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Y 6.- —1845.] TH 
ar hapless toad, “the most deformed 
Peed imels,’” as it has been pani and 
urchin and barbarian 
q ary us con! 
and hideous of 
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CLE. 85 
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tered places, or where game is plentiful, I have always 
recent kitna t 
7 
stony a ue) ‘preferable; but on exposed places, 
| low s r than | those of ‘larger > 
y froit-spare 1 as the ae get older. The buds are 
r my ex A poor 
—An Arbori 
flares on “Rabbits. om p- 
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t 
pi 
A 
s l 
en when its mi n er services in the 
i house aa hothouse are made known, instead of 
a out of the gerien, i # is to be hoped that.it 
a will sider: ed des erving of a. nug corner in the con- 
serrato tt ike any other domes- 
E ticated oi ebry and its curious hhabite may be observed 
at leisure. 
Their =— ander a frame and amongst choi 
n scarcely be too eg nf estimated ; 
Yellowish Brown, 
partially russeted. 
small, ovate, and projecting. 
goon. bearer as a sta ndard ; and 
of a place against a wall, espec 
kee pin so late, it is 
ially in situations 
| it is b 
t is likely to prove a cell 
53, Mes d J. 
eeping haddi. ad rabbits 
ewa Apples, &e., n sticking brimstone matches round 
them. Would not a simpler plan be to brush over 
a the stems of the trees with brimstone and oil? 
One man would do over an immense number in a day 
with a arge ky ba it would not, I imagine, hurt the 
trees.— 
. Dodd 3 very justly ob- 
serves et this truly n able plant one of easy 
growth; but it is only so pre pple with great heat 
and moisture e; if it lacks thi when 
no plan 
Ep lections, bu 
no means com more Gais to 
and it 
be met with in good health, which is - a fl bam 
arises from oe" a cien = 
When the plan rki ts ean =e 
in which it is saad shouid never be aie 60°, ‘ae it it 
is so but for a short time the plant will be injured 
thereby. The specin from which Mr. SR s plant 
nar E. 
—— 
nches hi 
w signs of 
it remained in a dormant state until the spring, 
n it was placed in a Pine-pit, and made ex- 
nt shoot; but on the approach of winter, it again 
showed signs of ill health, e extre 
z the shoot died away. 
otted fi 
rthy 
wine: even aah this advantage, tender varieties cann 
be successfully cultivated.”—R. T. 
e Correspo aden 
hothouse p 
for it is : well-established fact ie toad: e alm ost 
upon small worms and insects ; ha peer will 
Beda 
in eae EI an as Gt ties, | 
the vey “first. step of the cultivator should be to cut = | 
ot | 
grew toe ar and on this growth three plants were 
uck, one of which was sent to Col. Baker, laes was, I 
t Mr. Dod g been in 
ares e, the plant ds shar tow 
possession about 13 years. now hope 
see this ‘‘the most noble plant in Kaioa —for so 
D believe it is said to be Rees’s Encyclopædia— 
keep 1 SoN quite free ios ants, b and the bloom off his specimens ctly they are past their | more common; and _not unfrequently placed ri ae 
|, Woodlice, which they devour by thousands. single | prime. mas done, remove io anions mould in the tables of i the Lo full fi The fo 
"N toad will despatch 20 or more of the latter pests in two | pots, replace it with a little light soi ly handsom e plan ce p ant 
, Or three minutes. Blue-bottles and flesh-flies are also | plants into re open shady spot. pen let them remain in good heath m has o R i me 5 that the treat- 
| greatly to their taste; re ed likewise attack wasps | until they rythr i onite p would suit this 
"ands variety of bees, as 
s conica, and Bombus 
weet “When this is the case, break the old stools up, | 
plant.—H. C. Ofo Garini to the Earl of Aberga- 
asile. 
Eridge 
ey are said to eat the g reen ace 
me s mand other fetid A pienis; but this is pos- 
“ The toad 
tewart sa toad is fond of 
' iain, mà obscure niastidds S in summer, of 
winter, of sl d places, 
- | fly, it is me to th 
cool frame, “shifting them into larger pots as 
he y require it ooming- 
n November, and place them in the greenhouse. 
The soil dit suitable for them is a mixture of y: cot 
The Calendar. eur corr respondent * ‘ Norlander,’’ 
who complains nage ae! a “astonished” at a former 
— ar of m h I stated that l preferred (in 
the case of Ay 5 oy Grapes) having the roots Paer 
if p 
friable 1 loam, old c cow- -dun ng, and fibrous peat in in | the house, if poss nae - ee? D eoa of insi 
parts, sand; ; | planting waas E? He assumes 
this compost should be unsifted, and the pots tb es a = plated inside the house that the 
ined. Water with Segment : Pati without sodden- | roots must be ‘ half roas mongst flues.” Altho! 
BS ‘ Norlander’s be house ma i eani be badly ar in 
ing. The Cineraria ba eb 
bje 
1 
row dis- 
, | healthy spec gy pcre 2 these "pests 
pr: on the principle of having both root | top 
with “ Nor- 
» to 
of i ing found inclosed in a | Famigate, therefore, ster, a greenfly makes ap- | under perfect control. If ho ouses are properly con- 
ks of trees, without any visible commu- | peara When, in January, the flower-buds aes structed 
osphere. It is preyed upon by If/e early Grapes, there is no ral necessity for bringing the 
$, and even by hedgehogs. It is any, ay the shoots flag, and if thi a Again, is “ Nore 
ff o its back.” It couples in y th r, or from lander ’ serious, or do I misunderstand him whe ass 
e spring, and the female is several | w ant of w p ja „in ee 
eggs, which like those of the frog, fally, as t his a heat is petra to ‘the attac oa of li the roots? This is to me quite a 
i new iden, which has undow' 
on | the fore feet, and five on the 
but there 
e base. 
í or kills it first by 
e assistance of the 
It has no teeth, and | served th 
om 
oe wer to that which infests the roots of the bes uce, 
delion. 
, &c. Should its presence be detected, try ex- 
periments” for its destruction, and communicate the 
r 
eae ina 
ation.— Und == head, at p. 54, a “ Reader ” 
p- 21, whe n I 
ti 
y 
lander.” He next Te a bottom-heat of 70°, 
not we judicial, gamie 
the atmospheric temperature ar Ta eaa oe es 
aye, and in cases i of sunshine, to 90°. Howe = 
r. Forsyth’s gra ription of the 
Sond 
a 
ing (p. 
tained at a temperature of 70°, mo eae this ia pres 
ably expected. What does “ Norlander ” ou of Pines 
having an atmosphere averaging 70°, and a bottom-heat 
of 85°? If, in conclusion, the Cana shi 
attacked, let it be eà facts, and not by mere ppn 
voiu me 
talis), 
phic 
us sylvestris, var. horiz zon 
3 
Highland Pine (Pin 
ree which, as s he observ e5, | bids fair a r 
-~ wig es —D. 
s 
" mouth, and then, Profesor Bell says, it dis- 
of it = by rolling it up ina ball and swallowing 
Ru 
| Tue MARC 
“ands here represi 
a pive for frea years been a pene at sur- 
rise to oe bre this tree has not been n sooner adopted 
Small Birds. —There has been a long discussion in the 
Chronicle, whether or good; and it 
is very natural that each individual should express him- 
benefit or injury received. 
fi i all cases where poor soils in 
to be planted for tay only a ‘variety of the P. syl- 
vestris, it is, as Lo udon observes, ‘of much more im- 
it being well known 
ife, do so, 
portance in this case agro a A yt 
and acknowled nant 
“Mr. Forsyth states thet the | 
cruel parsed but on the principle of 
the ae law of nature, F (in other 
whether birds are to consume 
fone 
pei oe being 
nes to some lonel i 
ari pisa ofthe Society sce re that ma remain in them tho: 5 com ree at which they want for eir ar 
nt to aduait of hs arog iia tO) pressed down close to o the ground by the first fall of sab all of which (in case they are aes gar a ey 
qualities are such cieka fepri snow; and thus he accounts for the rise of natural | would wish x dispose of, in order that they pr aa 
agor being included am r Y forests. It is rather more proba able, I th’ nk, that the mat whe whic they are embarked. ny 
eS rns of ree cones remaining on the trees expand tit is inhuman to poison rats, because it is 
=, k resembles the Autumn Be ergamotin form and | the sun in spring time, when the seeds fall out, and known n bat they et aia pes poison wes vase vat 
f esh is x ei : 
the eo care, b bat with tia escort th k, Bin Agen! Home ihe wind, and ultimately fixed o rface | on feck all, peri they certainly do or k ae 
i e indicates ee ge = f the ground. For clefts of rocks, and pes inacces- | by preying 0 se And wha t bi ; 
observed, it will sible pecsi, which cannot be with the aean destroy beside it aes They w il clear « 0 
á ia n ep | iron, .’s plan of miig up pellets containing | stock of fruit, 
any others raised by | 
, is very hardy: The | k 
| sho 
seeds is ‘sdmirably's ap 
of all others, the most app derrin anı 
uld be made to try and fix i it in those sites. - . In shel- 
= pper caps, gur 
ort | this abject Iwill 
from picking out, 
