THE GARDENERS cHRONTGE™ [JuLy 5, 
are absolutely clean in respect. Gum, red | punctured (fig. 1) 5 the rostrum (fig. : ne s stout but | Again,—Is any evidence of the attack of the 
epider, or a no ii ap to phd To se O a wall 240 | not long, tick at the apex, which i vaished with | Peach-leaf in $ or peir houses. Mr. Towerss 
length. My trees re planted on brick platforms, | jaws, &c., and an oblique latera! | observation d Maidenhead for 
in depth, and | antennæ to), which are placed on each side near t the ie ete and his own experience at home, with the 
|f-rotten emity ; they are angula nd 11-jointed, the —_ White at Black Frontignan, Purp!z Con- 
llo Tr ee stantia, $ West's Peter Vine, an2 with five 
- | varieties of "Peach and Nectarine, just'<y these i inquiri ies; 
rst w t ve i 
m, and not a single naked shoot is to be | in length, the 2d is DI lh elon | 
foun For using sulphur in hothouses, I have | shaped, the base of an ova’ e-conic , which 
. I may obse: eves] , that t by is s tri-articulate 5 the. eyes are inal and oval; the|leaf. He, herefore, retains his on as to the proxis 
I n use — i vate, line down the centre, | mate cau se of the Peach, hares Which he conceives to 
and a free use of the syringe, I have eldor seen “the more or less clothed w chreous hairs, which form | be night frost, acting upon a secreting surface, but, 
spider establish a footing in the houses un nder my care. «neat also on either Site the scutel is minute ; the pares 8 the Papon of a partial epidemic ; and 
i in wi x, broader ‘tha: n the thorax, somewhat | jud; by experi . a it ae his Been 
ne 
; | front of f Peach walls during the mont 
alone th ere is ca ape ors asibverss perks behind the seutel, two | May, wou uld prove remedial to an cuttin Fee woul 
ought to state ener I have never esans reben |° oblique ones nearly meeti ng at the suture behi ag = ned —s a disease, which, under aggravated ci 
i ‘a a we ~ oer eng pipe in houses ; this is | cen tak pika ay s pa in nees 
pete bot © o but t I cover the under or | apex ; t ings are ver bette ng and smoky ; the le th 
t es in the | are st ; ig thighs eae ath a notch pein: and with them the crop > of fruit. 
near the extremity, and forming a. tooth Bx c); the| Pruning Forest Tre 
ibiæ ar or 
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ear. My reason for using g the soft-soap | in the mix- 
hur to 
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tube is to a rm a body which ly with a subject ¢ of fores t-tree pr uning, | with the view att ac a 
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ive out its fumes in a slowly progressive way ; it being | brush of hairs a shar arp ¢ ved spine the inn 
i poe than = angle (d), and i e “the four P arbi the A margin the nitimate object), had been nearly set at ro ; 
i is pear nated ; tarsi are velvety beneath, and 4-| late, however, you 
btrigonate, the Ist in that ea were vain; and my su apg e ha 
d, the 4th clavate, bara xcited at seeing how men of sense and reflecti 
ts 
ental s, when it is not ex 
use sulphur x generally, aoe have the back of the leaf 
] powdered or sian twice in the year, viz., April and 
Apes wash bigs eg d 
te 
n the Me | 
pisno the Shady ean of: which ‘and have a wash of that | 
n the pit is planted, ye bogs if t a per- 
in about a month,—R. Errington, Oulto 
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sed your ding Article on the subject ? 
¥ ENTOMOLOGY. peru Leading 
Cur petis (the Spruce Fir Weevil).— recollect rightly, Dr. Thackeray proves, according to 
Although u this beetle w as thus named by Jinai its | avow. the principle that what is taken from 
e aMi to that tree, for it equally head i is nnd to e stem ing the roots to ti 
ati the “Scotch Fir and Larch, and it has been also u e quantu tter whether the hea 
on Rhododendrons, Azaleas, an ders, ge 1 d that Dr. T. i 
i i ee The Spruce Fir Weevils, how- judicious in the appese of this principle than oth 
ever, generally fix on th ioh hian have penr re- oe n; —, itself is assuredly 
crn pene’, or such as ekly, in which th ‘pid ake timnid on Simoa i: ary to RRE Ine o. 25 are two articles on 
uggishly, and A it is thus thatthe young Larch | w om their timid nature it is difficult to catch the pay deen one fr. "Donaldson, who advocates 1 
Pepali akan been suffering severely of late years eevils, for when approached they slip out of sight, | Natural tities Forest system, described by Hur 
their attacks. oir leg me ceessive | 2nd if the branches be Paa mae genera ally i Il to | boldt, and in in “Scotland and England e 
seasons they were very injurious to some transplan poe und, but this species can cling t that it by the of Athol and Portland. Need 
Larches in South Wales, and last June they entirely | fy dge any ‘old one was tewo ords about such a system? There 
consumed es en but did not injure any other species | W ether they could be sha the 1 here I now write, palpable exa 
3 forest In May of the same year they were sieves by night I ha of ascertain | of its Pepin I could i ina afew hours s take the 
EE zeae l ha se in a young plantation of Firs | 8 and it seems impossible ‘to. suggest. any the 
„atA ee about four acres, which they mode of catching them than hand.yickingy w shiek pinoi | unthinne unpruned, where the tre! s inste 
sta Tei y ia the bark and aa out |’ appr react Oi aa useful timber, or even to pleasing ef 
the bu ds of the leading | a soak Bae plantation was on m in a landscape, are nothing but masses of naked 
8 of t ra ‘trees could Eom e Co rbespondence- vith)a tuft;at the ii, striving with each other 
ol tho e fth Blister of pa ikes h Leaf.—Mr. Towe frankly little tight gad air. ite feeling they excite is on 
soil. Ros einen 18 time t ee Weevils are in great admits the physiological | correctness 0 f the organic pain ype egret n it be profitable? Impossi 
force in * Seotland, srs ‘Chester, and in the fi stool op A31; In the same ENR follows a pane a between 
Delame: re; in Ross re 10 acre were planted with | he even takes it as a sense principle in his owa view bs Iwo ge sapient t charact ers no t, from 
a Larch P SpA common Fir, | of the disease. He cannot, at the same time, but ee Mr. Howden d That Poe 
1 Ciera sacle had been n newly c one < from Fir } yw | of ' healthy branches are not the cause, but the 
anben that had been growing there for ards of 70 | lays so much “stress u e absorbent power 2 the tree.” This conclusion, whieh 
years. The Larch plants have a beon all enamel by | leaves. As pacer the te seit their offic ae however, | Howden maintains, ministers but little to the ¢ ea 
this ee which commen ced its operations at the root | cannot be ques estioned, and to that the present inquiry is | P of me rea either way, whether pruning be 
=y sei es He, erhaps, did not express himself or evil. an obvious truism that a healthy-gros 
nine y ith sufficient ne _accura I, otherwise it would on ‘wil ae healthy branches, just as a healthy 
I will have sound and healthy limbs. It is part) 
100 acres of Lark in k the Foran oath i wit 3” for he eared of a sound and healthy constitution in either 
plar tes ai 3 ba ek, and Coney. p not admit R ihes aeg | but deprive a tree periodically of part of these hei 
hew leaves a ‘ts ‘Nectarines were ratio! pate ed with fluid, branches, will that contribute to the increase Of 
blister È ola: stem ? or the contrar; r. H.’s distinction b 
cri but t they soon ate a hole ale = centre of tl eaten of ambiguity, an and a A et ame te ür age Re nt d effect is in An case of very little impo 
over, re eens z of them ; they were, ho th I maintain, and would fain bring your readers t 
be, reca pimod, at placed in a box with a fresh twig | represents, or corresponds with, that of congest re in| conviction, that the mutual reciprocal ina of 
, caused b; t | and brai nehes on o th r paced the t 
He S night, loosening all the leaves and emptying every | regular course of the fiuids, and go irei as i steli, AR N giar ese 
ud (figs. 2 3). As the favourite haunts of these — When a plant is in a healthy state its sels hele in like proportion is s the incr pore tin 
ied ac = are the spots where the trees which oes in- but if, in that ton etree’ consequently, reme —— a little : 
abited been felled, the iea and branches dition, any part or portion of the foliage be gene Pers yore e isa w ded evil.— Quer $ 
remaining, nothing can more arii than to | checked so as to paralyse the stomates, then that ve ha I am glad 4 see this sub 
make a sE plantation of Coniferous trees upon the|supply of fluid, which would hav è bee l a Bi lly painful to 
ground which had been for many years codigiled iy Ahy (nothing mare oii redundant n ample, but agitated i in ita phos ns. It is really oe a 
of the ae „especia ially kina mri puare A ng dae the | diseased, chemically chan nged, and of a saccharine quality ssigoremen A iE ay of aris tee ay espe ially 
ct. as is proved by th d : 
positively proved, but ae pened to be neee e role Toal DF the a om hoa ee ee why thi RRES vas done, when e Hn aoe T the eat Any i 
in the ro ts o o | : ctt 
ass k es, in July por" peg ef) 1 that the I 3 es n =, 3.7 Si ll aee tot Bt ne Aen ory hetined giew i. et 
cote in th loose soil fi Laie adenine Aa REAR e lan y t 
ji vd ah we ~ —_ Putco malig, . heP Sr predisposi | power to the tenant to pe the wanie vd Pie runed i 
ep 
Heries formed by the | su Loe far ha than the Nectarines, th ther p Ones, ae b 
nelar 3y odienjioue. T es, though they | the aie would o preste r on Be timber, 
seg says they —— the ats rom he nt ani on fav. been oa h Juices an in the soar ghee E 8 pas than y “Thack por ran ii ni 
tainly live ns e wood. They are ea a white ma ts, $ yer e spring, they Dr. Thackeray A 
liko those of most Curenliontdæ, with a brown head z | second grote; mitted Py. Y ro during the sumer, or |as an argument in favour of pruning, thes when , 
of the he’ pe un moar“ and high temperature of J uly Yet in tl losi A! ter : but this is & 
peg stoke 3 o aed ai ne p, and a The s branek Eire eget a es M 
a at p. Esai e legs of a ; 
Vi ESE AL Parte ow of a 
| the Pach s are er bs same vie diseases being | si piers! ‘or one of ie ungs. We oi know dh 
identical, ‘differing only in degree ne —_— y. Si | atola = ie co; scm x am bes in 
and candidly m get t It appears 
| answered by, any pract tical discriminator. si Did any one | EAR that caza be advanced Sie favour rat prunia 
ever observe a Vine on the open wall subject to that | that under cer‘cain ci iroumatancss Tt caged = t 
al with his C. Pini; it| which terminates merely in black we 
: perforations to, an y ther, and rag e 
ag om eee jaaa pa the upper surface? Is it not cee to py Catt hs dono a ar the trees should alwa; 
$ tan Mie, Hamerton suggests the formai 
