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ended of pue may be formed of the vast injury | narrowed and roun n, it is sparingly clothed T would be easily identified, We als 3 pretty qon 
ived when the reader learns that I | minute bristles, and i s of a pale whitish buff colo rally 1 row or two running from the shallow 
which i ents of its wood full 50 yards from the | with t f the back of a fleshy eye dow i talk. But specimens ar gc uite ag 
| poked up fra * Mom The legs are eight in number, short and thick, renee bet — marks, as is seen by the following 
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vred QE the violence of the wintry iat fleshy lobe. e e x uth consists of a very fine point | six pee of 12 were gouty; in 1857, eo my outline 
tallthe shattered parts, assisted by the | defended hU, short three-jointed palpi. The size| was taken they were nearly all slender stalked. 
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cosa i man represented a hic p was pasty and worthless. 
of 18 feet in extent. At the edges of the the surface decret together with numbers of da rk Why,it is impossible to say, for they were nieely 
plied Roman cement nicely sloped off; so lines and ue gis produced by the t i L" 
^ ja wood a nd ba rk might have an easy the insects, the woun : running together when they 
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n. Thus a all x rendered safe from wind| The insect gp we ngs to the genus Tetranychus of 
"E we ceased our work, and left the tree to Léon Dufour, 8 for the e ard of various 
ing xr She has not disappointed us, species which are parasitic upon different plants, such aterial i 2 
nto the tree and I npe as the T. rb which lives upon plants i in ill.venti- etabl tter t d it sui bodo-- 
it deft injured, edo throughout pes Piera ole | lated hothouses, spinning threads over them by which . Such is "d rend. pa "de dub with: 
e Bagshot Nurseries, whence are distributed vast 
i he world.* 
very poi 
Th e | new ood and bark have rolled over the 
slates toa close or joining w ithin 11 inches, binding the 
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ish proverb says: “ Thou art welcome, evil, if 
— Bone But, in this instane ce, our poor 
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broke over it, and the ligh sade 8 
the northern side, c off t ark for a space 
breve in length, and at places of 15 inches in ran. technically d 
: -4 and unless this is vel iki recs all that may, be 
wood itself. The bar ER s suffe ed 80 t hat a dto at the «pug is A much labour thrown away; if 
This ko 4 the lightning's fearfu rage s = in | pe E "pm rd ill W naiinis. 8 irae d 
- m pigon Mew S 5 ape em of : a: ftem In — A pe cL * 
future tempests spare it the tree will be quite where the action of the weather soon decomposes it, 
iain * 2 pi uae La sedi ita l ll b but in limited o s, as in form bed or- two 
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Theday may come when thin Dom Aira Kopiar etary their 8 is injured; the T. tiliarium, another | We have occasionally witnessed "wis most annoyi 
shall be forgotten. Then, should it be felled to serve web- spinning species found on the Lime trees, ltsin gardens from imperfectly ne up this. 
domestic purposes, woe to the carpenter’s axe and saw ! webs are to be seen at a dis- pan, or leaving it gw witoddied ^y hen the soilt 
They will have hard work ires Ln y shall have pene- sem: from the trees. Other species are known from | was being prepared, and it cannot be urged too strongly. 
| trated into the interior of the tr the names of the plants they infest, as the T. Ulmi, T. on all who may have to deal "with such, to be certain» 
. . Fromthis brief account, the “admirer of trees may Urtica, that this is effectually done. The labour required at 
. learn that it may be in his power to do wonders with I do not know whether fumigation with tobacco first is comparatively small, but to be obliged to dò it 
g k is suffici iently powerful to destroy this Acarus after a garden or a bed is finished, involves: much 
right way to . mi sug. pep tl Orchid plants which it has attacked, trouble and vexation. 
vise course, an mre ic tree is a jewe but I m ay pe rhaps be allowed to mention the great| The soilin uestion is in its natural and unreclaimed 4 
— snail * a sao ul as EM is brid y^ the dare fui which J have derived from the use of the state almost res 8 A covered with 1 beneath 
on enzoic flui of i vhich is a layer, more or less thick, of decayed ^ 
a our entomological collections. A few drops of this fluid | spontaneous Ex df ge on. is is an invaluable ingre- x 
M in an in ected drawer mus kill ear Anth : e dient in a soil for Rhododendr rons, eia 2 
in a few mi nutes, and it would probably be equally | all plants of like requirements. Thus the 9 4 
Ier. —THE ORCHID ACARUS. destructive to Whether Vra vapour of the Ame “common,” Pian Heather abounds, thro 
Bes oer crt per d ds vel the ar spirit would bei injurious to the plant has to be deter- a heap and allowed to lie for a year or two, with at an te 
1 y an x hae ie account o the Creation e | mined by experiment. J. O. W. Praga chopping and turning, gives a fine com 2 
that 25 — ur We: 
C "p poate tig h^ m e Mum 5 A^ M THE ZEPHIRIN GRÉGOIRE PEAR. We have before strongly insisted on moisture as am 
it ‘ing the best fitted, as a piece of For a knowledge of this most excellent Pear we are indispensable in Rhododendron culture: the effect of ` 
1 indebted to Mr. De Jo: onghe, o of Br ussels, who info orms $ oom of this at the root is ce a com- 
the world, yet the human mind N adopts the | U5 that the tree is perfect in form FA iron i p d ur whole Pain of the plant 
Mea, which at first sight seems antagonistic to th The annexed outline represents very — the appear- so eprived. tured ste d branches of 
lies g e ja Rhododendron à im Ver h med poe and when : 
Pm That o; one ani mal or planti is see to another, | *' We of the ies cimens before d bot i rA l Ajr robbed of their necessary moisture 25 c readily $ 
auc being regarded as the most perfect of all blowit i down b ean fast Fat regain a healthy condition even when the require- - 
Í Various are the 9 8 which have ya ast July. i 
deen SERE ti f When ripe, which seems to be late in 8 for ments are again suppli e results of this mag- 
Mere " FUTT ue ony. 5 9 Bed Ww : often be seen in plants with long bare branches hardly * 
ina vegetative condition, and having at the base a 
7 esp a organs 3 or the power up of young and comparatively vigo oots. Ina 
teen looked pring in increased numbers have all general su ts are speedily renovated by cutting 
writers, upon as evidences of degradati ion by some a all bare unsightl ns, an every 
à M each o! ng ay ought x poe e vd 
nither, if the individual b 10 8 encourage o the young and promising ones. 
Tegarded as exhibitir, ue = ARET 8 5 i Such plants, being generally strong at root, will with? 
design ME s ore refined and higher degree roper care rapidly regain a healthy blooming condi- 
— There t But h few precautions are necessary. The 
ion. But here a few p ry. 
> are, both in the vegetable and animal world, com- 
‘frat numbers of objects to Mig h this idea of d wor instructions given of course refer only to the 
be is especial] i i aa W eu P eh hating 105 un gene ox ber Wh R g LR g pam 
en Wonderful amount of development, ar nsidered Mat a erated Ad bënhnek fom Bd | e 
We generality of persons as simpl * vs l 185 ; 
‘ fro Figg TA ply 2 spon aneousiy 3 8 in a stagnant condition whien « 
There is le iet "es AMT are found. the: stock, naturally endeavouring to obtain supremacy, . 
ea between iy elabi pec 5 ni r great throws up vigorous shoots. Here a totally opposite 
Mns as a 10 ex s and such minute course of treatment from Bern jus : 
- often h m r a which obviously necessary. this with oth : 
lad to the conclusion | Rig qug pose tare lee "n porn will be fully focona by and bye when we ` 
eed, not in the ordinary mode of derelofient to treat of uice e arm ell, Bagshot. 
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papa be more gratuitous than such opinions, M Home cman enm NEAR s 
fly Wa cu afforded by by larger species of Annulosa qu 
— e fact that e e anum. tree can hardly be made to grow at Cambridge. The 
Species = in developed to an cause of this is not 2 nt. It may be mre 
— * * For instance, ha. autumn pee alk nthe — 85 e 
UE the ^ elopment of thousands of caterpillars and also in the walks of St. John's College — you 
and ig entie Death's Head Moth, generally so rare, shoots grow toler ly for a time, but towards the auta: 
Vine trees, come to our Pd ge that an avenue of — = — ite reangna 
RI 80 free from insects, has been exudes from the base of the young leaves, in such 
LU bya * . Hot i abatdent dance as sometimes to quite st shoot. 
* in the sam even when not so plentiful it has the effect c 
» e manner La the young shoots, rai the e : 
= has been roe very m minate species of mite of the disease which cuo it. Sue end of the sho 
in hothonse uud in vast numbers upon Orchi ultimately falls off, and attem 
; oe dane of their dest and which is sc improbably dia room, this Pear has a fine thin pale yellow green skin | EY its piace by new buds 
Tuction, i iched b h d there. Its * Comparatively small portions of these extensive nurseries 
a in slightly enriched by a golden russet here and there. bie on Hab its of vegetable 
of wands an ‘ton is scarcely larger than a flesh is ponam. melting, without petis, as sweet | are v howere creda Rhod n grows more than ordinarily - 
Panis can indes to be examined with a lens | and vinous as a Brown Beurre, All our specimens have juxuriant. Where such ean be found is par excellence the- 
be seen. It is somewhat square in] a large hamp between the Pear and its thick strong | situation for an American garden 
