Fesrvary 2, 1895. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
135 
Ath tal +h 1 el 
square _ 
which is * no means productive of s0 good a fowl, 
It is also more lumpy” in its general movements 
to those of bygone days, and I am happy to hear 
that there is just a slight prospect that an effort will 
e made among the southern farmers to restore, if 
possible, the grand old breed that won for itself a 
oe eme 
and this not seldom, that our fore- 
fathers maid but little attention to their poultry. 
How was it, then, when the poultry shows arose 
nearly fifty years ago, there were found plenty of 
birds fit for, and ready for exhibition, and 
prices, Eight to ten pound 
the hene, and cocks sometimes over eleven pounds, 
and the quality undeniable. hen they were in 
the southern homesteads by the hundred, with their 
if. 
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Fie. 19. Ea ce JETHIOPICA, WITH — MALFORMED 
DIX AND SECTION OF SA 
square-made bodies, large wide breaste, full a; 
and taile, with p hite 1 t, and 
nails—not a sooty-legged fowl amongst them ; 2 
this whiteness of legs, it was t of their 
cock 
hens, the 
of the “old ‘woke ” will be _ in any of the 
old gs k -grounds? For some cause, but why 
seems known, lation that it is the 
y 
fault ** the public, who do not understand what is 
nothing bon cross-bred 
mongrel stuff, that rae the eye of the ignorant, 
se of its 
S 
co 
crossing and mongrelising is the e 
purity 
raze 
day, and of breed and high quality is apa and 
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less understood or appreciated. It has been well 
said that there are many that sacrifice their 
natural feelings for novelty; not that novelty 
laws of our nature, can never please, but that they 
attribute their want of pleasure to want of taste, and 
admire in proportion to their ignorance.” The 
farmer gives large prices for his pedigree stock or his 
sheep, the horse-breeder for his pedigree horses, and 
why? because he knows what he will get, and this of 
the best, and thus the most valuable, for having so 
much excellence, and that wit 
reproduction. And yeti 
the knowledge of this, the poultryman of to-day goes 
crazy over crossing and crosees, instead of selecting 
from the pure breeds, and of such making their 
profits greater, 
( To be continued). 
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MALFORMED RICHARDIA 
ÆTHIOPICA 
Tue figs. 19 and 20 represent a branched condition 
of the spadix of Richardia æthiopica, which is cer- 
tainly not common, though as the spadix is merely a 
shoot it is quite in accordance with the nature of 
things that it should branch. are quite 
unable to give a reason for this unusual develop- 
— and can only 1 that it was due ton over- 
stimulation at a certain h 
change is not desirable fen as e 3 were 
unusually tightly wrappe e spadices, and 
atal 
were more green than white, a 3 
é L wal afa Wiest. atl e g Ne I 1 
TRANSPORT OF CALIFORNIAN 
FRI. 
President of the State Convention of Cali- 
, that last year 
the export of fresh fruit from e to the 
Eastern States was 7995 car-loads, and 27,326 car- 
ar of — of all kinds. 
The dulness of the pare market, however, led 
to the repetition of the experiment made some two 
years previously of ale i fresh fruit to England. 
Until we can develop a better and 
way bulky re hath and their 
additional an for icing and carriage, we can lo ok 
upon the English market only as a last 
that is better than nothing, 
deliver our fruit in less time, in better shape, and at 
lower cost than we now can, we may hope for a 
profitable market in England, 
: on processes for keeping fresh fruit in transit 
very promising, and will no doubt aid us in 
i oot g fruit without the addition of ice. These are 
Fid. 20,—RICHARDIA ÆTHIOPICA, WITH BRANCHED 
SPADICES, 
the ‘Perkins process’ and the carbonic acid gas 
process. Experiments have been very quietly con- 
ducted, but if reports are true concerning them, a 
very important discovery has been made. 
erkins process h 
he 
fruit sh 
As new insects are continually appearing, also 
in different countries, 
oes wha 
is claimed for it, it will mean a large saving to the 
ipper. 
the growers, and have made it impossible for 
them to continue the business, caused the 
e steam-ship from T- i 
plants and trees, numberin 
been eee A cargo consisting of some 
pere of Oranges arrived co infested with 
scale unknown in our State, These were at once 
