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— In 
(Paris, Rohanin we have a m 
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: bent upon, at possible demolishing the 
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mostly profuse era constant bloomers, can scarcely be 
pruned too closely—from ar to three eyes on each shoot, 
vigour, will ensure an 
_ . abundance of good flowers” 
d the thinning out of super- 
ormant eyes to push i rowth, 
in which state they are liable to be more or less injured 
by subsequent frosts. 
“Finally, pruning should be regulated not only by the 
habit of the variety, but also by the o 
show Roses or large flowers 
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should be thinned out more freely, d tł shoots 
shortened closer than when masses of flowers are 
desire 
—— M. Rothschild (Paris) has issued a small 
volume entitled * Zes Plantes Medicinales 
ndfor 
Merton. Setting apart the style, the information 
given is abundant and good of its kind. 
— nical Tables for the Use rA Dan oe 
piled by E Edward Aveling (London n, Adam 
& Co.) This consists ofa series Of ee aada r Ae 
a guide to students, deed may prove use- 
ful to them, as similar tables are given 
most ern text-books, it is difficult to see for what 
The frat of Typ shaceze is gg as a “drupe,” 
which hardly applies to Typ 
s Roses, by H. —_ and E. Forney 
not speak so 
Duchess ‘of riae and has a preface from the 
n of M. Naudin. subject- pitter eb 
sections on the history of the Rose, its differe 
rieti 
c 
favourable notice of Teom rs. 
Forestry. k 
_ SUPPO ORT v, RESTRAINT, IN CONNECTION WITH 
I sent you a 
vets 
aah at the 
mistaken ideas, if second regardin; s thie 
future well-being of the trees Bete taken into considera- 
nd as as present 
a too wholesale restraint, m mind is 
stronger stakes uae eA 
as 
' proceed to grow, with a like view. “Ehe fact 
that trees do not need stake su eE Ast 
| way.:In 
‘this en beta 
and-ink sketch. Fig. 4 represents a young tree that 
oe received the aid of a pliable stake alone, during 
e interval since last transplanted, about four years ; 
fi, 5 exhibits fiyn en njoying precisely 
soz advanta 
that ee bait supported for a like perio od 
by a SREI TUSE sized stake, as is the universal 
practice of the day. The conse 
glance. The tree must e be mn 
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FIG, 4.—TREE PROPERLY STAKED, 
injury from wind or rain storms, or—and it 
barbarous practice—the top must be “li pai a 2 ee, 
in other werds, much of its head must be cutaway. If 
“ay doubt these f facts XG have ony elt pay a yaa to 
oy 
ue of 
ent ey may pe a teh r attention to 
objects one home, such, for AnaS, as plants 
FIG. 5.—TREE IMPROPERLY STAKED. 
that may vein forced, perhaps out ‘af character, 
to do the duty of creep ers or wall-train 
any or all of which 
snd | Sly wpe i il erase ficial kinds of 
upon arti 
placing stakes to t 
a short distance 
ed trees, 
show most pedals iar es 
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cease to build up that Amy f za : 
support forced ; 
Natural History. 
How TO BREED Cossus LIGNIPERDA.—Your 
pit nt **O.,” acco to anoteat p. 731 (vol | ij, 
1874), has never been su fulin b; ing - 
niperda. Thisis notat all difficult if full-grown larvæ 
n rag agen h obably taken for the 
oon is what I term the winter nest, in- which-the 
creature rests dormant during that season—at least, so 
my own o n goes I bred 
i Early in spring they come oùt of this nest 
and commence feed ewi 
o e the trees that it most affects, so 
I have oben, are © neon: and although 
they generally infest the base of the 
it is time for the 
empty 
chrysalis cases sticking out fret the inside ge i an old 
hollow Ash tree. W. 
Ivy Coccus.—The Coccus rs the Ivy is at eae 
very noticeable in such region pe fa atid: 
her wikpped,<t 
its matte s contrast to the Ivy leaves on which it 
ced. 
A In the course of the latter part of the winter the 
scale was observable in quantities on the und 
side of the Ivy leaves in Torquay, w 
overhung dük: naturally ced, and 
was also to be found aein : i situated, but 
after careful search I have n n able to find 
T 
ou e cocci w o be se 
great numbers on the Ivy as rather ‘flat oblong’ sales, 
about the eighth ee Sm inch in length, 
colour _ white o and som 
with the contained tice so. far developed as to be 
nt fom th the guarding pellicle, though not yet 
Il 
rom various circumstances I did ptem make further 
observations as to the progress of di 
June e Fae when the large white cocoons 
or pyriform masses of cotton wool attracted attention. 
their | mply ap 
head 
of the c y gradually pressing | Jowai 16 
make room for the increasing mass of hundreds of pale 
oblong greenish yellow eggs, till, her task completed, 
the shri 
mother coccus usually s vels into a hard mass 
fixed in the opening of the cocoon, which her pressure 
h e; but occasionally the dead scale fallin 
away ol the white cottony flocculent mass, with its 
1, iding on the leaf like a r 
white ‘hort sock from which the foot has been 
sufficient power of movement 
replace itself ise when taken fom it cocoon o steal, at 
the spot to which it had been 
moved. r 
M Some ofthe Twy leaves at the beg 
retain the flat scales a 
and which wpa attention by ' 
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