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the circumstances under which С. prestans has 
383 pte additional names were pointed out. 
We have since discovered that there are 3 Cy pri- 
ianum, and 
that both are included in the ай: mentioned note. 
the reference to the 
hitherto known as C. Kimballianum 
of fact, it is not permissible to call a second plant 
C. Kimballianum before the first а disposed of. 
w disposed of the first and 
it must be 
remains to add a brief d description of C. X 
anum: the doreal sepal i inches 33 „лы — 
broad, whitish - yellow, with seventeen nin 
purple-brown lines. Petala рин 
slong, and the foi of the 
wthe influence of the other species. 
at т come from 
it is a most interesting Lum for there can be little 
doubt вв to its parentage. 
THE ROSARY. 
THE MULCHED ROSE-GARDEN. 
" 5 eee 
. 22 z 
(champion 
ay ultare can be easily got rid of ўч well manur- 
ниди -— - pig, cow, or horse-dung i in а rotten 
conditio 
b 
ө 
applied, sales the soil ‘be of. pi a. retentive nature, 
when half-decayed manure may be applied. This 
should be dug in after the spring-pruning is finished, 
and not А! гн about the plants, but all over the 
тооба are compelled (as 
yr tee for it away "sem hs * 
the т ааа 6 ше extra degree of 
THE GARDENERS’ 
only 
ong, purplish, 8 „ 
t 
in ridges or heaps, and some more manure 
spread over the roots, but not in contact 
with them, the soil being immediately returned over 
le ooking with a rake. 
applied, it is soon deod 
contact with the soil, and especially if the latter be 
dry. Te reover, there is no straw and litter va 
or blew about the — 
e, Th 
when applying strong liquid ; it is better to 
draw drills with the hoe, pour the аша into these, 
and close them in again. a method which 
the Chinese a, adopt, * recta any ideas = 
the cleanliness of the practice, which is far fro 
them, but because they have found out the utility t 
shutting up the fertilise he earth, instead of 
letting it lose its he opt as it would do, by expo- 
Voidings ot animals of nearly all kinds and 
0 be 30 » niei in little drills, and 
rendered innocuous, as well as useful, as plant- 
foods. The method is N to any kind o 
gardening in petto: as, for instance, to Dahlias, 
Hollyhocks, Aimer inp Pansies, herbaceous peren- 
nials, vegetables of all kinds, fruit-trees, Tomatos, 
and Strawberry-plants. In regard to salads and 
Strawberries, 16 is а method of application that 
seems eminently desirable, as, by careful use, the 
manure, whether liquid or solid, need not touch any 
part of the planta, 
Whatever be done in the way of manuring Rose- 
beds, it will not do for the cultivator to neglect the 
stirring of the soil with the Datch-hoe he hoe 
should always be run through a edo ‘after — 
which cake the surface, “ү ina general way, onc 
in a fortnight or three wee! 
FUNGUS ON FLIES, AND 
PLANT-LICE. 
ECIAL interest attaches 
tag whioh m M 
to those species of 
— on account of the 
e been made in inoculating 
vocem анч ave been sufficiently repeated 
species belong has been called the 
ion and the prodaction of zygo- 
ormer times, and for a long while, 
the o was the 
PNE which attacked houae-flies in the autumn, and 
fix ed them in death to t the window pane, Оа the 
but at the present time not fewer than forty or fifty 
species have been described, of h one has this 
summer been detected at work upon myriads i 
in the Midland eounti Roos or, 
fy- moalds has been very 
t by a series of Ppp e 
8, = wie е embodied in a Monograph, 
ed ss Professor Taner, in a United States, 
e e hey ми and absorb the whole internal 
economy of the insects, and then the conidia appear 
like a € or misa die mass on the surface of the 
inte, g а little in mode according to the 
The eee - airs ished b: 
production of internal 8 Ж 
е is another which termi- 
MER in the Pues fi of thick-walled resting 
CHRONICLE. 
. 0 
[$кртЕмвив 7, 1895, 
spores, which may be either sexually p 
8, or asexual and 
w 
© 
pear to pr After the erminatiy 
thread enters the body of the insect, it grows 
and produces “hyphal bodies of variable — 
when mature, is ruptur and the conidium jy 
ejected to а considerable distance. The 
themselves vary in form and sizə in the diferen 
species, but are mostly hyali heir 
contain fatty globules. The discharged spore adheres 
host, it then forms a secondary conidium, and make 
another effort at dispersion. If the second conidium 
fails, à third may be formed from the second ina - 
similar manner to that in which the second wu - 
produced from the first. 
The “hyphal bodies” already referred to as pro- 
ducing conidia-bearers, may also be concerned it 
the production of resting-spores, «ок with or with 
host, Asexul 
cell walls N three layers. “aioe all E 
zygospores,* are produced as a result of . 
tion of opposite threads, by a method pen remind 
one of the conjugation of the 3 1 
t 
house during 1886. М 
decided check to the multiplication of the тее 
yet did not spread with sufficient тар . [ 
^ smoki ing" unnecessary. Au 3i 
“in one case he observed a ; 
20 feet high, completely covered with I 
were killed off by this fangus in about (WO 
the affected b ME fastened to the 
very common occurren псе, 
тат 
consequently the rar 
diseased insects, in order to P 
E also о Vegetable Wasps апі Чы Ium и! 
v 
