and poste 
a0 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Sane oe 
RET MMI AF | rainers, | jointed, basal joint com aratively large, second sub- | slightly discoloured, b e it is 
tesa piece of an olddannel tions wanted; a ndn ; © | globose , third nd five fulowing “very n short, ~ club | pa quality, and I ‘ion fe ner ae if ‘made on a È of 
fine or coarse a C g to a materi ial. All that rel pi ovate- conic , and apparently composed of three united seale, , very pure : fecula might be obtai My speci- 
fuel is requred to «ry eee ala plates ; — oval, strongly ppi i gin a bie tere 
ior margins ferruginous ; elytra short, sa | little accident. Iam not exactly a ware whether the 
manufacture of Potato-flour . 
ie 
matter 
tical, the apical portion 
of unequal strength 
ifie 
of the flour, which, where cotter 
will be best effected by the firs 
the Haigh proc cesses 
There is one aa vee on which a word 
i yen. Professor Morren recom- 
e haul should be aa ved and burnt, 
ver i withe ere The pr ractice of 
of | natural si: 
n- | wings ¥e v ery “lon, ng and narrow: six Sb pea en stron mes 
tibiæ with a curved spine at t the and 
| 4-jointed, two basal joints elongated, ‘hina bifid, fourth 
clavate, terminated by two minute ¢ Fig. 2, hi 
agnified a and represented flying 5 ma 8 sho owing the 
As it is iiy wish to give the history at some future 
period Ha ag dee destructor, 
such nw f Europe 
Elm-tre 
gin 
fortuginons; thickly punctured, | 
ual st: hi 
ou 
whi ch has infested | 
p bject 1em put to some good us At 
any rate, the subject is not unworthy the considerati 
of the m: s nufacturer.— B 3 Ci: Spear: 
as quite 
, | delighted to see the fields in many parts a it in 
1 shall confine “myself at Taperen to ‘some remarks by | 
bl 
ll vegeta ble, which now almost 4k 
DC 8 
7 h A fi that tree. 
T 
we roy befor stated, thore 
-tree, i 
call hvala ten ee, was thro way wit 
be some advantag e in doing s his at le 
is certain, _ no eaves itike is gained by keral 
d. We donc t, however, 
can 
the ball of naire — A t a regs 
all the infested bra was 
fre: sh aod amt withering stats, dinr 
hot as. 
hie 
after cutting off pig down 
a safe ey 
ecom 
fite e me moog poor, 
the 
were i together 
isease, In 
nversi ng w 
hs 
Sub- 
f the 
8 es wa cute Towards the end a Ma 
there were numerous ipantagies rami in the ocd 
|j t, I foun that ru ached t 
Pe of the ps in ‘ae part: 3 of the county bat 
hey could tal ot em, so thoroughly ip ood and 
ef sing a 
ir 
a to what f a saline 
the effec: 
——— may y be in preventing the stincks of the 
e as long as it is green a Š 
hey a daily y tendency to ripen the taher and thus ma is ac D ey pe atone which nie dia 
B pis off the vil. If, howev er, the leaves are until the mn, Terure feeding ‘te e sap- 
eT) ie wood, and ‘eft the outer bark as a protection from th 
The above was valli in ty pe when beara received the weat ther and to cone neeal themselves from their parasi- 
following v pek- In the autumn, poni? 
cation from the Rev. Mr. BERKE l grown, they changed to pupæ, or at least Spuy 
“J [have en reese from Dr. Moxracxe speci- 
pastes: and became paper beetles eo bag of Mare 
intercellular pass ages of Potatoes vid the of pogo 
f germ ote 
completely abso 
imp then, erip convert the dise 
into flour at as wy a period as abie 
“Dr. Mo NTAGNE considers the e parasite above- 
donium and sars rophora. He has given the little 5a 
| perish, as no tree can ive with the bark and sa 
mould the name of — ; dnosporus.* ; injured. Pn his. ot t having cae the Scolytus a seai | | 
Those who have ace e late Numbers of | he concludi a inhabitant oi rests ather 
the Journal of the Tatai wil find one interesting | than of panini i ve been n unable scover 
matter on the Pota o Musrai he least trace of any yg his pA 
ser: ipti on, dug six weeks ago and more, then apparently 
free from ny have now become unfit for food, and 
are useless 3 ind eed, as far as the produce of thisi island 
of : 
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5 
‘Se e588 
Eee o ea 
hi 
Sit SO 
of the disease : arose rd aes pois 
previo 
14th s Toi the hermomieter in 
A n 95°; and on the 18th ity was as = ow 
zonna the rim 
to operate upon their beir pany pric dok 
without a day’s delay 
- | against one’s finding them. priya fest states 
that he did not observe the Scolytus on any of thie 
healthy trees standing near E oag ee t 
day, a 
Kulneys that were raised from 
about one-half of the tubers i ected. 
ae he consequently infers that tacks only si 
It appeared to multiply fod ik ee the pie 
females which he allowed to inhab ae the a a ~ 
that the larv æ prod 
to have sto e best, at least sili 
na so here, there being: shou one in 10 diseased 
rag is the Bread Frui of the same 
ed ano infected, and of 
inchs 
SR in spring, about af 
Lat 
EN ree, laid so man; s 
HÆMORRH ENTOMO Megerte (The Apple-tree them destroy “the e Shaws quite two-thirds.— 4. Woodford. E 
Preni A nearly allied insect having ER the ing tł se d you some of a sort (No. 1)t ve aa pie 4 
attention of scientike men for sien years, t is with En "infested trees, which ought to the | Year for t time; they have been cultiva! wi 
much pleasure i he 2 e known the e a a sp ecies pring, before the beetles ods xe r three years by a farmer in th igh onrhood aa 3 
which, if it be n Scolytus Pciolor a ibys Bosch that the S. destructor will attack feat aun ised them, and you P ease has sho 
doubt not, the S vbr ha ose hab wie found specimens of another skies sere) had | them no favour. [1 clean, 2 rotten]. No. 2 is eer 
detailed by Schanidbet ger. Tn wate Sik aa ar oitrayed many of the Mountain Ashes in the public =>, Beene gto aed ely nr a T ero 
i uen.—. a 9 
and,d ranches from a eankered Hall-door ple: These were: planted in June, I think, and are better 
are quite sou and]. The es sort, — 
pati earn be ep traces of a larva in the wood, and 
lead bark, a ome channel vi which 
Home je Noting, Ee 
n No. 
planted in y July (Chapman s gga 
f but 
[They 
Disease in Pa 
m; e few li 
to view (fig. 1) ; from this diverged n £ ther, th fet ht is making rapid were raised to-da: 5 cael very nap i Of od Bariş 
a i e 
elegia he eggs, : a on ihe side of ye nn as if by fros are coved ao hs nach Fe xo Kides and Pink- 
basen ie gine» a. aon ge f course these | infestans preeeding the o of raae, It appears | skin do., that were sent at the same time h the No.1 
= inerease in pag their extrem a whe tee _ es appre =i oon yet green or yellowish green, an seedling, ar fected ce E 
, where | the tac she 
ely scorns and in two of these ee i se s ‘gong aa pesao ai ae oe ae pecan e 
head, and brown i tonsil tke those the attack of ar se tga an leet the di Ser Kidne a fa 
Pi oh Prke re nana ni i _ , | the eae is not an after organisation. — The spots he ea neighbour, and I strongl epen insect : oe 
i no at wor 
rh ecg minute ects J ay 3 -a = satisfaction to | times two systems, exactly as in Oidium fructi the eg which sat put little affected on the as 
Sentient with the S. hæ = fe 5 3) which appear to be + Ehrenberg in his Mycetogenesis, and as | conside i. g the progress t 7 tome 
l fg a Tra speci on is not it be seen almost every autumn on fallen Pears| made. [Quite gow ph ae —H. B, ager sre 
a & at the pre ects it is | and Apples. In re-examining — ens in which there | I that, as the starch of Go. 
different, the thorax is not so smooth, and the h gaei e ters en ir pa om gh ere tegen 50 aS 
more ly i H gore ce. It is pitchy- rved, ‘the grains f stare Rei wo ang 
black and si erà wiih t head thickly and minutely punc- pase of "the e cells ‘a vel =g sated pos iS = Plaid 0 mee nal sii in aler 
} z i 
ki ith, | layer, and Ay e iron or stone 
to their interior margin, shorter | If the infe ed at } E e a al pk ani ides of the 
i ak ike ioy Somewhat ochraceous, capitate, 11- | tl l ei ier O E by 
* He characteris he 
ec e genus as follows :—Flocci branched, | Soon frutit „The grains nfo starch soe porieen, it it | be be propelled b y a horse 0 a cin man 
outside the ane 
a rope (the shafts ts being kept 
continuous, feruoee, pool through the intercellul: 
‘Sages. _ Spores te g ug: ar — 
mal, or inserted = a middle of the 
ae. first smooth, red. filled wi | 
e and p ie a 
e that it 
ted with spawn, and | to smash the 
to 
ose | walking oa ‘the centre) 5 ‘the roller may be tape found 
co 
Wheat), and well 
prec acct” which will fall to the 
3a ear = 
ba a ot: eno eee wea A PTT FES SA 
