THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION.— August 19, 1850. 350 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
| Day of 
Month. 
j Day of 
1 Week. 
AUGUST 19—25, 1856. 
Weather near London in 
1855. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
It. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
liain in 
Inches. 
19 
Tu 
Lasiocampa Neustria. 
29-791—29-689 
76-56 
w. 
.02 
54 a 4 
13 a 7 
8 
38 
19 
3 
19 
232 
20 
w 
Lasiocampa castrensa. 
29-929—29.809 
66—58 
S.W. 
.05 
65 
11 
8 
53 
20 
3 
5 
233 
21 
Th 
Sun’s dcclinat., 11° 59' n, 
29.878— 29.817 
74—42 
w. 
— 
57 
9 
9 
11 
21 
2 
51 
234 
22 
F 
Nolodonta Zicrac. 
29 991— 29.961 
76—52 
w. 
— 
69 
7 
9 
33 
G 
2 
36 
235 
23 
s 
Nolodonta eamelina. 
29 .S 98—29691 
81—56 
S.E. 
.12 
V 
5 
10 
5 
23 
2 
20 
236 
24 
Sun 
14 Sunday after Trinity. 
29 . 876 — 29.725 
74—40 
S.W. 
— 
2 
2 
JO 
49 
24 
2 
5 
23 7 
25 
M 
[St. Bartholomew. 
30.006— 29 . 9 G 1 
73-49 
S.W. 
— 
3 
0 
11 
49 
25 
1 
48 
238 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, [the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 51.5°, and 50.4°, respectively. The greatest heat, 88°, occurred on the 21st, in 1835; and the lowest cold, 32°, on 
the 21st, in 1850. During Ihc period 105 days were fine, and on 9 l rain fell. 
Communications received from u majority of the chief 
corn-producing counties of England, and personal ob¬ 
servation in some of tlioso counties enable us to state, 
without any reserve, that the crops will yield much 
above an average. In some places “ the yellows,” or 
grub of the Wheat Midge, has done a little damage, 
and in other places the smut is partially present; but, 
as a whole, the corn returns of England will he very 
heavy. 
The Potato Murrain, we can state from the same 
sources of information, is much less prevalent than 
for many years past; and the yield of Potatoes is almost 
universally healthy and abundant; so that, as Punch 
says, such misfortunes as Plenty and Peace are likely to 
come upon us together. This is a bad look-out for the 
croakers, who are headed by those desirous of high 
singular satisfaction. 
Tue new Council of the London Horticultural Society 
are proceeding in a business like, common-sense course. 
They have visited the Chiswick Gardens, and find that 
the gentleman who offered to have those Gardens kept 
in thorough good order for £1,200 yearly was correct 
in his calculation. Mr. Thompson and other practical 
men agree that this enn he accomplished under econo¬ 
mical and good management. Who prevented this being 
done before ? The Gardens, therefore, will be preserved, 
and we, in common with all the other subscribers, we 
hope, will come forward with the promised aid. This 
will enrich the funds of the Society by about .£3,200. 
Then the Council are offering for sale the Regent Street 
House, and we will suppose, in round numbers, that it 
realises £14,800. Then the Library will be sold, and 
will fetch nearly £1,000 ; so that the Society will be 
then cleared from all but about £1,000 of debit, which 
can be easily got rid of by two or three successful sum¬ 
mer Exhibitions. 
Then, for tho future, the annual expenditure will he 
kept within its annual income. The rent for offices, it 
is hoped, will ho nothing; the management of the 
Gardens will he greatly decreased ; some of the officials 
will resign, and their places not ho filled up ; various 
annual extravagances will be avoided altogether; so that 
at the end of 1857 we have reason for believing the 
Society will be solvent, and pursuing its course of utility 
unencumbered. . 
Nn7 CeCCXJJ. Vo*. XVI. 
A gentleman thoroughly acquainted with the private 
history of the Society has promised us tho publication 
of his notes. It may he entitled, “ The Doomsday 
Book of the London Horticultural Society.” 
The August Meeting of the Entomological Society was 
held on the 2nd instant, the Chair being occupied by 
L O. Westwood, Esq., Vice-President, in the absence of 
the President. The donations to the Society’s library 
were numerous, including the publications of the Royal 
aud Zoological Societies, and works from Messrs. 
Nylander, Guerinmeueville, Kolenati, Lovell, Reeve, 
Stainton, &c., as well as a report presented by the 
Natural History Society of Mauritius on the destruction 
of the sugar crops in that island by the Borer, a Lepi- 
dopterous insect in the caterpillar state, belonging to 
the family Pyralidffi, which burrows into the canes, and 
causes the eutire destruction of the plant. 
The exhibitions by various members comprised a con- 1 
siderable number of rare and several new insects of 
much interest. The most important of the latter was 
the Erispos latreillii, a new Moth, belonging to the 
family Noctuidce, of great beauty, which had been reared 
from the larva by Mr. Plunter. A new species of 1 
Pyralidse, belonging to the genus PJiycita, from Folk- ! 
stone, was exhibited by Messrs. Samuel Stevens and , 
Tomkins, the former of whom also exhibited a new 
Lozotcenici from the same locality. i 
Mr. Douglas exhibited a specimen of the extremely 
rare Drepana sicula, from Leigh Woods, near Bristol, cap- j 
tured by Mr. Bolt; a single specimen of the species 
(taken in the same locality) being only hitherto known 
as British. 
Mr. Huuter exhibited Spilodes palealis, Trochilium 
chrysidiforme, and Ennomos illustraria, from Folkstone. 
Mr. Weir, a number of specimens of the Moth Macaria 
notata, all of which were more or less crippled, wanting 
one or other of their wings, a circumstance to which 
this species appears to he particularly liable. Mr. F. 
Smith said that he had observed that sometimes Wasps 
were developed without any traoi s of wings.' 
Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited Harpalyce galeatn, and | 
Deilephila Qalii, from the sand hills near Deal. Also, 
several of the beautiful Trochilium chrysidiforme, a 
species which had been improperly struck out of the 
British lists as a doubtful native. 
Mr. Frederick Bond exhibited several beautiful speei- 
