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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 30, 1895, 
or to the black-breasted light or ginger-red, the hen 
will be what is termed wheaten or clay. 
It would be well here to mention a very common 
error of daily occurrence, being that of calling such 
birds as above described Black-reds.” They are 
nothing of the kind; the true Black-red is quite a 
different bird as regards colours. It should be of 
only two colours, black and red, the whole of the 
the neck hackle, 
feathers which haul 
blood-red the face and comb dark, round about the 
eyes black, with 25 * and legs black. This old- 
fashioned breed is so scarce as to be seldom met 
with. But there are * — white - legged 1 to 
be described. Among them, the old clear pir 
8 which used to have white, though som 
times blue legs and beak; there are also the tien 
In these the cocks i 
part of the throat and breast. Mostly these have white 
beak, legs, and feet, though some have willow legs and 
beak ; the white-legged are, however, preferable, There 
is also the pure white with 
they can keep themselves clean, such as a hill-side 
among the Heather, All the varieties should lay a 
slightly fawn-coloured egg, and four to six hens with 
a cock is sufficient, though it is not an infrequence 
are or Fir trees; for in these they delight to 
roost, if allowed to do so, having very much the 
habit of the co sant, keeping mostly in 
the wood or shaw during the day, and only coming 
out to morning or b he 
after evening, when they are very energetic 
noon or 
and y- in r tg worms ans insects among 
the g r herbag My own 
e ais en rise on the wing and 
out from the wood across the field to the ground 
where they were to be fed, or poultry-yard, the cock 
ee panee the way, closely followed by the 
hens r eating as much as was thrown to them, 
or tiny reared i: almost invariably again rose 
on the wing and fi 
their poultry-house, to which they were loth to go at 
night, and most anxious to leave early in the morn- 
This method and treatment suited them admir- 
They never had any disease whatever, 
being always full of robust health, in good . 
tight „and their plumage h bid y 
that I have nev. dom 
their 
hackles, back and saddles ‘ality — 10 
at every io s ak E } > Se 
As layers, the game-fowl sur surpass many ot 
breeds that claim higher wile jose: but much depend. 
on the way they are fed and how they are kept, as 
indeed ie the case with cle fowls; still, there 
are worse layers than they, and no eggs better in 
quality and flavour, while, as I have said, they are 
unequalled, much less surpassed, as table fow 
older the hen generally 
N ith her on some bush or low- 
pening eenid tree, and there they are off 
the damp ground and in other respects out of harm 
way, from such as marauding rats, weasels, eri 
vermin, 
a e who prefer the yellow- 
le PETEN game-fowl for * but as they have yellow 
skins and yellow-tinted flesh with almost orange fat, 
they are however, scarcely saleable, when the fore- 
going can be got, their appearance being against 
them; particularly so when boiled, though they 
present a somewhat richer colour when roasted, 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA. 
SERICOGRAPHIS GHIESBREGHTIL 
Tuis plant is of easy culture, and 3 a 
of scarlet fe of year when 
they ar 
to take off short-johited cuttings, and insert five or 
six round the edge of 3-inch pots, crocked, and after- 
wards filled with light mould. Plunge the pots in a 
hotbed near to the glass or in a handlight placed ina 
FIG. 55,—RELD’S MACHINE FOR MOVING LARGE 
TREES (SEE P. 402.) 
stove, and three-parts filled with sawdust. When 
roots are formed, they gored and potted Soay into 
lac 
“ thumb-pots,” watered, and then placed on a shelf 
near the glass in a warm ! = —— After w. as ae 
will attention in watering, pinching, and 
when the small pots have become full of bee th 
plants | be put into 5-inch pots, i 
they will b al for decoration. The e plants 
should be es furnished with flower-buds by the end 
of Septe 
ee AFRICANA, 
This greenhouse plant produces with perfect free- 
dom throughout the year cate sses of attractive flowers 
from the points of the young shoots. The ¢ trusses, 
borne on stout peduncles, an of from ten to 
twenty white flowers, meas uring nearly 2 inches in 
iameter 
En 
8 
ns, y 
It is seldom 
tipped with the gold-coloured pollen, 
more than three or four flowers on a truss are 
2 at the same vag The individual flowers ma 
with great effect in the making of shoulder- 
pute: The flowers are easily w 
a ground of Asparagus plumosus are very effective, 
and where numerous button-holes and sprays i 
—— 
demand every night in the year they help to make 
pleasing variety. parmannia ig a sir < 
g plant, has cordate ferir ofa 
colour, varying in size accord 
afforded it. Cuttings ta ke 
recommended | 
plants by the end of auta 
N 
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> 
® 
ASPIDISTRA LURIDA, 
This is very popular as a vase and window ant 
e plant is easily increased by 
dividing old- established 1 and potting up the 
divisions into 3-inch and 43 in 
the admission of air should be gradually increased, 
OPHIOPOGON JABURAN FOL, AUREO-VARIEGATIS, 
_ This herbaceous plant of the Liliaceæ order, well 
the erect, arching rótin ama variegated grase-like 
foliage being very effective, 
3 : 
affording water at the roots and overhead, Shade 
from sunshine during the heat of a e ae 
leaves made at the present tim 
house are very rich and beautiful in a colour, H, H W. 
Ward. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTIC 11100 
26.— The usual 1 3 of the 
on 2 Pr Drill 
n of 
the display of choice Orchids was a rich one. Spring 
owers, some few from the open a but the 
tuted & 
majority from the greenhouse, consti 
of the meeting. Fruit was practically unrepre- 
sented, 
Committee. : 
Present: John Fraser, Esq. in the chair; rA 
Messrs. C. T. Druery, May, H. Herbst, 
Nicholson, G. Stevens, G. J. Salter, R B. Lowe, 
C. Jeffries, J. D. Pawle, C. E. Pearson 6 
Ironside, G. E. She ea, € a J. Walker, G. 
Engleheart, and W. T. L 
Messrs. J. James & ei: 
ae ng char 
superb (Silver I Fiora 
Anthuriums, Pal 
rays e deen to furnish the om 
(Silver 9 Me 
A collecti 
sus Emp 
Sir Watkin, and sae N. minus and 
ec i 2 W Tulipa vile è 
apse 
pep a tet base. Tris 
Galanthus 
, London, 8.E. ; 5 
tomne, and Triumphe de Comte, had la b 
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