———— 
How it does ‘so I cannot preten 
Avausr 4, 1860.) 
THE GARDENERS’ OHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
were equally rotten Occa- 
tiag 
AEE 
wood and w 
sionally under less trying cireumstances, os 'sap- -wood 
the bark would not run; and hence after centuries, and 
after the ears of the others, it 
whilst the appears sound ; n the latter there 
js still the “latent disposition cage ito ma aan itself 
lac odit in a, situation favourable “nd 
d 
becomes extremely hard; and i some cases, where 
à j Sait 
Miller, in his “ Gardeners’ Dictionary,” Sth edition, 
1768, the leat which he himself w ge ‘a ga yag 
judicious remarks under the. head o: and a 
may pr i 
711 
gills are ventricose, ascending, attached to the stem 
and of a blackish grey colour, mottled with n dark 
presi É black spore: The border of the pileus when 
e veil adhering 
i ents of 
io it which are often pe eToro in the a ntre, so tha 
n | th he whole lo oks like a little lace-edgin 
g to the pileu 
A. fimiputris, which it Adie 
resembles by its pruinosa not sm ooth s m, and the 
be; 
5 which is of so e „con- 
any 
_ This species belongs to the division Copri inarii, dis- 
but all oth on the season. “Few persons 
Atih 2 
autumn or 
ees of the 
vv df of ine yar n e tree i is cut, 
g | easi iy peel off 7 
wh ich is that of cutting down t the Oaks 
spring a ae ta at the time when the sap is etry 
he pet are 
uished by the deep hue of the spores, in which 
the species which it comprises resemble 
the Coprini, differing from them pri neipally in weed 
‘This s is for the sake of ‘the bark, which will then 
aud for the sake of this I think there is is | 
d to cut dow 
havi ag 
as ats 9 A are often called antheridia, though without 
y SO jrin the vet r is 
the at whi ch is fallen in the 
gely devel pe ar 
etirugis resembles very clos 
tha 
errs ws A. 
external ho tg pen s has p tAn Aoa 
ET 
pi> 5 
a 
io) 
ships 
ia 4 7 
a Reakpeenehy phere by the 
tte ketchup dealers morn the 
whether in antad: mn o a sprin 
Ba 
be what i is ter rmed í ful tt peter thorann, be 
years ; than others which were ioen wi th timber cut oe 
hich occasions the difference in the 
And this our neighbours | 
+h Wy A +h 
name of Changi gnons; but it i no other merit than 
that of producing a dark brown fluid which m be 
Tt i ometimes 
change which 
of the sap in 
„Says that great 
Ov 
, | to be rable 
any trees which have tok ee peeled.” 
Im ark 
stewed with other species, but whether accidents € 
ordered 3 vgs fark sont w taken off the trees 
rop 
that w rien l itten | 
This and some other allied species are very apt ing 
come up in Hare beds, especially pr i are 
mio wit vty a ee spaw If so they should be 
arefully re oved as soon as they appea os pe by no 
is thendoluhwi obably the best | 1 
1eans be allowed to shed heir vo es, bo are Te 
and mi ‘ove 
Mill ed Da mel, pr 
is eth avenue of the pib I 
Gén énéral and per erhaps t to this ¢ circumstance 
daai re Ati 
bably very rapid i in their Ar aii 
Mushroom Seat 
„In a damp cold season like the present, with little 
for this fluid in the Sycamore has been n prove ed t 
m sensibly sweet in its progress from the 
Cepurus. 
wounded bark of the same tree isalso sweet ; but I hav 
never been able to detect the slightest degree of sweet. | 
ess i in winter. 
MYCOLOGY.—No. 
AGARIC S RETIRU! aii Batsch.— 
common. i this in ri 
¢| itself, or on dung. very un- | 
putrefastion i er ae aoa on trees os iMi 
had w: viths stood ver, 5 severe frosts i in winter have been 
attractive species, though few will ‘bet en repay an 
attentive examination. 
war as l regards duration, compared with English ships. | 
m 
ecies are more | Deve 
t sun- ‘Tight, it is very ot great that in many 
ens where everything i usted to | 
the h 
| thee there will to a useful cr 
September and October, which will amply repay the 
he pileus when young varies from subglobose to| 
egee at sash usually hot | °° oe and when expanded is sometimes hemispherical, 
oka for sos ori aieo... Tvor Survon þat more frequently campanulate, and of a pallid 
k, from the extremities of the branches to the beh ci p face er greatly in the same 
roots up. Sometimes it is perfectly smooth an 
grias ral eolour was gip ged D si wn by. =m d minutely cracked into little rectang patehes, 
sour putri ~ oi ever positively viscid ; sometimes on the contrary | 
= Aara Such also is the case in E | it is netted with minute pits or wrinkles, vis oie to the 
ined 
distance bg ans wound, 
tump is the result of the mely 
no confined to "ia 
vessels ar 
ion: 
with fresh wood, within which the dead 
and aet moore a cavity containing only t 
what once sound wood. 
m w tated it wi I, T think, be ad- 
d that in spring iy sap 0 of timber trees is in a 
into a atáto of fermentation 
poremetio and hat’ it oe acts very injuriously | 
th the wood. es evident from the po addı 
mat g- on 
woody fibre is perhaps somewhat an oat hat of 
yeast on flour. In fact, between the elements ‘of bed 
intter and those of woody fibre there is chemically 
little difference. 
may fhe however S sigma 
its presence i y completel, t rid 
ing; and although it pervades the tree AeL aer 
ges i entirely deprived of ture. 
is is perfectly true as regards the watery portion of 
the sap, Dx bpt x ae. o, eans y ion of 
ae in the remain 
T n to the flow of 
kills the inner bark eae 
and a 
Boag 
Sap may n 
a pai in the tissues, ready to become 
on the first accession ie moisture, and to 
its injurious acti ion o the substance of the 
as y 
, time +i, ee aot for use 
timber 
on, an 
peang bya a good judge of 
under 
s to its 
is hollow, rufous within, tiv aa: 
eous. o; ASEAN ithont and pisoteo eA 
bd 
ae night torcagh fh ‘the 1 latter 
A 
upon plants 
| loss of the Cucumbers and Melons. M. J. B. 
ag ia CRICKETS. 
eg gg e the habits of a sin 
i in this country the 
account of its habits given in the third annual report of our 
iend upon the noxious insects found in State of 
ew Lp my baer to i w. tee st. ci 
, to ect pert: 
was Snr d by Serville upon a sp common, athe 
south of Europe, named plc by a Sl for spe- 
| fen Age gra 3 insect w e three 3 
generic w it! 'uropean ree species 
in the United States, which are "hat, Tittle known, 
go past 
ter part oi 
differ RERNE, oth 
“the eatin of Latreille that they dw: 
d are pleased with flowers, ap, Lies wi 
wet ha our American svete w. 
y be met wit 
ne of ae Golden Ao, (Solidago), pa in A 
have noi aae 04 
being so senate enemy on 
statement 
h in autumn quite comm: n apea 
ugust 
ticed them o) several individua 
It was from 
A Eis. 
EPE EESE 
of Latreille that "Serville gave the gener 
no flov 
dan Aas reside 
m two Greek words, implying “I dwell in 1 flowers.” 
fro. 
| But any situation where the foliage is de’ saat furnishing 
| them a cool shady hiding-place, appear to be what “cya 
| particularly desire, as they occur: quite froapend ly on 
Gra yo oe on young e- ma, and other bushes, where 
are nea 
ground, in holes under 
phon go 
stones, and similar situations 
| of these insects and ae ir kindred, that a peculiarity in 
the structur re o of the 
eet appeared | to be ere to 
to 
elevated from 
fies of na’ feet are saipe and 
R 
cat and pine insects which dwell upon shrubber: 
having so sot fla to cushion-like soles to their foet, to 
them ing to the stalks and leaves of p 
and other i 
as Seon le ee other er 
densely 
perhaps this ion to the 
4 a they dwell m. liata they do not travel 
upon m, but: remain EEA, nary, y 
e ie after day. I infer, 
noticed ng of one of these insects proceeding 
from the same spot upon a mass of Vines or TEA a 
rticular limb of a tree, upon each evening for 
AGARICUS RETIRUGIS. From = emg number of nights in succession, And it is quite pro- 
of nights in 
bable therefore that the fe e re of their | 
d | pruinose through its whol 
autumn or winter when | 
ergin. 
slender, but tolerably firin pn nearly eg a at 
the very base, where it is oftenslightly thickened. The 
one leaf to another 
In the southern part of our State the song of the 
