No. 10. 



Horticultural Premiums. 



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front* — a pupil dilated, or a white or clouded 

 one — are so many omens of disease, for which 

 we should reject the prad as a cupid,f or, 

 what is often worse, a blinker, who will shy 

 at all he meets with, and break your neck 

 the first poserl Y^^ ride him at. Having 

 satisfied yourself in regard to his peepers, 

 have him pulled out, and next proceed to 

 examine his pipes. If good and sound, on 

 being nipped in the gullet, he will utter such 

 a sound as cannot fail to strike the ear as the 

 emission of a good pair of bellows; but if 

 his lungs are touched, and he is a piper, — 

 that is, broken winded, or having no wind 

 at all — he will give vent to a dry, husky, 

 short cough. Should a horse be suspected 

 of bad wind, however, the purchaser cannot 

 do "better than direct his attention to the 

 flanks, which, under such circumstances, 

 will work either much quicker than ordina- 

 rily, or heave deeply, and with great irregu- 

 larity; they will be considerably longer in 

 contracting themselves, in order to squeeze 

 the wind out,|| than in falling to let it in,^ 

 which they do, if he is a piper, quite sud- 

 denly. But, though not a piper, he may be 

 a whistler, or, what is worse, a roarer; the 

 first may be known by the peculiar wheezing 

 he is addicted to when put to sudden or long 

 continued exertion; the latter, by blowing 

 his horn clamorously under similar circum- 

 stances; and either may be made to display 

 itself, by the purchaser giving him a smart 

 cut, or even feigning to do so, with his bit 

 of ash. 



Thirdly, and lastly, as to the limbs. If, 

 in passing our hand down his legs, we find 

 any unnatural protuberance, or puffiness, or 

 if, in feeling first one leg and then the other, 

 we discover any difference between them, 

 disease, more or less, is present; he may not 

 be lame, but he is not clean upon his legs. 

 Splenls, windgalls and ringbones, may be 

 present without occasioning lameness, but 

 they are all unnatural, are considered blem- 

 ishes, and are all to be regarded with a sus- 

 picious eye, as either denoting past hard 

 work, or betokening future evils. On the 

 same principle, a horse may have a spavin, 

 and be only stiff from it at starling, or he 

 may have a curb, or a thorough-pin, and be 

 perfectly sound; but these are still blemish- 

 es, and as such detract from the intrinsic 

 value of the animal. In explaining the ad- 

 vantages resulting from good conformation, 

 we are naiurally led to make remarks en 

 passant, on the disadvantages from bud; in 

 pursuance whereof, I have shown why such 



* Transparent cornea, f A blind one. X So called 

 from planting all but the nonpareil*. |{ Expiration. 

 § InspiratioD. 



a structure is bad, a question that necessari- 

 ly entails upon us the mention of the disor- 

 ders originating therein; i. e. the diseases 

 to which such parts, in consequence of bein^ 

 malformed are predisposed." 



Horticultural Premiums. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society offers the 

 following premiums at its stated meeting on the 18th 

 inst. at eight o'clock, P. M., in the large saloon of the 

 Museum building at the corner of Ninth and Geofe 

 streets. 



CAMELLIA. 



For the best American Seedling, exhibited 

 to the appropriate committee from December 

 to May, inclusive, .$5. 



PELARGONIUMS. 



For the best ten named varieties, to be 

 exhibited in pots, $.5. 



For the second best do. do. do. $3. 

 For the third best do. do. do. $2. 



ROSES, Perpetual. 

 For the best six named varieties, to be 

 exhibited in pots, ^2. 



For the second best do. do. do. $2. 



ROSE. 

 For the best American Seedling, ever- 

 blooming, in a pot, $3. 



CINERARIAS. 

 For the best four named varieties to be 

 exhibited in pots, $2. 



For the second best do. do. do. $1. 



CHERRIES. 



For the best, one pound, named variety to 

 be exhibited, $2. 



CUCUMBERS. 

 For the best four in number to be exhib- 

 ited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. $1. 



RHUBARB. 

 For the best twelve stalks to be exhib- 

 ited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. $1. 



PEAS. 

 For the best half a peck to be exhib- 

 ited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. $1. 



POTATOES. 



For the best, a fourth of a peck to be ex- 

 hibited, S2. 



For the second best do. do. $L 



And at the intermediate meeting on the 1st proximo 



ROCKET LARKSPURS. 

 For the best twelve in number to be ex- 

 ■hibited, ^-2. 



