speaking. 
c: Dr. ASA 
d the learned Professor of Natural History ea 
rvard jax 
following w 
m es of the root in 
fë t 
—.— to rte the 5 mjer which is exhaled m 
lea Y 
ey e annot 
dem are most TD rene 
8 remo 
ien. he time when their action is 
Immer 
wed. They cannol e: ased by th 
Neos Ae the soil without destroying fect ‘fem 
of this 
Species Wi 
K A of the 
d where © trank of 
aves. But towards t 
the leaves gro on den nguid and the oth zi the 
ason is attained, the rootlets also cease to 
from the 
W, 
w 
“The p 
their extremities, not bei 
ti 
c 
a 
o 
"$ 
"me Ty 
lengthening, while it thrusts — 75 
wards a little hot t m 
in x perform the office | 
4 — eee is elongation 
e, a new and ‘rent rms takes 
bes eng its lower extremity i 0 per 
mcs n oot is 
x 
€: which forms oot. The 
from the oat p^ the 
therefore a new fo rmation 
eg 
of the Sugar Maple, Will i x 
qu M of the best works w 
0 t Dr. Asa . — had dis- 
ore him been 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
THE MOTTLED UMBRE MOTH. 
pl 
a 
for th the formation of avenues either in town or cou try 
one are more ornamental in their growth than "the 
hl 
gro ny must esca When ) 
adopted uid when applied to fr fruit iéieb the È ad 
oung fruit must also be injured considerably, * 
n 
n 
Lime, and — whi Ist i in 
with that 
— 
| whenever it y se been thus Sa p and ‘nowhere is E 
more yd than in the grand avenue in Berl 
which takes its name from this tree e Unter — 
Linden.“ 
MESS a "e cT! 1 1 
in general also 
= 
PLAGUE OF omes IN TASMANIA 
THERE are strange ences from time to 
| the anim al and the v gotable world. They often 
: hi - —— j 
lication of cells at this point d set the speculations of phil à 
EOV avari 5 ; those behind aula expanding fo t | fone: er, outbreaks, so to peak, i3 some E | dence, In Pie year 1806, u flat i w at E 
their full species do take place, and we have had — attention | rich land, in alternate rows of Oaks arfd "ri : 
fats those nies re directed to one such instance hich venue of | taneg surprisingly. But in the summer of 1814 te 
divisi ba cis dij T ex continue to multipl by Limes of great beauty was attack Mie wo | Oaks were damage a singular manner, Hai 
ce h t 1 175 
continu ii adya rs dad -— an extent by the lai ves o the mottled | observed unusual numbers of — kestrel 8 
eing extremity; et ning from the lower ii 
entirely or chiefly, s 
the most newly formed 
ity. 
s Geum Which had been allow wed io gror 
+} 
Tits us tissu 
The — of this is moth pere to the tribe which 
“ The * uM however, do not occupy the is thing à loopers or geometers, from the habit it has of 
very Pint, er but ineo; rrectly, stated. walking along by the bending of the body into a loop, | above 
This is capped, as i Were by an obtusely e 1 » great extent, 2 * is family hi the er. 
mass of à cells, consisting of the superiial tissue | red "p Cu aae S iens 
d Larches dotted with little romi 
‘oars a the wage of mice. “Continue 
your r E said I to the hawks which were soaring 
y head. “I see pet 
. Yo ou are much wanted.” Tt was the short 
the summer. 
y su armed durin: 
et 
gt 
Seay cd ation that commenced behin 
iy mentioned, 
2 
name bang an allusion to the late peri Hod of 
— 5 year, when the , perfec t insect makes its 
ppearance. d tk 
cells — — 
nar eem C3 are — eg 
percer nes ne iere 
ku and denser ' iiis T. that 
'vaneing 
= x every branch o 
xxm 
behind it. 
in "toe or the AM in EE trees of es leaves. In 
WS, o i 
he Ire | upon frait tr 
f the root is pee in the found on ‘the “Whitethorn, Oak, Alder, &e., altho ough th 
f 
ig occasionally is very injurious 
ally Apples; “aint it is W 
e 
winter, the 
* of the roots mé no — k 
* MV no such — ial organs as are only 
— of, but absorption evidently tes my take 
— to veris Porte e e extent, through the older 
orption by roots, the inspection of — 
root of a germinating plantlet, or of any gr 
rootlet, even under a 
E oe | 
— —_ "i Y E is over, or 
e root gets a little o t th 
time, the exteri layer of die fore Quim 
istinguis 
less co cells than i in pe 
- deis and is destitute of iss or “breathing | 
posed to 
pillar is marked with a row of large chesnut-coloured | 
d 
be ( ES 
not been touched by the mice) sent forth sump 
"dns Ora 
ipsi n" ong the —— the sides of the bod, 
brimsto: oa — 
beneath pru 
nclosing a — e pie the head. and ‘three 
slowing segments are uniformly brown, 
no more. : 
-— in this immediate neighbourhood ie 9 
f land 
fo 
— April and May, sins - the young 2 
f the m are developed, that the — are 
hatched and commit their ravages on the trees. 
— of May th full 
Wi dows Ps 
will be covered with Popp 
d then wh 
X ORCHARDS IN € CHEAPSIDÉ. — 
AND why not? We erg milch cows 
earth with a aight v web so as to form a (cocoon, within stories of crag ower ip tie 
The moth. appears from ihe end of October" until | 
ace ied; “the poete of the stem, As Body, 
p tter shoots upward and expands its leaves —— whi am gh mark 9 He the reme er d vede 
which water is T A during vigorous another wider an . ud. Petelicwall of ap 
vegetation, the former a nward and con- the middle; ther al = n e Fi i us 
À the ted e e duni! tie . fe also i: — dot in the middle of hope, before we have done, to 
through which the eee uiréd to restore The hi ings üs r. AR a der Got * | tio f fruit, teen ts i 
What is lost by evaporation or consumed in growth, | middle. It is extremely variable, however, not onl rctised b — Je 
is principally H he danger of dis- the gen lour of the wings, which ier k " manner t s ied 
3 » — roots ng the season o E 1 coloured to umbre; but also in the strength of the | sarily — dd entails 
8 oy — ly pae when the sap i is rapidly | vere oe Bes are sometimes almost obliterated, highly- 25 gardeners. Mr. was the 
E a esh leaves. th l rth, n Her tfordshire, 
in rapid action. The gro k of the — E, d e e is wingless, of a pale yellow or cream | believe, who pro i ‘simp F 
red E while new 3 and eolon, ei —— — dots varying in size and mee as the Ponch Med id (n0 
e developin o render thei ithin w Peat 
= 8, the rootlets are exten i This an ane of . — MN being destitute o off o 5 — — 5 i — = Ecl 
of preventing the injuries] of boon? : 
at the cost of 25, a- piece has n 
