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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEK. 



513 



and lively, some in the rich and powerful, and others in the 

 deep ami grave ; the latter may he said to he the prevail- 

 ing style here. Although the rich and brdliant colours of a 

 Turkey carpet and the gaudy dress of the rustic belle may 

 be agreeable to some, less glaring colours are selected by 

 the upholsterer in furnishing the different apartments of a 

 mansion, and by a lady in the selections for her toilet. 



The two larger and two smaller diamond-sh.aped beds, 

 with a small triangular bed at each end, would require dia- 

 grams to illustrate the planting. Suffice it to say that the 

 first group was planted with Tom Thumb and Flower of the 

 Day Geraniums at each side, and there was a brown Calceo- 

 laria at one end and Aiirea floribunda Calceolaria at the other. 

 The second group consisted of Tom Thumb Geranium and 

 Verbenas Mrs. Maclean, Field Marshal, Eeine des Amazones, 

 and Novelty. The other gi-oups contained Terbenas Beauty 

 of Hornsey (lilac). General Simpson (brUliant scarlet), 

 Brillant de Vaise, Purple King, Mrs. Kaley, Robinson's 

 Defiance, Mdlle. de Nodit, Queen of the Roses, Reine des 

 Amazones, and Lady Middleton (mauve, very fragrant, an 

 excellent beddei-, and stands the weather well). In front 

 are eight plantations of some of the best sorts of Roses, 

 edged with broad bands of Tropajolum elegaus, Gazania 

 splendeus, CEnothera macrooarpa, and Verbenas of different 

 sorts. 



The chain-borders on each side of the main walk contained 

 on one side twenty, and on the other seventeen circular beds 

 planted in succession with Verbenas Mrs. Trotter, Purple 

 King, Mrs. Kaley, Gazania splendens, PerUla nankinensis ; 

 Verbenas Jane, Admiral Duudas, Lady Middleton, Mrs. 

 HoUbrd, Defiance, Andi-e, Mdlle. de Nodit, Fiilox Drum- 

 niondi ; Verbenas BIi-s. Kaley, Piu-ple King, Fu-efly, Mrs. 

 Holford, Purple King, Mdlle. de Nodit, and Admiral Duudas. 

 On the other side the beds were planted with Verbenas 

 Admiral Duudas, Mrs. Kaley, Etonia (violet with white eye), 

 Mdlle. de Nodit, Admii-al Dundas, Mrs. Kaley, Purple King, 

 Ajax (fine scarlet), Jane, General Simpson, Purple King, 

 Madame de Nord, Mrs. Holford, Lord Raglan, Mrs. Kaley, 

 Purple King, and Evening Star. 



The long-pointed triangular beds with scrollwork in Bos 

 were edged with Verbenas of different sorts. 



At the south-west corner of this parallelogram-shaped 

 flower garden are several beds which were planted with 

 Ageratum mexicanum, Geraniums Tom Thumb and Bijou, 

 and Verbenas Purple King, Lord Raglan, General Simpson, 

 Mrs. Kaley, and Firefly. 



The next scene is flower-beds on gi-ass. Some were 

 planted with Purple Zelinda Dahlias in the centre, then 

 yellow Calceolarias, edged with Tom Thumb Geraniums; 

 others with Baron Hugel Geranium, edged with Mangles' 

 Variegated Geranium, a splendid edging; Flower of the 

 Day Geranium, edged with Lobelia spcciosa ; and Miss 

 Nightingale Heliotrope, edged with Sveet Alyssum. 



From this, looking south through the arches of the colon- 

 nade diversified with festoons of Virginian creepers and of 

 Periploca gvsucs.. Honeysuckles, Roses, &o., dangling from the 

 top, the fine old Orange trees in rich luxuriance of foliage 

 give an Italian aspect to the scene. These Orange trees 

 may be called the lions of the x^lace, and have been under 

 the superintendence of Mr. Scobie for the last fourteen 

 years, and with what skill they have been treated their fine 

 healthy condition %vill attest to all who have the opportunity 

 of seeing them. 



The vase terrace was furnished with twenty-four vases 

 an-anged on the balustrades and on ■ pedestals springing 

 from flower-beds, it was gay with flowers and formeil a most 

 pleasing featui-e. The conservatory is 60 feet long finished 

 with some fine specimens of Camellias, and in the winter 

 with the largo Orange trees that lately adorned the square 

 at the south fi-ont. They are magnificent specimens, twenty- 

 four of them being each fi-om 10 to IS feet in height, and 

 many others were not so large. Attached to the con- 

 servatory on the north side is a banqueting-room of hand- 

 some proportions, which is finished and furnished in the best 

 style of art and ornamentation. Close to it on the east 

 side is a tower which is approached by a flight of steps, and 

 from the south side of the conservatory is a colonnade about 

 100 yards long running east, which is continued to the 

 south front of Holland House. By this means a communi- 

 cation, under cover, is opened from the house to the con- 



servatory, then to the banqueting-room, then to the loggia, 

 then to the tower, and home either by the flower garden or 

 the pleasure grounds, or by a terrace-walk along the whole 

 length on the top of the colonnade. The flower gai-dens are 

 seen to advantage when overlooked from the terrace, sur- 

 rounded by balustrades, on the top of the banqueting- 

 room. 



The ground rises on all sides to a beautiful knoU in the 

 park. This knoll is crowned with a most pictui-esque group 

 of Cedars of Lebanon. Other trees creep up the slopes and 

 form groves around the base and along the vaUey, not thick 

 groves of gloom, but groves in which the forms of the trees 

 are fully developed, and the trees being planted at vari- 

 ous distances apart produce glades of jjleasing landscape 

 scenery. 



The house is surrounded by pleasure grounds so nicely 

 connected with the park, that a beautiful and varied land- 

 scape is produced, bounded by deep shady groves that form 

 the framework of this delightful picture. — W. Keane. 



EITTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



The December meeting was held on the 6th inst., P. Smith, 

 Esq., the President, being in the chair. Amongst the dona- 

 tions to the library since the November meeting were the 

 publications of the Royal and Linnajan Societies, the Royal 

 Physical Society of Edinburgh, the Moscow and Stettin 

 Society, the continuation of Lepp's great woi-k on Em'Oi>eau 

 Lepidoptera by SueUeu Van VoUenhoven, a remarkable 

 memoir by ill-. Edwin Brown on the genus Acentropus 

 now proved to be a Lepidopterous insect, articles on farm 

 and garden insects by Mr. Wilson, of Adelaide, &c. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box of Coleopterous insects 

 collected in the Zulu Country, South Africa, by the Rev. 

 M. Girard, including many very rare and interesting species ; 

 also, a curious variety of one of the British blue Butterflies, 

 apparently intermediate between Polyommatns alexis and 

 P. adonis, taken in the Isle of Wight. 



General Su- J. B. Hearsey exhibited a case of nocturnal 

 Lepidoptera collected by himself in India, containing many 

 very fine and large species of Geometridae and Noctuids, 

 several of which appeared to be iindescribed. 



Professor Westwood stated that the Rev. Henry Rowley, 

 one of the clergymen attached to the Oxford and Cambridge 

 Missions to South Africa, had forwarded a small coUeotion 

 of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera from the Zambesi to the 

 Museum at Oxford, containing many rare species, which 

 appeared to be very similar to, if not identical with the 

 insects of Mozambique, collected by Peters, and described 

 by Klug, Schaum, Hagen, &c., in the voyage of that traveller. 

 He also exhibited a remai'ka'de manuscript entomological 

 calendar or jom-nal kept during a long series of years by the 

 late Mr. J. Curtis, containing about two thousand notes and 

 observations on the habits, times of appearance, &c., of 

 insects chiefly injurious to the farm and garden, man, 

 domestic animals, orchard and forest trees, &c. ; also, a 

 manuscript report of one of the meetiugs of the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Entomological Society, held in the year 1S12, con- 

 taining among other entries the admission of the Rev. SL. 

 Kirby into the Society on Iris own request. He also ex- 

 hibited and described two very curious small Beetles cap- 

 tured in the Canai'y Islands by Mr. Vernon Wollaston, re- 

 markable for the large size of the heads of the males in 

 both species, and forming the types of two new genera. 



Mr. W. Wilson Saunders exhibited specimens of a new 

 and very pretty species of Bryocoris, a genus of Plant Bugs, 

 which had attacked the leaves of some of his Orchids (espe- 

 cially jjlants of the genus Catasetum) in the same manner 

 as tlie Thrips; but being provided with wings and very 

 active they made their escape on the slightest alarm, and 

 flew off to other parts of the hothouse, returning, however, 

 to then- food plant after a short time. 



Captain Cox sent for exhibition a series of veiy beautiful 

 representations of Moths and Butterflies, which he had 

 executed by photography, and which represented the most 

 delicate markings of these insects in a very exquisite manner. 



Another illustration of the use of photography in the 

 delineation of insects was shown by Mr. W. F. Kirby, in 

 the recently pubhsheJ memoir on tlie Trypetidae by Dr. 



