July 30, 1868. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOliTICULTUKB AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 



63 



and proQtablo war of stocking suob a buu^tc, if span-roofod, is to plant 

 at each sido, tmin to the ridge-board, and have a broad walk iti the 

 centre. Thf^rc aro numerous modes, either by i)ot culture, tjrowintr ns 

 bushes, &c. H Grapos uro wished, Bhick Hamburgh and Uoyal aius- 

 cadino will ho the host. The beat time to build is as soon as pnssilile. 

 The best time to <tock it is as soon after Octnbor as the wood of the trees 

 is ripe. The flowers, if in pots, may be obtained as soon as the house is 

 flniahed. 



Kahks or FnuiTS {Mr. CobbetD.—The White-fruited Black Currant. 

 (J, Ashmole, Il/oril).~V.n.r\y Harvest Apple. 



N'AUEs or Plants (Jiiiidl. — Veronica agrestis. (J. D. (7.).— Rhus cotinus. 

 {fl". Oafr^j/).— Veratrum nigrum. (.S'. A. 3/.).— 1, Athyrium Filis-f<cmina 



; rhrcticnm; 2. 4, and 5, Aspidium (Lastroa) Filix-mas ; 3, Cystopterla 



\ fi'iigilis. (./. B. Boifil).—So fructlfioation to the spociinons. (F. E. H.). — 



1, Oymnogramma jupoiiicn ; M, NopliroJium sctigf^ruin. (G. K. Cox). — ■ 



Sondling frond of Athyriuin Filix-fuL-iniua. (/Vn'/o/)-'). — (Jystopteris 



fraKihs. (.1 II. of B.).— Aspleniuni bulbiforum. (.Sfc/Wtanoft's).— Nophro- 



diuni glabellum. (./. \V. P.).—\., Aspidium trichomanos ; U. SelnRinella 



I Marten^ii ; :i, S. Kraussii ; 4, Siixilraga barnientosa. (S. -S.) — 1, Asplenium 



I adiantuin ui><runi ; y, A. trichomanes ; 3, Polypodiura dryopteris ; 4, Adi- 



I antuin tenorum. {K. C. li.). — Celtis occidentalis. {J. Baily). — Vamaria 



j pftrvitlora. {H. A. M.).— 1, Lotus corniculatus ; 2, Galium verum ; 



I :(, ArhilUm millofoliuui; 4, Inula puUcarla (PuUcaria vulgaris); 5, Lysi- 



I machla niiiuuiularia. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS in the Suburbs of London for the week enriing July 28th. 



POULTRY. BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHRONICLE. 



FEEDING GAME FOWLS FOPt EXHIBITION. 



Good barley, white peas, or good peas of any colour, bread 

 steeped in strong rod ale, or in port wine or sherry, are the 

 best things in feeding for exhibition. Meat should never be 

 given, as feeding Game fowls on meat is technically termed 

 "foul feeding," and makes the birds smell rank, as butchers' 

 Game fowls generally do. Some give the raw yolk of eggs, but 

 I do not approve of any egg-feeding. If the birds are penned, 

 a good green turf containing worms, ants' eggs, and insects, is 

 excellent in the pen with them. They should have a little pure 

 water as well. 



Exhibitors should be especially careful about not sending to 

 an exhibition any bird in a pen in the least roupy, or at all 

 inclined to be so. One bird will, if in this state", infect all 

 the other occupants of the pen, and they on their return will 

 infect the whole run and spoil the stock. The roup, it should 

 be remembered, is when bad just like the glanders in horses ; 

 and all birds having it, like glandered horses, should be at once 

 destroyed. 



Exhibitors should also recollect in putting up a cock and 

 hens for exhibition, that the hens, or rather their eggs, will be 

 influenced by the cock the hens have been penned with for 

 the next three weeks or month at least, even if they are sepa- 

 rated from him directly they return from exhibition, a cock's 

 influence lasting on the average three weeks after separation 

 from the hens. 



Feeding on meat is called dirty or foul feeding by all good 

 judges, and it not only makes the feathers smell rank, but 

 I have been informed tends to encourage the breeding of insects 

 under the feathers. Worms, insects, and ants' eggs are the 

 only proper animal food for poultry, and never meat, either 

 raw or cooked, though cooked meat if fresh is better than raw 

 meat. Stinking or putrid meat is very bad food. 



The hampers in which the birds are sent should be well lined 

 and covered with canvas in cold weather, and there should be 

 hay at the bottom of the hamper. If the exhibitor resides 

 only a short distance from the place of exhibition, it is better 

 to put the birds in large bags, having a hoop stitched in each 

 to keep it open, with hay in the bottom of the bag, and 

 then to sling the bags to a dogcart, and drive with them to the 

 exhibition in the old cockers' style. 1 used always to do this 

 when living near Newmarket in former years. Bags do not 

 raffle and disorder the feathers, especially the cocks' long tails, 

 so much as hampers do. I believe it is legitimate to trim 

 or cut the bristles on Game cocks' heads, but never the smallest 

 feather. Some strains have more bristles than others have. — 

 Newsubket. 



(To be continued.) 



MiDnLETON" (ne.^r MANCHESTER), POULTRY Show. — The prize 

 list is liberal, with but few alterations in that of last year. A 



new class has been made for French fowls, and birds shown in 

 this class will also have the chance of a .£5 cup ; another alter- 

 ation has been made in the Selling Class, which will make it a 

 rather dangerous thing for those who enter valuable birds merely 

 to take away the prize and buy in their own birds. We allude 

 to the paragraph at the top of the class, which states that birds 

 are not to be claimed before eleven o'clock on the morning of 

 the show. If this plan were adopted at all shows, much of the 

 trickery now practised in the Selling Class would be prevented. 

 For Pigeons the prices have advanced from l.js. and 7.<. Ii»;. to 

 20.-!. and lO-.-., without a corresponding increase in the fee, 

 which still remains at '2s. A new class has been mide for 

 Silver-Grey Rabbits. 



JAPANESE BANTAMS. 

 By a letter published in last week's Journal, I find that Mr. 

 ■J. N. Beasley complains that in the report of the Oundle Show 

 a pen of his " Japanese Bantams" were described as a " cross 

 between the Silkies and the Frizzled Bantams ;" " that being 

 imported from Japau last year, he believes thecn to be a pure 

 breed ; that they are not halt the weight of either the Silkies 

 or the Frizzled Bantams, and that he believes them to be the 

 only specimens in England." The report itself simply runs 

 thus ; " We noticed in the Bantam class (here open alike to 

 every variety of Bantams), birds of very novel character, being 

 evidently a cross between the Japanese Bantam and the Silky 

 fowl." It is evident, therefore, that no such statement exists 

 as that of which Mr. Beasley complains, the birds that were ex- 

 hibited at Oundle being beyond a question the cross of the Silky 

 and .Japanese, not the Frizzled Bantams. 



The simple fact of their importation from Japan last year 

 does not necessarily involve purity of descent, as not a few 

 individuals proved to their personal loss and vexation at 

 the time so many of the large cross-bred Asiatic fowls were 

 imported as true Cochins, during the " mania " some years 

 back, when anything under the name of a Cochin realised an 

 almost fabulous price. Again, there are now two hatches of 

 chickens bred within a few miles of my residence purposely of 

 the cross named ; they are identical both in plumage and 

 general character with the pen exhibited at Oundle Show, 

 and they will, I am told, be entered for competition in a little 

 time when perfectly matured, under a name purposely manu- 

 factured by the breeder and owner, to give them due importance 

 with the public. I am quite aware by personal experience that 

 the product of the Frizzled fowl and the Silky is, as stated by 

 Mr. Beasley, a full smooth-feathered fowl with a top-knot ; but 

 the product of the true Japanese and Silky fowl is another bird 

 altogether, both as to form, plumage, and character. — Your 

 Eepouter. 



BRIGHOUSE AND RASTRIGK POULTRY SHOW. 



Though not a large Show, this was a generally good and very 

 attractive Exhibition, and the very nnmerous attendance of visitors 

 made the Meeting a decided Buccess. The arrangements were excel- 



