THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, November 3, 1857. 
you two. The trees are mostly raised from stones, and 
have a beautiful appearance when full of fruit.” 
The fruit, though not equal to that grown in his orchard 
houses, was, nevertheless, perfectly ripe and juicy, but 
without much sugar or aroma. This may, however, be the 
first “ break,” and if Mr. Rivers were to raise plants from 
the seed of these it may be that we might have very good 
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fruit from standards, which, if not good enough for the 
dessert, might be at least worth something for preserving. 
Some years ago we raised a Peach from a stone given us 
by a Dublin friend, and we called it the Hardy Morton 
Peach . It bore well as an espalier on a soil sloping to the 
south, at an elevation of about 250 feet, in Essex.° Upon 
revisiting the garden we find the tree has been destroyed. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S 
MEETING. 
The October Meeting of the Entomological 
Society was very fully attended, and a goodly 
display of novelties provided by the members, 
who have now chiefly shut up their nets till 
next season. The chair was taken by the 
President, W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., 
Treasurer of the Horticultural Society. An 
extensive series of donations received since 
the last Meeting was read, including the 
Transactions of the Royal Society, the Society 
of Arts, the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, 
and the Royal Society of Agriculture. The 
volume of Transactions of the last-named 
Society contained another of the excellent 
memoirs on agricultural insects by Mr. Curtis. 
We are sorry to learn that this is the con¬ 
cluding paper of the series, and are grieved 
to find that the affliction under which its 
talented author is suffering will preclude him 
from any further entomological labours. 
Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited the larvse of 
the rare Hawk Moth, Declephila gain , which 
he had taken on the white Galium on the 
coast of Kent. Also some stems of the wild 
Sea Cabbage infested by two species of 
Weevils, the larvre of one of which reside in 
the stem, and those of the other feed on the 
outer surface of the roots. 
Mr. Newman exhibited a specimen of Zu - 
phium olens, a Beetle common in the south of France, not 
previously found in this country, but which he had taken 
at Forest Hill, in the bed of the old canal, on the 19th of 
September last. 
Mr. Sang exhibited a new British Moth, Acrolepia bctutella , 
from Darlington. 
Dr. Power and Mr. lanson exhibited a number of speci¬ 
mens of the beautiful Beetle Drypta dentata ( emarginata ), 
which they had taken in profusion about the roots of tufts 
of grass at Alverstoke, Hampshire. Dr. Power likewise 
exhibited anew species of Aleocharidse (small Rove Beetles), 
taken in the nest qf tl»e Black Ant, and another in that pf ! 
Myrmica rufa. Also a new species of Cliloerius from the 
Isle of Wight. 
Mr. Dossiter exhibited living specimens of the females of 
a large black species of Aphis , some of which had produced 
eggs, and others living young ones, whilst in captivity. 
Various instances of the capture of the Locust in different 
parts of the country were mentioned. 
Mr. F. Smith gave an account of the recent capture in 
this country of four new British species of Ants, one of 
which had been found by Mr. Reading near Plymouth. A 
second, Myrmica nitidala , had been captured in the nest of 
Formica rufa. ^Yorkers of Ponera contracta had been taken 
GALPHIMIA GLAUCA. 
Sent from Mexico by Mr. Hartweg in 1837. 
A beautiful shrub, easily kept in the form 
of a bush. The leaves are a deep bluish green, 
ovate, obtuse, glaucous on the under side, 
and furnished with a pair of glands on the 
edge near the base. The flowers, which are 
golden yellow, appear in close terminal ra¬ 
cemes, between three and four inches long in 
strong plants. Each has five distinct petals, 
with almost exactly the form of a trowel. 
This slender stove plant grows freely in a 
mixture of loam and sandy peat, and is easily 
increased by cuttings of the half-ripened 
young shoots. It requires to be kept rather 
dry for a few months, and afterwards, during 
the growing season, to be freely supplied with 
moisture both to the roots and in the atmo¬ 
sphere. 
It is a very desirable species, as it flowers 
during the latter part of the autumn.— ( Hor¬ 
ticultural Society's Journal.) 
