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person walks about dusk on a fine summer’s evening by the side of a wall of 
Apricot or Pear trees, he will see a number of little moths flying about; every 
one of them should then be destroyed, and there is no simpler means than the 
plan just described above. 
It is impossible in one short article to mention the manner of destroying 
all the insects injurious to fruit trees ; it is an inexhaustible subject, and one 
deserving the greatest attention from gardeners. 
There can be no good gardening, nor any good fruit, where insects are 
allowed to get ahead, and to keep them down demands constant watchfulness, 
and promptitude in destroying them on their first appearance. 
Stourton. M. Saul. 
OUR CONTEMPORARIES. 
The parts of Flore des Serres from November to February, contain the 
following plates: — 
Eitcodonopsis nagelioides, a hybrid between Eucodonia Ehrenbergi and 
Naegelia zebrina splendens. The floAvers resemble those of a Gloxinia, and are 
of a rosy purple colour, veined with crimson; the throat lemon-coloured, dotted 
with crimson. The foliage is the same as that of the mother plant, the 
Eucodonia, as regards form and nervation, but is not lax. 
Aucuba japonica. —The green-leaved plant, bearing its fine, shining, coral 
red berries. 
Amaryllises. —Four plates of several unnamed seedlings raised in M. Van 
Houtte’s establishment. The flowers are bright-coloured, and very shoAvy, 
but not materially different from those of existing varieties. 
Azalea indica punctulata, white, with flakes and broken streaks of rose and 
red. Azalea punctulata variegata , rose and red, Avith crimson spots, and edged 
Avith white. Azalea punctulata omnicolor , uniting on the same individual the 
flowers of the preceding two, with others entirely red with a brilliant crimson 
tinge in the upper petals. The first-named variety was raised by M. Van 
Driessche, of Ledeberg, and the second and third are sports from it, which are 
iioav said to be fixed, having come true for tAvo years. 
Odonioglossum Pescatorei. — An excellent plate of this beautiful Orchid, 
Avhicli first floAvered in 1851, in the establishment of M. Linden, of Brussels, 
to which it A\ r as sent by Funck and Schlim, who found it in Oak forests in New 
Granada, at an elevation of 7500 to 8500 feet above the level of the sea. 
llose Madame Josephine Gvyet (Touvais).-—A Bourbon of last year, Avith 
medium-sized, globular, bright red flowers, very brilliant in the centre. M. Van 
Houtte remarks that it has more than justified the description given by the 
raiser. 
Clianthus Dampieri Jlore albo , rubro-marginata .— Another plate of Messrs. 
Henderson’s new \ T ariety. Lilium Thunhergianum aureum, nigro-maculatum. 
A variety described as having floAvers of a bright nankeen yelloAV, spotted with 
black. It grows about a foot high. The bulbs should be planted out of doors 
in autumn, lifted every two or three years, the young bulbs remoA’ed, and, when 
this has been done, immediately replanted. 
Clematis Jackmanni and rubro-violacea , both of Avhich Avere figured and 
described in our Volume for 1864. 
Pardanthus chinensis. —A good representation of the Ixia sinensis of Linnaeus, 
knoAvn also as Moraea sinensis. 
Dendrobium formosum giganteum. —A magnificent A’ariety of D. formosum 
Avith Avliite flowers, having a blotch of deep orange at the base of the lip, and 
with floAvers much larger than the common form of D. formosum. 
