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JOiniNAIi OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



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out any i-amifications duiing winter; but simultaneously with 

 the expanding of the foliage, all along their length at every 

 inch and even less, a quantity of small fibres appear, and 

 these, unlike the fleshy root itself, do not travel far before 

 they become forked or branched, and then quickly branch 

 again, penetrating throvigh the soil like a piece of fibry net- 

 work, the end of each fibre absorbing nutriment fi'om the 

 soil with great force. These fibres do not arrest the pro- 

 gress of the fleshy root, but it continues to lengthen, and 

 it takes a dii-ect course imless it comes in contact with a 

 hard substance which it is impossible to penetrate, when it 

 runs along the svuface of the obstacle, and when clear of it 

 again continues its journey outwards from the stem and 

 traverses a gi-eat distance. I have found them 60 feet from 

 the stem of a Vine. 



The fleshy roots, then, are the prolongation of the main 

 roots, and are distinct from the fibres. They do not die 

 annually, nor even at any time unless injured or destroyed 

 by a bad soil. From them secondary roots having the same 

 properties as those from which they take then- rise, branch 

 at long or short intervals, and from these fibres ai-e like- 

 wise emitted. These fleshy roots are more abundant in rich 

 soil than in poor ground, whilst fibres ai'e more abundant in 

 the latter. In very rich Vine-borders the root-stems seldom 

 emit anything beyond the thick fleshy roots, and the fibres 

 that are sent out by them in tui-n are of short diu-ation ; but 

 they rai-ely emit any. — G. Abbey. 



(To be continued.) 



SOME GAEDENS WORTH SEEIISTG-. 



DERETSHIKB. 



Name, Proprietor. Gardener. StcUi07i, 



Sudbury Hull ... Lord Vernon Mr. A. Dick Sudbury. 



NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 



Finedon Hall V,'. M. Dolbcn., Esq. ... Mr. Archer Iligbam Ferrers 



Woulton Grange. I. Nethcrcote, Esq. ... Mr. Wells Konhampton. 



Bulwick Hall ... T. Trjon, Esq Jlr. Kidd Wanslord. 



— C. M. Martin, Noythanvpton. 



[We have omitted ovx coiTespondent's remai-ks because 

 he had entii'ely lost sight of what we stated when we com- 

 menced publishing these lists — viz., that they are only the 

 gai-dens which those who favour us with the lists consider 

 will gratify if visited. Such lists may be added to by others, 

 but are not open to criticism. — Eds. J. of H.] 



YORKSHIRE. 



Newton House... Mrs. E. Russell Mr. Naylor LeemingLane 



Thorpe Perrow.. Mark Milbanke. Esq... Mr.W.Culverwell Bedale, 



Swinton Park ... Admiral U;ircourt Unknown Bedale. 



Brough Hull Sir \V. Lawion, Bart.,.. Mr. Burrows Catterick. 



Aske Hall Earl of Zetland Mr. Miller Richmond. 



Kiplin Hall Countess of Tyrconnell. Unknown Scortun. 



■Wood End Earl Ca'bcart Mr. Law Thirsk. 



Sedbury Pirk..., G. B. Gilpin, Esq Mr. Duncan Itichuiond. 



Bolton Hall Lord Eolton Mr. Denuiwg Leyburn. 



GAEDE]N'EES' BENEFIT SOCIETY. 



Much lias been said about a Gardeners' Benefit Society 

 being established in various parts of the country. I think 

 that it is an institution very much wanted, but I should like 

 to know if it is to be a society for gardeners alone, or if a 

 man who is both gardener and groom, and gardener and 

 cowman, and he who has a small garden to look after, and 

 clean knives and forks, and make himself generally useful as 

 well, would be admitted into the Society as gardeners, or 

 not admitted at aU ? I think that this ought to be thought 

 over. 



It was stated in your Journal the other week that some 

 gardeners say that they cannot be admitted into the Society 

 without breaking some of the rules, because they have not 

 served a regular apprenticeship. If such is the case it 

 would be a protection society, as well as a benefit society. 

 Why not admit all who get their living by gardening, no 

 matter whether they have been ai^prenticed or not, so long 

 as they bear a good character, and are in a nobleman's or 

 gentleman's garden as gardeners i — J. F. Dawson. 



[We know of no valid reason why any the classes men- 

 tioned by om- correspondent should be excluded from pai-tici- 

 pating in the Society's benefits. Certainly we never heard of 

 any intention to confine its membership to gardeners who 



have served an apprenticeship. A gentleman is now em- 

 ployed arranging for the formation of the Society, and we 

 hope soon to see it announced publicly. — Eds. J. or U.] 



CALCEOLAEIA CANAEIENSIS. 



Will some of your correspondents be kind enough to 

 impart then- experience respecting the above-named plant ? 

 I was in hopes that Mr. Beaton's verdict would have made 

 its appearance before this, but am afraid that his long illness 

 hiis prevented him from going on with the trial as he 

 otherwise would have done, and of which he wi-ote during 

 last season. 



I am Sony to say that the plant was anything but satis- 

 factory here, and, so far from being an improvement on 

 Aurea floribunda, it was quite the reverse. Perhaps it may 

 be as well to state that we never knew what a failure was 

 with Aurea, and during last winter a great many plants 

 stood the weather without any protection whatevei-, and 

 nothing could possibly look better or bloom more freely 

 than the whole stock up to this present time; whereas 

 canariensis, after much attention in watering and cutting 

 off the flower-stalks for some time after they were planted 

 out, has failed to produce anything like a good show of 

 bloom, and the foliage looks almost as yellow as the flowers. 

 But the worst is that, one after another, the plants died off, 

 so that now we have large vacant spots instead of weU- 

 filled beds. I do not think it free enough in growth, or 

 capable of standing the different changes of weather suffi- 

 ciently to become a good general bedder. Nevertheless, I 

 should like to hear from others who have tried it how it 

 turned out with them before I discard it altogether. — James 

 Harris, Gardener to Eev. A. Morgan, Machen Rectory, near 

 Newport, Mon. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



The October Meeting of the Entomological Society was 

 held on the 5th inst., the chair being occupied by Francis 

 Pascoe, Esq., V.P., P.L.S., &c. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders, P.E.S., gave an account of the 

 ravages committed by the caterpillars of the Dart Moth, 

 Agrotis segetum, on his crops of Turnips near Eeigate; 

 the insects at fii-st attacking the plant just below the sur- 

 face of the earth, so that it is impossible to discover the 

 enemy without removing the soil, and the mischief not 

 being manifest by the leaves flaggiug and tm-ning yeUow 

 until considei-able damage has been effected. He had not 

 been able to apply any satisfactory remedy, nor cUd he think 

 those proposed by Mr. Curtis in his work on " Fai-m Insects " 

 either practicable or available. 



Mr. Stainton gave an account of the rare Moth Anesychia 

 bipunctella and its transfoi-mations. He also exhibited 

 specimens of a gigantic species of Tortricidae (T. grandse- 

 vana), the caterpiUars of which, when about to undergo 

 their change to the chrysahs state, form tubular cases of 

 silk with an outer coating of sand on the shores of the. 

 Baltic, and after strong gales of wind are left standing 

 upright to the height of 2 or 3 inches. 



Professor Westwood gave some fiu-ther details as to the 

 mode of i>reparing dried caterpillars by the German ento- 

 mologists. He also exhibited specimens and drawings of 

 the small stingless honey bee of Australia, fii'st communi- 

 cated by Major Sabine and more recently by Mr. Woodburj", 

 together with portions of its waxen nest, and hving speci- 

 mens of the larviB and perfect insects of a new species of 

 Nitidulidaj which feed upon the wax of the nest. He also 

 exhibited some of the ciu-ious cases formed by the cater- 

 pillars of the Psycho heHcina of Siebold. These cases are 

 small and spiral, being composed of sUk with a fine external 

 coating of particles of earth, so that they resemble minute 

 sph-al shells, or stiU more nearly the excrement of small 

 bii'ds. He also exhibited the cases formed by SUo paUipes, 

 a small species of Caddice Fly, being a tube of silk with 

 muiute pieces of stone fastened on the outside so as to exactly 

 resemble the finest mosaic work. From one of these tubes 

 he had succeeded in extricating a parasitic Ichneumon, 

 which proved to be the rare and singular Agriotypus ar- 

 matus, which must possess the instinct of descending into 

 the water in order to deposit its eggs in the tube of the 



