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THE* GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 22, 1874, 
cently ; half the amount might possibly be 
sufficient to start with and to do it fairly well. 
“ The writer of this article was, not very long 
~ „ago, in some degree instru ore in setting on 
foot in one of the largest towns in Lancashire 
a small but successful show of the kind sug- 
ted, where the exhibitors were the children 
attending a Sunday school in 
A tea i 
invited to assemble on a stated day, and bring 
their plants with them, These were then 
arranged in order of merit, and prizes—consist- 
ing chiefly of books—were distributed among 
the children. Not only did the children bring 
the plants, but their friends, all poor people, 
came too; and a happier gathering was per- 
haps never brought together. This effort, com- 
iied quietly and unostentatiously, but carried 
on with intelligent perseverance, has already 
yielded good fruits, and its refining influence is 
growing greater and wider every year. The 
has been tried in many other towns, and 
nowhere without success.” Surely this, and 
more, may be done in other towns. 
New Garden Plants. 
PESCATOREA DAYANA, supra (1873, 575). 
There are four varieties. That which first flowered 
had green tips oa the Fall axe I obtained lately from 
Messrs, Veitch th rhoda ving purplish rose 
tips to the sould ind petals, and at the same time the 
var. idula, having se d petals quite white. 
‘h riety was sent by Mr. Bull... The 
var. splendens, with dark violet blot at R ip of 
the sepals and petals, ane ER, violet lip, has already 
been described. A 
g of all these varieties would 
be delightful. Æ. G. Roh Bf 
scien see aN Oe Mast.* "ig 47. pe 
cg Hay Columbia | 
have had the oppo 
i the Piet el of Messrs. Rollison, and, 
Wy an ‘differ in e pre- 
thos 
rAr diiil Su an ike deemed it, desirabie to 
on ae 
allude to the plant ag 
The 
ined 
ak Unde. eich 
name applied to it—butin Messrs. Rollis- 
lour 
gy 47 a above the the mem 
more 
Sae reviously descri ibed. ry Toa and 
aai nous corona itself is slightly prr 
cut atc. The o 
Fuari is shown in the 
a bat ribbed. In the ain Brabibiensit the le leaf 
= e mopot gomtibed ss not bilobed. 
4 1868, p. 1162, et in Flora Brasi- 
= ete 559, tab. 128, f. 3, 
plantations 
the harvest this year will be abundan 
have Ka recently seen a revival of that enthusiasm 
for t e Violet among the at ple party, which 
rea 
was 
prisoner in Elba m 
Thyme as been ‘adopted ; as the acer 
rem — of ‘* Ma The Daz 
of August 13 ith an interesting letter upon is 
Fr rance, in which this circum- 
New. 
pima rouge of Southern 
stance is thus alluded to 
‘t [The] votaries [of Marianne wear tufts of Thyme in 
The 
their hatbands or buttonholes. Thyme, which i 
to the highl of the ‘Red Country’ what short sweet 
s is to the En li s, has me the symbol 
ring a sprig at a municipal 
coun uncil, At the chambrées (or Republican ad held 
on a a in the ween the 
‘Ale and the Rhône, wil shga or Ferigoule i is used 
to festoon the ewashed The 
The same letter contains a note upon the use o 
Reeds in stapes the lint "i fields from the 
effects of the ra 
west win 
rise eed and up the Rhé s fi It 
verthrows, at times, even the largest trees, it is suffi- 
cient to blow a man from his horse, and vessels are 
E 
mistral whi ch had 
Sine blowing for three a 
had iteral shaved the face 
agai 
of the country, there being 
by 
re railways brought this of France into 
eigen with Lyons, Marseilles, and pit large towns, 
» on the wa a strip of 
Since then 
Bp 
he 
veero to the mistral, 
THE GRAPE PHYLLOXERA. 
(Continued from p. 21t. ) 
Type RADICICO R R NHABITING.—We 
oara seen that, in all probabili, Galiano exists 
the p ain S; Aa ea 
feeund 1 DS for Ra 
wo principa 
pe ar 
tinguish the m Gallæcola. In the development 
from this point the two forms are separable with suf- 
ficient ease : one, of a phd Bonar 
oem 7 oha fore-body and 
the , of a brighter yellow: 
ined more perfectly oval, and with the abdomen m 
truncated 
at 
t, or mother form, is the analogue of Gal- 
never an wings, and is oct 
mete a with the laying of 
and somew larger 
The eyes, which were qui 
larva, become Te simple with Sa 
an i s i 
Per the general x hen 
with ‘mai wherein 
shows the ai afinity of the species to sto the Coceides: a 
SS 
females of which, as they mature, generall l 
trace of bis members they possesse ed whee rishi, ae 
ond or more oval form is destined to become 
Q 
wor. off, y in the winged am 
invite fieithet ERRA nor granulation 
In the great spaiarity of insects the’ wi 
pupa are simply co 
being folded, and i 
in expanding, they u 
ag whole operation Seratitiiy but abou 
At first, an 
bos gnified, are seen to be 
vered with m oks, 
winged in aia are most abundant in August 
and September, Seet ax mar be found as an as July 1,7 
and until the e growing in fall, The 
Ph of rhe: = Tae with the eiee large, 
an e-or less elongate. The veins of the front 
Wiga are not connected, and, by virtue of the large 
« 
abdom body appears somewhat constricted 
behind the thorax. From to five eggs may in- 
variably be found in the abdomen of these, and are 
moun 
tr. 
nd dusky pènis-like ’protuber- 
lim sto ter, and the wi opor- 
tionately Bee and stouter, ve their veins connect- 
ing. _This shorter 
spermatozoa, and 
seem to have a Brownian movement, but are wi itha 
tails. 
This form has been looked upon as thè ma 
myself, Tadi: Lichtenstein, and others." Y 
fem r is be so, then the 
eggs must be laid before the insect arrives at maturity 
h improbable circumstance); for the charac- 
ot o be noticed in the 
pupa, ost as broad as long, with very — 
large mag ng pads am strong limbs ; pE the winged 
problema 
be any unity of habit and cha- 
racter among the species of the genus. Balbiani has 
the curious „in the develop- 
ment of ia oxera quercus, that ged indi- 
int 
= ch are male, except in size, 
etsy i idles Goan tut h CAN only in having a small 
conical tubercle, which serves as a sexual 
Coitus lasts but a few minu the same male 
may serve several a Tor or five days after 
pains VAcadimie des Sciences, Paris, 18573 
