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Shying on coming out of the stable is a habit 

 thai can rarely or never be cured. It proceeds 

 from the remembance of some ill-usage or hurt 

 which the animal has received in the act of pro- 

 ceeding from the stab!* '> is striking Ids head 

 against a low door-way. or entangling the harness, 

 ion will but associate greater tear and more 

 determined resistance with the old recoil ction. 

 Mr Castley, to whom we are indebted for much 

 that is valuable on the. subject of the vices of the 

 horse, gives an interesting anecdote, which tends 

 to prove that while severity will be worse than 

 useless, even kind treatment will not break a con- 

 firmed habit. 'I remember a very fine gray mare 

 that had trot into this habit, and never could be 

 persuaded to go through a door-way without 

 taking an immense jump. To avoid this, the ser- 

 vants used to back her in and out of the stable; 

 but the mare happening to meet with a severe in- 

 jury of the spine, was no longer able to back; and 

 then I have seen the poor creature, when brought 

 to the door, endeavoring to balance herself with a 

 staggering motion upon her half-paralyzed hind 

 extremities, as if making preparation and sum- 

 moning up resolution for some great effort; and 

 then, when urged, she would plunge headlong 

 forward with such violence of exertion, as often to 

 lose her feet, and tumble down "altogether most 

 pitiable to be seen." 'This I. merely mention,' he 

 continues, 'as one proof how inveterate the habits 

 of horses are. They are evils, let it always be re- 

 membered, more easy to prevent than cure.' 



Slipping the Collar. 



This is a trick at which many horses are so cle- 

 ver that scarcely a night passes without their get- 

 ting loose. It is a very serious habit, for it enables 

 the horse sometimes to gorge himself with food. 

 to the imminent danger of staplers; or it exposes 

 him, as he wanders about, to be kicked and injur- 

 ed by the other horses, while his restlessness will 

 often keep the whole team awake. If the web of 

 the halter, being first accurately fitted to his neck, 

 is suffered to slip only one way, or a strap is at- 

 tached to the halter and buckled round the neck, 

 but not sufficiently tight to be of serious inconve- 

 nience, the power of slipping the collar will be 

 taken away. 



Tripping. 



He must be a skilful practitioner or a mere pre- 

 tender who promises to remedy this habit. If it 

 arises from a heavy forehand, and the fore legs 



and pulls, and the other jumps, plunges, frets, and 

 throws up his head, until both, pretty well exhausted 

 by the conflict, grow tranquil again and proceed on 

 their journey, though not for some time afterwards in 

 their former mutual confidence and satisfaction. Should 

 they in their road, or even on a distant day, meet with 

 another coach, what is the consequence? That the horss 

 is not only more alarmed than before; but now, the 

 moment he has started, being conscious of his fault, 

 and expecting chastisement, he jumps about in fearful 

 agitation, making plunges to strike into a gallop, and 

 attempting to runaway. So that by this correction, 

 instead of rendering his horse tranquil during the pas- 

 sage of a coach, the rider adds to the evil of shying 

 that of subsequently plunging, and perhaps running 

 away.' — The Veterinarian, by Messrs. Percival and 

 Youatt, vol. i., p. 96. 



being too much under the horse, no one can alter 

 the natural frame of the beast: if it proceeds from 

 tenderness of the foot, grogginess, or old lame- 

 ness, these ailments are seldom cured; and if it ia 

 to be traced to habitual carelessness and idleness, 

 no whipping will rouse the drone. A known 

 stum bier should never be ridden, or driven alone, 

 by any one who values his safety or his life. A 

 tight hand or a strong bearing-rein are precautions 

 that should not be neglected, but they are gener- 

 ally of little avail; for the inveterate stumbler will 

 rarely try to save himself, and this tight rein may 

 sooner and farther precipitate the rider. If, after 

 a trip, the horse suddenly starts forward, and en- 

 dea\ors to break into a canter, the rider or driver 

 may be assured that others before him have fruit- 

 lessly endeavored to remedy the nuisance. 



If the stumbler has the foot kept as short and 

 the toe pared as close as safety will permit, and 

 the shoe be rounded at the toe, or have, that shape 

 given to it which it naturally acquires in a fortnight 

 from the action of such a horse, the animal may 

 not stumble quite so much; or if the disease which 

 produced the habit can be alleviated, some trifling 

 good may be done, but in almost every case a 

 stumbler should be out rid of, or put to slow and 

 heavy work. If the latter alternative be adopted, 

 he may trip as much as he pleases, for the weight 

 of the load and the motion of the other horses will 

 keep him upon his legs. 



Weaving. 



This consists in a motion of the head, neck, and 

 body, from side to side, like the shuttle of a weaver 

 passing through the web, and hence the name 

 which is given to this peculiar and incessant action. 

 It indicates an impatient, irritable temper, and a 

 dislike to the confinement of the stable; and a 

 horse that is thus incessantly on the fret will sel- 

 dom carry flesh, or be safe to ride or drive. There 

 is no cure for it, but the close tying up of the ani- 

 mal, except at feeding time. 



From the Horticultural Register. 

 OX PARTY SPIRIT IN HORTICULTURE. 



Start not, reader; the caption of this article 

 forebodes no bloodshed in America, and however 

 violent the spirit, the subject is merely a Rose. 



It is in the great commercial, free Hanseatic 

 city of Hamburg, in Germany, that this flame of 

 discord has been kindled, which threatens even to 

 falsify the line of" the great delineator of the human 

 character, that, 



"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." 



It appears that Messrs. Booth, proprietors of the 

 Flottbeck Nursery, near Hamburg, had raised a 

 new rose from the seed of the old and well known 

 Maiden'sBlush, which is described as wonderfully 

 beautiful (wunderschon) and of which they had 

 consequently sold a large quantity. This they 

 called in their catalogue the Queen of Denmark 

 rose. 



Professor Lehmann, Director of the Hamburg 

 Botanic Garden, in his descriptive catalogue re- 

 marks on a variety of the rose, there called La 

 Belle Courtisanne, that this rose was described in 

 France in 1806 as a hybrid between the old Dutch 

 Hundred Leaf and the Maiden's Blush. 



