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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July 24, 18G6. 



Mr. Turner. He grows them to the extent of several thousands, 

 and, in common with the other Conifers, much labour is spent 

 upon them in transplanting every year. Of Roses Mr. Turner 

 has about four acres, occupied by plants remarkable for the 

 health of their foliage and the size of the wood. Besides the 

 standards and dwarfs, there is an extensive stock of pot Roses 

 plunged in the quarters. The Rose-quarters, notwithstanding 

 the hot dry weather, are in excellent bloom, and the following 

 Hybrid Perpetuals were especially fine — viz., Charles Lefebvre, 

 Leopold I., Marguerite de St. Amand, Madame Victor Verdier, 

 Maurice Bernardin, Duchesse de Caylus, La Duchesse de Moray, 

 Dr. Andry, Due de Rohan, Pierre Notting, and Mdlle. Bonnaire. 

 Among Teas we noticed the beautiful Alba rosea, which is very 

 free-flowering out of doors, Madame Villennoz, Narcisse, and 

 Homer, an edged Rose, very useful for cutting for bouquets. 

 Jean d'Arc seemed a nice free-flowering garden variety. Near 

 the Rose ground was a space enclosed by hedges, in which were 

 about 1700 pots of Carnations and Picotees. 



In the houses, as already mentioned, the Pelargoniums were 

 either cut down or ripening off, and several large houses were 

 filled with such plants ; others contained the large show speci- 

 mens of Azaleas completing their growth ; and in other houses 

 were some four hundred Aehimenes, several pots of Lilium 

 auratum, and a number of Gloxinias. In a range of pits 

 there was a number of bouquet Dahlias, and as these are be- 

 coming great favourites we asked Mr. Turner which he con- 

 sidered the best and most useful, when he named the follow- 

 ing : — Burning Coal, deep yellow, with intense scarlet tip ; Dr. 

 Schwebes, rich scarlet ; Glow-worm, bright red, fine ; King of 

 Purples, dark purplish maroon ; Little Arthur, crimson, good 

 bedder ; Little Love, puce, shaded rose ; Little Mistress, violet 

 purple ; Multiflora, light blush, tipped with violet purple ; 

 North Light, bright scarlet, fine ; Prince of Liliputians, ma- 

 roon ; Progress, pale peach ; Shadow, rosy crimson. 



Turning from the houses again into the principal walk, by 

 the side of which is a very effective ribbon border, planted with 

 Lobelia Paxtoniana in the front row, then Aurea floribunda 

 Calceolaria, Stella Geranium, and Double White Pj-rethrurn 

 alternately with Perilla nankinensis, we passed on to the 

 ground where there is an extensive stock of Apples, Pears, 

 Peaches, and Nectarines, with strong, solid, short-jointed wood. 

 Here were several rows of Premier Pea, remarkable for its ex- 

 treme productiveness. It is a late, green, wrinkled Marrow 

 growing 4 feet high, as already stated an extraordinary bearer, 

 producing on an average seven peas in a pod, sweet, and of 

 excellent flavour. Although said to bo nearly allied to Mac- 

 lean's Proline, certainly the two as grown at Slough from seed 

 sown the same day were very different both in height and 

 productiveness. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



The July meeting of this Society was held on the 2nd inst.. the 

 Presdient, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., being in the chair. The 

 Hon. T. I). Grey, M.P., and C. Ward, Esq., of Halifax, were elected 

 members. A number of valuable entomological works recently pub- 

 lished by the Society were upon the table. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a head of Typha latifolia, showing the man- 

 ner in which the caterpillars of the small Moth, Laverna phragmi- 

 tella, feed within it ; also specimens of a Gelechia, closely allied to 

 G. leucomelanella, which he had succeeded in rearing from galls 

 found upon Gypsophila saxifraga, Mentone, in the spring. The 

 occurrence of galls formed by Lepidopterous insects, the iarvaa of 

 which reside within them in the same manner as the CynipidtE, is very 

 rare. Mr. F. Bond exhibited the rare Sesia philanthiformis, Dian- 

 thsecia cresia, and several species of Phycita, one of which appeared 

 to be undescribed. all from the Isle of Man, collected by Messrs. 

 Hopley and Greening ; also some bred specimens of Papilio Machaon, 

 remarkable for their gigantic size. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd also exhibited a specimen of Dianthfeeia 

 cassia, supposed to have been taken in Yorkshire by Mr. Bentley. Mi-. 

 Edward Saunders exhibited a collection of Mexican Butterflies, re- 

 cently formed by Mr. Bouchard, amongst which was a remarkable 

 specimen of an Euterpe, in which the colours of the different sexes 

 were shown by the opposite wings, the right side being white and the 

 left yellow, with the ordinary dark markings. 



Mr. Pascoe called attention to a paper by Mr. Albert Muller, in the 

 " Zoologist," and read an extract from Von Tschudi's " Thierleben der 

 Alpenwelt," relative to the action of insects settling or falling upon 

 the Bnow at considerable altitudes in Alpine situations, and upon the 

 manner in which they then sink into it, in consequence of the radiation 

 of heat from their bodies, as stated by Mr. Pascoe in a former com- 

 munication to the Society. Professor Brayley considered this to be 

 the true cause of the phenomenon, and that it did not result from the 

 presence of an increased amount of oxygen in the melting snow, as 



had been asserted by some writers. Professor Westwood instanced 

 similar results produced by t'jc falling of hive bees on snow in this 

 country. 



The President read a series of extracts from M. Balbiani's recently 

 published memoir on the microscopical anatomy and physiology of 

 Aphides, in which, from the structure of the cells of the ovarian tubes 

 and other curious particulars, the author was disposed to consider 

 that the common Plant Lice are truly hermaphrodites, by which the 

 production from a Bingle Aphis of eggs and young for many gene- 

 rations, might be accounted for. It was, however, suggested that 

 the production of decided male and female Aphides with fully de- 

 veloped wings at fixed periods of the year, seemed to militate against 

 such a theory. 



Mr. Stainton gave an account of an epidemic which had broken out 

 on the Rye in the neighbourhood of St. Etienne, caused, as was be- 

 lieved, by the attacks of the caterpillars of a small Moth, Ochsen- 

 heimeria taurella, which gnaws through the stems below the ear, and 

 not by its feeding on the flowers of this cereal, as had been erroneously 

 stated. Some notes were read on the caterpillars of the two Butter- 

 flies, Charaxes Jasius and Melitffia provencialis, found in the south of 

 Franco by tho Kev. L. Timing The former is becoming very rare, 

 in consequenco of the Arbutus unedo, on which the larvre feed, being 

 gradually rooted up for fuel by the peasants, especially near Hyeres- 

 Mr. Stevens exhibited specimens of two species of the remarkable 

 Cornuted Beetles, Luronocephalus, from North India and China, and 

 the Secretary communicated a note from the Kortk China Herald on 

 the large trado in Chinese insect-wax, in which it was stated that as 

 much as 5000 cwt. was annually exported from one port in the north 

 of that country. 



COUNTRY SCRAPS.— No. 2. 



Again, amongst the Yorkshire flora is found the Tulipa 

 sylvestris. Smith says of it, that its favourite habitats are old 

 chalk-pits, but that it is not common, and he mentions as 

 localities, " chalk-pit at Carrow Abbey ; near Norwich ; near 

 Bury ; at Whipsnade, Herefordshire ; at Melbury, near Shaftes- 

 bury ; and on Muswell Hill, Middlesex ; also in a field near Hamil- 

 ton, Scotland ; and near Brechin." He describes the flower as 

 " somewhat drooping, sweet-scented, bright yellow, externally 

 greenish. Linnaius and Haller thought this plant had escaped 

 from gardens in Sweden and Switzerland. It is, however, per- 

 fectly wild at present, and extremely abundant in many old 

 chalk-pits, though the bulbs run so far into the ground that 

 they rarely flower. Nothing can be more distinct as a species." 

 Thus far writes Smith of the plant in question, he does not 

 mention its Yorkshire home, which I find is " between Hex- 

 thorpe and Sprotborough broats." (Yorkshire again ! What 

 can the word mean? Is it a dene or a marsh?) "Broats," 

 yes that is the word, and I think we must invoke some York- 

 shiremen to enlighten us as to its meaning. 



The foregoing difficulty reminds me of one equally unre- 

 solvable, which occurred to me in a walk through York some 

 years ago. Passing an ironmonger's shop displayed in large 

 letters upon a printed card, was — "A Fog to Let." A " fog" 

 to let! Whatever is a " fog? " The usual acceptation of the 

 term I understand, but taking it in that sense, I think there 

 would be few demands for such a thing. Well, I pondered and 

 pondered, and no nearer did I arrive at any satisfactory con- 

 clusion, so I determined to let the weighty matter stand over 

 until I returned to my brother's. What a hearty laugh greeted 

 me as I asked for a solution to my query. " Was it a dogcart 

 or a mangle ? " "A dogcart ! or a mangle ! Why, don't yon 

 know what a fog is?" "No, I have not the remotest idea, 

 but something evidently connected with ironmongery." Another 

 laugh was all the response for some minutes, and then came 

 the long-anticipated revelation. A "fog" was the second crop, 

 or "after-grass," as it was sometimes termed, which sprang 

 up after the first had been cut and made into hay. 



I must confess a great ignorance of Yorkshire words, I am 

 only acquainted with the native hospitality, and tables groan- 

 ing under the weight of mysterious pies, and cakes of all sorts, 

 the names of which I also in my confirmed simplicity eschew. 

 I know that the mention of the various Ferns which beautify 

 the hills and dales there causes me very often to covet their 

 possession, and I am ashamed to say it was just after coming 

 from a missionary meeting the other evening, and whilst sit- 

 ting at supper near a Yorkshire clergyman, that he innocently 

 enough aroused the covetous nature which dwelt within me 

 by giving me the details of an excursion which he and his 

 family had lately made into one of the wilder spots in his own 

 grand county. It was, I believe, at a distance of some miles 

 beyond Bolton, that they came upon a complete mass of Poly- 

 podium phegopteris and P. dryopteris intermingled, all grow- 



