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Title: The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Nicholson, George, 1847-1908
Subjects: Gardening Horticulture Plants, Ornamental
Publisher: Hyde Park, Mass. : Geo. T. King London : L. Upcott Gill
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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eadily along. These Moths are somewhatvariable as to colour, though usually brown or reddish-brown, with a whitish stripe from the tip to the innermargin, and another running from tho base, while above thestripe is an elongated spot. The caterpillars are slender, yellowish-white, and aboutIin. long, and may be found from July at the roots of theirfood-plants, which quickly show signs of being preyed upon.They are very sensitive to the touch. The larv£B havesixteen foot—six claw-feet, eight sucker-feet, and a pairsituate at tho hmder extremity of the body. They feed fromJuly or August until spring, though they are somewhatsusceptible to frosts. When full-fed they approach thesurface of the soil, and become pupae in loosely-constructedsilken cocoons. In this condition they are very restless, andmay be observed wriggling about in their coooona. Theyare yellowish-brown. To deal with these pests is somewhat difficult, feeding, asthey do, beneath the roots. In the case of grass, however,
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I.-Helleborus GUTTATUS. 2.—H. colchicus pumilatus. 3,—h. viridis purpurascens. 1900 Supplement—Recent Introductions, &c. 257 Common Swift Motli—euntinued.applicationg of lime and soot (one part of the former to twoparts of the latter) in spring would be of service. In gardens wood-asbes and soot scattered freely round the infested plants, and then hoed in, would render the ground undesirable. InsectiTOrons birds, again, would destroy large numbers if the soil round the plants could be hoed in springas the larv;o were about to change into pupa>. See alsoOtter Moth, Vol. II. COMMON TELIiOW UNDEKWING. SeeTry- phseua. COMOSE. Growing in tufts ; bearing a tuft. COMFAKETTIA. This genus embraces six species, natives of the Andes of South America. Sepals erecto-patent, the dorsal one free, the lateral ones co:inate,produced at base into a long, slender spur which is free ofthe petals ; lip continuous with the base of the column,produced at base into two long, linear spurs, the later

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