16.—1845. | 
one _ oe tay ae ti 
J fignis th 
he wings are _ adapted for 
n the elytra, 
tance. at a aa: „the legs are molens long, 
s are 
THE GARDENERSECHRONICLE. 
S moni tho scutellum j the wings are not adapted for | ther eilenes bs KAI = 
257- 
| ther evidence be w nting you hav 
compare the ete of prices with the 
the 
riffs 
which have gsr be Ee. the public since the 5 April, 
of the 
th 
* startling” fact gre 
J the “tars are a ojointed, gas fy hinder pair, 
alarmed 
d 
pubescent beneath ; "the four anterior tarsi ar 
dilated 
pe: 
A 
, the s 
ma: les, 
e only to refer to and 
old ones, 
jasa bein of our intention to give the full ‘benefit of the 
. Iho i. and t trust, 
this constitutes the whole of the qualities otfin- 
ae mind.” Jilus Es o tag YOL l k RoT si This 
we term instine e bee 
an 
J t, a 
ts cells; die solitary ni Èringing fo food | for a 
a bee, an h flyin; 
E its 
rogeny it will never s 
the right flowers, and brea 
for making be 
ee-bread; moving 
— 
tto: 
nta; 
ing recourse to forei 
priye at least half the pe tet 
| hortionltural seh without a vin 
ance, of w. ich it t will be 
interest to render them 
inde 
_ Truffles pend 
—F A 
of 
sill, oar aad os ig sea 
ages of this great boon to the 
ign | th 
. shy as yes as our 
ril 16. 
s.—I have read with per interest ‘the pk |t 
ingi e 
ight bE eft, and sede with ` 
ound in its ahell „from Tl, 
bile +3] 
it: 
Now, these operations 
H 30 
fr rd B. considers the result of 
ecial interposition of Deity, > following o out Newton’s 
ay, Pa the contrary re excursions of 
the ant, and their Bareteade propensities; ; the jackdaw 
filling the pitcher with st se it could not reach 
he water; Darwin’s crow ia ce e limpets by 
e, the cross lines pny fles, and I hopet 
gar 
that ere long the 
ingenuity of Englis 
ardeners will have ee this 3 gr 
ittle 
reat „desideratum 
i e la 
thickened towards 
the e pre ceding 
ect, it appears that the ae lives in = composing but 
t 
moist ma it is cer ante that it affec 
shin 
a as tail, which i is rou a h on On nent 
order to contribute my li 
beg ‘to offer a few 
Seopoli calls i rapa 
pm 
J 
against their introduction 
Han fo in ml — se ity the 
—— 
ite 
such be ihn case, it will be 
in 
rated in | p 
ever have been fond of trying experi. 
Truf- 
In 
jus 
of alt i must | the old mo: nkey at Exeter ( Change ey ad 
ent equals, if not surpasses, that of | 
gu rum, | its hut—or between the 
e she’ 
n my yout R te collected 
dro 
ppi Er, them m on stones, and that 
h | on as skull o 
f Anaxa agoras, killi 
mph hee of Jwater-mot ths, 
so th 
the 
aksn “lost h rye 
e 12th segment ponp, sloped bt abruptly ; the 13th is} make o r gardeners acquainted with two species of noes eg neg his nuts with a stone; Buffon’s ape, t vat 
i puch smaller, with t but curved claws; the Truffles, of which I do not find any mention in your | slept i bed, aude pulled up the sheets and blankets 
the maleate are short and tri- | pages. The first is hich I am familiarly po 3 the m od o Sakis 
a ticulate ; the fi arinena segment is ferr gous ; it | acquainted, being a native of my fatherland—the south rd e eed and, abov: e all, the | beavers = 
: e pair of short jointed pectoral legs, terminat 5s of the Tyrol. It grows on the eee “al geen. their huts in the mg cutting down trees, excayatin: 
e head and tail are slightly hair: ; | Meran, Trent, oren eredo, sia Riva. banks, &c., all in ponosna ke order. —these, minte a 
ecies of Truffle, which resembles in tissue pe clo ag to Lord B., ins S of animal intelligence, 
history of the habits of this that of Piedmon, Be it wants the ti ly 
spe 
pecause 
| baene between the bee working its © 
ell, a nd the beaver 
to make bee-bre. 
animal intelligence 
os ek in what he co msid 
pate, ce 
from | again ‘with their native s 
peg. By this means I asce: gee that they ind ant } 
ir full size the second year after 
ary or natural circums tances, 
may xis 
called. Haste or r not, according se =: is wiat o 
e us 
Coccus t range tre 
as 0. per- 
ing as t n a situation 
So that the spores or 
e spring, ` 
the next autumn 
spawn, which begin to 
in 
ace ogani pon ima Peps 
which y enea him oa knowingly or Kat; 
bee’s cell is made reature untau 
p. 134. Now I should "ike very much to 
kno 
Thus, a 
ght.” Op. cit, 
ie kor who 
v7 zi « “ Northwood’s m hive 
Truffe is, in ehi 
tuber. 
- taught Maste: r Tom “i 
the 
nee, a prania 
operation, and not an io ierse ulty from others’ ex- 
perience, is cle ear, , from the fact that tomtits a Stow- 
soul they grow 
a EA 3 
. I conceive the vapour of spirits of re urpentin 
d be quite as effectual as that of alcohol, and t 
, virgi in on 
elr mixed with more > ina two- thirds o 
iron, The iher ee of Truffle 
that which grows in Africa. The Roman epicures 
| preferred it mek = other kinds of Trufile, 
and the kable 
imensions, pe over 
efu enda t 
rm pan’ or spoon, in 
eed 
Be y 
pursuits, Du being also one of the deputation 
worthy 
hon oileioth 
slig 
of | si 
introduced below 
realy iad | in vapour. I suggest this for trial. 
‘Being not only much interested in horkoa]. | m 
of | t 
e Romans, at the time re 
‘the two so ee Nt the best ju — o 
a and having the then ret yorld 
are 
sand, Coosa: ‘of 
erred to by | n 
dainty pro- 
o in other parts 
of the world. pan the en, becomes of the definition of 
instinct —“ an untaugh nt, tutions meer e acting 
blindly, under seed Providential dire It is 
clear that the tomtit’s mode of catchin 
come within tl i 
and, could make Choice of the seit I a no 
modern writer on mycology, any m 
an ——_ which, as Iaudatissime, arghita 
Suphi ca by those who intend to brin; 
enlliyation, Sel if the Romans 
ed a tabl without the im 
t find 
PF 
| Afr 
them in 
nis, for th 
xj ae 
ention of aaa 
od 
opera 
son, is not only not porter 
tion. Indeed, it would be iiaeia an hitori 
S manufacturers who lately se ited upon Sir R. Peel, | and Laie point of aS to ascertain vee kind of 
have much yaaa in trying to disp pel ao > fears of | Truffe ‘grow Africa, and in what point they excel 
i sea as well as 
among ` 
pi = ‘of your PAGS hi has the means | 
+ +1. 
le would render himself „very meri- 
[sso of those 
is govern ve that 
| have not been so ignorant of Lord prow tee 
which is certainly not difficult to ae eae 
imagined ; and I „hope, further, that a 
ne | 
place them in a 
of his i inquiries. “The best way of. packing them is to 
tin case, wrapped one by one in dry | 
| bl o i Ton _ a e case filled tight, t with dry saw- | 
Sagas 0 grave 
a charge, withou utting his name i the bottom.— 
C. R. Bree, poh. icars P.S. I am sorry I offended 
s Furibus Hostis ;” I had no intention of doing so, and 
misrepresentation of the trut h. 
ow a waiting upon Sir R. Peel was to obtai 
n a return 
uty upon stocks on hand, without exporting it, 
p him b 
ried pice 
et irees:—In answer to “ G.’s” ’ inquiry (p. 244) 
f aoga “ater se yeas suitable for = banks of the: 
sal should say that t 
a Tyrol. o polan parts of Germany. — Constant | 
eader. 
Sap generates Buds.— 
Derwent stood a pyr San 
undermined by the 
part of the — in oe ban 
anks of the ` river 
I 
pican. (Hipophit peers. nd pesin are 
the bést he can plant. I hav quantities 
Buckthorn flour ishing on the Hiern: >a on the coast of 
and Sn j ere, subj ect to b 
of the | the 
e bank still wearing away has exposed 
them to the air “tn the ioen “of 3 =. = more, and 
ey are now in every respect similar to branches, de- 
veloping buds, and jc ently all the. aiea or 
we told Sir 
E lejas 
sought m none beyo; 
ling our 
cir 
Robert, that as British 
seh K Protection,” = 
md a peri 
establishmen ts oo 
at. ect related to re import ate on | 
salt spray ; the silvery leaves = bright yı ellow eto 
have a pretty effect. The roo 
culated to bind the soil. 
reach of | I 
at 
-nough to kill 1 them, unless rae are within the 
d | theo; 
am | any previo daly datai 
eroapiíng the pith, of which they are destitute. 
it appe ars that roots when circums! 
all the functions of po stem, confirming 
eory, that sap can at any time generate buds, vail 
rinne when circums 
are favourable to their production.— T. Allestree. 
_A ae ation rai ware to the Growth of Planis.— 
za 
ted 
prods mods yen 
n he says, of 
y tho deputation combed 
rice of plate 
ae plant ings directly ; merely ta strong 
you ng shoot, kian it gr pish pi down eis oe in the 
aces and it will be sure to grow. It est to head it 
dow: ae jers every spring ; ; every edge may be 
pra ™, 
which I hintedat 
ine seii ty teeta, a “ect upon vegetation. 
Senda that time n has been directed towards 
the i, 
befo: 
rs and Weymouth 
Instn (p. is = was eit aware of the dis 
tincti oe ay others, between 
telligence, when I put 70) th 
“We 
| pon mdent epi ft. fe his. cpanel about electricity,” 
| &e. &e. (see page EF: agence prerie thd me; E I 
| consider from 
genc p- 
fagenuity® r “ 4 Nortinvood'a” mnaroifal 
|gs eration „but it was oe I think 
upon this “ee ae z not in Eae with 
aa hold 
nly ba justice i Aee British 
when y you said e n-ae 
ts, an 
eae on nie se believe 
entertained ; and if fur- | d 
| aa as I ord B th e bee | 
orks—form: ts cells, its Roney, ¥ its arrn &e., | 
al no pariin aga i ch it has wer of resisting j— 
. — it works without snotive—withioat s ee 
gn; andzyet it produces the effects of both. 
you. Now ve y= uld w ing 
ares e lo Pet en aot opinion 
that the cam pi a of electricity to the growth 2 
plants, is the only true way of arriving at pe ection 
oe —s for the more I study the subject th. 
re I am convinced that my opinion is well founded 
| indeed, I lars: long looked upon all manures as mer 
