178 THE 
‘GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Aucusr 8, 1874, 
lected in favour of end- 
There are several other 
es the foregoing—chi- 
with Laurel-like foliage, not 
m, with trilobate 
leaves, nat of Japan, and the cae or both, 
probably reel in the A W B. A. 
North America h 
THE * e atanan Aan Tai 
THIs is one s hie most interesting and probably 
bers of the family of Cucurbitaceze, = 
use 
pra bat little known. ourd it 
y of a place in every garden, whether pee raniSA 
Sa its graceful and handsome agg Y so striking | to 
the eye, its flowers of rich colour, 
The Bonnet Gourd Sarge sp. 3 is a most rampant 
na ? 
in diamet covered with short bristles, the upper 
portion Pe the leaf smooth, and lighter coloured 
The plant has axillary flowers, in long spikes or 
ricemes, with male and female flowerson the sam 
spike of a deep rich chrome-yellow, 34 to 4 inches in 
diameter, with a five-parted calyx and five obovate 
these gradually swell o al 
thirds or three-fourths of its length, pea on 
a toa point. argest dia iameter is from 44 to 
mh When in an unripe state the colour o tthe 
b 
eh is a dark green, but ag it e ee 
hen 
changes lowish green, 
fully ripe it somewhat varies in eveni like the 
pa wn Hubbard Squash, and may often be 
found with well-marked white When grown 
e the fruit ee of a 
writing- 
eculiar 
single 
plant. In its 
thin brittle shell, re Soe thinker: than comm 
the. in terior being nposed of pee 
quite fleshy. u 
‘two to three hundred being found in a OS frui = 
and keep for a pee of years, 
upa use of this Gourd 
brane 
pa hag nal near it derived the name or 
synonyme, ‘ Dishclout Gourd.” 
For any it cannot be excelled, as 
a a 
or hair 
posed manure. acta is ager are 
seeking its own moisture below the surface. It needs 
_ Plenty of moist mally greens cimmervetnrs 
or pots, but requires no t gt g 
or sods green about 
its roots. 
re res in a hot-bed 
stood t 
must be 
as early as poe i in the Spring, | where it can remain 
till warm weather and the "i the sun effects 
vegetation, when $t can be shifted t its pehinin 
place in the garden, and kept well waters and pro- 
tected from the rays of paha DA e firmly rooted and 
It must be plan a fence, w 
n 
on 
. 
EL ou rd p 
ntil it throws out its strong lateral 
oots, when it can be surround ith 3 
growth by plenty of water and manure. The pla = 
ends up one main h which at attains 14 inch 
in diameter, ane a this spread out from ten to 
twenty lateral bra 
The sam B insect oahich attack p hipe and 
Squash vines in weg? this Gourd, should 
. natura en, though sulphur paira lightly 
over it will rid it of the troublesome 
it ripens in September 
a g more oer Gourd could be in 
du into ns for summer foliage, while in the 
conservatory it wou ould even grow to greater advan- 
age, and become a beautiful and curious climber, and 
perpetual in growth. IF. 
PERIODIC PHENOMENA. 
The following Report to the Meteorological sone 
has been prepared by R. McLachlan, F. L.S. 
the insects proper to ia 
awa dgmi 
abera in connection ah 
fer with a com- 
with seasonal Som cca temperature, &e., I ex 
to submit my sugges 
At the outset it “ke me that the list ought to be 
as short as s possible, and that results equally valuable 
could b sp cies, 
as of many ; and practically more valuable, because 
the deana cy yom would be more concentrated. 
Furthermore, I thought : highly me ae ae 
these few specii should am 
should be left to 
at en enid par- 
ticular species that 1 mend ren n particu- 
lar e for observation ; it Eak under- 
any addition to (or modificatio Ed] the list, 
rigidly adhered to, and net year by 
As the of most so greatly depends 
upon the state of the vane: oe Tndependenty of actual 
mperature, it is desirable that the 
notes 
chocera hiemake ares winter g nat). In 
where the slightest doubt pa in the Tain of the 
he species, specimens of the 
the record, 
appearance of m particular 
species Antis noted, as also o the time 
er is 
that th 1 otra be Sesetepes D before the 
main body of individuals that pass through their trans- 
formations out-of-doors. 
i on the rs here follow :— 
appearance o cockchafer may be taken as 
an indication of the near po net 
_ The fern-chafer is a beetle 
appearance, but very much smaller. It flies in 
summer has fairly 
Thee heuey-bee need not not be observed after the end 
phere gr fibres the end : end of October in 
„butterflies ‘need only be 
; wt Be ways 
hibernated 
ap fa Bing ni fag bine Benen 
Brig tg i aa stmt 
butterfly may be taken as | t 
—_ ag ¢t 
indicating summer, 
bare Mark’s fly isa large, peng tn: 
insect with rather | 
lees mon St. Mark’s Day ( (A y eg nc and ‘son eae a for 
a very 
The vincscuk dances in the air (singly or in little 
Lc, 
swarms) throughout the winter, exce ting during 
hardest frosts. A continuous rec a ; = 
is well-known that yax insects appea casionally 
in igre num a € comparatively 
rare, or disappea alto opether, series of 
THE FARM. 
WHEAT SowING.—No sooner is the Wheat harvest 
of the year ingathered than the farmer begins to o pre- 
pare for the next year’s crop, and it is because we 
think the earlier this is done the better that we now 
offer a few notes upon the easi 
Wheat gro be uccessful, depends mainly 
upon the following ‘saints 62) Timely preparation 
of the soil; (2) choice of seed ; and (3) a moderately 
hin sowing. 
I. Asa rule early sown Wheats turn out best, and 
in the colder parts of our island ploughing for the 
future crop of Wheat i if possible, precede the 
harvesting of the present o 
however, ‘Usd work suis al k 
oj poose; to early ane as the 
land Fag wa og or ard, or wet and cling- 
ing, but when the farmer can Testr all the con- 
ditions ats for the best Wheat : oe Sep- 
the best month for getting in the seed, 
6 heretics as the small farmer has his holding 
ore aeai com mand he ought to e best 
Wheat 3 
ag 
That 
rm, and so 
tillering, and then he puts in a quantity of, it n be, 
t 
a poor seed ; and the es is that one Whea 
of time for the phat development of the crop j 
enervated and disea: A 
EON that the best seedoy 
e ch Iı n a en holdisdg we 
should plant the pedigre so cleverly 
ent ppap oy! Major alee and for foe 
a fine bold seed, all alike, each seed the most 
i true to sort. No 
cost, fe, can be too much where such care is taken; 
a fact will come out sr the stronger from the 
w 
consideration of the next poin 
3. The gen ing E Wheat throughout 
England is a the rate of eos 6 to8 pecks an acre, 
usually this ows 7 inches apart. Now 
» large sik we Maronia 4 pecks, albeit 2 pecks 
oo much, but birds and insects 
ey 
Having tried exp ts with Wheat drilled at 7 
and at 10 inches a) se: deeiledip. peeks the Laan 
During last ed a gee of Golden- 
drop ` the. rate of 4 o the acre, 10 
inches in the rows. It was ons — Bi 
insects, t for all that we are enabled to 
remaining tillered out in a remark s 
d the ears are now considerably longer than those 
in the rest of the fi oser. Having taken 
one bunch, all ved from a single seed, we 
is, 
does not tiller to any extent, but comes up in from 
two to piian weakly stal bearing 
and in this case 
o to corn direct relation to the 
m seedi owever, we are to be 
oroughly successful with thin sowing ; F 
ti y, early sowing, good seed, a 
equable and thin-distribution thereof—will be neces- 
A been told, and, indeed, we 
ex in seeding often results in mil- 
circumstances, 
ae e ae he has a co tah md e 
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