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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GAEDENER. 



[ October 22, 1868. 



Lilac, (tc: Thomns Moore, Adele Sonchet. Various: OpMr, Enrydice, 

 Reine Victoria. Belle Gabrielle. 



Kew {X. Y. Z.).— You have imagined a prejudice wbich does not exist. 



MusA Cavendishii (A Congtajit Reader). — The fruit you enclosed is of 

 Musa Cavendishii, or Cavendish's Plantain. The Bread-frait is quite a 

 different plant, Artocarpns incisa. If you cut off the flowerinp stalk 

 entire and hang it up in a warm drv place, the fruits upon it may ripen. 



Names of Fruits {T. TV.).—1, Lame de Glymcs ; 2. Belle de NotI ; 



4, Glou Mortjean. (R. A/.).— 1, Hampden's BcrRnmot; 2, Beune d'Arem- 

 berg; 3, Vicar of Winkfield ; 4, St. Germain; 5, Emerald; G, Dnchesse 

 d'Orleans. {Centurion).—!, Nonveau Poiteau ; 2, DoyeunC Defois ; 3, Yel- 

 low Bellefleur ; 6, Drap d'Or ; 7, Braddick's Nonpareil ; 8, Easter Benrrc- ; 

 9, Nonpareil ; 10, Herefordchire Pearmain ; 11, Red Doyenne ; 12, Boston 

 Russet; 13. Royal Russet; 11. Brown Beunt ; 15, Cellini. (J. Mcicalf).— 

 Vicar of Winkfield. (C. Hamilton).—'}, Stirling Castle; 2, Kot know-n ; 



5, Your Winter Peach is AVinter Hawthomdeu ; 4, Warner's King ; 5, Your 



Soldat Laboureur Pear is Efampdcn's Bergamot ; 6, Y^oar Josephine de 

 Malines Pear is Fondante do ilaUnes ; 7, Not known 8, Beurre Nantaie. 



NA^res OF Plants {G. S.) — 1, Craticgus niacrantha; 2, C. sanguinea; 

 S, C. ovalifolia ; 4. C. punctata ; 5, C. orientalis ; Cicuta \'iro3a is found 

 in ditches and by the sides of rivers, but we cannot give you Bucb a de- 

 scription of it as to enable you to find the plant if you do not already 

 know it; ask some botanical friend near you if be knows where it grows. 

 (E. L.). — We cannot determine species from leaves. (M. D.). — Aranja 

 albens. {Mr:i. Sartoris). — Canavalia tuif;ida. {Pohj:-tichinn).—l, Selagi- 

 nella Kraussiana ; 2, Aspidium trifoliatum ; 3, Elechnum occidentale; 

 4, 5, rolystichum aculeatum, young fronds. (J. S.). — 1, Aspleuium tricho- 

 maues; 2, Polypodium vulgarc; B, 4, 5, Lastrea Filii-mas ; G, Rnscus 

 aculentus. (a! M. C.).— Cassia hevigata. (H. T. TT.).— Pteris sulcata. 

 {An Old Subscriber). — Tricbomanes radicans. {A. L. H.).— Datura, Ptra- 

 monium. a very dangerous plant. (J. iacoUj.— 1, Aster Irevis; 2,Po*entilla 

 nepolensis, or a hybrid from it. 



POULTaY, B EE, and HOITSEHOLI) CHROl^ICXE. 



POULTRY AT THE APPROACH OF WINTER. 



Three is something cheerful in the first approach of frost, 

 and in the disappearance of the hot, iinseasonahle muggy 

 weather. The animal world seems to share the feeling ; at 

 least, we thought our fowls did. They were hrisker, they 

 bustled more about, and when let out at daybreak, instead of 

 listlessly wandering in front of their house, they spread all over 

 the grass. The younger ones seemed to view the white fi-ost 

 with wonder, akin to that expressed hy natives of hot countries, 

 who for the first time in their lives see the landscape covered 

 with snow. 



'We do not believe the relaxing weather we have had has been 

 healthy for fowls. Without serious ailment we do not know we 

 ever saw our fowls at all places so entirely out of condition ; 

 many sneezing, and with slight discharge from the nose, while 

 others have shown a decided tendency to mope. Our treatment 

 has been camphor in their water, and bread and ale for food. 

 This has kept disease from breaking out, and the cold weather 

 has had a most salutaiy effect. 



The approach of anything like winter generally brings us the 

 question — " What is the best way of providing artificial heat 

 for my poultry r" Some talk of hot-water pipes ; some of old 

 conservatories ; some would devote an attic to early chickens ; 

 and others are willing to give up the back kitchen. Nothing of 

 the sort is required. Increased heat must be given by generous 

 feeding. The most important points are to feed tho last thing 

 before dark, and the first thing at daybreak. Kitchen pot liquor 

 is now a good thing to use ibr mixing meal, and use it warm. 

 Let^ the fowls have bones to pick. Scatter fresh moidd on the 

 floors of their houses. See that no draught blows on them in 

 their roosting place. Begin to think of your runs. In most 

 places men are now trimming the sides of the roads, and the 

 cuttings that are made in making the road straight can be had 

 for a trifle. We know nothing so good for pens ; it is capital 

 stuff for fowls to bask and dust in ; it is full of grass, and 

 affords food, and does not hold wet. Two hours after a hard 

 shower it is dry. A few shovelsful of this thrown now and then 

 into a pen keep it always fi'esh. 



SUBDUING BROODINESS. 



In your number for October 8th you say, in answer to 

 " H. E. N.," that " there are no means of preventing a hen being 

 broody, and it is very cruel to try. It is simply her nature, 

 and a little p.atience will survive the annoyance." Now it is, 

 of course, impossible to prevent hens of particular breeds from 

 manifesting symptoms of broodiness ; but I think it is quite 

 possible, without cruelty, to cure them of these symptoms. I 



have kept BuS Cochins for more than a year, and by the adop- 

 tion of the plan mentioned below, have constantly succeeded 

 in preventing them from persisting in then- desire to sit. 



The plan is simply this. I have two hen houses, situated at 

 a considerable distance from each other, and whenever one of 

 my hens manifests any desire to sit, she is forthwith deported 

 to the reserve hen hou.«e, which contains no nests. Here she 

 remains by herself for two or three days, having a full allow- 

 ance of food and water provided, and then she is returned to 

 her old quarters. This plan has never failed to be successful, 

 and the liens subjected to the experiment have always begun to 

 lay again within a fortnight of ceasing to lay. The philosophy 

 of the matter seems easily explicable. The female mind is 

 very susceptible to the influence of change of scene, and just 

 as prudent parents send their daughters to the seaside when 

 they are brooding over some undesirable attachment, with the 

 view of distracting their attention from the beloved object ; so 

 I carry off hens brooding over eggs, in order to divert their 

 attention by presenting new objects of attraction to them. 



Another simple precaution is to remove the eggs from the 

 nests twice each day. 



By these means Cochins may be made nearly as profitable as 

 egg-producers as Hamburghs or Polish.— F., IVestmorcland. 



THE SORROWS OF A POULTRY-FANCIER. 



This morning, as I sat in my study preparing for tho labonre 

 of the day, I heard an unusual knock at the door. In came 

 my poultry man, looking very serious. Something evidently 

 was wrong. 



" I am sorry, sir, to say that the hen which was ill yesterday 

 is dead." 



"Dead !" said I. "Why, she seemed as if there was very 

 little the matter with her yesterday." 



" She is dead and cold this morning," replied my man. 

 Alas ! for my poultry yard. The best pullet (a Coloured Dorking), 

 that I had, one with the best blood in Eugland flowing in her 

 veins, my hope for this and other years, has been suddenly 

 taken from me, and I hardly know how I can supply her place. 



Her history is as follows, and I recite it that others may 

 avoid the rock upon vhich my hopes have been wrecked. 



About ten days since she returned from a show, where, in ft 

 close competition, she had been crowned with honours, so that 

 I hoped she would win her way on many another field. Alas ! 

 for human hopes. She was fed, I fear, too well, although with 

 soft food only. Upon her arrival home there did not, however, 

 seem anything the matter with her until yesterday morning, 

 when my servant, missing her at feeding time, found her, 

 after a search, concealed beneath a tree. She was evidently 

 ill; her crop contained no food, and when pressed threw ont 

 watery matter, that seemed to speak of roup. She was imme- 

 diately brought in-doors, placed in a hamper near the fire, and 



