The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 323
common kindsrequire to be kept in pots. This insect {fig. iO.) is called in English the mole cricket ,• a word that is theliteral meaning of Gryllotalpa, from grylliis^ a cricket, and talpa, a mole ; adescription of which, with a figure, will be found in the Alag. of Nat. Hist.,vol. ii. p. 290.… … ofilie Botanic Garden at Berlin. 301 provided with two strongclaws, or feet, attachedto its body near the head,by means of which itmakes its way throughthe ground like a mole,and with as much dex-terity. Nothing in theherbaceous way is proofagainst its ravages. Ihave seen the stem of adahlia an…
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