. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. July 14. XriE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. .M W JULY U-20, 1853. Wbathrr ns:ar London in 1852. Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Qfoon K. & S. Moon's Age. Clock at. Sun. Dayol 1 D H I) Th Barometer. rhermo. Wind. Rain in In. Year. Large Pale Shark. 29M3— 81—6) E. 20 1 10 11 54 8 5 30 195 1 15 K .St. Swvthin. 29, 87—53 S. 2 9 morn. 9 5 36 196 1 16 S Bordered Gothic; Norfolk. — 87-62 E. 3 8 0 16 10 5 42 197 17 Sun 1 AFTUtt — 73-52 01 6 7 0 45 11 5 47 198 IS M Peach Blossom ; wood sides
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. July 14. XriE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. .M W JULY U-20, 1853. Wbathrr ns:ar London in 1852. Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Qfoon K. & S. Moon's Age. Clock at. Sun. Dayol 1 D H I) Th Barometer. rhermo. Wind. Rain in In. Year. Large Pale Shark. 29M3— 81—6) E. 20 1 10 11 54 8 5 30 195 1 15 K .St. Swvthin. 29, 87—53 S. 2 9 morn. 9 5 36 196 1 16 S Bordered Gothic; Norfolk. — 87-62 E. 3 8 0 16 10 5 42 197 17 Sun 1 AFTUtt — 73-52 01 6 7 0 45 11 5 47 198 IS M Peach Blossom ; wood sides. — 70—50 w. 6 6 1 23 12 5 62 ' 199 \t ro Willow Beauty ; woods. — 77-56 7 5 2 14 13 5 67 200 20 w Light Emerald ; bushy pi. —29-973 74—54 91 8 4 rises. © 6 0 201 Mbteouology op tbe Week.—At Chiswick, from observations 94°, occurred on the 17th in 1S34 and the lowest cold, 39° on the during the last twenty-sis years, the average highest and lowest tem- 18th in 1651. During the period 104 days were fine, and on 78 rain peratures of these days arc '' and '' respectively. The greatest heat, THE DART MOTH. This insect known also as the Winter Moth, and by the more appropriate name of the Com Moth, is the Ji/rolls scijctitm of entomo- y logists. AVheu the .•i*"^ farmer finds his young ivheat wither- ing away before the attacks of some un- derground enemy, he usually attributes the destruction to "the ; Almost as fre- quently, however, the real enemy is the caterpillar of theUart Moth, and so serious are its inroads, that some fifteen years since the Eussian govern- ment oftered a reward for the discovery of a means of de- stroying this marauder, and in 1839, it was the subject of the London Entomological Society's Prize Essay. " This caterpillar attacks both the leaves and roots of the corn ; by eating thorn off destroys the crop, and causes whole fields to be ploughed
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