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reared in that county, yet they are now dis-j 

 persed over the whole kingdom; and some! 

 of the best are bred in the neighborhood of| 

 Tamworth, in Staffordshire, from the progeny 

 of an animal well known to pig-breeders by 

 the name of the Tamworth Boar. 



The crosses from this breed are too nume- 

 rous to be now distinguished, and my attempt 

 to particularize thern would be unavailing. 



Almost every county has its peculiar kind, 

 the superiority of which is maintained in its 

 own district, and disputed in every other. 

 They have been repeatedly crossed with tlie 

 Ciiinese ; and a race has been obtained, which 

 possesses some excellent properties, and' is 

 known in some districts as the Tonkcy 

 breed. 



Figr. 

 III. The Essex Half Black Pigs — of a 

 sow of which kind, belonging to Mr. West- 

 ern, of Felix Hall, the above is a portrait — 

 are apparently descended from the Berk- 

 shire stock, and may be reckoned among the 

 finest breeds in this country. They are 

 black and white, short haired, fine skinned, 

 smaller heads and ears than the Berkshire ; 

 but the latter are feathered with inside hair, 

 which is a distinctive mark of both; short, 

 snubby noses, very fine bone, broad and deep 



in the belly, full in the hind quarters, but 

 light in the bone and offal; the sows are 

 good breeders, and bring litters from eight 

 to twelve; but they also have the characters 

 of being bad nurses. 



Mr. Western describes them, as feeding 

 remarkably quick, growing fast, and being 

 of an excellent quality of meat; and he con- 

 siders them at least equal, upon a fair com- 

 parison of age, food and weight, to any sort 

 whatever. 



For the Farmei'*' Cabintt. 



Pennsylvania Morticultnical 



Society. 



The monthly meeting of the " PennsyL' 

 VANiA Horticultural Society," was heldj 

 on Tuesday, the 20th of March, in the Hall! 

 under the Athenaeum. The President, 

 Horace Binney, Esq., in the chair. 



The Committee on Plants and Flowers 

 awarded the premium for the best ten Ca- 

 mellias to Robert Buist, who exhibited Ca- 

 mellia Speciosa, C. eximea, C. Donkolaari, 

 C. albn, C. florida, C. Landrethii, C. coronata, 

 G. imbricata, C. concinea, C. Welbankia. 



The premium for the best seedling Ca- 

 mellia, raised in Pennsylvania, was awarded 

 to John Sherwood, Laurel Hill, who exhibit- 

 ed two very fine ones, especially one of them, 

 the flower very compact and well formed, 

 color dark red, a hybrid between tlie varie- 

 gataand pompone, the flower has all the cha- 

 racter of the imbricata, and opens in tlie 

 same manner, remains a long time on the 

 plant. Mr. S. may well be proud of it, being 



amongst the best hybrids that have been 

 raised; the other is very dark red and his 

 some of the character of the waratah. 



The premium for the best display of plants 

 in pots wasawarded to Robert Buist, who exhi- 

 bited Kennedya coccinea, K. florabunda, Iv. 

 monophylla, Tropieolum tricolorum, T. bra- 

 chyceras, Dillwynia cinerescens. Verbena 

 Tweediana Euphorbia, Splendens, Ixora 

 blanda,! coccinea. Erica tubiflora Polygala op- 

 positfolia, Azalea coccinea, A. Gillinghamii, 

 A. nova blanch, A. N. Phcencia, vari-Passiflora 

 Loudonii Rosa fragrantissima, yellow noisette 

 Rose, Pelargonium Hericartinum, E. Lord 

 Denman, Epacris obtusifolia Burchellia spo- 

 ciosa, Mahernia odorata. Camellia conchi- 

 flora. 



The premium for the best boquet was 

 awarded to John Sherwood ; William Cijal- 

 mers, gardener to Mrs. Stolt, had a very fine 

 one — came too late for competition. 



McKenzie & Buchanan, Spruce and 

 Schuylkill Fifth streets, exhibited some pots 

 of Verbena Tweediana and Lantana Doug- 

 lassii, raised from seed by Mr. Douglass, gar- 

 dener, Washington city, a splendid new va- 



