; = of many colours. | name of Chrysomela Asparagi, but it is now called Cri- | may : also pres that, in the garden, the disease orior origi- 
It is a compoun nd él a substratum of chalk, pe" from | oceris Asparagi : it is of a deep lue-green colour, of ws Potato ground which is shaded 
Croydon by the railway, an and large fragments of Ply- | very ag: the head is punctured most thickly on by a large Apple-tree, so that for a time, the ouf- 
mouth limestone brought in ballast to the London | the with a channel between yes, which are|line of the blackened haulm exact! ated 
J 3 this last, some broken Welsh slate, form | very prominent and black ; mæ imoderately onp jth mo. shadow of the tree. — E. J., Öron. — The 
Ga Wace, ae thee apes oads of brown slag | and black, pubescent, excep at the base, jointed, to ira is s creating an alarm here, Up to 
from the brick-kil and rofigron A ditto fro m the Sun- basal joint glo , second smaller, third and fourth | t ae 4th y vi ores, 
derland glass-ho' for a gi ate, following larger ng, the apical joint | but abont ee SA the ‘pla ppe cared, Now, the 
relieved by an a cha! Tk fli ints, and o ical ; thorax subcylindric, reddish, with two black | fields and gardens present more or less t appearance 
colou po of which our fancier i is so justly at 94 dots on the dary’ sparingly age 3 Seu ellu! s ce of winter ; the lat ate soy a ash have as yet 
vo ue- en > 1e ra, whic art o urrey pres m 
the bright verison! < which — pe ps o re be vig eg road as sag thorax, and liptint, are > of a variety of ee: Le oe = i 7 gre 
i to grow amongst these everblooming indestructible | clear poet us colour, with aa re | pearance in tl low, s, completely des a 
rocks. down each 5 > ; there is a small ‘ong green spot on e 3 | hills and 
R $ 5 ia more or oy affected ; the site of an 
ction of my friend's asna garden—ł e bars of the same c iddle | old p gh g was clearly traceable in a 
and Artesian well thods of irrigation, | and setae poder the aie = oong pie iket a | large field by the first appearance of the disease and 
&e. &e.—which, i T cannot o the double cross ; the tw is are ample for flight; the eriy decay of the Potatoes. In the vegetable garden 
description of without sg fax readers’ patience. 3 the = e of the shan! s is here is a great diversity of surface, the He es. 30 
I t i ugh to prove th t my ferruginous 5 the 4-joi ron the third joint | or "40 feet nt than the centre, me e cultivate several 
friend’s subur is and | bifid, the fourth ests ah ne ENTERS with two minute | kinds of Por set in vario arts of the pete ty a 
that in small _ ese l modes oi bellish- | claws (fig. 2) ; the line showing the natural length.* sample of e I = ig this morning, and fi 
ment may be m pprop erte or, if yoù please, less J though all the easly kin Bare denuded of foliage, and 
the impossible co shan a stem rm Ps nies of green ani per fectly eo — an early ame Kidney se be: 
gs 29 Ns & e pm nan e ok on one of the: st slopes, the tubers of whe ee 
set hedges cascades of aapi rotting : this is is i 1e more cies EE as a few plants o 
worth co va he Oaar > conserv net which a lat ek ind, accidenta ally got in with the dung, ae grow- 
gives admission to a coac and six. But my friend de- vigorously in the midst of desola- 
elares tha a Doric Temple at t a 
lower end of the p at t 
y; and the “tone and rockery ae 
the Zoolo gical no more 
tha amplification of his 
pe. without its neatness = ston i 
n 
its ype as and harm : 
over, I must think that 
n my estimate of the merits of 
when I see with ay ey 
and his s Sedums 
Tam fully borne out i 
suburban Se 
“ dine with me, and we will go 
» 
I a 
sin to the Pota to. 
oro 
lso find my Onions (an EATER erop) atc d 
While I write the : m a 
’ 
hal 
piece is ei; but a low corner e parce so 
Bowers, Bushbr idge, Surrey. —— 1 a rry to say 7 the 
an A ealled Crioceris sode paeis, at an is s 
similar i in its habits. and economy, that some wafubaliste 
ight, and proper | 
drai inage aortas ans does not scat for the disease, a 
have several crops attac ked in perfectly dry and well- 
drained sp ots (as you sug- 
owing 
Where the rocks of coral grow. 
Crrocerrs ASP. 
ary pear er: 
tracts ol 
Asparagi 
is however very rare in “England, een nothing is | 
Mar to be appre rehe: nded from its attacks 
gest sture, and small quam 
ped of heat. — T. T APE Dor set.——The Pota 
looking w ell; at pre esent I have © 
Picking off tl 
ren, has been. recommended, but I think ‘hey might 
sha ken into nets, which would be. ne speedy 
ola 
saat ts 
d, and even entire countries, is 
h 
I searched th Sede many acres of Asparagus m 
Battersea to Kew, and could not find a single beetle = 
e! seasons, as in 1836, every ste: 
same — ah as well as at Hammersmith, val 
uring the months of summer a 
beet! 
ind | roots, 
e heemeorne 
the Pota See a 
find this 
neigtibouri ood Ciaran is also affected, bok not to om 
| and I am in Jes for the reasons given in the Leadin ng 
Article of ae’ tine hang we shall not be Bis by the 
mala Owing to the cold weather which we have ex- 
eeks ago. The garden groun 
fee subsoil consisting pa of a blue, EF partly 
Ys ly drained, isin 
order to 
w hiel i 
na 
xtent as e injury t 
SE heen in the Tie of. Wight. On “igs i up Ps 
coia 
obis. 3 
surface of the She ate 
P 
grow 
th ffected 
often inhabi biting the same plant, from 
Siden amer to Michael ; the former feed upon the | to 
Jeavés and flowering stems, which they completely de- 
i i resented | 
the above year, they did 
PSF 1 
i win inds and white 
the in, any 9 tends throughout the Potatoes ao 
that ğ pa ere it does not so extend, the rest 
f of the ‘bers ager perfectly well grown a eal thy 
| It certainly is not a disease of the root, but 
y pla an is now to 
4 to 5 feet i in hasik soit then 
sed 
all i larger =a 
t 
ir 
yee st soing the erop o 
ana ke 
the surface obtained bein gu 
rience ed a short t time ago, 
vantage 2 
1 7 
rosts experi 
4 
market-gardens round peace 
of the plant from drawing up the juices fr from the 
ay E 
ni 
>| and g 
tube: = full F biei ie eaey 
this to be co 
adya em in a 
The larve we dig Recent nd full gromi the end o 
, fleshy, an 
a | st: tagnated 
Supposing ti I bave EAn 
the rentting’ off the hau with = igus hies hook, abou 
inch between the Geet into where os frost st 
winds might be supposed not to have inju 
the plants, hoping by these ets to 
might 
essels of by 
ikem to bleed, and ther = — the = 
pable ` 
induce 
ers sr thei 
ring 
ed the ey 
a tolerably see ata, 
tato that 3 have ever casted. I have hitherto anig used it 
equally 
fluids This 
injured 
£ 
x pectoral feet are small, stout, and black 
lso ; they are placed ie, apart: the ‘sides are plaited 
becoming affect 
I also suppose that if som pti ea 
od for a store Potato.—J. L , Swin 
Upon a Vine-border lately mal accor 
H roportion of 
a leaf from this “pmeetdng that Pers Potato will cer. 
be ee 
he spiracles are are very minute black ; there is a 
ark dorsal line vanishing before, and ‘two callous | ¢ 
asks rae on the f first thoracie segment ome emt 
eg 
sav nd if a leaf ed, then, by 
mortar rubbish, Oyster-shells, P other dry 
a drain of tiles running 
g ppe 
tainly be 
s ing the Po tato an extra ins 
not affected mi se Ce and Bea 
ht 
hich they can not alowek to fully ripen. 
ground will also 
il surplus 
= a length, which i effectually carries dg 
r, have been gr owing this & at 
ted by 
se oe ene ag 
~ natural size, but as soon as app recover from their 
alarm, 
aparan peris oak and 
samen this they chango t p psi white pupa, w 
three 
land a 
~ s 
weeks the pe 
ds the 
oe 
yee k scab aac its species, 
other respects it the 
to be harmless, as it Som a feed, I beleve, at 
existence. 
There is little doubt, I 
tl ernate 
nea 
pedei za FED asn 
n place, the 
ve it is, we 
find an avera ie 
cess of moisture in 
inual rain, and 
en 
too 
ts locality, =~ “the “nature be ia. baee 2 
tore draine ined, th ost summers we suffer 
pore 
les: 
SS oe fact Me re e show t 
a by wi 
ge T. S. 
have reason to believe that m are perfectly correct | m 
the Potato disease to ex: 
a 
grey be 
those which “are growing upon eset 
ess drained soil of the rest o my 5 magiie pet 
has been suj 
sed rainage 
t been ca 
born 
with 1 me, plan 
were destroyed be 
m 
: stems and buds $j; 
ee 
ground, a 
i stiff clayey sub-soil, the 
Potatoes “grown in it is more or om affected, the 
| m bers themselves are comprir y or agl — 
a piece of apan a n, having a 
rag ai re 
violent. Iam also inclined 1 agree pe you in con- 
the disease the per me of the aa of 
Jul of Datch 
in a piece 
ated before 
HA 
‘otatoes, that tion 
rt | scarcely a symptom of the reeptible. I 
e, infact, 
were hi 
rendered appare 
ein S : 
eee 
growl 
= all rs sy = mer of the gda ree 
ter so: 
until os had reached the 
—_: eS e gr ea ie ares te P 
> The dissections, &c., are given in Curtis’s Brit. Ent, pl. 323. 
