April 23, 1872. ] 



JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



355 



B«Mou : T. Lofthi-use ; W. Prt^ston. c, J. Sm;th ; R. Fearnley ; — Lord. 



BiXTJM (Game).— 1. G. Xoble. 2, T. C. & E. Newbitt. he, R. Frew. Code— 

 1, J. OldBeld. 2, G. N..ble. Uc, T. C. & E. Newbitt ; S. Smith ; W. F. Addie. 

 c. R. Frew. 



BiSTiU (Block).— I,E. H. Ashlon. 2. J. Walker, c. J. Eiley. 



BiNTiJl (Adt other varietj).— 1. R. H. Ashton. 2, H. Beldon. 



Aw OTHER V.uiEiT.— I, C. H. Smith (CreTe-Cceur). 2, H. Beldon. he, 3. 

 Eailt. r, ;ci ., r ,,;1; J. F. LOTersidge. 



rr, ■ r ■ • !, K. Leech, Rochdale. 2, L. H. EicUetts, Banwell. /ic,0. 

 Nev, t : ! ; I \v. Smith, Otley. 



L'l I \ : , - 1, E. Leeeb. 2 and ftc, J. Hedges, Aylesbury, c, T. P. 

 Carv. 1 , I,aii_i;ii i 1 . . UoroughbridEe. 



Ducks (.Vny olljVr Varieti). 1, W. Binns. Pudsey (Bahamas). 2. H. B. Smith, 

 Broufjhton, I're&ton. 7tc, W. Binns (Ruddy Shells and Mandarins); /ic, H. B. 

 Smith 



Tdrkets.—I, E. Leech. 2, J. Simpson, Spofforth Park, Wetherby. ftc, C. W. 

 Dovener, Ripon. 



Selling Class.— I. J. Newton. 2, H. Beldnn. ftc, J. Berry, Silsden ; H. C. 

 and W. J. Mason, Drighlington, Leeds ; .J. W. Smith ; W. Scholefield, Bradford ; 

 J. Powell, Bradford, e, J. Smith, Gilstcad, Bingley. 

 Best Pen in Game Classes 1, and 82.— Cup, E. Ayliroyd, Ecc'eshill. 



Best Pen of Pocltry in the Snnw, Classes 80, 81, aud 82 ExctPTED.— 

 Cup, H. Beldon, Goitstock. 



PIGEONS. 



Carhiers.- 1 and 2. E. Homer, Harewood. he, G. J. Taylor, Hndderstield. 

 c, S. Holroyd, Lees, Manchi 



Po- - • - - 



Ba 



Jacobins.— 1, G.J.Taylor. 2,E. Homer. 7ic. R.Frew. Kirkcaldy ; E.Honier. 



TCHBITS.— 1. H. G. Poole, Westgate, Bradford. 2, E. Horner. 



Tumblers (Short.faced!.— 1, E. Horner. 2, J. A. Winstanley, Preston. 



.4NTWEEPS.— 1, E. Horner. 2. L. 'Whitaker, Addingham. he, J. Fortune, 

 Morton Banks ; H. G. Poole ; P. Wear. Otley (2); W. Ellis, Idle, Leeds. 



TrjiBLEES.— 1, D. Riddiougb, jun., Bradford. 2, A. Bentlev, Baildon. he, B. 

 Horner. 



Fantails.- 1, J. F. Loversidgc, Newark. 2, E. Homer, he, E. Homer ; L. H. 

 Eicketts. 



Owls —1, G. J. Taylor. 2, E. Homer, /ic, E. Homer: A. Ashton, Middleton. 



EVNTS.— 1 and he. J. Fisher, Barrow-in-Furaess. 2, W. C. Dawson. 



Anv OTHER Variety.- 1, W. C. Dawson. 2, D. Riddiongh, jun. he, E. Hor- 

 ner; H. A. Saiidington. 



Best Pen.— Cup, E. Homer. 



The .Judge was Mr. E. Hutton, Pndsey, Leeds. 



TESTIMONIAL TO ME. P. H. JONES. 



"We have just had the pleasure of placing in the hands of Mr. 

 Jones a very handsome silver gilt cup that has heen subscribed 

 for by twelve of the lovers of Pigeons resident in " the north 

 countrie." 



The Northern Columbarian Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 

 last year held their first Show for young birds only, and Mr. 

 Jones was selected to fill the office of Judge. In judging he 

 acted so as to gain the esteem of every member present, and 

 some of the members oi the Society subscribed for a testimonial 

 to Ms most upright manner in judging. The following gentle- 

 men are the subscribers: — E. B. M. Eoyds, Rochdale ; W. B. 

 Van Haansbergen, Newcastle ; M. Ord, Sands, Ferryhill ; T. 

 Rule, Diu-ham; T. 'Waddington, Blackburn; W. E. Easten, 

 Hull ; F. Graham, Birkenhead ; J. Guthrie, Hexham ; J. P. 

 Taylor, Newcastle ; H. 0. Blenkinsop, Newcastle ; W. R. Blen- 

 Musop, Newcastle; and J. G. Dunn, Newcastle. The cup has 

 engraved upon it the Newcastle coat of arms, and underneath 

 this inscription : — "Judge's Cup, Northern Columbarian Society, 

 Newcastle-tipon-Tyne, First annual Show, December, 1871. Pre- 

 sented to P. H. Jones, Esq., Fulham, London, on behalf of the 

 subscribers, by John G. Dunn, Honorary Secretary, aud W. E. 

 Blenkinsop, Honorary Treasurer to the Testimonial." 



Mr. Jones has forwarded the following acknowledgment, ad- 

 dressed to J. G. Dunn, Esq. : — 



" I beg to acknowledge the receipt, through the Editors of 

 The Joukn.u. of Horticcltuee, of a silver gilt cup, offered to 

 me by members of the Northern Columbarian Society as a mark 

 of respect, aud in appreciation of my conduct as Judge at the 

 Exhibition of the Society at Newcastle-on-Tyne in December 

 last. 



" In accepting this testimony of approval, which I do with 

 feelings of gratitude, I look upon it as the recognition of a prin- 

 ciple which I trust will always guide me whenever called upon 

 to officiate in a simUar capacity, and which will not only satisfy 

 my own conscience, but will, I feel sure, always meet with the 

 approval of all true fanciers ; and while repudiating any claim 

 to special recognition of services performed in the discharge of 

 a duty, cannot help feeling and expressing the great gratification 

 I have in acknowledging the receipt of this expression of good 

 feeling towards me from the members of your Society. 



" I beg you will convey to the subscribers my appreciation of 

 the compUment they have paid me in i^resenting me with this 

 vei-y elegant and valuable cup, and beg to assure them it ■n-ill 

 always be looked on by me with feelings of pride and satisfac- 

 tion. Wishing the Northern Columbarian Society a long and 

 prosperous career, I am, &c. — P. H. Jones." 



PIGEONS GOING LIGHT. 



I cannot think Pigeons goinglight is attributable to worms. For 

 the last five years I have been trying to ascertain the cause, and 

 have opened upwards of twenty birds obtained from several dif- 

 ferent lofts, and also some of my own. I think there is something 



wi-ong with the gizzard, and I am inclined to think if anything can 

 be found to act on that we should have no more " going hght." 

 Whenever I find a bird sitting in a corner with its head drawn 

 between its shoulders, and if frightened it rivns along the floor like 

 a Goose with outstretched neck, instead of strutting or flying 

 away, I give it a piece of green vitriol about the size of a pin's 

 head, and two days afterwards repeat the dose. The day after 

 that I give cod-liver oil. I have tried many remedies, but find 

 this the most effectual. I recommended it to a friend a few 

 weeks ago, and he has used the vitriol with great success. Even 

 this I believe to be of no use unless the bird is seen to at once. 

 —J. T. C. 



SILVER DEAGOONS' BAES. 



As my name has been brought in question in a letter from 

 Mr. Allsop, which appears in your last impression, I shall feel 

 obliged by yotir allowing me to say a few words in reply. Mr. 

 Allsop asserts that I took the first prize for SUver Dragoons at 

 Birmingham in 18G7-8-9, at Manchester in 1867, and that I bred 

 the bird with which Mr. Graham was first at Birmingham in 

 1870, all the birds so taking prizes having brown bars. All this 

 is perfectly con-ect, but I can safely aflirm there was not a black- 

 barred SUver at any of the shows enumerated. Had there been, 

 all I can say is the judges would have been decidedly at fault in 

 awarding the prizes to brown-barred birds, whether to myself 

 or anyone else. It is oulj' within the last two or three years 

 that I have been able to obtain black-barred SUver Dragoons ; 

 until then I was obliged to rest satisfied with the best SUvers I 

 could get, even though brown in the bar. 



Mr. Allsop is certainly at fault in stating that the SUver Dra- 

 goons exhibited at the last Crystal Palace Show by Mi-. Graham 

 had brown bars. I perfectly recollect the pair of birds alluded 

 to ; not only were they black-barred, but very superior in all 

 points, and but for their bad condition (being in moult) would 

 certainly have been awarded the first prize. 



In conclusion, I again express my opinion that SUver Dragoons 

 shoiUd decidedly have black bars, and wherever I may be caUed 

 upon to judge, I shaU certainly endorse such opinion by award- 

 ing prizes to black-barred Silvers in preference to their brown- 

 bai-red brethren. — Jones Peecfv.u-l. 



EVENLT-MAEKED CANAEIES AND MULES. 



Me. H.iW3i.iN, in your publication of the 18th inst., appears to 

 attach some importance to the fact that I did not on the 14th of 

 March include birds simply having a cap in my category of 

 evenly-marked birds. If a bird had a perfectly formed eUiptie 

 cap, I should certainly not hesitate to do so. My simple object 

 is to have birds properly classified; and although I included 

 birds with " eye marks alone," and cap alone, as being evenly- 

 marked, I do not think that many fanciers would be foimcl who 

 would waste their money by entering birds so marked in ac 

 evenly-marked class. 



My own idea of a standard of perfection is a bird with nine 

 cleai- flight feathers in each wing, and the remaining secondaries 

 black or dark green, with eye marks to correspond ; but I know 

 that it is quite as difficult to breed a bird with an elliptic cap as 

 eye marks, and probably more so ; and I know further, that birds 

 so. marked are quite as generally fancied, and as highly esteemed. 

 I have no personal feeling in the matter beyond fixing a general 

 and reliable riUe for future gtiidance. 



In Mr. Hawman's reply to my former article I see no valid 

 argument in favour of excluding the cai^-marked birds from the 

 evenly-marked classes, but, on the contrary, I think they are in 

 every way confirmatory of my ojiinion. In regard to his state- 

 ment (which, by the way, is erroneous, as the bird referred to 

 was claimed by Mr. Belo'e, and not Wallace & Beloe, as at that 

 time we did not exhibit birds conjointly — however, the fact is 

 the same), Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire, the very town that 

 wishes to discard the beautiful, symmetrical, graceful, elhp- 

 tic cap, and to denounce it as a blot oiE Nature — a daub — actu- 

 aUy permits a bird so disfigured (?) to compete as an even-mai-ked 

 bird ; and to make bewilderment doubly bewildered, they procure 

 the services of a well-known Torkshii'e judge — Mr. Calvert, of 

 York — a judge out of the very core of Yorkshire, who not only 

 concedes the fact that a capped bird is evenly marked, but as a 

 confirmation of his approval he awards the bird second honours, 

 and this, be it remembered, in the very face and over the heads 

 of good four-marked birds. What stronger argument c.in I 

 adduce in favoirr of my opinion ? What greater proof than this ? 



Again, Mr. Hawman informs us that he has seen " excellent 

 Mules with beautifiUly-formed caps that were never noticed in 

 an exhibition even by judges who at the same exhibition had 

 awarded prizes to cap-marked Canaries in an even-marked 

 class." Sm-ely this is overwhelming proof in my favour, anffi 

 further, it confirms the statement made by me in my former 

 article — that Mules were exceptional upon the grounds therein 

 explained. 



I am sorry that no other experienced fancier has taken up the 

 question and added his views. The only solution, therefore. 



