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China some years a£;o, and is in the library of the Horticultural 

 Society of London. 



[Lindley in his " Vegetable Kingdom " calls ivy worts, Ara- 

 liacea, but does not speak of the rice paper. Brandt says it is the 

 membrane of the Artocarpus or bread fruit tree. — Meigs.] 



I judgs from the circumstances of Formosa that this Tung 

 Tsaou will thrive in England, but not much further north. There 

 are some of them already in the royal garden of Kew. 



POULTRY. 



The first premiums ever given by agricultural societies for 

 poultry were given by the American Institute, on the proposal of 

 Henry Meigs, Secretary of the Farmers' Club. It was at first 

 deemed rather trivial, but very soon the great importance of 

 it was seen, and the encouragement by public rewards has been 

 very great here and in Europe. 



In the London Farmers' Magazine of July, 1854, we see that 

 after all the excitement as to Oriental poultry, the Dorkings are 

 now in England deemed the most fashionable fowls of the day. 

 Prince Albert exhibited m?ieof them at the Metropolitan Poultry 

 Show last January, which took frst and second prizes. At the 

 West ot England Show, the other day, they were clearly the chief 

 attraction — the Cochin China suffering greatly by comparison with 

 them. Mr. Hobbs, a successful exhibitor of poultry, may be con- 

 sidered no mean authority on this point, has publicly given in his 

 adhesion to the Dorking ; " He had tried all kinds, and had come 

 to the conclusion that there was no bird so fit for common farm 

 premises, and which the farmer could call domestic poultry:^ The 

 Dorkings were in the ascendancy, while the Cochin were going 

 down. 



[From the same.] 



ON BREEDING HORSES. 



Every farmer should breed all animals which he emplojs at 

 work, and all which he fattens. Farmers of three to four hun- 

 dred acre? should breed two kinds of hordes j those of less land 



