AVGUST 8 1874-] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
175 
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in those of the Viticella section ; 
Hawthorn-like. Sep 
„4—1 inc 
fragran 
bit and flowers, being a tea Flammula in 
Seid aod leafage. 7. M. 
April 4, for introductions, and to e 
and continue. als of 
ai Sinanay, the Toth 
— Mr. 
is about to undertake a series. 
fi 
attention to 
gib 
ers e will - don 
kindly 
they cultivate, “together with specimens of the 
ves and flowe 
open to all nations, an 
Pomologists will hold its ee at the same time. 
n is a mass right yellow aR 
a tative is pes gi is ae Me 
ch a 
Wis e-flowe Bot 
om of Mr. 
well-kno 
ON APHIDES. 
chap for the Rose cultivator bi look y 
ofan 
init m 
n appea 
8 fully 
as ade e by makin 
pga 
ow 
plants in 
l 
be the case Ganin, but w 
cannot 
which 
and the vast numbe 
—— the se o 
Teturn for the d damage they have done to our floral 
e 
rs acquired in a very 
its 
e last meeting of the Imperial oe 
6t eee wi be pn menced, 
pleas ag 
eee the State. theatre: &e,— 
HEMSLEY, Herbarium, Royal 
of 
the Musacez, 
eraceze— groups whic ich greatly 
n. Good se 
se plan s will 
EMSLEY with lists of the speaks 
eir 
e POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE will 
has smaller mie 
l 
abs Ber- for borders, and : wr not so well-known 
‘The Enri Agriculturist prre the 
OLM, the Terere ~a 
and florist, of Newark, Rew ats 
a native of Lux uxemburg, and pr ith b his 
th from an accident. 
well to all my 
mes but T I doubt ne we have on game our revenge 
them 
us 
aphis, or pa louse, biagi to s order 
e and th tieg larg 
say ; certain it is that 
which 
brief period, are wonderful : the plants in a whole 
field of ger: will appear to be covered in a few 
t 
he first genial dips Ae 
forth, not the perfect-winged form 
well-known w 
t the ingless for ich is so 
familiar to usall. This outa fertile 1 aad lores 
aie 
ich i 
on by interna al gemmation on, “the Yoliiy ‘one being pro- 
duced alive, and di ize. 
which have not reproduced themselves pass, by m 
senaman into the nieza: g, oo and euinles, 
for t inge e, aara pafi, pro- 
duce the eggs which are to be haich din the ensuing 
spring, after which the summer 
numbers com piès their eonan mesem and appear 
as winged insects. val form which will 
and 
see ra probable that 
although winged insects are pro aa during th 
mer, it is not till the autumn he perfect 
age are pins Fs ced ; all the cobs pirs females 
which I have kept, either alone or under the same 
shade with tie w winged form just “mentioned, having 
increased rapidly in the usual way, a no instance 
hing a is very differen 
der the magnilying 
of mekt observed wh in La kag oe kingdom 
f 
in the c the oe iM baa 
ojis TF spores, W » falling i dato e gro 
uce the note ein Th er iA neve 
ecomes a Fern, but on it ar ened true gene- 
producing the generative or 
The Echinoderms, &c., Siir other variations 
n thus de- 
e pheno onto 
cribes the fertile nurse-form the way i 
is illustrated by t ** By fertile nurse-for; 
is to be understood an organism which becomes fertile 
east befor 
r: a an 
without ever attainin 4 or a 
attained, the perfect form due to its species, 
n simple m srictamoephosis, it 2 one and the same 
individual o m that all the dei re 
from Mi form which it wears be: leaving the 
ich i s on riser the palkkion 
belonging to its species ; ; but in of a fertile 
urse-form, i eneral aly ae te se forms which 
typ , likewise, in simple concurrent repro 
tion, it is d the same organism that exerts both 
the culty 
tion ; nt of fertile 
nurse-forms, it is seldo p both ; b 
if the nurse en with the one, its offsp 
will be endowed with the other.” he Beginning 
s its How, pp. 242, 243.) It someti 
e nurse acquires the power of s 
generation, also at the share? passes through m 
rm, ei milar or diverse, Before 
-form 
attaining the perfect fori of the species. Inthe aphis 
s found one of the most decided eres of the 
fertile n Se ieii (and one which it is very easy to 
study), the eregin females standing in that relation 
to the perfect in 
These poue ‘females, as has been said before, re- 
PETA pe bud falling into 
a proper n the par , and being 
produced alive, ay like its Sarent: except i in size ; 
each fe cing from Mir Le 
y rapidly do they piesa 
S 
tas Susettated that from one individual ‘hare might 
descended, under favourable circumstances, the 
ge oma number of 4000 illions in a single s ummer. 
not for its many enemies, the increase of 
Wer 
the aphides ae be beyond all pounds; but, fortu: 
ly for us, its enemies are very n 
pran mame “i umbers, but the larvæ a the ladybird, 
te, 
feeding exclusi ively on 
wholesale, extracting 
me, paa of the beautiful lace-wing fly des roys 
mbers, as ste also that of the various pa 
of Syrphidec In 
great numbers. The sae hi airy in count 
of their unsightly 
arvæ cleared the aphides from t in my 
garden was truly astonishi lusters of curious 
P areas eggs gorges by the lace-wing fly were 
the perfect insects, than wh 
sidthing can 4° inira more delicate and beautiful 
or a eater contrast to its larva, whic rom its 
voracity, has been named the aphis lio 
Another foe is a small species of sydney: which 
deposits its eggs in the body of ee fas ge the larvee 
feeding upon its soft parts. The n and swollen 
skins of the insects thus tured’ may fied uently be 
seen, and, if p 
box, the remit 
ed by themselv wit a a glass t opped 
ittle ichneumons will soon burst 
on and reveal a sual of | the death 
nother curious is chapter in the history of 
the per is which i is worthy of notice. It is the unfair 
treatment which it receives at the hands, or aa enne, 
of the ants, Linnzus calls the aphis the ants’ 
“cow,” and the use to which this oats little 
insect Stree it fully justifies Ae term. Theaphides 
ccharine fluids, which is very attractive to 
nd forms in so e most their only food. 
d m rspreading the wary of 
fl may be 
plants infested = these Dicta till they have 
been wa shed with 
only do ts consume the fluid voluntarily ejected 
by the aphides, but by a peculiar movemen heir 
ntennz he b of their ‘‘ cows,” excit 
m to an increased spay 
beet called ‘‘ milkin But even this is 
ch some ants, particularly 
the yellow ant (F. flava), convey the aphides to their 
ests, a th for the supply of their 
nests, an 
necessities. The ye 
feeding species of aphis (A, radicu 
off its eggs, which are tended wake 
si ituations fa avour. urable for their early development. 
rally unwelcome little creature. Selamet 
Foreign shakira 
QUEENSLAND (concluded from p. 148).— rext 
river north of the Johnstone is Aa Malgrave, wiih 
m 
at Cowrie. Point, 3 miles inside of the bar, receives 
the waters of a south branch, and also of the Russell 
iver. t southern side of the ent is a 
sandy a mile ength, and behind it sandy 
forest ground scantily covered with Bloodwood ( - 
lypt bosa), From here to the banks of 
e south branch there is a Mangrove swamp. At 
the southern end of the forest land, and close to the 
at the back of which the land is mostly of a sandy 
ter, is sparsely covered wi Eucaly tus, 
elaleuca, Pandanus, & bout the middle of this 
tract the large f fresh water. Between 
the forest ground and the Russell the land is nearly 
all th Mangroves, with the exception of 
about 3 acr owrie Point. This spot is some 
3 feet above > dalt-watet mark, or is surround ith 
M . e soil is of a sandy description, with 
a large admixture of decom 
The principal trees are D a ta, 
feet in height, and 3 to 4 feet in diameter; Card- 
sch Elz 
