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JOUENAL OF HOKTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEE. 



[ December 7, 1871. 



A letter was read from Mr. Misldn, of Brisbane, desiring to enter 

 into correspondence with Ent^lisli entomologists, and to exchange 

 specimens of Australian Lepidoptera and Coleoptera for English 

 ones. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited some cocoons of Tiphia tarda, a sand Wasp 

 of North America, received from IVIr. Riley ; they were double, con- 

 sisting of an external thin pellicle and a hard internal oval cocoon. 

 They had been found by Mr. Kiley under cow dung, a situation in 

 which the cocoons of the British species, T. femorata, had been found 

 by Mr. Smith, who had no doubt that they fed on the larvae of the 

 dung Beetles, Aphodins, in the same manner as the larvie of the allied 

 genus Scolia fed on those of the genus of Beetles Oryctes. 



Mr. Albert Miiller stated that he had in the preceding summer 

 detected a species of Thrips attacting the pods of the edible Pea, 

 forming large white patches and preventing the growth of the seeds, 

 as many as fifty or sixty of the larvre feeding on a single pod. 



Mr. McLachlan read some notes on the nomenclature of the two 

 species of European Ant-lion Flies which had been confased together 

 by LinnjEus. 



The President announced the publication of a farther portion of the 

 proposed catalogue of British insects, containing the Aculeate Hyme- 

 noptera by Mr, F. Smith. 



GROUND LEVELLING AND PRACTICAL 

 GARDEN PLOTTING.— No. 25. 



DRAWING PLANS. 



although planted so thickly. This day I have taken all np 

 save one in each pit ; all three were admirable plants. In 

 taking the others up I was quite delighted to see the roots 

 more like ladies' fans than Vine roots, and that they were in 

 the best possible condition. I should strongly advise my gar- 

 dening friends to adopt the system, for which I have to tender 

 my best thanks to Mr. Thomson. It is what I should term, 

 the oommon-sense principle. — E. Gilbeet, Burghleij. 



Fig. 50 is of too 

 complicated a cha- 

 racter to be defined 

 in the same manner 

 as the foregoing, the 

 letters and figures re- 

 quired for reference 

 being so numerous 

 that they might lead 

 to confutions in a 

 limited space. IJ 

 the figures pre- 

 viously given are 

 well understood 



there will be no 

 difficulty in tinding 

 the manner in which 

 this plan is drawn. 

 The means em- 

 ployed for transfer- 

 ring centres and lines 

 from one side of the 

 paper to cr.rrespond 

 on the other hkve 

 been already es- 

 plaiued. The trans- 

 ferring of the de- 

 signs to the ground 

 will follow as ft 

 matter of course. 

 The lines and dotted 

 parts of fg. 50 indi- 

 cate Box ; II, gravel ; 

 B, beds ; c, coloured 

 materials or bulbs. 



M. O'PONNELL, 



Gardener to E. Leem- 

 ing. Esq , Spring 

 Grove, Bichmond. 



VINE EYES ON 

 TURF. 

 This mode was re- 

 commended by Mr, 

 Thomson. Last Feb- 

 ruary I put in eigh- 

 teen eyes on pieces 

 of tuif, and started 

 them in the Cucum- 

 ber house. When ... . , 

 about 6 inches long, to give them a fair trial, I built three 

 brick pits about 3 feet square, in one of our Muscat houses, 

 filling up with loam. I transferred my eighteen plants into 

 these pits, placing six in each. They made excellent growth, 



Fig. BO. Scale 24 feet to the inch. 



A GARDENER'S HOLIDAY.— No. 3. 

 A TEEY pleasant journey from Kelso by North British Eail- 

 way brings you to Galashiels, celebrated for its woollen manu- 

 factures; from thence by a single line of rails to Clovenfords,, 

 which will very soon be equally celebrated for its Pine Apples- 

 and Grapes. It is here that Mr. William Thomson, late gar- 

 dener at Dalkeith Park, has established himself. A wild out- 

 of-the-way place it looks at first sight, but the air is pure, and 

 the fine turfy loam with which the hillsides are covered is 

 peculiarly adapted for Vine and Pine Apple growing. It re- 

 sembles very much the loam which we procure from Wanstead. 

 and Epping, but is more friable. 



Mr. Thomson's vineyard is close to Clovenfords railway 

 station, and on getting out of the train you are at once struck 

 by the large size and arrangement of the houses. I was con- 

 ducted over every 

 part of the establish- 

 ment, and all the 

 details of heating, 

 and ventilating were, 

 pointed out to me irt 

 the kindest manner^ 

 The principal fea- 

 ture at present ia 

 three span-roofed 

 vineries, each 20(i 

 feet by 24 feet. The 

 first house I entered- 

 was almost exclu- 

 sively devoted to- 

 L idj Donnb'f Grape. 

 Here you are at once, 

 struck, not only by 

 the strong short- 

 jointed growth of the 

 Vines, but also by 

 their even appear- 

 ance, not one seem- 

 ing to be different 

 from the other, when, 

 the vaiieties are tha 

 same, and their 

 strength and vigour 

 being astonishing ;; 

 all through there 

 does not seem to 

 have been a single 

 failure. The per- 

 manent Vines are 

 planted between the. 

 hot-water pipes and 

 the side walls, whilst 

 a row which was 

 bearing a fine crop of 

 higbly-coloured fruit 

 is planted on the in- 

 side of the hot- water 

 pipes. These wilt 

 be removed as soon 

 as the permanent 

 Vines como into bear- 

 ing. The middto 

 house is plantadwith 

 a mixed oolleetioD„ 

 the greater portion of 

 thembeingBlack Ali- 

 cante. 'This is the 

 true variety, and is easily distinguished by the leaves, which are 

 very downy underneath, and by the stout short-jointed oanea 

 which it produces. I mention this because the Morocco, a 

 very inferior Grape, is very often sent out as the true Alicante. 



