August 28, 1868. ] 



JOURNAL OF IIOimOULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAUDENER. 



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came Zpnale seedling Pelargonium Boh. :i good flower, but too murii 

 Like many others ; and from Mr. I.! Hopkin i) Brentford, seedling 

 Dahlias Lord Enfield, Ariel, ami Aumi. Mi, Standisli's Beedling 

 Gladioli cnnch admired, and were very beautiful ; many of them 



hud received awards. Two seedlings wn-c fleeted for first-class cer- 

 tificates— viz,, Dr. Hogg, a splendid fierj crimson, with a purple dame, 

 and Basil, a large weU-fonneo. white and pink striped flower, one of the 

 tui' rt seedlings yet raised. A, special certificate was awarded for the 

 ton. Mr. Todman seat a seedling Verbena, Kin ;oi '■ Redder . 

 :i fiurk crimson : two bo\cs of the cut blooms i»f this Beedling were al o 

 sent. A econd-class certificate was awarded it as a useful bedding 

 variety. Mr. Green, gardener fcoW.'W. Saunders, Esq., received a 

 special : for a collection of Peperoxaias. To Jlr. Andes on 



gardener to T. Dawson, .Esq., a ■■[" eul < ■< i uiie:Ue was awarded for a 



die ition of cut spikes of beautiful I >rchid i. -Mr. Simms, gardener to, 

 E. Dance, Esq., brought a very pretty seedling Zonale Pelargonium 

 Salmon Bang ; being a yearling plant no award was made. Mr. George 

 Rawlins had a very dark seedling Dahlia called John shubb.'ii, whichre- 

 ceived a Becond- class certificate. From Mr. Tillery, Welbeck, came 

 seedling Gladiolus Fanny. Messrs. Veitch si nt two beautiful Orchitis, 

 to one of which, Cattlaya Manglesii, a beautiful hybrid between 

 C. Earrifloniffl and C. Mossife, a first-class certificate was awarded 

 Mr. Job ■ vena, gardener to F. E. Williams, Esq., Solihull, sent 

 Uing Glotuoli — Mrs. "Williams, Wyley Williams, and Ex- 

 hibitor; to the latter, a dark red with a white throat, a second-class 

 ate was awarded. Mr. Eekford, Coleshill, a^ain brought a 

 line collection of seedling Verbenas ; two of them, Earl of Radnor, a 

 Light scarlet, pale lemon centre, ami Fanny Martin, received sucond- 

 class certificates. Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury, exhibited among seedling 

 Dahlias a Fancy named Butterfly, of a dark brownish hue, which 

 was award id a first-class certificate ; and Clara Simon, a light flower 

 tipped with purple, which received a first-class certificate. We may 

 many of the seedlings exhibited on this occasion to be sent 

 again, for it :s early to decide on the merits of seedling Dahlias ; they 

 may and will produce much better flowers than at present. 



Fruit Committee. — A special certificate trdedto Mr. Bell, 



gardener to the Duke of Wellington, Strathfieldsaye, for a fruit of 

 Charlotte K ithschild Pine Apple of peculiarly excellent flavour. Mr. 

 Bell also i xhibited Anson's Pine, a variety of inferior merit. A 

 Ripley Queen weighing b* lbs. t) ozs., was likewise shown by Mr. Holli- 

 day, gardener to W. B. Walmsley, E so;., The Elms, Acton ; it was, 

 however, almost destitute of a crown, a circumstance which detracted 

 much from its appearance. Several Beedling Grapes were shown by 

 Mr. James, gardener to the Earl of Dartmouth, Patshull ; one of 

 them was the result of a cross between the Black Prince and Black 

 Foontignan, and another between Morocco and Chasselas Musquc. 

 The Committee, however, did not consider them worthy of an award. 

 From Messrs. Osborn, Fulhain, came fruit of Podophyllum erapdi and 

 Gaultheria shallon; and from the Rev. A. Rawson, of Bromley, the 

 Lawton Blackberry, very juicy, but not equal in flavour to the 

 common Blackberry. 



Fortnightly Meeting..— G. F. Wilson, Esq., F.B.S., in the chair. 

 After the election of members and the announcement of the awards, 

 the Rev. M. J. Berkeley direckJ attention to a Bramble shown at the 

 previous meeting by Mr. Bateman. Tins, he said, was nearly allied 

 to the common Raspberry (Rubus ideusl, and evidently a "form ot 

 R. Btrigosns. Other nearly related species were R. occidentalis and 

 Cuneiforms, having the under sides of their leaves white. Referring 

 then to the Lawton Blackberry, he said the fruit was large, and held 

 in lagh. repute in Canada and the United States ; and though to our 

 taste its flavour is somewhat vapid, it is there, owing to the heat of the 

 summer, very acceptable from its juiciness. He might mention, in 

 connection with the Blackberry, that the jelly had been prescribed for 

 gout by a physician in Northamptonshire, and it doubtless owed its 

 to the circumstance of its contaiu ., ; a tall quantity of citrate 

 of potash, which is used as a remedy for that painful disorder. Mr. 

 Rivers, it was added, had been making some experiments with the view 

 of improving the fruit of the Blackberry, and Mr. Berkeley hoped 

 that the produce of some of the cross-bred plants would be shown at 

 the next meeting. Rubus gircon,dianus raised from seeds imported 

 from the Amoor River, and shown at a recent meeting, proved to be 

 the It. reflexus of Ker, figured in the "Botanical Register " in 1820; 

 and this fact would serve to show how cautious we ought to be in adopt- 

 ing trade names. Mr. Berkeley then remarked that, though not be- 

 fore the meeting, male catkins of Picea pinsapo had been produced at 

 the Marquis of Hnutly's, Orton Longville, near Peterborough. 

 Orchids then came under review, and attention was especially directed 

 to an unnamed Oncidium, of which a magnificent branch was furnished 

 by Mr. Anderson, gardener to T. Dawson, ]. .. Mi idow Bank, near 

 Glasgow, from wliom there also came a portion of a spike of Oncidium 

 leucochiluni bearing no fewer than 242 blossoms. Ladia Wallisu, and 

 the facility with which Cattleyas hybridise, were then remarked upon, 

 as also Adiautum velutinum, from Mr. Bull. With regard to Podo- 

 phyllum emodi, Mr. Berkeley expressed his surprise that the large 

 red fruit should have proved perfectly insipid, seeing that the May 

 Apple or Wild Lemon of the Americans (P. pel ta turn), is one of the 

 most intensely acid fruits known. Among economic plants of interest, 

 there was Maranta aruudinacea, from the tubers of which the Arrow- 

 root of commerce is obtained, but there are several other plants which 



afford a starch to which that name is applied. Thus the Portland Ar- 

 rowroot is obtained from our common Arum, which is very poisonous, 

 but by repeated washings is rendered innocuous. It ought also be 

 mentioned that in to23, when there was a great scarcity of food in tho 

 West of Scotland, a great number of people lived on the fecula of the 

 roots of Typha latiioha. The Bice-plant, Venue's Flytrap (Dionaea 

 muscipula), and Apooynnm aqdro itBmifofium, also came under notice, 

 as well as the Dahlia Fanny Start, which was exhibited in three forms 

 — viz., in its normal condition, or tipped with while ; half tipped with 

 while, and half crimson ; and lastly, crino ion ' ntirely. 



The Middle boron hand the Glamorganshire Horticultural Societies 

 were admitted into union. 



Weekly Show, August 254ft. — On this occa I were offered 



for the best collection of vegetables; and Mr. Earley, gardener to F. 

 Pryor, Esq., Digswell, and Mr. Hill, Ange] Row, 11 n replaced 



equal first; the former also received an extra prize for a basket of 

 flowers, and a first-class certificate for a neatly arranged hand-bouquet. 

 To Mrs. Hooke, Morville Lodge, Fulhatn, were awarded first-class 

 certificates for three specimens of Lilitun auratnm and for six Fuchsias, 

 also a second-class one for Gladiolus. Mr. Standish received an extra 

 prize for a collection of Gladiolus ; and a similar award was made to 

 Mr. Bartlett, of Hammersmith, for Lilinin auratum and Asters. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



The August meeting of this Society was held on the 6th inst., Pro- 

 fessor Westwood, Vice-President, being in the chair. On the motion 

 of Mr. Pascoe, seconded by Mr. Stevens, a vote of thanks was unani- 

 mously passed to W. W. Saunders, Esq., for the kind and liberal 

 entertainment given by him to the members of the Society at Eeigate, 

 as already recorded in our pages. 



Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited portions of two collections of insects 

 recently sent by Mr. Edwin Reed from Bahia in Brazil, and by Mr. 

 Gerrard from Madagascar. Amongst the former were some interest- 

 ing CieindelidaS and Ca rabid© ; and among the latter a new and hand- 

 some Buprestis, and several species of the very rare genus Pogono- 

 stoma (Psilocera, Gory), also specimens of a new Cetonia from Sierra 

 Leone. 



Mr. MacLachlan exhibited a remarkable specimen of Cabera pusaria, 

 a white Moth, but which had the wings entirely of a slaty colour — it 

 had been captured by Mr. D'Orvillo; also an extensive series of the 

 cases formed by the lame of different species of Caddice Flies (Tri- 

 choptera), which he had received from Bavaria and the neighbourhood 

 of Basle, one of which was remarkable for being formed of tubular 

 vegetable stems fastened together longitudinally, the insect residing 

 in the central tube ; another was formed entirely of minute particles 

 of sand ; also specimens of the galls formed by Aphides of the genus 

 Eriosoma on Elm trees, within which the Flies are developed in con- 

 siderable numbers, but some of the galls were observed to be partly 

 tilled with fluid. He also noticed the capture of Sisyra Dalii, a very 

 rare species of HemerobiittiB, at Eeigate. 



Mr. Bond exhibited several rare British Moths, including Scopula 

 basistrigalis, a new species recently described by Dr. Knaggs ; also 

 Sericoris Euphorbiana and Catoptria mierpgrammana, taken at Folke- 

 stone by Mr. Meek. 



Mr- Jansen exhibited various rare Beetles collected in the New 

 Forest by Mr. C. Turner, including Vellerius dilatatus found in the 

 burrows made by the caterpillars of the Goat Moth. Professor West- 

 wood stated that the late Professor Henslow had reared this rare 

 Staphylinus from Hornets' nests, in which its larva is parasitic. He 

 also made some remarks on the structure of the singular blind Ant 

 Beetle from Australia, Ectrephes formicarum, described at the list 

 meeting of the Society by Mr. Pascoe ; and on the rearing of the new 

 Chinese Silkworm, Bonibyx Cynthia. 



A communication was also read on the recent plague of Locusts in 

 Algeria. 



HORTICULTURE ON THE CONTINENT. 



Ooit neighbours are occupied with their approaching Exhibi- 

 tion in 1867, and the horticultural journals give us details re- 

 specting the annexe to tho building devoted to plants and fruits. 

 The Show will last from the 1st of April to the 31st of October. 

 A garden of more than 50,000 square yards, in the Champ de 

 liars, is specially devoted to horticultural objects. There will 

 be fourteen sections. No object exhibited can be withdrawn 

 during the fortnight destined to its section. Expenses to be 

 paid by exhibitors ; but the railways reduce the ordinary tariff 

 by one-half. Applications to indicate clearly the objects and 

 their condition, also the space required, &c. In France one 

 cannot be too minute, let it be remembered by intending ex- 

 hibitors. The following is a sketch of the sections : — 



First section, open 1st of April, 1S67 :— Camellias, Conifers, 

 vegetables, Ericas, forced fruits, and vegetables. 



Second section, open 15th of April :— Rhododendron arbo- 

 reum, forced fruits, Hyacinths, and greenhouse plants. 



