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of aphis or scale is lo be found directly over the spot where it occurs, at a distance 
it may be of an inch or two, and it may be of many feet. When on a leaf 
aphides resort to the under side, which will be free from honey dew ; and 
anything immediately below will be glazed on the upper side by the sweet, sticky 
matter squirted from the two nectaries or cornicles on their backs peculiar to 
their tribe. If honey dew were produced by the “ ordinary processes of over 
turgescence pressing the liquid through the water pores,” both sides of the leaf 
would secrete it. Cabbages are often smothered by aphis. If a cabbage leaf 
be glazed all over with honey dew, as if dipped in a thin varnish, without the 
presence of aphis, and there be no tree overhead, then the leaf itself must have 
exuded it ; but that cabbage leaf has yet to be found. The juice of a plant, after 
passing through the stomach of the aphis, acquires the peculiarities of honey dew, 
irrespective of the properties of the plant on which the insect feeds. In the 
case of the cuckoo-spit insect the juice of the plant becomes watery froth after 
passing through its body. 
With the exception of the locust itself, the aphis is the most destructive insect 
in the world. 
Edmund Thos. Daubeny. 
214. Tradeacant’s Garden at Lambeth.— I possess among my book - 
treasures a little octavo volume, entitled “ A/usaum Tradescantiaman : or a 
collection of Rarities, preserved at South Lambeth, near London. By John 
Tradescant.” London ; 1656. The copy in question of this somewhat scarce 
work was formerly the property-of Peter Collinson, F.R.S., who would seem, 
from internal evidence, to have been himself a botanist and a collector, for he 
has enriched the little book with many marginal notes, some of which appear to 
me to contain matters of interest. On the blank part of p. 178, he has written : 
“ In May, Dr. Watson and severall of the R. Society visited Tradescant’s garden. 
Anno 1749, to see what plants was left. Found Two, the largest Arbutus may 
be 120 years, in the Orchard. Rhamnus Catharticus 20 foot high a foot diam. 
The First Tree of Virginia Cypresr lately dead, which they remfemjbred living. 
Ground Plants — 
Borago latifolia sempervirens, C. B 
Polygonatum vulgare Latifolium, C. B 
Aristolochia Clematis recta, C. B 
Dracontium Dod. 
“The House and Garden was in the further end of South Lambeth, on the 
left hand side of the Way going to Stockwell.” In another note on p. 144, 
Collinson writes : “ Three flowere yet retain Tradescant’s name, viz., Tradescant's 
Aster, Tradescant’s Daffodil, Tradescant’s Spiderwort from Virginia, all in my 
garden, P. Collin.son, 1763.” He calls special attention to the fact that Tradescant 
had the horse chesnut tree in 1656, -and he remarks, under date of October 20, 
1756, “ Anno, 1656, but few Auriculas, only Two with .Striped P'lowers, and now 
Anno, 1756, they are without number. Such variety since his time has been 
raised by seed and indeed in my memory 50 years agone there was but few 
striped.” There are many other jottings as to colours of flowers and more modern 
names appended to Tradescant’s catalogue, but they do not seem to justify 
quotation. On p. 41 there is a catalogue entry ; “ Booke of Mr. Trade.scant’s 
choicest Flowers and Plants, extjuisitely limned in vellum, by Mr. Alex. Marshall." 
Mr. Collin.son adds : “ May 6, 1757, the above painted Vellum Book is in the 
Museum at Oxford, but ye spelling as well as painting shows wee are much 
improved.” Tradescant’s collection, as is well known, was the first cabinet of 
natural curiosities formed in England, and it constituted the nucleus of the Ash- 
molean Museum at Oxford. I have a note as to one Peter Collinson, probably 
the son of the writer of the foregoing particulars. It is a catalogue entry as 
follows: “ Dillwyn (L. W.) Hortus Collinsonianus, an Account of the Plants 
cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, Plsc)., F.R..S., at Mill Hill, near Hendon, 
arranged alphabetically, according to their modern names, 8vo, Swansea, 1843.” 
Gll.ltERT R. Redgkave. 
[The “ Musivum Tradescantianum ” is, as Mr. Redgrave says, scarce, espe- 
cially with the portraits engraved by Hollar ; but Peter Collinson’s copy, with his 
MS. notes, is indeed a treasure, which we should like to see ; and we think it 
