36 TH 
E GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jan. I 
stances much faster than the roots. Besides, in all pro- sonable size, that labouring men and boys may finger A deine rasti r ua pape, vi 
d bas revent th 9 les 
aie a Aien tm aer. Mi Er increase be the case with bare seeds, Proprietors of waste land, (fig. n ; prir ie utera laok, ere elvet; ; the i 
in activity with i the incre —— a o basal joints 
sult is a series of soured puddles ae pall alm kill | without excus e, if the ey allo wit to lie idle any longer. | third produced i internally, and forming a conca 
the common Crowfoot. h, I will venture e's say, is The auty of the ist ea in Pine when living, and | fourth large, fifth obovate, sixth slender 
no overdrawn seen 4 ihe hy no means beyond the | its value when dead, are not to be called i in ee uestion ; | broad, the forehead conical, with a large prominent g 
trath. Let us, however, hope for better t things ; 3 mean- and seeds sufficient y _ be nulat: d eye h side ; trun 
vena Meet yee matter, and resolve that th iad ‘sent by pos f rrow, and Dn 
0 longer be. th a groat; i planting in | ments pex acuminated an 
= rte ‘has oman the art to plain clod-hoppizg. | lytra tis inflated, te Spiga attached to the 
HL Surely, if ssa wanes: in rearing forests need no never | sothorax; wings , fan-sha cin 
nee n 
3 
THE HIGHLAND PINE. 
Iw Scotland there are forests of Fir-trees that 
over many square miles, and from which clouds of rooks 
A coh f 
spair. when 
year after year Taig for our use forests of 
very ampl 
TERE ipa white, iridescent; the 
and fus the fou terior legs a 
i the fou 
on what Eid are to dine; aly at 1a were not > the 
portable, mi and simple, that trees could ‘travel in in; and 
phe Rice 
i 
jointed, “and surrounded by 
as well as lo dg 
D 
thrive better than those at more sdvanced stages ; 
hey would, no doubt, Asa 3 yet, of these clouds of | sides, at no per: iod of the eir growth can they be m 
crows, as they ray high and glide harmlessly overhead on | easily to sotho sae from 
their homeward age utumn evenings, Scotland | injury, than before that growth begins.— A. Forsyth. 
ay be proud; for these sable birds have had their homes in | SS 
a 
X “ENTOMOLOGY 
_ STYLOPS Mer ITT. 2(?). —The more 2 we > study the won- 
e- Fro 
ore |in siti, the eggs being matured in the abdomen ur 
rom these facts T concluded that the female rem 
the y 
the 
ees in the ne i 
paanan until they anain t 
male and female 
I find that Mr, 
s 
fall gro owth, when the ay be 
n the natur. 
delight anda wisdom which 
res 
has a nataral propensity to steal away | to some 
the po 
ms liev g on earth i 
E d 
nifested 
tato, and there to eat what he can, mare oak khong 
which, i is just w. 
wer 
nd wi e that in not 
[this a strikingly aae lyád than in the economy of 
wood bad 
sbi the parasitic Race te 
have see e 
: the ir tra nsformations | are marvellous, their i in 
the b 
their nal ins, on ieee footlessl i 
n for the production of timber ; for the first 
h 
full of instraction, ti ed of their 
ht add hear' 
worms; A when full grown, they force their thori 
themselves in gen peng as 3 soil, aaa 
we amita pits these! legions fid eoultter the check which 
t 
It is likewise very remarkable that these hexi 
Become t teen 
the cr 
Here, then, is a lesson to be learned from 
| adjusted balance, which prevents the noxious species 
fro om overpowering the industry of man, at the 
arvæ beara considerable resemblance to the pedi 
form animals fonn d upon beaty saw-flies, sand- Mie 
and suppose o be t he rly o or larvæ sta te 
that 
emey if f applied to “3 growing of 'Sooteh Fir, 1 would 
ice — with ‘the Pi ape may Lord, ‘how great are | and the P. melittæ of Kirby’s on. Apium 
y wo ‘orks ! a | vol. i., pl. 14, fs 10. Itmu ENa observed that fig. 
f tk tui Pine from the samples generally il a sho e 
seen in English wher e this noble ‘tree | many years, but we are now Paces a advances | and thorax of the female Stylops, and c the cavity | 
i le th i] g g The follow- | all the larvæ had hatched from a similar animal 
ti il and cli better ad Des d, th uddy s g h of its habits will show how very dissimilar it | atoms surrounding the abdomen are the hexapod la 
d arid b l is to other i The male i is winged; the female i is E Je, — exhibit the natu za dimensions of 
fection. Nor need we look to plantations of Scotch Fir | wingless, has no he di ssections and hist ori rie three gene 
in England and Wales for better samples, for though the | motion; the eggs are © hate hed in her abdomen, and t I n Curtis’s ‘ 
soil and climate may Ho suitable, the ystematic butcher- | young ge go forth and return to the mates a plen. E ” fol. and pl 226, 385, and 433. — Rurico 
| Sure, unt til they have an oppor 
ortun nity of attachi ing them 
FA MTER BOTANY. 
es by the scientific proner, renders 
the forest only a host of stalwart cripples. 
sense and o tion cry, d that trees abundan 
resin and ust be injured by pruning, a is ee 
another name for wounding. Let any one a tour 
é ng. 
n the os eet and islands of S 
nest, where they insinuate thems elves into “the body of 
the young bees ; they there toia their 1 
ž ; 
DISEASE OF Gorn. Fis » No, II. =e » ingenio 
AT great ent mag- 
14 h of \ V 
table Life ; and if it should have Tess ocean 7 
east, h 
more, and having seen the nina beauties of Bra 
he will then be able to judge more paiheatly of t the 
al e: 
ciety ry 
eset n; met ele 
Scotch Fir that we now fe boa see in England, 
scarcely credit his bota moe skill, that these stunted 
wretches could be akin to the fine flat-headed picturesque 
trees that form the chief ament of the “land of brown 
heath and shaggy wood.” I need scarcely remark tha 
the mountain Pine Been thrive sa great elevations, rear- 
h 
ing its stunted bra marches of per 
petual snow ; it is to be found warring with the laient 
to rear a tree for the 
for 
use of m 
This tes therefore, may be counted first-rate for 
i cotland, and Wied he | gots! e to ight 
has seen in the Higbland he and testes the pitiiukdia what would naturalists say? 3 7 why shou t be l b l pan tale, for insti 
that have been planted there by the fowls of heaven and fal TEORIE of our attention because it is an in i T} f the his ory of the Achlya! = 
that have never k what TER EE or protec- mies reason, unless it be that it is diminutize 1 in | what a world ae pri odei is Sa the wondrous her 
tion meant, a fter visiti g. remain oe at iy Pianese falls to the ground by the aid of |The mere fact of a living plant attacking a living anil 
óf ero 1G) hat the mind bien fron 
miserable d 
Wit of med ap I caught an old femal 
On the 
and killing s h something 
old-fi 
solute hor: If g ish die this 
ho ow are oe os know t o 
nex Only concei mA a Fungus rooting am ng th 
o 
us arms over the scalp ! 
u and running into the lu 
Just conceive a human being attacked by dry- rok li 
kitchen-floor ! » but has 
pened, ae Mee em occurs in disease more often) t 
we suspect. Ugl 
Bu 
t I must it venture to draw the veil | 
before these horrors —my business i 
Mr. Goodsir found it on Lady Brisbane’s gold-fish 
it has be ed on the same anima 
Daniel Cooper. A li 
frogs and newts. 
so common 
Unger tells us, that about Grate | 
as to be Seen upon the fresh-w ater 
5 
3 
Andri 
shelter; ee whilst deciduous erie desert us in, our 
most need, and offer for protection from the storm 
a naked trunk and leafless branches, the mountain 
tr painii ed the inten 
the 
its ran 
es of the summer light bei 
ntry w ind k and 
Nut- bush, and a that it 
was infested eve the Stylops, I placed it under mbler | 
e b 
d by it acks. It is, i n a 
too common. When we he Tittle tufts of what r 
cotton wool attached to the gills or tail of g 
with sugar and flowers; but t ee was astle p 
ing removed to a bri eeding ai it died ina few spre 
_ Ido not find any information as to the mode of ai 
on 
bj 
‘the advance of this pest, except a statemiemy 
roars 
jae Beltan we add its rapi aig of growth a valde 
of its timber, it becomes a 
of fo t 
is not already more profitably employed. But, | tI 
should be misunderstood, I “3 that it may be bor: 
that thi onl 
ngs 
Scotch Fir—the Pinus silvestris, ver: “horiz 
sp idea may be formed of the cheapness of its eela 
when I mention the fact that grown plants are sold at 
1060. 
ne ani 
nly to res red | 
mtalis. | but on 
y we rej as 
sided 
the: 
usua ae the case, ey an ah colour, en 
the larve of 
fig. 1, a), and are generally described as 
cles pr 
than the finest dust, and of whic h there must have been 
the thorax of | the 
e campho! 
poe Tid of their parasite by rubbing themselves 4 zi 
coarse aad or! gravel, But, consider ring E na ar 
Ac it : 
it. dt ve den 
| ng informs us 
tt has once “tte ke d a 
siitber it i 
smal 
plac 
gone 
5 
appea 
} N; a 
, too, its wonderful rate ora pi 
£ n planting, let me entreat planters to consider that 
e ro 
] l, depressed, 
P 
} 
the po | . Lest to be replanted by the 
injur speak a the 
t +} ttl 
is evident that the least m2 of it upon 
in the sam 
Pt] 
the 1] 
Facade 
war, 
e sii divaricating ese 
motes must be cs through the fl 
5 
few h 
tew pours, 
sible e (fig. 3). _ The ere can "he no doubt ‘hat these little 
e seed ; the | 
chopped 
We would ins that the best course to fi 
- ps, pr y the S.: me- probabl thi ttai 
littæ of Kuby, for that they were b va fet ss Seer ee oo por py 
the abdomen of the bee i is certain ; A it iele fol- watch them ; ` if the Achlya remains "attached to | i 
p g atta 
the San 
and = 
the pellet | te 
h 7 
a the same sex es ois a e, and som 
n-water show ld bi 
ra, are larvee-for never leave ‘the ase in mr 
a lived during their imperfect state ; vi the seg- 
sof the be eare removed, the feshy "a _ and ova- 
ies end nearly to 
| the es (fig. 2. 
J 
3. Rai 
f lands or ditches, in which 
_ of nekiaen are too apt to lur s to the ¥ 
which the fish have been attacked, it is ay able 
imple drying would purify it: but in oaa to i 
the destruction bai Sy seeds i it won wou = be as well to 
i p. 184, 
