearea se sagen as that of Lymex: 1 vale, out of — erably go — = fo Tho ho foliage 
pin and — toon to that oa ans : About the middle 1 June last we of pre lant is . — — ithout — 
perfection of growth T and I think the trated above į ceiv a correspondent, “ T. S. P., at Pembroke — ** yee — 
a will aha ey n nee: 8 „ which we immedia aly recog-| A — point in the management of the Epacris, so 
the Vine eee bes — a bot des ein ct y use the words of our corresqondent) | i _ p= a iy ion is ~ a, pub ate 
mate, and originally pees mss is the the Italian Oak “thick stuff, (the technical name for that the flowers are prodi ö 
ist also that it loves a planks a about 4 inches thick in store at that port.) They should be cut back — it has ing i 
ore „but mer; and i it should be tted, 
Il lead us at once to suppose Abuse is heir ravages ing serious.” They were fo a k pr et on — 
that Te: — 5 a o ren t part in cid of plenty, busy in wood ai. in 1846, which led our corre- į —— rer ik $t “rei —— pit, until it 
the * 2 we ant verty. ga with j ustice that th ey had been is again in a growing state; it air by 
mored g 3 A ae hardened to enable it to sustain ex 
try an pakaa noe 3 rays. * in a shady position, such —— north side of a 
Vine? In two different r 5 iret, on beg. — meee seid — ; 
part above the ground ; secondly, possible rapidity. 8 2220 autumn, ex 
d | pose it to the 
0 s the medium of the —— sun, in order that its wood may be be perfectly ripened, 
4 ie the leet Sr E bad nd the bloo come gy It should then, as winter ap- 
sun’s rays on the er 
the sun ThusGod’s good- 
ness fills the 
man gathers 
re- and applies. 
ing plant, 
fore if trained against a ai, it obtains 
more heat and n support. 
A brick wall is dered the best 
un dry, 
absorbent nature; a black colour will 
e ase the heat; as it 
to flower in that — few laste — Present a 
The of 
more lovely beauty of this 
Epacris will greatly depend upon the absence of stakes. 
rt it to follow its natural wth ; to twist it into a 
y its beauty completly All the 
perka of if properly 
Eps and the fewer stakes — in — plant, the 
. varieties of Epacris may be grown in good 
peat, with a sete silver sand intermixed with it, In 
ttin 
The potting season is when plants have done flower- 
ing, when t — the 3 be reduced, an 
eire 
e. ite, b, 
Since however cottages are not usually Kings most peo- | wi eo the segment’ of the bod 
— he Vines, but Vines used to cower 3 into a hood over the h irs | BRITISH * FOR ZuE ADVANCE- 
nt cot * — $y d be. wishing | of short jointed legs, and the terminal segment of the | F SCI 
2 om cottage is * built; Happy is the body swollen. They , when grown, about In the e, 3 meg * Hues CLEG- 
neither you like to put your man whose arg | three quarters of an inch in length, n trans- | HORN made a uni Grass-cloth (Chu 
~~, Faz Gs adapted to his | formed into a pupa (fig. 2), with a long body, and the | Ina) of India. He several species of plants 
needs bend 3 wants, but thrice | wing e legs lying at rest upon s pa our | belonging to the order dee were employed in 
however I only tell hd haf I Tan to happy Baik Wied he . — figure re ting the animal lying back. e | Hindostan for the purpose of yielding fibres in 
be perfection, in order that you may get rege oa — perfect insects are developed about the middle of ah manufacture of textile fabrics. He exhibited several 
as near it as may stances. our correspondent having inf at at that articles of white d light, which were i 
srect.—To resume (as authors say As man is made period they were appearin nds in the Pem- from the fibres of an Urtica p ohmeria 
whe . — been writing beside tho porta tp broke dockyard. They have been long known for and known in In —Dr. D. 
mark), everybody understands that the to be higher tructive habits on ship ti hence tbe speeific | Maclagan inquired if the fibres of this plant had been ex- 
position of the wali with respect to till, me n to them of navale, i who was amined. ly, as on being 
ompass r in oer words, its as aspect, employed by the King of Sweden to investigate their used for — the glasses of nts it 
is impor a. * habits on t ; f their appearing in great | se scratched them. Should it become e 28 
Observation che y numbers an mg in the royal — 
inclined to think that the south must kyards o ſto delicate o bjeets.— Mr. Gourli n Gl „stated 
be the best aspect, but is nothing to They belong to th e order 5 * Ve family eat we knew very little of the Taw eee of many of 
considered i heat? I believe Se at her into which they aie is doubtful. uction | the fabrics from other parts of the world. We were 
that wind and rain will be found to be 10 rget the plums, | to the modern classification of inse 3 are formed for a eee time ignorant of the materials from which 
very hurtful to Vines; therefore the ia ng the with lecætus a separate y made. It was to be 
heat, together water Lymexylonidæ. They vary in length from one-sixth to the fibres of the leaf of the Pine-apple, but we had not 
exposure, is the best ý east is rathe han half an inch i ; the male is su in man them in this country.—Dr. 
certainly the driest, and Vines in this black, with the inner base elytra, legs, and abdo- Lankester remarked the importance of an in 
situation get soonest rid of the * men dirty orange coloured; the female is and of our knowledge of those forms of plants which were 
dews; and it is a ut brighter coloured, with the thorax reddish, the head, able of yielding for manufact — gh 
generally speaking, h-east most d of the elytra and wings dusky black, the oe of raw s had been deprecated by 
beneficially and to the greatest degree the antennze brownish black, and the legs pale fulvous, | some in the coming Exhibition of 1851, he — that 
combines heat and dryness ; and there- the period when the inseet arrives at the perfect | it might t be — one of the most important and valu- 
fore this as may be considered the state is well known, we are able to apply effective | able features of the Exhibition.—Dr. Royle said that it 
best for Vines. The further we go to 2 for the protection of timber from its attacks, had been long doubtful what plant yielded the 
the south and west, more protection e destruction of the i en they eee cloth of India, and now Lage w the plant, it 
ii wind and rain ; although attacked the w Linnzeus suggested that the ti would doubtedly lead to = yment, 
a western wall if rou ell should be submerged at the e of the appearance of There w e — E other fabrics in a a hich we 
tected, will get the autu in i the perfect insects, which would of co drown th knew nothing g t one of 
power. East by north, round just disclosed from the pupa, d —_ would be weak | the most important 3 of the Exhibition of 1851, 
by the south int, will and easily killed, in case the ti imb ed any such — the turers of this 3 that of ra 
clude all the points of the compass, malriea Every pains should be taken to obtain the 
w will ri where, from depositing its eggs in the submerged timber. and history of every species < of plant whick 
0 Our correspondent at Pembroke informs us that the yielded any substance useful in the manufac 
wood infes 3 a 2 medicine and a Vibrio that attack G a 
s lns there, which has been attended wi carus a Vi rio at attac rasses; 
ln best These steam-kilns are long boxes made ve aha ata rasses frequently 
desert steam tight, into which wood is placed, and then e di | by tacks of small animals, an 
— —— last year (p, 386) we desaribed and shut y double doors, and The author described some forms that had hitherto 
dations on the submarine wooden structures of Fir, steam is generated in boilers, and conveyed into the | been praag aa In the beginning of July his atten- 
Beech, and Oak in our dock one of which had | trunks by pipes, the remaining in about 8 or 10 | tion was directed to Holcus lanatus (Meadow Soft 
previously been scarcely ome as an English species, | hours, to be thoroughly soaked, and not less ight, | Grass), in which many of the panicles were blighted. 
In a previous Number we — 5 a fish Oaks, 10 pA ae ie ire th b a au shoot a: the ai — a as 
Sirex gi i n inch require above : either | from t 
— — e . . —— — 
e autbor was f. S t fi estruction o e y chan s 
eaa te ne ne ad pas he not having in- | the Lymexylon. The v wood is for or the purpose teguments, which were sometimes strewed with hard 
