Novcmbor 20, 1866. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE QARDENER. 



395 



STARTING VlNFlS AND STRAWItERnrE3 (J. 11., Lnncnth (>.*).— You should 



not Htnri. your Vjii, j In pots and Stratoberriea at Christmas hi ft Higher 

 temperature than 4f» for the first ten <lnys, ami then raise the heut 

 gradually. The Vines may have from 5° to lO 1 - more at She roots than the 

 top if it Is eouvtinit ul to Jive it. 



FonciNo Vinks Kmit.y iFriiiik).-1f the wmtil of you* Vines', froria 

 which you cut the fruil six weetys ng6, U not ripe no#, what iliil yoti tarn 

 it out of doors for? It would bore ripened much hotter in the bouse, 

 and even now would be better in thi iioaee and the air kept dry; mid 

 instead of, in the oiroxnastftWee^, beginning to force on the 1st of Janu- 

 ary, you would do better to delay it to the middle or that month or the 

 bogimiiiitj of February. YoUr filling the large 1 1>U in the lnm>t -with tree 



loaves will do nothing to ripen the wood now; but U nil! be of Import- 

 nnce if you fill sueh a pit a fortnight before you apply Are heat, audit 

 will help you luueh daring the faroing time until Ufa Grapes ohfinj e 



colour, when n little dry Boil Could he tln-iuii <>v<T the h'.ives. If J'OU 



began to force In January you may expect to out in July. In the green- 



housc you had hetter sow the Beads of the Viola curiiuta iu March. 



Namks ul- Fruit {Jamc* Scott), r* -P&Ari Glori Uoreeam Applet: 

 1, Lewis's Incomparable ; '-!, Stoup Leadington ; 8, striped lieeting ; 

 4, Flowor of Kent; 5, Royal Somerset ; 6, Reinette du I'.uuulu. 



NiJCES of Plants (M.). — 1, A Glmliolu-*, hurdy, hut varieties too 

 numorous to allow of naming it. 2, LonicOTa auroo-reticUlata, Japanese 

 Hi-iii -\ -nekle ; hardy. '•'>, Klowi-rs too inueh injured to he identified, but 



peeminalj Viola rothamagensjjaj the Rouen Eteartaease. id. /M.--1, Ste- 

 raon nit I km maorpphyUufi ; 2, Leuooetegia probably, hut too imperfect for 



determination; :>, Anemia hirsuta: 1, 1 >ieh jrie ui'lra Ovata; ;>, Nephro- 

 hpis exaltuta ; in, Pterin flabellata. it'.ll.U— Ptorislomjifolia ? woboliove. 

 {Country Cu rate). — Sedum earnosum variegiituiu, not quite hardy. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS in the Suburbs of London for the Week ending November nth. 



i am open to discussion on Game fowls anil Game Bantams, but 



POULTRY. BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHRONICLE , am not interested enough in them to discuss other breeds— 



- much at all events. — Newmarket. 



NON-ORNAMENTAL POULTRY. 



With reference to the articles by " G. E. B.," " Jdstitia," 

 and " A. E.," of Bristol, in the late Numbers of your paper, 

 " G. H. B." honestly admits that the Dorkings are not first- 

 rate layers, and " Jurtitia " considers my remarks unjustifi- 

 able, in which I differ from him. " A. E.," of Bristol, is not 

 so moderate in his remarks, and his lavish praise of the 

 clumsy and ugly-shaped Brahma Pootras appears to me absurd. 

 Brahmas are less prolific and less hardy than Game fowls in 

 my opinion, and the Brahma hens are clumsy and awkward 

 mothers. I think Dorkings, Cochin-Chinas, Brahma Pootras, 

 and the large Malays are clumsy and ugly-shaped birds, and so 

 most impartial people consider them. 



In my opinion the common white-legged barndoor fowls, 

 bred large, are quite equal in all useful properties, and not 

 being so much bred in-aud-in, are superior in some respects to 

 any of the Dorkings, Cochin-Chinas, Brahma Pootras, Spanish, 

 Hamburghs, or Malays. 



In stating this I am fully aware that Dorkings are, on the 

 whole, the most popular of poultry, but I think rather un- 

 deservedly so. They are also a thoroughly English fowl, which 

 is also iu their favour. 



The Spanish fowls appear poor and tame in blood and 

 carriage as compared to the Game fowls, which are the true aris- 

 tocracy of poultry, and the Game cock is certaiuly the king of 

 poultry. I could mention the names of many lady exhibitors 

 of Game fowls, some of them titled people. 



The Cochin-Chiua mania has much abated, as we no longer 

 hear of a hundred guineas being given for a Cochin cock, a3 

 formerly. I would not give a hundred pence for one. I am 

 aware that this breed is even more frequent than formerly at 

 exhibitions, and more common of course. 



I have been a close observer of all sorts of poultry, and have 

 bred other sorts besides Game fowls, and am qualified for a 

 poultry judge if required or selected as one. I have not ex- 

 hibited much, and not at all for nine or ten years, and when I 

 did exhibit the birds were only Black-breasted Red Game, with 

 which I won first prizes, sweepstakes, and commendations. 

 I merely sign as " Newmarket," because I lived within thirty- 

 five miles of that place at one time, and the original stock of 

 my Black-breasted Ked Game came from Newmarket ; but I 

 never resided there. 



With poultry fanciers the proper motto should be " Chaeun 

 h son gout." I must conclude with nearly the words of my 

 family motto, which is " JFrstflga* mm fief tea; r and though we 

 " may break " off from useless discussions on such a subject, I 

 cannot " bend " one inch from my own opinions as given. I 



WOODBRIDGE POULTRY SHOW. 



We have received many communications relative to this dis- 

 creditably managed Exhibition, but have recently declined their 

 insertion because we knew that the company which established 

 it was about to be submitted to a judicial examination. We 

 now refrain from all comments, and merely give a condensation 

 of a lengthy report iu the Suffolk Clmmirl,', of the Equity pro- 

 ceedings in the County Court at Woodbridge, on the 12th inst. 



" Jeremiah Wright, draper, Woodbridge, and Others verms 

 John Dallenger, accountant, Woodbridge. — This was a plaint 

 in equity. The plaintiffs, Messrs. Wright, E. W. Allen, Kemp, 

 Kent, Bannister, & Syson, the Committee of the Suffolk Poultry 

 Society, stated that in March last they and the defendant verb- 

 ally agreed to form a partnership called " The Suffolk Poultry 

 Society," with the object of holding a poultry show at Wood- 

 bridge in May. The show was held accordingly, and a con- 

 siderable number of specimens of poultry shown, and entrance 

 fees paid and prizes awarded ; the defendant received the en- 

 trance fees and other sums of money which ought to have been 

 placed to the credit of the partnership and applied in the pay- 

 ment of the prizes and the other debts and demands incurred 

 in the working of the partnership, and the balance, if any, 

 divided among the partners (plaintiffs and defendant). The 

 plaintiffs had frequently requested defendant to apply the money 

 received by him in the above-mentioned manner, and to furnish 

 them with accounts of all the dealings and transactions of the 

 partnership, but defendant had not done so ; and by reason of 

 his neglect to do so, on August 31st a plaint was entered in this 

 Court against the plaintiffs and the defendant by a creditor of 

 the partnership for the recovery of a debt due to him, and de- 

 fendant had been threatened with legal proceedings by other 

 creditors of the partnership. They further said that the defeu • 

 dant had in his possession all the partnership books and 

 accounts, letters, papers, and writings relating to the above- 

 mentioned matter ; that the whole of the property, stock, and 

 credits of the partnership did not exceed £500, and that they 

 desired to have the affairs wound up under the direction of the 

 Court, and to have the balance, if any, divided, they being ready 

 and willing, if necessary, to bear their respective shares and 

 proportions of the debts and obligations of the partnership ac- 

 cording to the direction of the Court. They, therefore, prayed 

 for a decree that an account might be taken of the partnership 

 transactions and the affairs woundup, that the defendant might 

 pay into Court any monies which might be found due to him 

 under the partnership account, that the partnership debts might 

 be paid out of the assets, and the balance if any, divided among 



