204 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, June 30, 1857. 
watering in dry weather, they will soon strike root. Scarlet 
Geraniums will succeed in the same manner. 
Fuchsias , Japan Lilies, Heliotropes, Cockscombs, Balsams, 
and other such greenhouse plants suitable for producing a 
succession of flowers during the summer and autumn 
months, to be encouraged into luxuriant and healthy growth 
by shifting all such as may require it into larger pots; to be 
attentively supplied with water, and occasionally with liquid 
manure; to be syringed in the evening when the house is 
closed, and the syringing to be discontinued as soon as the 
flowers expand. Plants during their season of active growth 
require most watchful attention to supply them with the 
agents necessary for, and to protect them from influences 
adverse to, their healthy vegetation. 
Cinerarias intended for winter bloom, whether seedlings 
or suckers, should be potted forward without delay. Ca¬ 
mellias will now, in general, have formed their flower-buds, 
when they may be supplied with liquid manure occasionally, 
and receive a general shift. Many other sorts of greenhouse 
plants that have done blooming, and young plants of luxu¬ 
riant growth, to be generally shortened in or stopped, that 
round, compact, and sturdy growth may be now produced. 
Many of the hard-wooded sorts will now require a shift, 
when the pots will become well stocked with roots by the 
autumn.— William Keane. 
NEIGHBOUR’S BEE HIVES. 
We observe in No. 455 of The Cottage Gardener the 
following remarks in a letter signed “ Apiarian : 
“I find that I can have a hive made similar to Neigh¬ 
bour’s improved cottage hive, price <£1 15s., for about 10s. 
or less .... Why will these makers drive all apiarians 
wishing to keep any number of bees, and with fathomable 
pockets, to the old system ? ” 
In reply permit us to say that we have hives on the 
humane system as low as 6s., and an excellent cottager’s 
hive at 10s. 6d. No one purchasing from us is compelled 
to pay 35s. for a bee-hive; but when that price is paid it 
commands a superior and well-finished article, complete with 
bellglasses, windows, thermometer, &c., and the very in¬ 
creasing demand we have for our hive of this description is 
surely an evidence that the price asked is not exorbitant.— 
Geo. Neighbour and Sons, 127, High Holborn. 
MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
The June Meeting of the Entomological Society was 
held on the 1st of that month, the President, W. W. 
Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., being in tbe chair. H. Gorham, 
Esq., was elected a member. 
Mr. Frederick Bond exhibited a very fine series of the 
rare but destructive Moth, Retinia Turionana , reared from 
larvae found feeding on young shoots of the Scotch Fir at 
i Black Park, in Buckinghamshire; also the living larv© of 
two case-bearing Moths of singular habits, belonging to the 
! genus Coleophora, found on Oaks in Richmond Park, 
I namely, C. curricipennella and C. palliolella, the case of 
which latter is furnished with two large valves like cockle- 
I shells, made by the inclosed larvae. 
Mr. Ianson exhibited a number of small but rare or new 
species of Beetles recently taken near London, including 
| Bostrichus bispinus, found in the dead stems of the Tra¬ 
veller’s Joy, and Homalota confusa, found in the nests of the 1 
i Dusky Ant, Formica fnliginosa . 
Mr. F. Smith, now that the attention of entomologists j 
was directed to the investigation of Ants’ nests with a view 
to the discovery of the many rare species of Beetles which | 
frequent them, brought for distribution amongst the | 
members numerous series of British species of Ants . 
correctly named. 
Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited the rare Stenolophus elegans 
1 and other Beetles, taken at Sheerness at the end of May. 
The Rev. H. C. Stowell exhibited a very fine dark 
variety of the Euphrosyne Fritillary Butterfly recently 
taken. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited the larvae of the very beautiful 
and extremely rare Moth, Hypercallia Christiernana. Having 
received them from Switzerland, where they feed on a species 
of Polggala, he advised careful search to be made of our 
British plants of that genus, in the hope of finding the 
larv© in this country. 
Mr. Foxcroft sent various rare insects from Loch Rannock, 
including Dictyopterus Aurora , with the remark that the 
sexes of that Beetle differ in the form of their antennae. 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited some oval cocoons like those of 
the Egger Moth, which he had received as those of the : 
Hornet Moth, and, as they had been found scattered about j 
on a roadway, Mr. F. Smith ingeniously suggested that the j 
grubs of the Hornet, having been thrown out of their hexa- J 
gonal cells by some accident, had spun for themselves oval 
cells, in the same manner as they form a convex cap to their 
cells when full fed. On carefully examining the insect 
contained in one of the cells, however, one of the members 
present ascertained that it was the pupa of a species of 
Humble Bee, the ceils of which are oval in form. 
Mr. Wilkinson stated that the tissue exhibited at the last 
Meeting of the Society, and which had been found in the ! 
interior of the trunk of a tree, and had been supposed to be , 
the work of insects, was of a cottony fibre, and conse- j 
| quently not an animal production. 
Mr. F. Smith communicated a notice by Mr. George j 
Curley on the habits of the Wild Bee, Chelostoma fiorisomnis, | 
which he had found asleep, fixed by its jaws at right angles j 
to dead twigs of a Hawthorn tree, in the direction of the j 
thorns. He also exhibited the nest of a Brazilian W asp 
of the genus Polistes, brought home by the Rev. Hamlet 
Clarke, some of the cells of which had been taken pos¬ 
session of by the Trypoxylon fug ax, which had stored them 
with spiders for the support of her progeny, thus con- 
I firming the observations of Messrs. Westwood and Kennedy 
j on the economy of this genus, and contradicting those ot j 
j M. Saint Fargeau. 
Mr. Newman read the description of a new British species 
i of Dipterous insect, which he had named, in honour of Mr. 
| Bracy Clark, Helophilus Clarkii. It had been found rather 
j plentifully on Scirpus maritimus in the Isle of Dogs, near j 
j Blackwall, upon which occasion Mr. Waterhouse repeated 
! his observations on the practice of published descriptions of 
isolated species of insects instead of monographs of entire 
groups, on account of the great trouble it entailed on future 
monographers. 
Mr. Westwood made some observations on the genus 
Acentria , which Lepidopterists now appeared willing to 
admit into the order Lepidoptera, as suggested by Mr. West- 
wood twenty years ago. He also gave an account of various 
works on entomology recently published in Holland, and 
read the descriptions of several new species of Beetles 
belonging to the curious genera Sandglus and Lallirhipis, 
received from Herr Dohrn. 
Mr. F. Moore read the descriptions of six new Butterflies 
belonging to the genus Euploea, contained in the collection 
of the East India Company. 
The President announced that the annual excursion of 
the Society would take place on the 26th of June to Reigate. 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA AND PASSIFLORA 
BUONAPARTEA NOT FLOWERING. 
“ I have a Stephanotis Jloribunda and Passjlora Buona- 
partea which do not flower. I bought them last year. They 
are growing in 10-inch pots, and apparently are very healthy; 
but why do they not flower?”—M. C. 
[We presume your plants are yet too young. Give them 
a pot three or five inches larger, and encourage them to 
grow freely. Towards autumn lessen the supply of water 
when they have abundance of sunshine, so as to ripen them 
well. Then, if at all thick, thin out the Stephanotis in 
spring, and prune back the Passijlora , and most likely you 
will have plenty of bloom next year.] 
