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Novewsex 12, 
T LESE, CHRONICLE AND — ec GAZETTE, 
to bore into the | young se ed, ai 
vicinity, and the young grub K we 
ta pem 
ing the greenhouses, 
lang by 24 Sieh a m covered with flowers e: it ns n | 
most ornamental thing of the kind I had ev 
a the avenues or drives in Ma zr i * 
with Plane trees. It is the only tree w ich does well 
iz town, in the country it is gut pe di flerent ; there anj fee 
“| imagine) must itself burrow into the embry 
| soon as hatch. 
H 
ow the very peculiar motion exhibited by these 
ed is not easy to be conceived, Many| 
seeds is produced y 
well-known qoem indeed are capable of taking strong 
d in m s. Th 
are poor — — wes ying s 3 
, on the ; grow 
5 J 
nic 
upon which the E is plac 
Ot 
t 0 
her insects E or bus means 
of their incrassated hind legs; the Lepismæ jump to | 
great distances m striking a a forked appeudage on the 
un der side of the extremity | of the body against the 
909 
— rrespondence 
Out-do —I have this year grown on 
brick wall iiid. any covering, on a Vine planted 
two yea go, five bunches o Grapes (Black 
Hamburgh); one of the bunches weighed 1 lb., with 
berries measuring 24 inches in circumference well 
coloured, with a good on t They may now 
seen in the shop window of George > 
Seedsman, 13, South Castle S * Li 
, We 
„Nov. 10. [Surely this i is not surprising in so 
—The earnest way in which Mr Forsyth 
recommended e use of this substitute for Chinese 
Tea in make a trial of it, and as he 
specially recommended it to be roasted se ir A I 
* as brown f well- 
— M . eskia h. e 
well to try some. M nifers is country, such 
s Pinus Sophia, Mo Montezuma, nile, Hartwegii, 
jacks have a horn-like appendage on the under side of 
he 
et bread, p and on Lure. f the “infusion f found Such 
e fore-chest which, pemn MA on the back, they strike 
with great t force into a cavity in front of the hind- 
und tl 
cloth manufaet heless endeavor 
| ceed gere e anis to our "larva, which when 
a upressus thamiana, | w 
M ev! Li ; this climate would suit them 
far han Spruces. [The wri mould have 
visited Mr. Philip Taylor's residence. l 
There is indeed 
which are delicate in Paris live very 
the open air at Marseilles ; Oleanders (Kerin), Mes- 
pilus japonica, E second class 
ordinary Lepidopterous larvæ, 
another instance recorded by M. Reaumur 
appears more analogous to the jumping seeds, being 
the movement produced in the sm mall oval cocoons of a 
h 
which | 
, whic being — nded by a long | e 
the di han o to it, re not by any 
means bring my palate or 7 1 ates of lin — — 
accom Indeed, there w 
* 
mmodate themselves to 
0 
bigh there; . mericana verywhere uj 
the rocks—it is o t — and rogn 
- in the winter. There are also beautiful speci 
jana ; Gilliesii, Mande 
Aen suaveolens, 
wal At Madam me 
steps, without 
mt screened from the violent 
(ee by t by — chateau. Marseilles i is the e very country 
rally do badly. I think that 
arises from their — being — 2 in — e gs 
for I saw some ve n the 
ry it no ks es p" E tr 
‘ 
1 withstanding the 
great quantity of water used by the gardeners, vege- 
— e howe Marseilles, so that Strawberries 
na » Toulon in earthen jars. M. Malet 
EN nn «^ ri "irá OGY. 
the er xw last y 
nme. d UE ural world by the 
of an Vasca p 
ich Ea had the 
ear considerable | 
d attack one end of the c 
. considerable movement “by hn 3 9 —.— The Late Frost. — Nou say truly that frost in October 
robably m in the Wanner as the heese | is no novelty. Almos t mx year there is sufficient 
. 11 ^ * tioned tl ff Dahlias, Scarl N eee 
gresses equally when p on its convex és or on — such like tender. r plants but the frost this senso 
| either of its two flat qu | has done more mischief in the kitchen garden than bi in 
Other specimens of the he seeds were sent to England any other within lect: emos of the ee * 
habitant." ing wi be very sca 
Chargé d'Affaires, W. G. — * forwarded nsequence. Lett tuces, "o Cos s and Cabi bbage, Endive, 
isty, stated to especially that —— rà hend and even o: 
have beon — ed from the f Tepic, core t well ea Me e injured 
and ie supposed that the r3 which — — doo are almost entirely spoiled, th heavy sno w havi ria 
‘ices a species of Euphorbia, Subsequent weighed down the large leaves till the stalks, 3 
eakened by the broken and split into frag- 
— All the late Cauliflowers that had formed 
heads were des and more tender leaves 
of Broc „ &c, iderably damaged. 
coli, Greens, &c, consi All 
tender bedding plants which had not been taken up 
were killed as a matter cf course, and I hear that i in 
| The large quantity of rain (over 4 inches) which has 
fallen in this district since Oct. 24 has made matters 
vegetables, J. B. Whiting, The Deepdene, Dorking.—— 
“I never knew a frost so early as 1 — cannot 
he l gard ener; d 
be the expression 88 must 
information has led us w infer that the seeds are in euet of weather as to its effect on PIN and I. p 
fact Peruvian and carried to Mexico, and that C 
bey — -— EUM of a plant called Colliguaja. can have corroborated by men of 50 years’ 
2 s at a later period t ö Sa 
Menit to rius ‘undergone its domes to the aprikot pa — Chrysanthemnm friend as to the 
state. The chrysalis is furnished (like | that of the state. of his plants in the Temple Gardens. I much 
at moth, wood leopard, and tirely th 
With transverse rows of small reflexed spines on the 
ments of iad abdomen, by the help of which the 
d hogs? amd pushes itself forward. 
. The pr rolas uced specimens of the moth, of which | 
away this season, judging from what Isee in “so many 
* I quite agree vie his remark that 
E rse 
examination by Sir William Hooker. 
seis theese are about four-tenths ¢ of an inch long, | 
the eee summer, f which h 
to us by Sir William Hoden t exhibited 
"y the meeting of the Entomological Society on 
Fes June, : 1858, when a description was read of it 
m nage e ern, dach rese eg eces), t 
els evidently growing together my dod aen bala: | 
mas. 3 3 8 adr 
EU Ede occupied by a fa 
— larva, which had E E whole bead ‘se se" 
oS ds es cereos all 
. is shown in 
225 
Si 
— ag 
a small head marked pt sess peal yo" | 
urnished with small but strong jaws, | 
parts of the mouth of a . 
E 
1 
F 
n 
3 
| 
curved | f: 
nd it will X noticed | t 
inder im near the base of the 
ack spot and with a 
f 
‘segments of f the body 
ff 
= 
membranous feet surrounded with a circle of 
Ae margin y 
head; the fourth and fifth segments are 
four has 
| The plant 
of rms u a lant of the 
here on a d. Ey plies is tents. Perg 
d igb, and h. received 
ection — au iium it has 
rmed amy visi ‘sible flower buds. 
vt op are eee expanded for the petals T 
visible, and should the weather continue mild m. 
haps open fully. Its natural season of owering i in p^ 
south of Europe is November, fs that = is only in v 
favourable summers that it r flowers in Engl — 
in question is Ak I 8 on a qom 
te rens and its foliage is very large and fine. J. Rogers, 
er Hill, Sevenoaks. 
Aer Cress.—I see that a new harvest of what 
called “ Australian Cress " seed is rere. in your. 
_ Tey minute spines, and there is another pair at the 
; itr of the body. This larva is 2 
* lines toad tal san 
I wn with- 
in the seod (the inside of which it nearly. occu: | a 
Ps), of which the outer surface exhibited not |i 
me slightest ne 15 its introduction, is easily | h 15 = Chro 
. “plained, a nearly simi instance occurring in tl garden 
fre the Nut Weevil, the only difference [E vies the | ing Foe i the heres Zoologie. by M. Lucas, | deners and the: pet i Lean gen 2m — 
a ho intances being that the female weevil bores| who, not gem that the insect * already received a of which I cordially — A WD» Mya: 1 
n and introduces an egg name in this country, berg a ie eal s T id t 9 or ib Fateli- 
Visible rond, which quickly heals over, and is : Eu “scoompanying w woodent represen eee eee be more their employers" 
— When the Nut is wn, whereas in t salis, and moth, ce . ified, the Tines hidis the | gent or worthy, or who pre a y veni 
of the ing seeds, the parent insect, as we shall. Scars lengths, together with one of the seeds. | in a Bit puy oe wil den’ 
find, has no instreanent sufficiently strong | J. O. W. | e ortan A AA T pire fv Y) 
Eu 
m shows are 200 early, for how few full » 
blown pare does one see in the first week of November. 
h Notts. 
trya japonica, or €— —The rssh — = 
tno be hot summers in ripenin; wood is 
