July 2, 1808. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOBTIOULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENEE. 



was at Ilia (Sir Itohort rcol's) recommendation tlmt Mr. Bass had 

 consented to take the chair on the occasion, and there rouM not have 

 been a better Chairman than ouo who furnished so bright an example 

 of liberality of conduct, whose parse was ever open, whose hand was 

 never closed. 



The next toasts ^iven were the " ITonsos of Loppslatnro," coupled 

 with tho name of T. \V. Kvans, Ksq.. M.P. ; "The Treasurer," Mr. 

 Wrench; " Tho Seeretarj'." Mr. Cutler; and Tho Jlortienltural and 

 Botanio Socioties of London, coupled with tho name of Mr. O. F. 

 Wilson. 



Mr. Wilson in replyinf;, said that he had onco before had tho pleasure 

 to respond to the same toast on ft similar occn.'iion. but since 

 that time the Koyal Horticultural Society had been eiertinf; itself in 

 two very opjiosite direction?^, in ouo of which it had already met with a 

 marked success as exemplilied in tho new Coleuses, and in tho other 

 tho new Scientitic Committee promised most favourably. 



Sir Robert IVel then proposed " Tho Nursery and Seed Trade," to 

 which Mr. .John Lee, Mr. Nash, and Mr. Harry Veitch replied, the last- 

 named remarkin}:: that his father's indisposition was brought on by 

 overwork and would probably soon pive way to rest. 



The douations amounted to nearly .t'-lOO. and included tho follow- 

 ing :— M. T. Bass, Esq , .fio r,s. ; Mrs. Bass, £10 10s. ; A. Bass, 

 Esq., £10 10.«. ; Lord Sondes, XW ICls.: Baron Rothschild, £10 lO.?. ; 

 Sir Robert Tecl, Bnrt., £10 Ws. ; .1. C. Evans. Esq., £'21 ; F. Wigan, 

 Esq., £10 10s. ; O.K. Cozier. Esq., £10 10s. ; W. Banbury. Esq., 

 £10 10s. ; J. Foster, Esq., £10 10s. ; Thomas Moore, Esq., £5 i>s. ; 

 Dr. Hogg, £5 5s. ; Messrs. Veitch & Sons, £10 10s. ; Messrs. Lee, 

 .£5 5s. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



Thk Juno Meeting was held at Bnrlington House, the President 

 W. H. Bates, Esq., in the chair. Amongst tho douations to the 

 Society's library received since the last meeting, were tlie publications 

 of the Zoological and Botiuiicnl Society of Vienna, the Entomological 

 Society of Stettin, the work of Ilerr Thomsen on the Insects of Scan- 

 dinavia, &c. 



The Secretai-y called the attention of the meeting to the proposed 

 exhibition of economic entomology during the month of August next, 

 the progl-amme of which is of a very extended character, and promises 

 to render tho exhibition a very valuable one. It is to be held in the 

 great building in the Champs Elysees. 



Mr. McLachlau exhibited the caterpillar of one of the Phryganidie, 

 which was taken by Mr. Fletcher crawling about the bark of a Willow 

 tree near Worcester, thns differing from the aqnatic habits of the re- 

 mainder of the tribe. He considered that it was the larva of Enoycila 

 pusilla, which has been ascertained on the Continent to be a non- 

 aquatic species, and of which the female is wingless. 



Mr. Butler exhibited specimens of Otiorhynchus picipes, which had 

 proved very injurious by biting off the young shoots of Roses and Horse- 

 chestnuts. 



Mr. Jennev called attention to a report of the Proceedings of the 

 Scientific Committee of the Horticultural Society, in which the 

 operations of the larvae of Coleophora Hemerobiella were detailed, and 

 in which it was erroneously stated that the insect acts in the same 

 manner as a leech, in sucking the leaves, and rolls up the leaves like 

 a cigarette. 



Mr. Keays exhibited Psyche crassioreUa from Hornsey Wood ; also. 

 Oak leaves, portions of which had been rolled up into egg-cases by 

 Attelabus Curcnliouoides. 



The Hon. T. Do Grey exhibited larvre and pupa^ of Hj-percallia 

 Christiemaua, the former found during the months of April and May, 

 upon Polygala vulgaris, near Shoreham . One of the larva? had changed 

 to the pupa state during the sitting of the meeting. 



Mr. H. Burmeister, jun.. exhibited drawings of the larva; and pnpie 

 skins of many species of Brazilian Butterflies. He had detenuined the 

 true character of the pupa; of the genus Ageroma, which Mr. E. 

 Douldeday had from false characters created into a distinct family. 

 The pnpa is, however, simply suspended by the tail like those of the 

 ordinai-y Nymphalidro. He had also ascertained that the larva? of the 

 anomalous genus, Castnia, feed on the bulbous swellings at the base 

 of the stems of Orchidaceous plants in Brazil. 



Mr. Edward Sheppard read a note relative to the formation of small 

 balls of earth by the curious Beetles belonging to the geuus Meloe, 

 and Professor Westwood gave an account of tho manner in which the 

 sacred Beetles form and roll large pellets of dung and earth, which 

 they bury in the sand, as recently observed by himself at Cannes and 

 Pompeii. Mr. De Grey also exhibited specimens of the longicom 

 Beetle, Agapanthea Cardni, which he had bred from the larva; which 

 reside on the dead stems of Thistles in the Norfolk fens. 



EAST SUTTON PARK. 

 Is travelliuf; from London to Dover by the Sonth-Eastern 

 Eailway, it will be found that the line from Tunbridge to Ash- 

 ford passes in a great measure through a flat country, more 

 especially beyond the Paddock Wood station ; but the traveller 

 will perceive a more hilly country two or three miles to the 

 north of the line. This rising ground soon appears to assume 

 the character of a ridge of considerable elevation, ■which extends 



for some miles parallel or nearly so to tho railway, and three 

 or four miles from it. The base of theridpe forms the northern 

 boundary of the district called the Weald of Kent, of which 

 geologists speak so much, and which may be described as a 

 rather flat district, though not a dead level, in which the soil 

 has a heavy clayey sub.soil, and in most places is highly culti- 

 vated. Tho riilgo differs considerably from tho valley, although 

 it is not on tho chalk formation met with elsewhere, Kentish 

 ragstone cropping out as well as being (luarried in many places ; 

 while in others the .surface is thickly strewn with a hard kind 

 of stone in pieces not much larger than road metal, the soil in 

 tho latter case partaking more of an oolitic character, and 

 water is less plentiful in this description of surface than where 

 ragstone predominates. Eoth soils, however, are favourable to 

 the growth of certain kinds of trees to a degree which their 

 appearance would not indicate, most deciduous trees and hedges 

 thriving remarkably well. The heights have for many years 

 been favourite places to build residences upon — not on the 

 top, which is perhaps too bleak, but on the southern slopes, 

 which overlook the Weald above mentioned for many miles. 

 Among the mansions which adorn these commanding positions 

 one of the most ancient is Sutton Castle, no longer a dwelling 

 house, but an Ivy-clothed ruin. It is said to have been the 

 residence of Aymer de Vallance, Earl of Pembroke, soon 

 after the Conquest, and the adjoining village still retains the 

 name of its once-proprietor, being called Sutton Vallance. This 

 pleasantly situated village as well as the Castle is built on a 

 steep declivity, there being as much as two storeys difference in 

 the height of the bouse on the lower and upper sides. Modem 

 improvements aided by the disciples of McAdam have removed 

 many of the romantic features of the place, but its lovely view 

 over acres of orchards and hundreds of acres of Hop gardens 

 remains the same, if, indeed, it is not improved; but as my 

 journey is still further eastward I must dismiss the village and 

 its venerable ruin, and u short and pleasant walk, the greater 

 part of it through the park, brings me to the place I more par- 

 ticularly wish to describe. 



East Sutton Place the seat of Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., is 

 one of those commodious mansions erected in the time of the 

 seventh Henry. The brick house enriched by angles and re- 

 cesses, windows plentifully furnished with stout mullions, and 

 gables and chimney stalks to match, constitutes a building of 

 large extent, stamped with the marks of .antiquity, yet not so 

 much so as to create a feeling that di.scomfort must exist inter- 

 nally, and improvements judiciously introduced have rendered 

 the interior all that could be wished. The mansion is snugly 

 and delightfully situated in a park, which of itself presents 

 more diversity of surface and features of interest than most 

 enclosures of the kind, and commands a view of a dozen 

 miles or more to the south, east, and west. It is built on the 

 slope of the ridge alluded to, about four miles from the Head- 

 corn station on the South-Eastern Bailway, and about the same 

 distance from Staplehurst. The carriage front is on the south- 

 ern side, which is open to the park, and near to the house this 

 is moderately level, but it soon begins to descend rapidly to 

 the south, and a piece of ornamental water occupies the lowest 

 corner on the south side ; while the steep and irregular ground 

 is here and there plentifully furnished with timber trees of 

 great size and age, many of those near the house being 'SVa.l- 

 nuts, whose whitened bark has evidently been blanched by 

 many a winter. Oaks, Chestnuts, Elms, and other trees also 

 abound, and I incidentally measured an Ash tree that promised 

 to do duty yet for a century or more, and found its circnm- 

 feaence in the smallest part between tho root-claws and the 

 branches to be 27 feet. There possibly might be many lar,ger, 

 but this one happened to be near at hand. A herd of deer 

 reposing in the valley formed an appropriate feature ; while 

 the eye had only to extend its research, and thriving orchards, 

 Hop gardens, and the appearance of a highly cultivate4 country 

 bounded the view far and wide. 



Having said that the carriage front is open to the park on 

 the south side, the dressed ground may be said to surround it 

 on all the other sides. A neat geometrical flower garden occu- 

 pied a position facing the west. The beds were all well filled, 

 and had evidently been very gay at an earlier period in the 

 year ; Stella Pelargonium retaining the highest position amongst 

 its class here as well as at most places that I have seen it, even 

 when competing with newer kinds. As an ornament to the 

 flower garden it is questionable whether it is more necessary 

 to general effect than Christine or a similar variety, of which 

 there were excellent examples ; but it was rather painful to 

 witness, amidst the general success o£ plants so used, that Cal- 



