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THE COTTAGE GARDENER, 
May 22. 
library, but without any power of voting. Such persons 
to be first approved by the Council, and subsequently 
ballotted for by tho Society. Other members of the 
Society, however, have been of opinion that this plan 
(adopted in most other Societies) was inexpedient, and 
we regret to have to report, that by their combined 
exertion they succeeded on the present occasion in 
rendering the By-law a dead letter. The candidate for 
admission (whose name we withhold for delicacy’s sake), 
not having obtained a sufficient number of votes to 
entitle him under the By-law to admission. 
It is certainly to be regretted, that where the cul¬ 
tivators of a science are comparatively few in number 
such illiberal prejudices should exist against the work¬ 
ing student, and we would suggest to those gentlemen 
who opposed the election in question, that if they would 
only look at the most perfect association in existence— 
that of the Hive Bee—they would see there, that the 
working individuals are as essential to the well-being of 
the community as the Queen herself. 
Various rare British insects were announced as having 
been presented to the Society’s Cabinet, since the last 
Meeting, by Messrs. F. Bates and F. Plant, of Leicester. 
Donations of books, also, from tho Royal Society, the 
Entomological Societies of Paris and Stettin, the Natural 
History Society of Vienna, &e., were announced, and 
thanks ordered to be given for the same. 
Mr. Westwood made some remarks by way of rectifi¬ 
cation of misstatements lately published, concerning 
the genera Stenamma and Coniortes. He also stated, 
that on the 16th ult., being the only genial spring day 
we have yet experienced, he observed numerous speci¬ 
mens of the fly produced from the Gooseberry grub, 
and that he had succeeded in capturing the males, which 
had escaped the observation of Messrs. Curtis, Stephens, 
and Rusticus of Godaiming. 
Mr. Douglas called the attention of the meeting to a 
Memoir recently published by Dr. Boisduval upon the 
Silk Moth, introduced during the past year into the 
South of Europe from India, and which had been con¬ 
sidered to be the Saturnia Cynthea, but which Dr. 
Boisduval regarded as distinct, and which he accordingly 
named S. Ricini, the larvae feeding upon the Castor oil 
plant ( Ricinus ). Mr. Douglas also called attention to a 
Memoir by Herr Horning, on the Transformations of 
the Genus Phyceta. 
Mr. Stainton noticed a valuable Bibliographical 
Memoir for the years 1851 and 1852, by M. Boliemann; 
and a new work upon the Coleoptera of France, com¬ 
menced by M. Leon Fairmuire. 
Specimens of the rare moths, Lophopteryx cucullina 
and Carmelita, reared from the egg state, were exhibited 
by Messrs. Creed and Sam. Stevens. 
Mr. Newman exhibited several rare Coleopterous 
insects from New Holland. Also, a remarkable variety 
of Cynthea Cardui, captured at St. Lawrence, in the 
Isle of Wight, by Mr. G. Ingall, and which has been 
described in the “ Zoologist.’’ Also, specimens of 
Athous Campyloides, a new British species of Elate- 
rida), which hasten captured at Ramsgate,upon Elders 
in flower, by Messrs. Edward Foster and Dawson. 
Some rare British Lepidoptera were also exhibited, 
including Endromis versicolor, from Fincastle, by Mr. 
Foxcroft; and Cloantha perspicillaris and Argynnis 
Lathomia, from Hampshire. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited some leaves, forwarded from 
India by the Rev. Mr. Atkinson, infested by the mining 
larvae of three different species of Litliocolletes (a genus 
of minute Moths), and which were interesting as proving 
that Miero-Lepidoptera occurred in tropical countries; 
although, hitherto, their existence had been doubted, 
having been overlooked by collectors. Mr. Curtis con¬ 
tended, however, that minute Lepidoptera were rare in 
warm climates, as he had scarcely found any during 
many weeks’ excursion in the South of France. Mr. 
W. W. Saunders stated that he had certainly observed 
leaves encased by these insects in India; and Mr. Wal¬ 
lace had collected 700 species of Micro-Lepidoptera 
during his short residence in the Eastern Archipelago. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited specimens of the .Dicrano- 
cephalus, sent from China by Mr. Fortune, and which 
had been considered as distinct from D. Wallichii. 
A paper was read by Mr. H. Doubleday, containing 
the description of a new British Noctua, lately captured 
in North Wales, which had been erroneously considered 
to be the Spalotis Valesiaca. 
A paper by Mr. Lubbock was also read, containing 
descriptions of Entomostracous Crustacea of South 
America, belonging to the genera Cypris Diapitomus 
and Daplinia. 
The Secretary announced that the Society had received 
a notice of the recent death of 31. De Haan, the distin¬ 
guished entomologist of Leyden, and one of the honorary 
members of the Society. 
It was also announced that a new part of the Society’s 
Transactions was ready for distribution. Likewise, that 
Mons. Yersin, a Swiss entomologist, was engaged upon 
a monograph of the Oryllidce and Locustidee, and that he 
desired the communications of specimens from English 
collectors. 
IVY. 
To have Ivy in good order, in dressed grounds, where 
everything bears, or ought to bear, the stamp of the 
gardener’s art, it should be cut in overy year about tho 
end of April, but this being such a very late season, it 
is only just the right time now to cut the Ivy ; at any 
rate, there is nothing yet lost for the delay this season. 
If Ivy was properly managed it would live a thousand 
years, but there is hardly one place in a thousand where 
it is “ done ” properly. 
The great beauty of Ivy growing against a house, or 
on the walls, or buildings about" a garden, is to look as 
young at tho end of a lifetime as when the heir was 
born ; but Ivy covering an “old ruin,” or growing up 
round trees, is never “ in character,” if it looks young, 
or while it is young. 
Now, before people heard of “ dressing Ivy,” the 
mind of this nation, at least, was pre-possessed or pre¬ 
occupied with the beauty of Ivy in its natural “ whims” 
on such ruins and old trees, and it is very difficult indeed 
to change the whole mind of a country. Writers upon 
