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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July 39. 1869. 



Bonaason, dloriosnin, ioarp:iiiato*nBtliiIalam» and decorum : FolyslicbDm 

 anpnlore liueare laxaiu, coronare. oxyphvllnm Klworthii ; Athyriara 

 F.if. Fraseri, auKi-nam, Hookeri.auJ I'iilwardsii ; PolypodiamcaudatUDi ; 

 AspleQiom murinum capitatQm and imbricatnm. 



The prizes were distribnted on the 21st inst. by tbc Mayor of 

 Manchester, in the nnavoidablo absence of Prince Tcck. On tho 

 same day the HorticnUnral Congress commenced, tho Dako of Bnc- 

 clench, President of the Society, takinj: the chair. The first paper 

 read was that of Mr. Cramb, entitled " What Boil is best snited for 

 theprodQciion of Grapes ?" This and other papers we shall pnblish. 

 The following Htatvment shows the financial resalt of the Show to 

 have been highly satisfactory. The sums received were : — 



July 19th, Five-shilling day £99 



„ tiOth, „ ., £2*0 5 



., 21 St. Half-crown day £539 1 10 



., 2'2nd, Shilling day £352 11 8 



„ 23rd, ,.~ £286 17 



„ 24th, Sixpenny day £128 



£1645 15 6 

 In addition to the above amount, the nim of £112 was received 

 for tickets sold previons to tLo openiug of tho Show, and £100 from 

 the refreshment coutractoiE, making the total receipts £1857 15$. 6(/. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



The last meeting of the season was held at Burlington Honse on 

 the 5th instant, Mr. F. Smith, Vice-President, in the chair. Amongst 

 the new books presented since the last meeting to the Society were the 

 poblicatiou.^ of the Royal. Linnean, and Stettin Societios, the fourth 

 volume of Harold A Gemminger's Catalogue of Coleoptera, and the 

 first part of a new periodical work on exotic Butterflies, printed in 

 cliromolithography bv Mr. Butler. Amongst the visitors at the meet- 

 ing were Professor Schiodte. of Copenhagen, and Drs. Kauf, of 

 Darmstadt, and Candeze, of Liege. Mr. J. J. Weir exhibited a Tick 

 of gigantic size, belonging to the genus Ixodes, found on a live Greek 

 tortoise. The Chairman mentioned an instance in which he had been 

 attacked by one of these insects. Mr. Barclay called the attention of 

 the meeting to the injuries committed on the sugar canes in the island 

 o£ Mauritius, by numbers of insects of the genus Coccus, known by 

 the inhabitants nnder the name of the " Pou hlanc." The Chairman 

 communicated a drawing by Mr. Ford of the beautiful luminous larva 

 which he had exhibited at the last meeting, and called attention to 

 Mr. Andrew Murray's memoir on luminous larva, recently published 

 in the "Proceedins^s" of the Linnean Society. He also exhibited 

 living specimens of Pissodes notatus from Bournemouth, and of the 

 field Cricket, Achata campestris, from Farnham. 



"Notes on the liutomology of Adelaide," by Mr. C. A. Wilson. 

 These notes were of a desultory character, but amongst them the 

 anthor mentioned tho discovery ot the genus Xenos in South Australia, 

 parasitic in the bodies of wasps of the genus Paragia. Mr. Edwin 

 Brown sent some " Observations on Anstralian Cicindelida;." with 

 description of a beautiful new species captured by Mr. Du Boolay, 

 Tetracha Adonifi. 



The Honourable T. De Grey exhibited and made some observations 

 on Cosmopteryx Aurichalcea, and on a dark variety of Carpocapsa 

 Juliana ; and Mr. Wakefield made some remarks on the insects of New 

 Zealand, which he aflirmed to be very few in number, and by no 

 means striking in their appearance. He had only obtained fonrtetu 

 species of Butterflies, and 250 kinds of Moths, amongst which the 

 common English Clear-wing Trochilium tipuUforme had been intro- 

 duced from this country with Currant trees. Mr. S. Stevens stated 

 that the fine collection of insects of the late Mr. Tnmer. M.P. for 

 Manchester, wonld be sold by auction in the course of the autumn. 



fifteenth centary, conseoted to be the xoiBtresB of Henry, Xx>rd 

 Grey of Codnor. In tho remarkable will of that remarkAble 

 nobleman, who, in 1 lO-'i. obtained a lioenoo from the king for 

 the transmutation of metals, provision is made for his illegiti- 

 mate isaue, by Catherine, in terms which were, no donbt, 

 deemed unexceptionable in those days, bat which would be 

 deemed highly oftensive in our own. The territorial pos- 

 sessions of the Findernes were large : the Findemes were 

 High Sheritts, occasionally Rangers of Needwood Forest, and 

 Custodians of Tutbury Caatle, r.nd they matched with many 

 of the best families. Findurne, original! v erected U'r^p^/re 

 Edward I., and restored and enlarged at diiiercnt periods, was 

 in 1500 one of the quaintest and largest mansions in the mid- 

 lands. The present church, then the family chapel, bad rows 

 of monumental brasses and altar-tombs, all memorials of the 

 Findemes. In 1850, a pedigree research caused me to pay a 

 visit to the Tillage. I sought for the ancient Hall. Not a 

 stone remained to tell where it had stood ! I entered the 

 church—not a single record of a Finderne was there ! I ac- 

 costed a villager, hoping to glean some stray traditions of the 

 Findemes, 'Findemes!' said he. 'we have no Findemes 

 here, but we have something that once belonged to them ; we 

 have Findemes' flowers.' * Show me them,' I replied ; and 

 tho old man led me into a field which still retained faint ttaces 

 of terraces and foundations. * There.' said he, pointing to a 

 bank of ' garden flowers grown wild,' * there are the Fin- 

 demes' flowers, brought by Sir Geoffrey from the Holy LAnd, 

 and do what we will, they will never die ! ' 



" Poetry mingles more with our daily life than we are apt to 

 acknowledge; and even to an antiquary like myself, the old 

 man's prose and the subject of it were the very eaaenoe d 

 poetry, 



"For more than three hundred years the l-'indemcB have been 

 extinct, the mansion they had dwelt in had crumbled into dust, 

 the brass and marble intended to perpetuate the race had 

 passed away, and a little tiny flower had for ages preserved a 

 name and a memory, which the elaborate works of man's hand 

 had failed to rescue from oblivion. The moral of the incident 

 is as beautiful as the poetry. We often talk of • the language 

 of flowers,' but of the eloquence of flowers we never had such 

 a striking example as that presented in these flowers of Fin- 

 derne : — 



' Time, Time, bis withering hand hath laid 

 On battlement aud tower. 

 And where rich banners were displayed, 

 Now only waves a flower.* " 



BRITISH FEEXS. 



FINDERNE FLOWERS. 



The Findemes were Lancastrians, so when, daring the War 

 of the Koses, the Yorkists were ascendant, the ruin of the 

 Findernes was consummated, and Edward IV., in 1473, prantod 

 " all the manors and hereditaments within the kingdom of 

 England lately helonging to 'William Finderne," to Robert 

 Badeclifffl ; no wonder tho Eadcljiies still delight in Boses. 

 Burke, in liis " Vicissitudes of Families," relates as follows : — 



" The hamlet of Finderne, in the parish of Mickleover, about 

 four miles from Derby, was, for nine generations, the chief 

 residence of a family who derived their name from the place 

 of their patrimony. From the time of Edward I. to those of 

 Henry VIII.. when the male line became extinct, and the 

 estate passed, by the marriage of the heiress, to the Harpurs, 

 the house of Finderne was one of the most distinguished in 

 Derbyshire. Members of it had won their spurs in the 

 Crusades, and at Cressy, and at Agincourt. The sons were 

 brave and the daughters fair : one. alas ! was frail as well as 

 fair, and the heaviest blow that ever fell on the time- honoured 

 race was when Catherine Finderne, about the middle of the 



Havini; lately paid a visit to Messrs. Ivery's well-known es- 

 tablishment at i)orking, and enjoyed the opportunity of ex- 

 amining their e::tensive collection, perhaps a few notes of some 

 , of the more recent introductions raight not be uninteresting. 

 Talk of florists' flowers, why we shall soon have such a variety 

 of our native Ferns as will put into the shade any collection of 

 florists' flowers that we have, and with differences so minnte, 

 that it would require one to be thoroughly well acquainted with 

 them to know their names. I am not about to give a mere 

 catalogue of all that are distinct and good, but only to notioe 

 such as are not so well known, but which are deserving a place 

 in any collection. 



Let me take the Lady Ferns first as in duty bound, and first 

 of all Athyrium Filix-fiemina Girdlestoneii, a lovely variety dis- 

 covered by the Bev. Mr. Girdlestone, and named after him. 

 Nothing can be more delicately lovely than the fronds of this 

 exquisite Fern. The leafy part of the pinnules is wanting, 

 only the veinlets are present, giving it quite a skeletonised ap- 

 pearance : and when the fructitiotttiou appears it adds still 

 more to its singular beauty. Athyrium Filix-fa;mina Friselliff 

 nanum. — All Fern-lovers ate acquainted with the very singnlar 

 variety called FriseUia>, so very unlike a Lady Fern. This is a 

 very remarkable variety of Frisellia-, very dwarf, the fronds 

 not being more than a foot in length, and, instead of drooping 

 over as in the older variety, are Btifi and blunt-ended. Athy- 

 rium F.f. formoso-cristatum is one of the most elegant of many 

 crested forms of Lady Fern, and not only curious but really 

 handsome. Athyrium F.f. lanceolatum is very delicately cnt 

 in the fronds and pinn.x, and distinct in character, the slender 

 pointed form of the former marking it as distinct. AthjTirun 

 F.f. Iveryanum, a remarkable variety, apparently ha^•ing an 

 analogy with Friseliiaf and Fieldine, as it has the short stiff 

 fronds that mark FriseUias nanum, but with the peculiar forked 



