THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE, 
[JULY 17, 1875. 
Carnations, реа Cloves, and Pinks in 
n up after 
d 
flowe 
ngs can be so selected as that É give a 
ion of hues of the most pleasing chara 
mixed border must be kep 
о give it an — ap nce, an 
the edging, whether of grass 
neatly clipped. 
desirous 
2. как good soi 
a little mound, and this exercises a bene 
by this simple p 
Cu: ыл ан fine жел ES 
plants are so invaluable for flowering 
in pots in a 
uring the autumn, that t they are in 
foren y valuable from the fact that they 
additional 
will do well in » cold house, destitute of any heating 
apparatus. t go a step farther, and say 
that this is i Mes aed sania, i i the 
inasmuch as it is 
by frost before it has had rro ане а 
develop its flowers. 
ur C themums, intended for indoor decora 
Pan in the autumn, are now in 32-sized pots, and 
A ‘plants, with 
freely watered at least twice a day, w. er 
is dry and sunny. Now is a somewhat critical time, 
because if the being in 
pots which are roots, to dry at 
the roots, the 1 ow and drop off. 
, it is of the utmost im that 
kept watered. 
plants be w 
All plants of large-flowering Chrysanthemums in- 
tended for specimens should be shifted at once into 
their booming Fie toil the um er size is about 10 inches 
in diameter. should be rich, but 
on a layer of ashes to co 
 CLEMATISES ON PoLes.—We have so beautiful 
this mod some a beautiful 
plants, about sixteen number, 
rapidly —— into flow The strong shoots are 
tied to the poles till dy ‘reach the top. kend are 
then securely fastened to a = eem into the top of 
wards if they 
charming appearance, and, by mulching the re 
with dung, and voe them well ym red in dry 
bee er, we get d rs v ne ete 
Jackmanni, rubella, бее, Star = ndi Prince 
of Wales, Lady Bovill, 4 Thomas Moo: 
se 
la pipere о keep the leading sh securely 
ti and by imber A them over the 
eher of the plants flowers are had almost from 
the base to the top. mode = culture is very 
suitable to small Pim. the oem 
view. 
egree satisfactory from the дейсе pt о 
Natural History. 
CRIOCERIS ASPARAGI, — The 
(Crioceris As i, or Cross-bearer, to borrow the 
fanciful but descriptive name given ‘by our French 
neighbours) is now appearing, and, if injurious to any 
important ae should now be attended to, 
ut half an inch in length, oblong 
eneral observation of a dark blue-green 
red ing-cases eie 
beetle 
with a dark — cross bars o 
an ochreous ground, the edges of the elytra ofa bright 
testaceous red, and later in the year it may possibly 
gain some protection from attack by the resemblance 
of its tints (just at a glance) to the injured berries of 
the Asparagus. It is an uncertain visitor, some- 
times being missing from its most favouri 
and again appearing in great — 
third week in June I noticed it in so 
the Asparagus in my garden near емен moving 
slowly about the plants or stationary with the antennze 
but its appearance is very soon followed by that of its 
me and the plants are now sprinkled with the 
rvz of various a 
of an 
and appe They are for the most part fixed on 
the dir Toy of the M ns of the wen tale or the 
er leaves, sometimes in little rows of about four, 
but frequently only € а as far as I have seen, the 
row is ys soli even if there are only two 
ith 
exterity, so as to 
poor ofthe lava jm 
behind the — legs, so p the grub 
hump-backed appearance, especiall 
whilst in motion, when the use of the caudal foot in 
walking gives an incurved form to e posterior 
larvæ 
siderable quantity of brownish fluid from the Maat 
but swallow it in with apparent eagerness 
rapid movements of the зе PES the ЕЕЕ 
oft their grow 
tough and жел үл AE мү ind within tis t e ther Е 
to = white pupa, whic in position 
stage I have not had opportunity of noticing my- 
ak but it is given by Curtis as а 
weeks, when the ect C from the 
move at once in the 
The front 
B s 
ent 
y all men me — 
the damage, where I have "it is us, as 
far as the general health of ‘the vient i is concerne 
Where the larvze very numerous, or Азра 
grown , the at on the болаи 
stems or blossom buds are a more important matter, 
How this is to be managed practically on any large 
scale is i a difficulty, The ‘beetles 5 may be shaken | from 
possible to spread anything to catch them between the 
зна s, and if left on edere ete the rapid 
powers of ‘nation they possess, when disposed to 
make use} of them, would mem them in a 
minutes to their former positio 
е to hold 
ull and if a ed dose is 
ith a little salt on the fingers, -— es € 
TET 
y Men. say Агы salt 
should be injurious to the foliage, soot similari ly used 
"M ка as serviceable ; but, prm T T 
appears in great quantities, its 
iced: than any common remedy in 
sd ear handli 
the tender shoots, Ww ng 
Apiary. 
FLY-AWAY SWARMS,—It will have been observ 
by most masters ng experience, that there are 
ese 
covered roof, such places being more their natural 
habitation than the artificially made hive, Whether 
the incentive mood for migration to a distan y 
owing to any peculiarities i in the state of the weather 
about the time of swarming is not easily ascertained ; 
certain it is, however, that it is not always the 
warmest seasons that they m for a long flight ; and 
occasionally a lapse of several years wi 
without any attempt being made. 
swarms started out of the gardens here, to reach their 
ed out homes, but were quickly followed and 
arrested by getting fairly in front of the swarms 
firing off a fe of powder, which foiled -— 
in their on urse, and they soon settled o 
branches of the peice trees, were hived, and tonsil 
is asserted some bee authors 
of new settlement is looked out and ided 
upon by a small search . And it is these 
same bees which lead and uct the нт в: 
common! use of qe our Ё wet sm an 
adopted in eom qn and different parts of the kingdom, 
was to prevent the fugitive party and 
thereby ca the tle near home, "== 
-away swarm takes is inva- 
riably over houses, 
trees, or oyining that may be in the way. My 
practice  whenev is reported to be 
oming off, is to provido myself with a gun, powder, 
caps, so p Mam for oe chase 
should it he nec as it is the 
tend to be o а forward, | oni, before бей firing, 1 
get fairly ahead of the | leadin t may not stop 
once, especially if there are not trees or bushes 
ed i tion they were 
f either settle soon or go back, Shoot- 
ing in the midst of a swarm is of no use whatever, 
t 
ope it is a nag Sad $ knowledge of 
is parti int—viz., the ing or getting 
ell in fro ir P8 x 
g 
and to give lakna of the same = a very eariy 
V^ by my father, who was 
ve ever since ta nd [pen in them, 
especially at swarming fimi: a although I prefer 
I take off arti ones porii arm 
As my method is a pros son, bre from the 
others, I will here ain 
