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CHRONICLE. 
[Nov. 2, 
embarrassment may follow as will cause the excur- į 
he more 2 N 
museums nufactories be visited, under 
shelter ; ger cat added or half Nees eg En assis 
in filling up the time. n these resoure ail (or 
even when they do hag Sa tats will gene rally os some 
whe 8 sentimentally or 
e dancing 
h 
en it descends to part of the burrow which 
it has formed i in the bud, and is B there — f. ormed i nto? a 
A ee feature = produced, viz., contras 
f | picture becomes s 
Finished. Would — an edging re 
ty and brilianey of the Rose 
he 
easter mere ene or Pernetiya mucronata, or 
‘anny low dwarf evergreen shrub kept shorn into a 
fo: 
te rim 
internal. feeding species, ‘noe 2 furnished — 
small point between the 3 d the segments of the 
abdomen armed wi ouble rows of very fine points 
directed bac kas, r the insect to move itself 
about in ks ze 
while away a rainy day, perhaps leap-f i 
else that suggest itself at the moment, to those who 
are well di to seeing country oa happy 
PERC oe wns tl ie 
am aware these 
ne: by à priori objectionists, likely to “ unsettle 
the 80 own experience has prov e 
that we all get up the morning after our excursions 
into our an 
smil 
kindlier feeling than when we met two days | 
before. My testimony will weigh little with a farmer, 
that furnished him b a brother 
our excellent « 
selected. ] 
— differen t insects which attack them worthy of 
tention, with a view to paaa or irre the 
mischief which they produce, and unfortunately the 
number of different insects which feed upon this tribe 
of trees in le, er: a 
ery 
3 
r pages. 
1845, p. 456, was described the Hylobius a abietis, which to, an 
gnaws the young shoots, stripping the stems of eon 
bark, In ree — 70 "n Hh on a piniperda 
described, he main — of 
various . — — —— 
and in 1844, pp. 796 and 831, ei eset some 
ious minute aphis-like insects, w 
ene — tb 3 the juices of. — — fered 
E growing i tal 
grounds of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, to be | e 
of a small 7 
Tortrix 
sist makes its appearance at t 
The 
$ middle of EJ sage and i is one of our mos beautiful specie | wh 
ar from common in o 
0 colour, with ! 
8 sta streaks, and a si the 
hinder e of them bifid on the costa, which 
has - or tw 1 mall silvery dots; the extreme hind 
also silvery, with a very slender blackish line 
ges, which are pale ; the hind wings 
When at rest it sits with = 
pan 
Ar 
shortly afterwards lays 
büdi of the — Silver _ — Fir tree 
WE 
Although the 3 of this inseet on the different 
s rare sufficient extent to effeet 
| shoot saved, if the res 
illar Seren th tet i into the albu 
‘of the tree. If this be delayed until the sum mer, no- 
e is destroyed 2 
ea 
the . of the insect in the 
the 
the above I have shown how much beau 
be exhibited even in a circular bed, 
a little taste and 8 but these sim 
eiples are 1 = means fined to a Ro 
en a co state of — prevail, delight 
vanishes, confusion ska the pM of order, disgust 
l 
stead of the most of 
man of 
p ons and satieties of mind usually 
resulting from close application, r ons hole 
aro. 
s | in utter dismay and hopelessness, 
e& 
BRITISH SONG BIRDS. 
eine ee ae AvIARIESs.— There have been, 
e to time, a number of experiments made by 
the curious, to see if birds would live in mechanical 
C. 5 tre 
real water, flowing brooks, rivulets 
ne berg the ensemble e to — to the be- 
holder the idea of a ndscape. 
di do 
Pi Stretched himself ppi out at full ie and ex- 
have slept soundly without being com- 
Biss Be indeed must things 
tune, w a carpenter hacia the 
at a er iea and plays “ first fiddle ” in an 
ion 
which, when ra oses 
ne. The space allotted d tothe unhappy pe oe 
doo Se Se en aag 
r such eireumsta 
rk disposition of the “place and i 
hing is easier than 
pupa si State, | at the end of June 
ing — dying Te on breaking these off, the brown 
ve chrysalis is at the bottom of the injured part, 
8 may k naii trained to 
r | as are grown as If this be 
d the destroyed, the injury 
corsa as will, 
a next 
year's brood 
ee e 
of course, b be prevented. | 
tural— ing en entirely 
for (so n fet. T: such eae as these must | 
aoe 
o Sbs Bes 8 
very 
A large picturesque aviary, precisely — 
the one I have been descri 
to be 
cribing, was, some years since, 
cross lines indicating the natural size, toget ther wi ‘ns 
twig of the Fir, consisting of three buds, all of which 
are destroyed by 8 boring of the caterpillar seen wi within 
e central one. J. O. V. 
VILLA AND SUBURBAN GA GARDENING. 
Tue beauty and 3 rest w a ga ords de- 
thie disposition of its individual parts, 
za for or example, a 
nately mixed 
p a to th ir respective 3 re the effect produced 
ley assemblage will be immediately felt by 
. — 
ie 
X 
the outer rim. t 
us a step; but let us sear ar r, and 
or circles. In this way we give the 
For be it clearly under- 
artifici 
—— to its base they then attack the 
en in the e manner not only de ~ 
—— and thus preventing the straig 
an ca growth of the branches, but also killing the 
side penetrating into turpentin 
tubercles with which: — Firs abound. By 
the end t the caterpillar is i the 
interior of the largest middle bud, beginning below that 
which w. — for the wing year, so which it 
— rene wing its ravages in the 
The larva is — a dark, glossy, purplish-brown colour, 
such a elassification we 
but imagine the colours to = so arranged that another 
of one of 
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seen, 
| = fashionable squares at — 
an aged, wealthy gentlem * ce d 
with her trumpet ton e, had brought my y aviary under 
8 1 , kede ieee 
N experience 
wilderment at what they saw; 
the cleanliness and method observable 
uildi 
to them, as is my wont whee 
however, as s lightly as might be. 
All this was de trop, evidently quite beyond aat 
prehension Of be visitors. The ladies m 
with one memorable exceptions —seemed 
* On On this particular co old rie 
SO two o piece s 2 
may 8 
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