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they are taken off, seldom Sa 
Such eer tt secrete fro 
thei 
t be cncarge b before 1 they 
mri oe 4, the fem ale— 
ale is smaller. 
without a bell-gl 
may miko cuttings in the 
ftihi 
by small 
| showing the nat 
It i 
male de 
ie on the un a side of the leaf, go that a 
ous ; tarsi simple and 5-jointed, terminated 
the cross lines 
ll 
posits her eggs, 
the stop 
ee bel “When the bed is planted, “gra pach enka 
moved, and every hole is peat ry and raked even. 
Byt this means oot Be pri atop, — 
08 og 
EERI 
la 
and fee 
s at first, 
pi 
p week o 
mg 
his i is the time to pay rano erage me if the 
hould dry 
ize; 
. in "the sam 
at 
shin pe (Fig. 1) of 
ian ies y depressed o on the b 
segmen ador 
iu 
strike without heat, a 
n a cool fra 
ha re jast aor itika by cutting, we com 
monly 
mities of the uee after flowering. 
d well 
- an effectually 
is a 
-| Plants nky bloomin ng. 
paman, some tw 
agi hot-bed 
ure and rotten turfy loam, in the of st ion of 
u- | e 
| | threo paris of the former to one of the latter, ribose 
= d a 
5 
a pee, and occasionally turning it; an 
as the e roots begin to heave up the soil, I spread a arene 
ing of this all over the bed, about ] inch in thickness; 
ro a accelerates growth, and 
ists the | plan s in bloo . Worms often disturb the 
P 
ead na vinta 
the abdomen tap ek 
— female, more Aip ess 
ee “a 
e may vo ee ees ep by 
mixing nicki ime in a ‘tub with w acco ording to the 
qu ae required, and applyi ta 
art rainy day f; whe en Mp worms are near the surface, 
choice 
y: 
at S other sorts strike 
F kotnoüse; and under a bell-glass, for which pur- 
should be made of aed Soca —_ 8, ara | 
a back, tipped with s th nt 
Thee A of the Phytomyza mari ea nsid erably ; 
for one ed ies, the P. lateralis of Meigen, inhabits the 
(To be continued.) 
Ls 
_ PayTomMyZzA NIGRICORNIS—| (he Black-horned Lea, 
por of ie ‘yrethram inodorum, where the mag- 
aug pup 80 ometime es foun nd. ‘in almost every 
P 
+1 
ose. With refer rence to 80 orts, 
T 
in any collection, viz. :—Eliz za, Agamemnon, ‘Alexander, 
P. Wurtemburg, Admiral Keppel, Wailis’s Defiance, 
Timarine, Village Maid ara, Charlemagne, 
g ax Ho- 
ratio, , Waterloo, and Olive bs acre Be these are good, 
a tat ers. 
A 
T 
Ru li 
E 
Aurica. 
he Weather.—The followin gist tis e of a 
meter at Worton Cottage, Isleworth, on ae aighi of 
fe a caf- | o Corres Feb, 11 yee = ne The sun went es bre a hey! of fire. 
ner). PH hs, and fies, Wi “og wee reside EAS the |, Sulphur v. Haresan Rabbite.-Forye cars Tinea ev ee 
2 ag Hne Yon by tp destruction committed by these vermin among my 10 e T Sige 
“ ae : pple-trees: unless painted every season with tri il -ird 
’ i mischi ee cot Ok baal ek yetthelr and hog’s-lard, mixed over the fire to the consistence of ded oo eae now bh down ; : the wind was north ; = 
are y no means acceptable to the one E | oe hae ay opener ne She: i Pb epa f the a 
Ritts con conservatory, for the bligh aga destroyed. The above I have found pe T efficient “ie o look Aa > in therm. at 
Br o ct thin sant >vée ery | Composition, after many trials of others recommended. Se te ae a $ below: zero. 
nightly, Ihave frequently se 7 i vd is pore to trees, but the lar ental its . 
Bs z effect, and appears to prevent its penetrating the 
oa Pe eia a pe n = m= Seren I bark’; still, the trouble of having 20,000 pisses I oni this, ong to hear, ae our clin ho ow 
z Sron E n5, | painte a brush by boys, was very great; and I fe Bi the var s been in véri Aye a Bans og x 
1 Hy injure it byt pi deg inning Ancre’ th nates = og | much ple ure when visiting Mr. Dillis tone last autum and a BOMAR dy sys stems sof hea ing tre mo the 
7 3 
Winding galleries might be traced (Fig. 3); in other in- hich T observed in ki — Joh me y $ 
stances entire lobes of the leaves were = completely exo. ‘A nn nursery an about which I was The mpre I's end table of the weather in 
i onl that nothing | but the dried bleached cuti cles inquiring, were mae pared ne tens as pi panies bis Co a ‘Wits aha: 
e or six were imbedded in one leaf (Fig. 1). 
myza nigricornis, the 
ar galleri pea side e lowe 
y were not visible on Pu ssid side of the se: 
pros leoea them in a box I had the satisfaction to 
evlouly detected aed upon zn 
med long 
of the lower tiile, and 
One 
tT felt; 1] Pe 
rial during the fot days when it was so cold in 
London 
th b 
ise F ae e same sie “that, t, surrounded as I a m by y pre- 
serves, if they would protect my trees I should feel per- 
| fectly convinced of thei r effica acy. In November last I 
State of Te thermometer hung on a board mae at a 
Sen with the north wall of the house i Mapepe 
Ma 
pieces 
of rags, which neta cut into slip hes by 6; “the 
were then fixed cleft edi pem 2 feet in 
length), dipped into rhe melted sulphur, and Pe ian 
with their mini iatur re fiag stuc ok into t the 
SP ah 1 
Feb. 10,*Ra’ = $ ras 
Feb, y) + Fai - 46: 37 
Feb. 12. Frosty and cold $ vd = 
te ua Sa ey 
T 
t is, n 8, A.M., ON the gth, i i ak on the 
‘ier it so ry the oier SnD rage 
Pag hina ire eis to a dark-brown e third 
be Tuaip at the 8th c of the same month.* 
n pup 
rar! forth from the Re eral of 
quarters of pares about 3 yards apart. Now for 
the result. Weh , in which | 
hares and rabbits a are generally very destractive I 
„nber -measurin ng. — T e of 
resent T is to take the ke ofa $ regulary ti taper- 
ing t middle le, and e call t an gi 
througho ll 
or cir- 
re Fih it 
z ogle tree has been touched in those quarte: 
unded by my fia gs of su lphur "Some straggling t un. 
s also c y to og ine y 12 of thi 
| ees for. bark, piip oe latter is "thick or thin. Now, 
in pasbeulie one solitary row of Apple-trees, w toh wi 
forgotten, has been entirely destroyed. I have therefore 
strong hopes that I shall never more have = o 
it may be all very Te to nor timber Do ans good mea- 
both buyer uld k what that 
_| kinds of trees, and als s rees. Sup- 
Gona an anf Bone Ate eek i ged composi- : weed el b are a La et fro De matter i what 
oil, even when mixed with lard, t =72 
the buds on the young shoots, and prevents their break- | 493 arter F pith at $u thick end to s 6 inches faari girth at 
ing kindly. I have, in by Hone years, destroyed in my | its small end; of co es 12 inches in the 
nursery more t than 30 middle; and you say the tree is just 72 feet in length 5 
È Th . = 1 I for uch a simple and effi Rae en'there is an inch i 2 owed for bar » Which brin; 
Th cious mode of protection from their ravage aga Rivers, | the 12 x 12= an- to. 11. 3 RL a2). feet 9 
his abi which Niin to the family Muscide, has| The Ranunculus.—In plantin g, observe whether the and by Hoppus >a Tables, or the Slide Rule, its content is 
ed by er aa Phytomyza nigricornis : it is | roo sound or not; if they damp or ewed | Only G1 feet instead: of 72 feet, or 18 odd per cent., 
our s not shine; the head | they are of little or no use. y piece of land that has | hough the bark of suc e might probably be all 
nd ochreous, the base and hinder por- | been rough.dug in autumn and left through the winter | 8¥ffed into a 4-bushel b ppose, however, that the 
with an- cavity beneath to | to receive the benefit of the frost, is just what » when peeled, was really reduced to 11 inches quar- 
and other portions of the mouth; the|the Ranunculus delights in. With regard <> | ter girth, or 44 s in circumference instead of 
and drooping, and inserted in an ex- | to situation, some spot should be chmpa . | 48 inches; will the ar en such-a circle be no more 
i ojection in front of the | remote as circumstances will allow | 121 inches? I kno ethane y five different ways of 
formed of a | hedges, old box edgings, walis, or an thir finding th rele, and they ifthe. asin 
haped one, and the third fariei i might afore slogs; a Jer el ord ing the The first is, to multi ply half th fer- 
hich arises a short! to be preferred, Hav ing fixed a hin ta OY half the riae thus, pe x 7=154 
e, with a minute joint at the base ; there | to plant, on the morning of a fine day level instead of 121. 2d. os Itiply the whole erred 
the bed, rather roughly but even, with a by the whole diameter, and divide by 4 for the 
Soc., vol. iii, p. 69 
- | upon it; 
a 
y 
be an ied 13 inch under the ‘ground. 
essed through the holes up to ie 36 
39 feet 4 
n let 
or three o Felock, whi 
3d. Square "the diameter, 14, excluding deci- 
2 inches from the lower end, 80 as to 
b 
in length, yi a nopper tap 
allow the 
it wil 4th. Square the circumference, 44, and multiply by the 
Take it perfectly bers "This tg drew decimal, ek 06688. “th. Divide BTE F 
line up the middle; if it be a thre ference by 5, square = 154.88. cs 
feet bed, let the board 
the truth for aud purposes. "Yon have siren aa 
00000000 pe prea? i ie. a rare em, 154/. a of wid: an this is not all ; 
0 o 0 o 0 0 o o | four-feet bed, let the ara oa idle th it 
be i proportion with 
LRO OO DAE haies- G Diehan apart for | t 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | the rows, and 4 inche 
0 o od o oO OO ny between root and 
3 then plant enh a 
tbe at A A setting-atick “about t1 
The. boant: “being 
lai a Se setting-stick is pressed throug! 
Guide, Genus 627 and 
{ curt: Brit. Ent., fol. and pl. 98, 
dissections of the genus are given. 
