AprU 17, 1866. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOETICULTXJEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



289 



Ami Gloire de Dijon, Genwal Jacqucmmot, Victor Verdier, Le 

 SS>;e, £ba rosea (ier^ beautiful), Messrs. Pan! & Son were second 

 ^^ gLod plants. alBo.'of Mademoiselle Julie ['"an ,Tohn Hopper, 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, Madame Damaizin, Anna AlexieS, Lord Kaftan, 

 Charles La,vson, Virginal, Madame ViUermoz. Mr. WlUmm Panl 

 had some lari^e plants of Madame Clemence Joignoaux, Madame 

 Sired Rougemont" Jean Gonjon, Beauty of Waltham, Sonvcnjr d nn 

 Ami, John Hopper, and Le Khone, and also a hue "■igl%l^^°* «' 

 President FinaUv, Messrs. Paul & Son had some boxes oi cut blooms, 

 ve"tifal! comprising most of the old favourites-P.erre No mg 

 Charles Lawson, Senateur Vaisso, Gloire de D.jon, Marechal Vaillant 

 Anna do Diesbach, Charles Margottm, Charles Lefebvre, Madame 

 Charles Crapelet, Lord Clyde (-"V Rood), Marechal N,el Duches«= 

 de Medma CffiU (very fine), David Prade.Vurgmd, Gl°"-« J^' P'J™; 

 Loois XV., Eugene Desgaches, Madame Charles Wood, Mannce ber 



""■N^withstanding the mild winter, there is evidence on all sides that 

 w are havrng a late spring ; and ^ence Aunculas whrch w^ not 

 submit to forcing by any means, ''f «/l^°"° ™ '^'^'^;' °Xd as 

 there being but one competitor m each class. ^^^.^-^.^'^l^^ll'S 

 usual, e^ellent plants. In his twelve "f^^, I^\S^t^/''y \.f„ J.' ^^C' 

 Maclean's Uninue, Lightbody's Admiral of the Blue Tajloi s Wory, 

 P^e's Champion, Tram's Florence, blue self ; Traill s G^^erf f^U- 

 s^ewhat foiy in colour ; Gaines' Lady K''^'^^''^^""' P^'^^'^.J^"!^'™ 

 thin- LiBhtbody's Countess of Dunmore ; and Read s Miss triddings, 

 wh.C James had Conqueror of Europe, Smithy Mrs. Smith 

 S^th's Ann Smith, Oliver's lovely Anne, L--e Stuart (hkeWy 

 Anne), Taylor's Glory, Warris's Umon, Sims s Eliza. Of Alpines the 

 2^4 was equally small. Mr. Turner ^ad Brilliant Emperor, SUr 

 Attraction, Hector, and Conspicua,al seedlings except the last. Mr. 

 James had Beauty, Leigh Wilson, BrilUant, Lilac and ^ovelty. 

 Polyanthuses were also exhibited, but not named 

 Pansies were al.so exhibited by Mr. James, and comprised Black 

 Douglas, Mrs. H. Hooper, Rev. H. Dombrain, Father Gavazzi, Seed- 

 ^g (poorr Mrs. White, Perfection, Ladyburn Beauty, Alexander 

 Tait,&ful Star, Mr. J. Ramsay, Czar, David Inghs. .T^ey were 

 not very fine, and out of twenty-four blooms there were sixteen dark 

 .selfs, most of them very much aliie. ■!,•.■„„ ^„A nt 



Roses formed one ot' the chief features of the Exhibition, and at- 

 tracted a large number of admirers as usual. It gave one a taste o^ 

 coming pleasures, and showed, too, what I suppose pleases all ol us 

 that one^! judgment as to the Roses of past seasons was not very far 

 out-as well as could be gathered from ilowers g-"™ "«1«; ^^^ 

 We shall see more of them as the season advances, and then be better 

 able to " make our book." — D., Deal. 



been added to the General Committee— viz., Dr. Masters; 

 Messrs. Bull, Barnes, Barr, Fleming, McKenzio, T. Osbom, 

 Standish, and Turner. At a meeting held on the Oth inst. it 

 ■was resolved to secure St. Martin's Hall for the dinner. 



Weeki-y Show, .1;;^? U.-There is a more than usuaUy extensive 

 exhibition this day, which was attributable to the presence of Mr 

 ^Uam Paul's beautiful pot Roses and Mr. Turner s masnificent 

 Azaleas, which had been left from the =V™S^?^eetLug of Thursday 



The classes for which prizes were oSered ^Z'''^''''r;,°JhT^on1^^i 

 in flower, the first prize being taken by Messrs. Cutbush ct Son^ ^d 

 the second by Mr. Bartlett. while an extra second was awarded to Mr. 

 YoiirS-Ld, for miscellaneous plants in fo--' ^e-- C;itbusli 

 received the first prize, and Mr. Young an extra first An extra first 

 was ako awarded to Mr. William Paul for his coUection of Roses m 

 ^Ts,wM:h were still in fine condiUon. There were a so eoU^ciions of 

 miscellaneous plants exhibited by Messrs J. & C- Lee "f Hainmer 

 smith, which received an extra first, and by Mrs. Hooke, of Fulham, 

 and Mr. Bartlett. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



Thb March Meeting of this Society (in the absence of the Presi- 

 dent), was presided over by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., one of 

 the Vice-Presidents. Amongst the books presented to the library since 

 the last meeting, was a valuable memoir on the Neuropterons insects 

 of Spain, by M. Pictet, jun. 



A very remarkable and extensive collection of Beetles, Butterflies, 

 and Moths, was exhibited by Mr. Stevens, collected at Hakodadi, in 

 Japan, a great number of wliich could scarcely be distinguished from 

 the common English species, the whole having a very European 

 character, there being but a very few exceptional species of the Indian 

 type. Amongst the Beetles there were only representatives of two genera 

 not European. 



Mr. Tegetmeier also exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera, from 

 Nagasaki, in Japan, but this series was composed of larger-sized 

 species, much more oriental in their character than the former. 



Mr. S. Stone sent for exhibition some nests built by workers of 

 Vespa sylvestris, after the original nest, with the queen, had been 

 removed. These nests were very bungling and irregular in their form, 

 showing that the workers needed the superintending attention of the 

 queen, or master builder. A curious fact had been observed by Mr. 

 S. Stone in connection with these nests— namely, that the cells con- 

 tained eggs. Mr. Tegetmeier stated that the same fact had been also 

 well ascertained to be the case occasionally with the workers of the 

 hive Bee, but the eggs were laid irregularly, several in a single cell, 

 and they always produced male insects. The physiological cause of 

 this strange fact, as also of the power of the queen Bee to deposit 

 male or female (i. e., workers'), eggs at wiU, was explained by Professor 

 Westwood. 1 . o 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a twig of Mulberry collected at hanger, 

 in India, by Captain Alexander, on which were arranged, in three 

 rows, about sixty eggs of a species of Ascalaphus (a genus allied to 

 the Ant Lion), from which some of the young larvai had been hatched. 

 Geoffrey had stated that a female of this genus had deposited several 

 large eggs, but he had not obtained the young from them. The pre- 

 paratory states of the genus had, however, been more recently pubhshed 

 by the late Rev. L. Goulding, and by M. Brauer. 



Mr Pickard Cambridge, exhibited an extensive coUection of insects 

 of all orders formed by himself in Syria, Palestine, the Styrian Alps, 

 &c and which were intended for publication in the work undertaken 

 by Mr. Tristram, on the Fauna and Flora of Palestine, as part of the 

 .Teat work projected by the Palestine Exploration Society. 

 ° A valuable Memoir,'by Mr. Edward Saunders, was read, containing 

 the description of a considerable number of new species of Buprestidse, 

 coUected by the late M. Mouhot, in Siam. ,, •»_ t 



A note from Mr. Groser was read, confirmmg, on the authority ot 

 Rev Leonard Jenyns, Mr. Doubleday's statement as to the noise made 

 bv the Death Watch. A conversation took place relative to the insects 

 found in amber, copal, &c., founded upon Dr. Welwitsch'a recent 

 communication to the Linnean Society. 



AT the usual fortnightly meeting to be ''^l'' 'J^^^ ^''^y^'^. J''^^; 

 formed that Dendrobinm MacCarthrie ^J P™'"'"/ ^« <'t'^''f„„3 i^' 

 beautiful snecies is found pendent from the trunks of large trees m 

 tte f"ests of Cey on, whe e it is known to the natives by the name of 

 %tT^.^J^^' 'the 'signification of which is Ka-y.--'^^!™-';" 

 May Flower. A plate and description of it were given m Curtis s 

 Botanical Magazine " in 1855. 



AMAllANTHUS TRICOLOR. 

 In reply to a query put by one of your correspondents (page 

 257^1 beg to say that in 18G3 the gardener of Count Borromeo 

 ofthelBola Mate, Lago Magglore, gave me ^o^^^^^J'^^^^^^ 

 Amaranthus tricolor, which, sown m pans and placed at hrst 

 in moderate heat, made strong plants about a foot m height 

 and remarkably effective from their bnllmnt fohage. Last 

 tSmmer the heat and want ot rain caused the ?!''"»•* ° 1°«« 

 fheir colour more quickly; but with '^l^'^de and wate, hey 

 may be kept bright late into the autumn.-'W. C. W., baltjoia. 



The HoRTictJLTDEAL Dinner proposed to take place during 

 the week of the International Horticultural Exhibition con- 

 tinues to progress favourably, and the following names have 



TEMrERATURE-RECORDING APPARATUS. 



{Cuntinued from page 244.) 

 I HAVE a few more remarks to make on the above-mentioned 

 apparatus which more particularly concern those who, possess- 

 ing a maximum thermometer, find that the mercury does not 

 always divide uniformly at the obstruction o (see page 24d), 

 but separates sometimes above, sometimes a little below, the 

 compressed portion of the tube. Should any person possess such 

 an instrument, and be unwiUingto have it altered so as to causa 

 the mercury to divide with accuracy at a given pomt, which 

 alteration can be very easily effected, I will show him how he 

 can learn with certainty the maximum temperature between 

 any given times, though he himself be absent. Instead of 

 arranging the thermometer in a vertical position, as shown in 

 lin 1 page 243, the instrument must be suspended exactly as 

 it wolild be placed by an observer should lie wish to know the 

 maximum temperature— i.e., in a horizontal position. When 

 the alarum weight descends the mercury runs down to the end 

 of the tube (see fig. 2J, and thus the greatest temperature o! 

 the greenhouse between the time of setting the alarum and the 

 descent of the weight, say midnight, is leamt in the mormng. 

 The temperature-recording apparatus would also, 1 believe, De 

 of some service to those who wish to keep a register of maximum 

 heat, or of temperature at any fixed time, but who are, perhaps, 

 unable to be present at the usual time for observation.— A., 

 Smrey. 



