Avevsr 13, 1859.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONIOLE AND 
AGRICULTURAT, 
GAZ en T B. 671 
length, without any indication 
upon its upper side. It i is the — of an inch 
in length. — but half grown are interspersed 
pursue their useful 
| without molestation from enemies. 
At alm rery step owes studying tbis department 
we are — » with ara O- 
am show 
b: P qe white 
te oval 
e en - 
ow ae ibed are 
e female insects, x das 
ctecting à their eggs. At 
ere gathered 
a shield for covering and 
the time the specimens before m 
had not 
ature, 
admira 
to balding: The. * is long and stout, _ scaly towards 
|-the base. 
| wide at the top of the 
s TU and about 
th 
mena which * our astonishment and 
* lady-birds are 2 to remain dormant, and 
thei state, fi 
end o 
| they are peds ately. Wopinnatitid, t o lowerm 
all Nature 
We should 
me „obscure 
summer, when 
1 
perish and 
y 
t Hm and that the twigs thus den 
and uld supp 
f pinn se usually, Sem sometim 
0 ne base al anch, whic 
posteri 
the 
es the third Reis hay eed conn a 
h is is pinnatifid like the 
me e 
We sho ose that ages dead le 
wigs, where it will be so conspicuously exposed, odd 
be especially avoided by the lady- bird. when seeking a 
ne egan: 
The — of each segment for a quarter of 
an inch or more of its length is silvery, the colour at 
this part on each side rete da the midrib into 
s . longi! itudinal white 4 nin 
i lace to re duri its u a state. But, to our sur- „ 
Sli bund ia ith miis Fre rar ing pe OV a a 
to those narrated” of the A pple- oy ty the ends of these 2 they 5 plants at the Royal Botanic Society's recent 
k App eno sre fix tha themselves by their bali wm ER tionless ur m 2 ved a e Class e 
WI. quur ss 8 rci a tn Memes erit from y Horticultural 
of the one under — when so fe t ndar rva state. —" TR h they 1 — s er — — — Tudi - was — 
this appears to have been upon the Pines from which is XD remarkable, the twig thus hibi * n 
mos covered 
= — — ih € bow S: or thorny + seeds, like the » ripened spikes of the on iy abr an rorvsTACHYUM, Wal 
: he leaves peris am aed Bat t for cdi g some more prickly | Prim — ches in * asite pairs, afílitaj: Fifty with a 
mitted to pedi Ag ge gg RN plant. No bird will be disposed r^ approach anything | smaller em ee nehlets ; pase, 8 
nately Nature has m mo ais ogous having dh a noli-me- fees aspect. And how curious pinnato-pinna atifid, the segments of the sterile fronds obtuse 
provided estraining these creatures oblong; fertile segments pyramidally attenuated with dorsal 
m becoming unduly numerous. A minute worm whic} that the scale insect by killing the leaves aud] _ fructification, scarcely dist I Ls Spike like 
r I i distinet-habited r~ el t Fern 
feeds upon the eggs of the Apple-bark louse was noticed meae] tal foe bed Pak Gti pe Now VEN, ien Aor * hd 
i acco’ i i discri ting belongin enus of which 
SORUN QM ot P a species | eye has the, fees of Nature rani the economy of g 4 — re climbin T lan e are " aware — — 
of lady- bird, or Cocc: ughout the P species g plan s 
i these useful little creatures, makin N a at also will s nmn attain the likely tra habit of its 
States, devours pos he A Fee lice and 
those of this s rni d doi nee a s s fiel, copes esposisl work Xo dest 1 4 o ns of Ma nopens virt — 2 piis the 
"n 
Le 
yed in their t turn. 
—— bien. — e wei in gemi of under p i mala protection “of ced niea it i P — wie no to assume a — 
remarkable that long ago, in a 4 ious age, an character, the — nsisting of superposed 
interesting topic oo 8 pu when the habits of this tribe of insects could have been | pairs of lateral — resembling in this mode of 
tiger-like ferocity upon the Apple-bark lice, and who - ly if at all known, they were regarded in this | — (not in form or other characters) some speci 
ms um light, andan Ahengi: pae and are supposed | o | of Gleichenia or Davallia aculeata. It is a very orna- 
Pi t lei to have th ined in France the e of * Sors known Lygodiums, 
— * — on which he aca ar of te cows” and “The à okie cattle,” and in England “| line, ne, with 
i and their papæ which he sent me, enab n 1 1 11 ty by chanting to t ri witha nna — manner, — ultima i. ud — 
present an account of the states of to “fly away es your — "is on fire, your : pim 
y this 
of i to which 
in tm — report, The lice 
is species feeds are so pons ly minute | 
— of them will no m g 
them 
children will den 
wed being — and obtuse —— fertile the 
uated 
segments. are some ale at — — midally a d, and 
In this pupa prettily vith the — mbri- 
the | cating | f these bracts or brae- 
fami the p 
| remain —4 ce a in the — skin of 
| larvae. In so some Species, howev er, the larva skin. is 
ti Lfd tid 
ti 
tiform indus eng dor sal ve^ more distinct 
as can scarcely be ANDA They 
a service 9 r 
— p. 396) des serike Aha Ac bipue 
— 2 
E 
nion vol. i., 
thro ing o 
off its 
or — tree lady- bird; and I observe. Mr. Westwood | | Soviet 
than 
the Royal Botanie 
y nd the Flor = Committee of t T 
7 m^ in botl —— for its or 
rac Mr. fo 
x tmm s published à the 
Chilocorus of the family Coceinellidae — order of dan yellow colour with h clouds. | attar of Roses is ik, a city situated 
_ It was noticed more t ury he | ft remains pm protruded from the lower or anterior in a valle ins, abont 60 miles 
Swedish naturalist Kalm, when travelling tl h | part of the cleft in the back of the larva skin. rt culti i 
— e wy ded eee S fect st ee dide | this valle ich of e plain, shut in 
5 : t 7 ards for a long very mamie i 10 Y | by elev: rid full ited 
time confoanded with C. Cacti, „ ; polished and shin ered with mumerous very ciate, ad of su —— ; — Armeni 
closely related to it, which feeds upon the Cochineal ois Nadie with e resi rui or ad — af the oi. po peso 
insect ( ti). We accordingly find it entered | reddish yellow spot on the middle of each wing-cover. — rc height of from 4 to 6 feet, and someti: 
— — — Dr. * ree or - Beneath it is black with the abdomen red or yellow, its | m 
nsects usetts. . Say corrected this xcept upon each si 
i in an article * : à of Natural sal ent ccept upo "oer. E amen — — in the months of May and 
— — i, p. — sect — in 1835, e —— destroyed by thoroughly showering the leaves E a generally about six weeks. They are gathered with 
Thi € abundantly in Mexico; it certainly the young larvæ have hatched from the eggs. ‘Could | expanded, and the yield from each bush av. averages about 
e very closely the stigma, Nob common which we | 1} Ib. of leaves. The leaves hs — u^ to 
in this country, and the ren 1 ill, of Europe; | could multiply the lady-bird at pleasure, it would the di istillers, sa tig, eb cannot be y kept 
but itis more an twice the size of either of those | undoubtedly be the most effectual mode of ridding the more than a day, in sate of their. * to 
— iy ng from the former | Pine and — the Ap pple tree of — minute vermin, — by ao th — bilis] is los! 
i: itude of the ee ene which are so pern hem. The Roses ar —— obo 30 gal- 
form is transversely oval, whilst that of ons” ea — the proportion of 60 Ibs. of wes. 
2 ARDEN FERNS. to 15 gallons of water, and still is immediately 
. PTERIS reply ARGYREA, T. re. | heat e-hal the water is distilled over into 
ds pedately bipinnatifid, ie, pinnate with pinnatifid | several large bottles. The productis then placed in a 
— th basal mos producing or Aw eed second still, and about one-fifth passed over, on the 
manka: BEDV Y. Hippo Qi in. long), — the oil is found to float, * 
"ame js. E 
that = : his is 
didi E =: EE establish. iih Mr. Se ir. Sey 
- bestowed names — aa ora have 
than a mere statement : 
in which the species — — 
known species. I con 
scientific designation of 
. : Sa ^ re inms th black. 
of long" black 
— 5 
h segment. 
all | 
PE memerons sm 
been 
: —" for its beanty, and for its 
aches ; seg te (14 in. 
wien ee, on the rachides above, the terminal ones caudate; 
bases of the segments grayish- whit e, forming a broad c 
—— ry stripe down the centre of the pi 
marked v: Fern which — 
introduced to cultivation; and it is at on 
a 
surface of whi - 
onu 
entrai | collect -— 
leaves i 
5 in the still with the 
strained o and added. 
ulia dd 
2— 
ly 
dos sharp m —2 Cov Ims 
formidably with prickles, iti is acire that i these little | 
alligator-like animals are never devoured by birds, and 
to P. quad isurite , 
that species, but vide parer ly ma: 
Iterated to 
dition of Geran 
in unite with — — carrie 
regarded as 
— ere the latter 
—— ed an eon 
or or erip e —— gray along the centre 
occupying both 3 sides of the central rib or 
bya dt ur habit, 
5 "s or amore i in length, forms an erect 
from which — arch ont on al [e IL 
severa ale adri anything. cond under 
felosma, and oth which, ib Mr. Smith's: — “io M Rose leaves ee 
«differs, not only in its —X which is its chief. 8 soz. of oil, at a cost of nearly 34L, or 
iari in th f its ; „per : 
mee tei vie 2 ch resembles Él iamai Toe quantity — attar aipe oA ot 
| the basal segmenta of the pinn is estimated at from 28; 000 to 
in that species. — the w le we : ad — ied — und quantity 
lit rms related | by the. To such — 
2 = 
ed, € itis next t — abe 
to procure the at tar pure, an the oil of Geranium is 
