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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ September 25. 1873. 



Frekch Fowls.— 1, J. J. Maiden. Bigffleswade. 2, .T. K. Fowler. 8, Mrs. 

 ■Whinfielii. Worcester. hc.U.B. Wciod; W. Bnnff; R Wingfield. 



Any other Variftv.— 1, H. Beldon. 2, J. Hinton, Warminster. 3. R. S. S. 

 WooilKate. he, O. E. C' esswell, Baijshot. 



Game Bast atss. ~ Black-breasted and other Beds—l, Cup, and 2. W. F. 

 Entwisle, Westfield, Bradford, /it, W. F. Entwisle ; J. Nelson, Hexham; W. 

 Shenton, Woreenter. c, A. Ashley ; J. Andruwa; J. Martin. 



Gamk.— .-1711/ nihrr raiirtii —I, '1. ami hr, W. F. Entwiale. 



Bantams.— B/ac/.- (uul ]Vhit<-.~\ and '1 W. A. Taylor, hr. B. Parrott, Hem- 

 bury, Bristol (2) ; R H. Ashton, Mottram, Manchester, c, T. Cropper, Bncup. 



Bantams. — Any other varieti/.—l, M. Leno, Dunstable. 2, Rev. C. Spencer, 

 Naunton, Beanchamp. he, R. S. S. Woodgate : O. E. Cresswell. c, P. Foxwell. 



Di:cKi.isGS.— Aylesbury. — 1 and 2. J. K. Fowler, vlic, Mrs. G. M. Rolls. Mon- 

 mouth ; J. Groves. Worcester, he. T. Sear. Tinfiewick, Buckingham. Rouen. 

 — 1, T. Wakefield, Golborne. 2. P. Unsworth vhe,J. Nelson, /tc, J. H. Hoit, 

 St. Austell : Mrs. H. J. Bailey. Tenbury ; W. Stephens, Gloucester. Any other 

 i>ariety.—l and Cup, G. S. Sainsbury, Devizes. 2 and vhc, M. Leno. c, H. B. 

 Smith, Broufihton, Preston. 



Selling class.— 1,T. Sear. 2, E.L. Harrison, Lowesmoor. S.Mra. Whinfield. 

 he, W. A. Burnell ; P. Unsworth ; H. Gwynne. c, W. A. Buniell (2); J. Hughes, 

 Kidderminster; D. Young, Leamington. 



PIGEONS. 



Carriers.— Cocfc.—l and Cup. R. Fulton. London. 2, H. Yardley, Birmingham. 

 he, S. D. Buddeley, Hereford, c, R. Spencer, Hereford. Hen. — 1 and 2, R. Fulton, 

 he, H. Yardley. 



Pouters.— Cocfc.—l, H. Pratt, Lnzells, Birmingham. 2 and he, R. Fulton. 

 C, H. Yardley. Ben.—\ and he. R. Fulton. 2, H. Pratt. 



Barbs.— 1 and 2, R Fulton, he. H. Yardlev. 



ToMULERS,- .■l/»iOH(i.— 1, Cup, :ind he, R. Fulton. 2, H. Yardley. Any other 

 variet]/.~l. H. Yardley. 2, R. Fulton, he, S. D. Baddeley; W. Mappiebeck, 

 Sparkbrook, Birmingham. 



Fantails.— I. O. E. Cresswell. 2, R. Fulton, he, R. Spencer, e, H. Yardley. 



Dragoons.— 1 and vhc. F. Graham, Birkenhead. 2, W. H. Mitchell, he, H. 

 Yardlpv. e. W. H. Mitchell, Moaeley. Birmingham; J. Watts, King's Heath, 

 Birmingham. 



AvTWKRPS.— 1 and 2, T, Clulee, Birmingham, he, H. Yardley. e, W. H. 

 MitcheU. 



.Tacobins.— 1, Cup. and he, K. Fulton. 2, H. Yardley. 



Thumpeters.— 1, H. Yardlev. 2, R. Fulton. 



Nuns.— 1, J. Watts. 2, H Yardley. 



Any other Variety.— 1, H. Yardley. 2, C. Hitchcock, Oxford, he, H. Yardley ; 

 Rev. C. Spencer, c, S. D. Baddeley. 



WHITBY BIRD SHOAV. 



I KNEW he was ill. Five years ago when I first visited Whitby 

 I could see that Asthma had seized him with a strong hand; 

 and a year after, when an acquaintance begun through the 

 Journal had ripened into something very like friendship, and 

 B. B. and I and the black bay went down the night before the 

 Show to share his hospitality, I thought it held him with a 

 firmer grasp. How time flies, doesn't it ? It seems only as if 

 it was yesterday night when we drove-up to the door, which 

 was standing wide open, the Hght streaming out into the dark 

 with a warm glow, and he standing in the porch with out- 

 stretched hands to bid us welcome. I remember how I noticed 

 that night, when he reached from its place the grand old Book 

 and read from its pages, that he did so with an effort. I have 

 frequently heard him read from it since, and when I last heard 

 him at Christmas I wondered if I should ever hear him again. 

 I knew he was ill, very ill, and yet I was hardly prepared for 

 the black-edged envelope when it came a month or two back, 

 and we knew that a good man had gone to his rest. To many 

 who have taken an interest in Whitby Show for years past, the 

 intelligence that Mr. Wilkinson is gone will be received with 

 sorrow. He passed away quietly on the morning of the July 

 flower show, with which and similar piire pleasures he had been 

 60 long identified. Surely a fitting day for such a gentle spirit 

 to take its flight ! Everyone missed him at the Show last week. 

 The Judges and those engaged in active arrangements seemed 

 to move about with quieter steps than usual, and to talk in 

 whispers as if afraid to disturb his rest; and the very birds 

 appeared to hush their song, warbling and twittering in low 

 sweet tones, as though the stilluess and quiet affected even 

 them. But with this short '* In Memoriam," I must get on to a 

 review of the Show. 



Everybody expects to see something new, something remark- 

 able at Whitby Show. Year after year the celebrities of the 

 season have made their first appearance on the stage at Whitby. 

 But this year will long be remembered as bringing in a new era 

 in Canary-breeding. It ought to be called Bemrose's year, for 

 the fact is simply this — ** Bemrose first, and the rest nowhere." 

 It will be remembered that at the last Crystal Palace Show Mr. 

 E. Bemrose, of Derby, exhibited two birds of surpassing beauty 

 which were quietly ignored by the Judges without any reason 

 being assigned. A week or two after, in an anonymous con- 

 tribution to the Journal, it was stated that the Judges had 

 passed them over because they were of an unnatural colour. It 

 struck me at the time what a funny thing it was that any writer 

 should be able to publish a Judge's opinion when such opinion 

 had not been publicly expressed. I think if one takes hold of 

 one end of that chain it would not be hard to find one's way to 

 the other. However, that's a useful word for "Bring yoti up 

 when you are danger of going off at a tangent." However, Mr. 

 Bemrose was hurt, and I think justly so, at the slur so quietly 

 cast on his name, because these two birds were so superlatively 

 excellent that each ought to have been first in its respective 

 class, while to pass them in silence was to give the exhibitor a 

 blow beueath the belt. I may be wrong, but I think grave re- 

 sponsibiUties rest upon Judges, and I don't think it's right to 

 impute by silence that which cannot be substantiated. To pass 



those birds was to say they were not genuine, and to say that 

 was to say Mr. Bemrose was not honest. But the birds were 

 genuine, and Mr. Bemrose's reputation stands on no sandy 

 foundation. He assured me on his word of honour as a gentle- 

 man, that the birds were in every respect genuine, that he had 

 moulted them himself, that their brilliant colour was solely at- 

 tributable to a method of feeding, and that this year, instead of 

 two birds, he would produce a string of them which should be 

 exhibited at every show in England from Whitby to the Crystal 

 Palace. And he has kept his word. I have examined the birds 

 carefully, and unhesitatingly pronounce them to be genuine, 

 and the grandest specimens ever exhibited. The colour is 

 something wonderful, and must be seen to be believed. I have 

 no doubt many won't beUeve it even then. But there are none 

 so blind as those who won't see, and none so deaf as those who 

 won't hear. I am sorry to notice a disposition not to give these 

 birds fair play elsewhere, about which I shall have something 

 to say by-and-by. 



A reference to the award of prizes will show that Mr. Bem- 

 rose swept all before him. Apart from the excellence of his 

 birds, the rest were vastly inferior as a whole to the display of 

 previous years, with the exception of the Cinnamons and Lizards, 

 which were remarkably fine. Mr. Ritchie, of Darlington, is 

 strong in Lizards, and Mr. Watson, of the same place, is not far 

 behind. — W. A. BL.uiSTON. 



Norwich.— Clfnr Yellou:—l and 2, E. Bemrose, Derby. 8. Adams & Ather- 

 Buch, Coventry, he, G. Cox, Northampton, c. H. &, D. Audley, Leicester. 

 Clear Buff —1 and 2, E. Bemrose. S, Brown & Ganlon, Northampton, he, W. 

 Forth. Pocklincton. e, Adams & Athersucb. 



'i^oRv.ica.— Evenly-marked— Clfar Yellow. — 1, Adams & Athersucb. 2, S. 

 Tomes, Northamptun. Clear Buff— I and 2, E. Bemrose. 3, Adams & Ather- 

 sucb. he, R. Simpson, Whitby ; Adams & Athersucb ; J. Goode, Leicester, c, 

 F. T. Robinson. Norton, Malton ; Clark & Jarvis, Scarborough ; Wilson and 

 Irons, Lofthouse ; Barwell ift Sons, Northampton ; S. Tomes. 



NoRVfiCH.— Utu'venly-marked or Ticked.— Clear Yellow.— 1, Brown & Ganton. 



2, Adams & Athersucb. 3. J. Clemminson, Darlington, he, Adams & Ather- 

 sucb; G. Cox e. C. Hampton & Chamberland, Lticeeter : M. King. Scar- 

 borough; J. Clemminson Char Buff.~l and 2, E. Bemrose. 8, Adams and. 

 Athersucb. lie, Adams & Athersucb; J. Greenfield, Stockton, c, H. & D. 

 Audley; G. Cox. 



Norwich.— Cf^ar Yellow or Buff.— Green, Grey, Buff or Yellow Crest,— 1, S. 

 Tomes. 2, Lamplougb & Bexaon, Derby. 8, W. Simpson, Pickering, he, J. 

 Devanv, Knaresborough. e, Clarli & Jarvis ; Barwell &, Sons. 



BELGIAN.-Cicar Ycllnw.—l.Vf. Forth 2, L. Belk, Dewsbury. Clear Buff.— 

 1, R. Hawman, Middle&borougb. 2, W. Forth. 3, L. Belk. 



Yorkshire.— C/far Yellow— i, T. Fawcett, Baildon, Leeds. 2, R. Ritchie, 

 Darlington. 3, H. W. Winter, Guisborough. he, W. H. Batchelor, Whitby; 

 R. Ritchie, c, R. D. Waite, Norton, Malton, Clear Buff.—l and 2, T. Fawcett. 



3, L. Belk. he, W. Forth, c, J. Garbutt. Great Brougbion. 



Cinnamon.— C/par Yellow.— I, Adams & Athersucb. 2, H. Johnson, Derby. 3, 

 J. Devaney. he, Ellerton Jii Mounsey, Darlington ; J. Taylor, Middlesborouffh ; 

 J Stevens, Middb'sborough. c, M. King ; R. Hawman : W. Johnstone. North- 

 allerton. Ch'nr Buff~l, Adams & Athersucb. 2, J. Taylor. 8. H. Johnson. 

 he, R. Hawman ; Barwell & Sons, e, M. Kmg. 



Lizard.— GoWfiwtpanf/ifrf-l and 2, R. Ritchie. 3. W. Watnon, Darbntrton. 

 he, C. Greenwood, Scarborough, c. Adams & Athersucb. Silver-spangled. — I 

 and 2, R. Ritchie. 3, W. Watson, jun. he, R Ritchie; W. Watson, jun. C, 

 Adams & Athersucb ; Ellerton & >roun8ev ; J. Taylor, 



Caskky. -Grecn.—\. R. Hawman. 2. H. & W. Winter. 3. T. Tenniswood, 

 North Acklam, Middlesborough. Any other rartcfi/.-l, E. Bemrose. 2 and 3, 

 J. Stevens. 



Six Canarprs in 0>b '^agf. — Young. — I, R. Simpson- 2, Ellerton and 

 Mounsey. 8, W. Henderson, Whitby, he, R. & 3. Burrowj, Whitby. 

 MULES. 



Goldfinch and Canary,— ivnojr.—l, J. Goode. 2, R. Hawman. Buif.— 1, R,- 

 Hawman. 2, J Stevens. 



Anv other Variety.— 1, J. Stephen. 2, J. Goode. 



Parakeet.— 1, E. Coates, Whitby. 



DISTRICT PRIZES. 



Norwich.— rrHofc or Buff. ~ Youno. — l, I. Diekcnsnn, Whitby. 2.W. H. 

 Batchelor. 3, R. Robinpon. Whitbv. c, R. & J. Burrows ; W. Henderson. 



Norwich CRE9TED.—yf//o«' or B"^.— yoJ(»i7.—l. I Dickmson. 



Marked Canary.— IV/Zoic or B«(#—roiiH(7.—l,H. Dale, Whitby. 2, G. Blake- 

 stone, Whitby. 3. W. Porritt. Ruswarp, Any other variety.— I, R. Pearson, 

 Whitby. 2, ti. & J. Burrows. P., G Elakestoue. 



yivLE. — Young. — 1. 2. and 3. M. Thompson. 



Goldfinch,— 1 and 2. R Pearson. 8, W. Thompson, Whitby. 



Linnet.— 1 and 3, 1. Dickinson. 2. W. H. Batchelor. 



British Birds.— 1, J. Smith, Whitby. 2, R. Pearson. 3, J. Haw. Grosmont- 



JuDGE. — Mr. W. A. Blakston, Sunderland. 



FEEDING BEES. 



Though 1873 has been pretty favourable for the gi-owth of 

 grass, grain, and root crops, it has not been, generally speaking, 

 a good year for the production of plums, pears, and apples; 

 neither has it been a favourable season for bees — probably the 

 worst we have experienced for ten years past. Whilst agricul- 

 tural and garden crops have done so well, how is it, I am fre- 

 quently asked, that bees have gathered so little honey? When 

 those putting this question are asked to account for the fact that 

 so few, if any, dogs have been seen panting for breath during 

 1873, they reply that the weather has not been hot enough. 

 When dogs pant — when the human body perspires, and is dewed 

 over to the finger points, flowers yield honey, and bees gather 

 it. In many of our counties this has not been a honey year; 

 in these counties many late swarms are now at starvation point» 

 and some are ah-eady dead from sheer hunger. Sugar never 

 was cheaper in England than it is now, and it is pretty evident 

 that great numbers of our bee-keepers are desirous to attend to 

 their bees better than they have hitherto done. From various 

 parts of England letters are coming to me, asking how much 

 syrup should be given to hives of this and that weight, also 



