. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. a collection ofOrchids. The Kew plant was obtained raider thename of O. truUa, with which it is closely is a large-growing species, with deep-greenflask-shaped pseudo-bulbs 5 inches in length,each growth having usually about eight largearching leaves, the longest of which is 2 feet, and2 inches in width. The plant now in flower hastwo branched spikes, each 5 feet in length, andconsisting of about twelve spikelets havingnumerous flowers, the diameter of which is ratherless than 1 inch. IF.
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. a collection ofOrchids. The Kew plant was obtained raider thename of O. truUa, with which it is closely is a large-growing species, with deep-greenflask-shaped pseudo-bulbs 5 inches in length,each growth having usually about eight largearching leaves, the longest of which is 2 feet, and2 inches in width. The plant now in flower hastwo branched spikes, each 5 feet in length, andconsisting of about twelve spikelets havingnumerous flowers, the diameter of which is ratherless than 1 inch. IF. H. SOME NEW FACTS CONCERNINGTHE ECONOMY OF THE CRANEFLY (TIPULA OLERACEA) AND ITSNATURAL ENEMIES. Since the days when John Curtis publishedhis Farm Insects in 1860 much has been writtenon the depredations of the Tipuln? or craneflies, but comparatively little that is new hassince been added to the interesting accountwhich Ruricola has given to us of thesedestructive pests. Four years ago there wasan alarming plague of the larvae on the golf-links in the marshes of the Dee, Cheshire. It was. Fig. Itj.—n^nizoMAL section of the sub- TERHANEAN DWELLIKG OR BlRROW OFTHE : ( - .) OFTIEULA {Actual she.) on this occasion that the writer had exceptionalopportunities of observing the habits of theseinsects, and some facts then gleaned may at leastprove of interest if not instructive. It should beclearly understood, however, that there are atleast three species of crane flies which are de-structive to crops and plants of various kinds,and also that the larvse of all of them arepopularly known as leather - jackets. Thefollowing facts, however, concerns only one
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