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YOU. XXIII. NO, 25, 
NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y, 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE U, 1871. 
1 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871, by I). IX T. Moouk, In the office of the TAbrarlan of Congress, at Washington.] 
Icrintlturr. 
plants and out-of-door shrubs and trees: 
Flour of sulphur, two ounces, worked to a 
paste with a little water; sal soda, two 
ounces; cut tobacco, half an ounce; quick¬ 
lime, the size of a duck’s egg; water, one 
gallon. Boil together and stir for fifteen 
minutes, and let cool and settle. Tn use it is 
diluted according to the character of the 
plants, which are to he syringed with water 
after the application. If any of our readers 
try this, wo advise them to begin with a 
weak application, as 
the compound of lime 
and sulphur is very 
potent. 
LILIUM PULOHELLUM. 
Since the introduction of the well-known 
Japan Lilies, there has been far more atten- 
tention paid to this family of plants than 
ever before. Florists us well as amateurs 
are paying particular attention to lilies, and 
among the latter Mr. P. Hanson, an artist 
of New York city, residing at 220 Sixteenth 
street, Brooklyn, N. Y„ is one of the most 
indefatigable collectors In the country, We 
are indebted to him for a splendid painting 
of the L. PttleheUum , from which our illus¬ 
tration was made. It is somewhat reduced 
in size, but gives a very good idea of the 
form of the flower as well as t he habit of the 
plant and structure of bulb. 
This lily is allied to L. Bmchiannm, a Si¬ 
berian species, therefore very hardy, with¬ 
standing the rigors of winter unprotected ; 
and it will thrive in any good garden 
soil. It blooms Lhe latter part of.June; 
stems one to two feet high, crowned with a 
large number of beautiful, reddish-scarlet 
flowers. The specific name pulchellum sig¬ 
nifies pretty, or beautiful; and the flowers, 
with their finely reflexod petals and promi 
rnent stamens tipped with yellow anthers, oui as soon as 
l fully proves it deserving the name. Although »H danger ot frosts are 
this lily lias been known to botanists since l ,llst - If the plants aie 
1820, it is seldom seen in cultivation; but large, cut them hack, 
now that lilies are becoming more popular or » * n other words, 
’ntomolcgmrl. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
BY CIIA3. V. RILEY. 
llnrk-l.ico on lt#M) Rustic*. 
T itAVK some monthly rose Buskos which are 
Infested with an insect of which 1 send you u 
specimen inclosed herein ; if you will inform me, 
through your paper, Or In any way how lo do- 
Reddiug Out Coleuses. 
Can you, or some of 
the many readers of 
the Rural New-Yor¬ 
ker, inform me when 
a Coleus may be set 
out in tbe open ground 
with safety, providing 
it has been kept in a 
greenhouse all winter V 
Also, what time it 
should be taken up and 
potted.—8. C. Smith, 
Burlington Co., N. J. 
Coleuses may lie 
planted out as soon as 
than formerly, wc may hope to see this species shorten the branches 
more generally cultivated. I aim up in autumn 
FL0RI0ULTURAL NOTES. 
Hluc'Eycd Or iin*. 
1 send you a specimen of grass that I 
found growing on my farm. It grows in 
bunches ; the root was yellow, and the flow¬ 
er blue or purple. This specimen is about 
the usual bight. Is it tbe couch or quack 
grass? If so, and j T ou would give a de¬ 
scription of it in your paper, I thiuk you 
would confer a favor upon those who are 
unacquainted with it.—J. P. Adams, Broome 
Co., N. Y. 
The plant is not a true grass, although 
generally called one; it belongs lo the iris 
Family, and its scientific name is Sisyrin- 
ehiuin Bermudiana. It is found growing 
wild in nearly all the Northern States in 
moist meadows, and forms small tufts or 
bunches. There are several varieties, some 
with blue, others purple flowers; and one is 
found in the Western Slates nearly white. 
The Sisyrinehiums are handsome little plants 
and worth cultivating. They are not par¬ 
ticularly injurious to meadows because never 
very abundant, and are easily killed by 
Take up in autumn 
before frosts appear. 
Tbe exact time can¬ 
not be given, neither 
is it necessary to wait 
for any particular time 
for they may he kept 
in pots all summer if 
desirable for house or¬ 
naments. 
Nnine* of Rowes. 
We cannot name 
the roses sent us by 
W. B. W. of West- 
field, N. J. There are, 
or have been, imported 
into this country over 
five thousand varieties 
of roses and it would 
be impossible for any 
one man to remember 
the distinctive charac¬ 
teristics of each sutli- 
ciently well to apply 
the proper name to 
each variety. There 
are a few very distinct 
sorts which we might 
mowing or pasturing. Of course, this grass . “ q 
is not even related to the couch, or quack r< ' C0 G n | zu * loma sbl * 
glass, (Triticuni repens), which is a true grass. l)lK or cat tll0SC 
l.ice on Ro*e Hu*tu-*. 
The small, light colored insects that infest 
the rose hushes at this season of the year, 
and cause the leaves to turn white, may be 
removed by placing a box, barrel or cloth 
covering over the bush and smoking with to¬ 
bacco, either by putting the tobacco on a 
shovel or pan of coals, or by putting it into 
gle bud or leaf if these 
were fresh ; but a half 
wilted specimen or 
even these without marked distinctive char¬ 
acters, requires greater familiarity with roses 
than we possess. 
ClmmrlnK the Color ot Flower*. 
An English paper describes a case of a 
yellow primrose which, when planted in a 
Cnnker Worm*—Not Army Worms. 
I. W. Briggs, West Macedon, N. Y r .— 
The insects, male and female, which you send 
are not army worms, but the moths of the 
notorious canker-worm. The proper reme¬ 
dies and preventives have frequently been 
given in these columns. It is too late to do 
anything with these insects the present sea¬ 
son ; but to head them olf next year, have 
your trees so prepared in time as to prevent 
the wingless female and the young worms 
from ascending. Also, 
if possible, plow your 
land well this fall. 
-H«-- 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Sijiuisii Hub* itn«l 
A phi*. 
Pi.kase inform me 
through your col¬ 
umns what will des¬ 
troy the little bug9 
which kill the cucum¬ 
ber and squash plants. 
I had quite a number 
of fine Ilubbavd squash 
which 1 had been car¬ 
ing for very carefully; 
went out one morning 
and found them cov¬ 
ered with a little strip¬ 
ed bug; before night 
they were entirely 
eaten up. Have in¬ 
closed a leaf of May- 
duke cherry tree, 
which is covered with 
a little black insect. 
Would be glad to hear 
of anything which 
________ | 5 lli-rkmnn St., New York 
OFFICES Uullulw Si., Rochester. 
WHOLE NO. 1117. 
and thus nature prevents a too rapid multi¬ 
plication of the troublesome insect. 
1 believe that the Spaniards or Mexicans 
have a dance called the Tarantula, from 
some notion that the bite of the insect causes 
a person to dance.—Y iator, Dripping Spring, 
Texas, May, 1871. 
C'olornito l*otnto Hub KniiiiB CnbbnireR. 
Tite Western Farmer says:—“H. H. Mc- 
AfeC, Superintendent of the Wisconsin Uni¬ 
versity Experimental Farm, informs us that 
on June 1, he saw a Colorado Potato Beetle 
eating a cabbage leaf. Mr. M. is a careful 
observer, and would not conclude that the 
beetle was eating simply because it was seen 
on the leaf. 
rattan. 
BEES SWARMING IN APRIL. 
I notice in the Rural New-Yorker an 
article headed “ New Bees,” Hie author of 
which gays:—"1 think 1 have an item of 
news which will surprise our Rural New- 
Yorker friends, some if not more.” In 
reply L must, say, I am not surprised that my 
friend A UM’TN B. Culver is so unacquainted 
with the habits of bees as to honestly think 
he had a new swarm ol bees issue on lhc7lh 
of April. That his bees rare equally ignorant 
I do not believe. I think that, new swarm 
was an “ April fool.” Wc all know (or 
should know) that bees do not swarm or 
even prepare for doing so, unless the flowers 
are yielding a fair supply of honey, which 
was far from the case here; for at that time 
will destroy them.—A some light stocks in this locality were actn- 
a tube of any kind. After lighting it, cover rich »»“• f" 1 , flo ' TBrs allan f' 1 t0 “ 1, , ri , 1 ' 
the largest end with thin cloth, and blow the 1,aut P“' P c - 11 a 80 8a J' 3 Ulat charcoaUMa 
_ .... A lo.il I ■ n.. .... r • 1 ■ ni'.l,’. «... t . 1 . > 1 . 1 a . ■ , • 
smoke under the cover; two or three appli¬ 
cations will entirely remove them; generally 
great brilliancy to the colors of dahlias, 
roses and petunias; carbonate of soda red* 
one is sufflcie«: *»• I**, "jacinths and phosphate of soda 
•will, lice on their house plants, can use their «■““?* U,e colors 01 raany ' ,lauU ' 
smoking husbands, beaux and friends to ad- known flowers of our 
vantage, by having them sit near tbe plants common Hydrangea horterms may be changed 
and puff their Havanas at the plants Try fr0U1 lbeir natttral tlellcate P ink 10 a dce P 
tliem ; they love it—fl mean the gentlemen) blue > ], y P lftntin S iu a P eal y aoiL The colora 
—D. W. B., Geneva, A 7 : Y. of all varieties of pink and red roses may be 
_ changed or intensified by the use of charcoal 
Wiu»h for Riant*. or peat. It is said neither white or yellow 
Uue Florist and Pomologist says that the roses are iu the least affected by such appli- 
following is strongly recommended for mil- cations, and we still have our doubts in re- 
Dew, scale, red spider, etc., upon greenhouse gard to the change iu the yellow primrose. 
LILIUM X^ULCIilUX.U.UM. 
troy them, anti wlmL they are, you will oblige 
mo ami some others of your subscribers. -\Vm. 
A. French, Morencl , Lenawee- Co., Mich. 
Your bushes arc infested with bark-lice 
belonging to tbe same genus (Lecuniuip) as 
those on the peach recently sent by L. II. 
Dura,I KG, and referred to on page 348, Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker, June 3. It is, iu all 
proability, the European Leeanium rom of 
Signoret, as no insect of the genus has yet 
been described iu this country, and as they 
are so easily imported from one continent 
to another. The only bark-louse hitherto 
known to occur on the rose in this country 
belongs to another genus ( Diaspis tohcb — 
Sandberg), and is referred to in Dr. Fitcii’s 
Reports. For practical purposes, however, 
all these lice are ulike, and the same reme¬ 
dies suggested to Mr. Duuling will apply 
in your case. As tobacco soap is very easily 
attainable, you had better give your rose 
bushes a good syringing with a strong decoc¬ 
tion of it. 
Subscriber, Pa. ally starving, and it is considered a week 
Frobabi y the hugs earlier here than Where our friend resides, 
that destroyed your cu- The 7th and 81U were very warm days, 
cumbers and squashes which set the bees to robbing on a huge 
were the common scale. I myself had a powerful stock very 
striped cucumber bee- active on the 7th and the result was an extra 
tie, {Crioceris vittata , empty hive the next day. Also a near neigh- 
Fabr.) The best pre- bor of mine found a fair swarm collected on 
ventive wc have found ft barrel near his bees early on the morning 
for these is the free use of the 8th, which he said must have come 
of dry ashes, thrown there the day before; but be thought, as 1 
upon the vines when did, that some person must have an empty 
wet with dew. Fre- bive - A 6 ain - laat A » ril * (1870) 1 f T^ r 
ouent anulications are warm on one of my grape vines which L 
^ , hived aud they went to work. I fed them 
necessary until the m,w ‘ “ uu , , J .. „ „ QA ,. 
vines become strong. a "' 1 lll '"> * ,U * a “ aw "‘f 011 ^ 
Tbe insects upon the ■'»* <* ™ “ ‘"W " VB " as l0l "' a 
cherry leaves are tbe °"ly a 3| '°' 1 '’' sl “" ce frmn whcrc . ll,cy wcre 
well-known plant ■=>»“<*«'■ Again, a few yearn since a man 
louse or aphis, (ApUit came along tbe road and called to me saying 
am*). A strong sola- “yW * le a'varmmg l followed 
tlon of tobacco, or tUem to tbe above neighbors apiary and 
dusting tbe trees with f°™4 >“ 3 n,,t ' vat f“j cm ' V"f 
freshly slaked lime their bees were swarming. They S ighted, 
will destroy them were hived and went to work; but on le- 
y tncm . tumhjg home x foimd au empty hive, save 
The Tni'iint uin. the empty comb. This took place about the 
This insect, which ] 8 t () f September.—I gnoramus, Westfield, 
seems to belong to the chant. Co. A. Y. 
The 'I'ii runt it In. 
This insect, which 
seems to belong to the 
Spider family, thrives well in Texas, and Mr. 
Sciiaffle, of whom you make mention in 
your issue of April 22, could succeed 111 rais¬ 
ing them in Texas; but they would not meet 
with a ready sale here, Texans looking upon 
them as ” varmints” to be exterminated from 
the face of the earth. 
Appropos to the tarantula, Viator in his 
travels sometimes observes them, and his at¬ 
tention is often drawn lo them by a large, 
smart fly, something after tbe order of the 
wasp, but larger, \pampilus fiornmus, Say. 
—Eds. Rural.) 'Phis fly is quite pretty, 
of blue and buff color, and is death to the 
HANDLING BEES IN THE EVENING. 
I MUST differ from your correspondent, 
ENnico, (sec Rural New-Yorker April 
27), in regard to handling bees in the even¬ 
ing, as they wtU have a way of crawling 
around under a person’s clothes which is 
far more inconvenient and disagreeable to 
us than to have them meet us boldly by 
daylight. 
Again, I do not think his manner of fast¬ 
ening the transferred combs into the frames 
is the best one in use. I have tried fasten- 
Ul UIUU <111U UUIl UtliW, UIU| la UCUUfe L11U ddoi vuv m 
tarantula, which latter creature, an ugly, ing in a great many different ways, and like 
venomous thing—showing art, however, in none as well as the plan of driving small 
the construction of its dwellings—seems to wooden pins through gimlet holes previously 
be perfectly stupefied and fascinated when bored in the ends and top of the frame. In 
the former makes his appearance; hut little this way they are fastened quite securely, 
resistance is offered, and an easy victory is while the fastenings take up no room, and 
obtained. do not have to be removed.—J. F. T., Foe - 
Perhaps the fly lays the eggs in the spider * toryville, Pa. 
