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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 



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and thongli shrivelled, still good. Mr. Miles, gardener to Lord 

 Carrington, has an Enville Pine of S^ lbs. and a large-crowned 

 ProTidence of 10^ lbs. Neither of these is fully ripe, still they are 

 noble frnit. 



Pods of Vanilla planifolia. the Vanilla of commerce, come from Mr. 

 Woodfield, gardener to F. S. Foljambe, Esq., Osberton, whence these 

 have been several times exhibited by Mr. Woodfiehrs predecessor, 

 Mr. Bennett. 



Vegetables and the garden strnctnres we must leave till next week 

 The former are, for the most part, excellent. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. 



The June meeting was held at Burlinston House under the presi- 

 dency of J. W. Dunning, Esq,, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, and 

 formerly Secretary of the Society, in the absence of the President. A 

 communication was read from the Rev. Leonard Jenyns with reference 

 to the reported showers of insects or other small animals at and in the 

 vicinity of Bath, of which strange accounts had recently appeared iu 

 the local journals, and respecting which, at the previous meeting of 

 the Society, it had been suggested that they might probably prove to 

 be the Entomostracous crustacean, Branchipusstagnalis. Mr. Jenyns 

 having carefully examined some of these animals, found, however, 

 that they were infnsorial, probably Vibrio undula of Miiller, many of 

 them being congregated into spherical masses, enveloped iu a gelatinous 

 substance. They fell during a severe storm of rain, having probably 

 been talren up into the rain cloud by a whirlwind. 



At the May meeting of the Society a curious specimen of the com- 

 mon Brimstone Butterfly was exhibited, which had been captured, with 

 large irregular patches of brilliant red upon the wings, and which it 

 was suggested had been produced by the insect having come iuto con- 

 tact with some chemical liquid, which had produced the discoloration. 

 At the Jane meeting Mr. Butler gave an account of some experiments 

 which had been made by himself and Mr. Meldola, with the view of 

 ascertaining the action of dyes on insects. Many species had been 

 subjected to aniline dyes, and all kinds of colours produced. Mr. 

 Sutler also found that when Butterflies were immersed in a solution 

 of soda, for the purpose of causing the dyes to be taken more readily, 

 the colouring matter of the scales was completely discharged and 

 collected at the bottom of the solution. Mr. Bicknell, acting upon a 

 suggestion made at the May meeting, had also subjected the common 

 Brimstone Butterfly to the action of cyanide of potassium, and the 

 yellow colour of the insect's wings was changed to orange red. 



Mr. Boyd exhibited a specimen of the yellow moth, Kumia cratjBgata, 

 one wing of which was turned brown at the apical portion, having 

 been captured in that condition. 



THE CRYSTAL PALACE ROSE SHOW. 



This was held on Midsummer-day, and though the sun shone forth 

 rather brightly about noon, the rest of the day was as cold as one of 

 the early days of March, for the north-east wind, of which we have 

 had so much this year, and now want so little, had again set in ; but 

 the dull, ungenial weather did not deter a large concourse of visitors 

 from flocking to the Palace, and when the barriers were removed that 

 kept them back while the judging was going on, the pent-up multitude 

 were soon four-deep round the tables. The backwardness of the 

 season, and the heavy storms of rain and hail, no doubt prevented 

 many exhibitors from entering the lists, and the Show, consequently, 

 was not so large as it usually is ; and for the same reasons also the 

 Roses generally were neither so large, nor so bright in colour, nor so 

 perfect in form as they usually are at this Show. In many instances 

 the storms had done their work on the largest and best blooms, and 

 younger ones, not then expanded, had to take their places. In spite, 

 however, of all drawbacks, Messrs. Paul & Son and Mr. Keynes, of 

 Salisbury, among nurserymen, exhibited excellent trusses, but by far 

 the finest, shown were from the Rev. R. N. G. Baker, o£ Heavitree, 

 Devon, who made a clean sweep of the first prizes in all the amateurs' 

 classes in which he could exhibit, and that iu competition with such 

 well-known exhibitors as Mr. Ingle and Mr. Chard. 



In Class 1, seventy-two single trusses, Messrs. Paul & Son, of 

 Cheshunt, were first with excellent examples of La France, Anna 

 Alexieff, Duke of Edinburgh, Exposition de Brie, a little weather- 

 beaten, as the Rame variety nearly everywhere was. Alba rosea, Devo- 

 niensis, Xavier Olibo, Mr. Gladstone (uew), Paul Verdier, Abel Grand, 

 Dnpuy-Jamin, Centifolia rosea. General Jacqueminot, Madame Cle- 

 menee Joigneaux, Leopold Hausburg. Madame Victor Verilier, Marie 

 Baumann, Triomphe de Caen, John Hopper, Marguerite de St. Amand, 

 Elie Morel, and Rubens. Next came Mr. Keynes with La France, 

 Elie Morel, Prince Camilla de Rohan, Exposition de Brie, Comtesse 

 d'Oxford or Countess of Oxford (often written Comtesse o/' Oxford \], 

 Victor Verdier, Abel GranS, Marguerite de St. Amand, Alfred Colomb, 

 Gloire de Vitry, Ville de Lyon, La Motte Sangnine, bright carmine ; 

 Marquise de Castellane, bright rose, fine ; Marechal Niel, Senateur 

 Vaisse, and Dupuy-Jamin. The third prize went to Mr. Mitchell, 

 Piltdown, who, in addition to several of the varieties already named, 

 had fine trusses of Baronne Haussmau, Louis Van Houtte, Josephine 

 Maltou, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Gloire de Ducher. The fourth 

 prize was awarded to Messrs. Francis & Co., Hertford. 



Class 2, forty-eight triples, is always very effective from the masses 

 of colour which are presented, and it was so in this instance. Here 

 Mr. Keynes took the place of honour, having among others fine 

 trusses of Marechal Niel, Alfred Colomb, Marquise de Castellane, La 

 France, Marquise de Mortemart, Louise Peyronny, John Hopper, 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps, Marie Baumann, Devoniensis, Madame Fillion, 

 Edouard Morren, Elie Morel. Triomphe de Rennes, and La Motte 

 Sanguine. Messrs. Paul & Sm came second with General Jacque- 

 minot, Maurice Bemardin, Mdlle. Thercse Levet, Charles Rouillard, 

 Lafontaiue, Mr. Gladstone, Centifolia rosea, Camille Bernardin, and 

 good examples of others. The third prize went to Mr. Turner, of 

 Slough, who had Lord Napier, new, and very fine in colour, being a 

 brilliant carmine; Miss Ingram, Miss Poole, also new ; Monsieur Wool- 

 field, Celine Forestier, and Baronne de Rothschild. Mr. Mitchell was 

 fourth . 



For twenty-four triples Mr. Keynes was again first, the most note- 

 worthy being Marguerite de St. Amand, Abel Grand, Charles Wood,. 

 John Hopper, Marquise de Castellane, La France, and Madame^ 

 WiUermoz. Messrs. Paul A: Son were second, and Mr. Turner third. 

 For twenty-four singles Mr. Walker, Thame ; Mr. Cooliug, Bath ; and 

 Mr. Knight, Hailsham, were prizetakers in the order named. Messrs. 

 Lane, of St. Mary's Cray ; Coppin, of Shirley ; Lowe, of Uxbridge ; 

 Woollett, Uxbridge ; and Parker, Rugby, also exhibited. 



In the amateurs' classes, as already remarked were to be found the 

 finest Roses in the Show, although several well-known names did not; 

 appear in the list of exhibitors, and the nurserymen will have to take- 

 care of their laurels — not their evergreens — or they will be left behind 

 in the race. For forty-eight trusses the first prize was most deservedly 

 awarded to the Kev. R. N. G. Baker, of Heavitree, for examples, large 

 in size and splendid in colour, of Madame Victor Verdier, Madame 

 Charles Wood , Charles Lefebvre, Duke of Edinbnrgh, La France, 

 Maurice Bernardin, Senateur Vaisse, Mdlle. Marie Rady, Felix Genero, 

 Dachesse de Caylus, Exposition de Brie, Antoine Ducher, Centifolia 

 rosea, Louis Van Houtte, Alfred Colomb, Anna de Diesbach, and a 

 magnificent Baroune de Rothschild. Mr. Ingle, gardener to Mrs. 

 Round, Colchester, was second with a fine stand, in which Cloth of 

 Gold, Marechal Niel, Gloire de Dijon, Rubens, Jules Margottin, and 

 Berthe Baron were particularly good ; and Mr. Chard, Clarendon- 

 Park. Salisbury, was third ; the Rev. G. Arkwright, Pencombe Rectory^ 

 Bromyard, being fourth ; Safrano in his stand was vei-y fine. In his- 

 stand of thirty-sis, the Rev. R. N. G. Baker had Sue trusses of Pitord, 

 Louise Peyronny, John Hopper, Due de Wellington, and of several of' 

 the kinds shown in his forty-eight. Mr. Chard was second, Mr.. 

 Excell, gardener to J. HoUiugworth, Esq., Maidstone, third, and Mr. 

 J. Davis fourth. In his first-prize twenty-four, the Rev. Mr. Baker 

 had the best Felix Genero in the Show, and splendid examples of 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, Duke of Edinburgh, La France, Marie 

 Baumann, Maurice Bernardin, John Hopper, Victor Verdier, Dr. 

 Andry, and Baronne de Rothschild. Second came Mr. T. Graveley, 

 Cowfold, Sussex, with a stand in which were Paul Delameilleray, 

 Victor Verdier, and others. Of new Roses of 1S68, Duke of Edin- 

 burgh, very splendid in colour, was shown both by Mr. Turner and 

 Messrs. Paul & Son, fully justifying the high expectations formed of 

 it on its first coming out. Mr. Keynes had Marquise de Castellane, 

 also of a very fine colour ; and Messrs. Paul &■ Son Marquise de Mor- 

 temart. The best stand of twenty-four Roses of 1863 and 1869 came 

 from Messrs. Paul & Son, and the best in it were Duke of Edinburgh, 

 Robert Marnock, a maroon seedling from it, which promises to be an 

 acquisition, though more of the Madame Moreau character than wo 

 like ; Mr. Gladstone, Nardy Frere?, Dupuy-Jamin, Catherine Mer- 

 met, Belle Lyonnaise, and Comtesse d'Oxford. Mr. Keynes came in 

 second; his best were Ferdinand de Lesseps, Dupny-Jamin, Madame 

 Liabaud, white with a pink-tinged centre ; Marquise de Castellane, 

 Madame Jacquier, a Felix- Genero-like flower, and Adrien de Monte- 

 bello, rose with a brighter centre. The third prize went to Mr. J. 

 Durbin. Mr. Keynes was first for the best twelve blooms of any 

 variety with La France, very large and fine ; Messrs. Paul & Son 

 being second with Centifolia rosea; and Mr. Bridge, Stisted, Brain- 

 tree, third. 



In the first collection of Yellow Roses, Mr. Keynes's magnificent 

 examples of Marechal Niel were first; Messrs. Paul & Son were 

 second ; and Mr. H. May, third. Celine Forestier and Triomphe de 

 Rennes were well represented in several stands. 



In vases or epergnes of Roses for dinner-table decoration. Miss 

 Bayspoole, of Morden, was awarded the first prize for a stand in 

 which the trumpet-shaped flower-holder at top was filled with Roses 

 interspersed with Grasses, cornucopia-like branches similarly filled, 

 with at the base of the stem a circular mirror surrounded with a broad 

 edging of Ferns, Rose.'?, and Begonia leaves. The last-named are 

 objectionable as they soon wilt, and the Grasses were somewhat too 

 freely introduced ; Miss Hassard, Upper Norwood, was second ; and 

 Mr. Stoddart third, with a March stand with Lonicera anreo-reticu- 

 lati twining-np the stand. Mrs. Dombrain was fourth with a very 

 neatly-filled glass basket ; and an extra prize was given to an ela- 

 borately got-up stand with a flat looking-glass base, bordered with 

 Roses, Ferns and Grasses. 



Hanging-baskets, vases, and Fern-cases furnished with plants, came 

 from Messrs. Carter &; Co., and from Messrs. Dick Radclyffe & Co., 

 who took prizes for each. Messrs. Carter & Co. also sent a fine pair 

 of Diohorisandra mosaiea, exhibited at Kensington on the previous 



