receive good wi aterings of liquid MEN during t 
summer months. I have also 
tt 
always be trained on t 
combined with bot tom -heat 
first wee ki in September er. 
and October; and all the six Moss shoud 125 pee 
off. By th t tl undance of 
=, strong healthy vigorous Abe d e which, 
ie t fail to gere ce 
an ‘abundane of fruit during à 
plant their Cucomber plants 1 "hte. umn, 
which often. ends in disappointme No ma atter what 
" 
result, I m 
e|same 
n the: 
nea des 80. >A t year, | in order <i Shin LO same | 
off 
Forster 2 e that, at Bru: 
one ew allow ke seen, oat tat on che 19th M 
Neither the and un beet 
n to shay e 
manner ben on of id plants, whether they mW. be 
the house martlet bad anne ared, The ys he peasants Tor 
blighted by frost or not; and as a success sion of 
beautiful flower will no dou ubt t be "n desirable to some 
of your rris Des willfind their wis es. fully g ati- 
fied in that respect by adopting the e plan 
Subscriber, South Wales. ; 
wees without Bottom-heat.—Having read wit th 
t the disc vue tos Mr. Ayres and 
ins pos es 
A 
iius 
pa indi — 
spri ng, „and w ere fa 6 . ive. 
in warm weather Commencing ey wal 
Ap i i det 
ril. Various Nareissi ng 
pa and usher i 
m v. le of 
ENTOMOLOGICAL : May 2. 
President, in the "oir: “Among an i tea 
2 Sa g P lant 
of artificial eom: 
t u 
April in ‘abundance, many m 
lengt th wit m on the end. The night-hea 
has never e been over 60°, and avr the fis 
= any 
hy: vigorous growth as | 
healt! 
fase punto at — beginning g € M.S. 
Orchard Houses.—1 hav rehard ogee in 
10 days from inan m never more 
often 50? at night. S. Farmer, Gardener. nih Lodge A 
em 6 2 e vey. [The leaves in question were 
and vigorous, 
‘on the e Let "min 
new work on the ritish? Tortriees f 
volume to that on — Tine 5 inga 
markabl e aculeate Hymenopt sexe 9 
yme erous 
Arie "a, es s of which has -— nt — raa 
Also specimens of th llowing insects 
British Tanna atta Acervorum 
ne the — oof the genus me — 
y Mac Lea, 
ow for. 15 bena Aches 
this ga an hen very y isi s 
n Peas ches off nine tre ees in 
nearly 96 iat in O ape The fruit, a iie 
spined sort, measure red 10 inches long and 5 in 
cribed to the severe 
5 of the house as 
hils garden 
depres: 
Fab ipa the 27th of last month I 
at Camberwell some Pepe 
y to form 
tween the cursorial d sator 2 85 
Mr. im near Neti ley. 5 
sus, one o 
s TE 
to 3 2 under ventilation is likely to be in fault. | of is dose; Princo” as ly ripe, an m others Baly at r. pred 
The crop of Plums is heavy and ina look well. During L sa ong the leaves half devoured » -— evident iita eren —À of insects especially species of 
the pas i weather eat from that they. had bee m mature s se everal day: arlier, but S, binge ^ du found 
a portable stove. s H., Scotland. few u book covers i 
Linum grandį m, concerning whi ch a corre- he slugs 1 is is the most ra apid grower of a 
nden ee your last issue, Wien a the Fa ibe. Let me add that I am exceedingly inter- found after — upon voung pui i which ` 
succeeds best haters as a hardy annual. Wh in the story given by your sponden t vings had been 
a fri e plant are never so zigor us or LEE altonian case." great ff by thes ects. Mr. W. W. Saunders read 
h and it n DR lar | b ese of ecd e 2 whieh class I |a paper containin * pem of. some vel 
fact that, howarer treated, old 2 2 Á— Camber il. dinary ciel insects collect ed in - 
say t 
egetates in a Iger proportion rh jos ch. 
m seed of this beautiful | 
—In the “Edinburgh New 
Mr. Wallac 
£44 
long. E. 
Rai infa all otlan 
Philosophical dr T 4 _publishe she 
d the 
35 stations in Scotland for Ne pe 
1856, at 55 stations foes the year 1857, - oe ust 
A pow 
e 
lishing Sarrik . yis "insects, + 
we re considered a s liable to give uiui. ens 
1 
of this peculiari i my own ex- 
perience with this plant, which dates from 1853, 
oe me a tar correctness of their statement, The 
oval of t od hpc iby a teeping is a meinen 
4 
as for the 
al like parcus 
ye 21888 As i 
or may be interesting to 
your readers to compare the rainfall o 
I append e ane deposit 
Pers faa ar as my own trials 
of ain in inches of vertical depth during each month 
don Jittle to rouse rouse the x vitality of the seed when dormant. | 
Perhaps the 
alian Leguminosz, and referred | 
a recent 
amober of the Cu hep 
An experime 
loam and a ntity-of ; sand, all w. 
ned M in Me rene with broken TT 
rough pieces y peat and loam, and set the pans 
apa: the liit iie —— vin better—in a 3 ure 
60° to I have never 1 ed the seeds in 
. Barclay, the 
much space in 2 
m 8 to 
1858, 
SE 004 70 
2.48 2.28 4.39 
. 4. 35.15 19,85 
ge rh, ML, Edi 
64 4. 
48 2. 
ere, 
at bed 
S. 
€ : and Picotees.— How is it, may 
E f are no offered for sale, | c 
of and warranted to 
pretty | 
garden.a 
„ and boss 
y Vestre ed by the severe frost we 
s they were coming into — 
oia as Potatoes are destroyed 
ntly eut off at the time every shoot 
the 
t 
TS 
E 
Fi 
of which were p 
„Jus 
strongly, and it is now one splend 
so far from i e ring n . "jd by 
y 
ks, 3 veral very 
former, not met — elsewhere these 
they told me had been raised 
Hr « 
Esq. 
nd, moreover 6 5 Seasons = 
^: | applicable to the pest on so large a scale, 
tle t ith some food th hs inseets 
dart arly affect m ight be tried. y of 
ae tell me what ed vi the most man 
other mode of capturi 
Isugg 
respectable nurseryman. 
Sorieties. 
on 
by Me „ M.D.| 
the genera Camellia NC NS 
After inqu 
— 
2, * Benepe of 
Dr. Berthold Seemann. 
| various distinguis 
} 
| T 
Notes on the Wd ite: of the 
Thos. Forster, Esq., M.D, 
r Scotland | p 
. | articles 
ecured, 
| ‘ative prepare t de eo ix 
and board. Ihave been looking th 
troduced, bears 
Mr. —— 
the insects. Mr. Wallace’s 
3 were objected to by most of the members 
resen 
BOTANICAL OF EDINBURGH : April 1. 
sident in the chair. 
. “On som 
uth Seas. 
subsist LS on ns 
of food 
Bananas. Of Yams there = j 
the islands ot ous size, 
being occasionally 60 tbs. lbs. r eb Te "eoe their 
howe ve M 2 Ibs. to 8 b. 8 
after being du 
general average, 
They will keep for eight or ten mon 
The planting season e: — et 
and * Yams reach ma 
— J. - the west coast 
me in N 
n the 
ieces planted separa 
to sprout sticks and 
— & rude frame 
win 
3 
and stored 
tion 
