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THE LADY'S MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
LATE. 
Chancellor .—Very large, pink and white, 
quilled and incurved flowers. 
Elegans .—Rather small, but very regular, 
lilac flowers. 
Empress .—Large pink tasselled flowers. 
Pulcherrimum. —Rose-coloured flowers with 
white tips, very double. 
Defiance .—Quilled, incurved, silvery-white 
flowers. 
All these are Jersey varieties, and the late ones will remain in flower 
till the middle of January. Among the English varieties, the best are 
Wheeler s changeable yellow, clustered blush, and sanguinea. The Chinese 
varieties are thirteen in number, and are the following - 
Old purple, 
Spanish brown, 
Superb white, 
Tasselled white, 
Golden lotus-flowered. 
Two-coloured red, 
Superb clustered yellow, 
Large quilled orange, 
Tasselled yellow, 
Changeable pale buff, 
Pack's small yellow, 
Tasselled lilac. 
The above are early-flowering kinds, generally appearing in November; 
and the only late Chinese kind is the two-coloured incurved. 
THE LACKEY MOTH. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
The caterpillar of this insect has received its name from its curious 
stripes, which resemble a kind of livery; and it is one of the most de¬ 
structive creatures that can exist in a small garden, as it feeds on almost 
every kind of tree, evergreen as well as deciduous. Most of the 
destructive insects pay only periodical visits to our gardens; being 
plentiful in some seasons, and very scarce in others; but the lackey cater¬ 
pillar is always abundant from April or May, to July or August. The 
moth is, however, very seldom seen, as it only flies by night, and always 
contrives to conceal itself during the day. It has no beauty to recom¬ 
mend it, as it is very small, and its wings are of a dingy reddish brown 
or dirty yellow, with a darker band in the middle. The eggs of this 
moth may be found during the whole winter, in the form of a broad 
bracelet round the twigs of the trees which have lost their leaves; and 
from which they can hardly be distinguished at a distance, so much do 
they resemble the bark in colour. This bracelet contains two or three 
hundred eggs, so firmly glued together that it may be slipped off the 
branch without separating them. The caterpillars are hatched in April 
or May, just about the time that the young leaves are developed, on 
which they are to feed; and almost as soon as they are hatched, they 
will be found in parties of from fifty to two hundred covered with a 
