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THE GARDENERS’ 
e flowers, would be considered by 
any to be of the greatest importance. 
arboreum and its hybrids 
give brilliant colour; while on the roof are inter- 
mingled the flower-aprays of Edwardeia grandiflora, 
Clianthus puniceus, Acacia Riceana, the scarlet an 
yellow Manettia F pe ap other showy and inte- 
fee ietin of the same class, other parts of the 
e being rendered paga ith enai of Indian 
Azalea, = ‘mall Tree Pxonies 
of planta, the South 3 er are 
of an ott interest, by reason of the m 
things to be seen there in strong en or in 
i Tous, in the Rose-house,-and in 
ch are some fine eee we find peur 
plants of Scutellaria Mocciniana; in one of t 
lobbies a beautiful sot pr Can a aiiis ns, 
In a house in which are a splendidly "fruited lot of 
pot Vines, Ochna multiflora, with its singular red 
of the quarters hundreds of plants of the highland 
Indian Primula rosea, thickly set with carmine 
of heat that reaches it from ins s 
planted a remarkable lot of bulbous plants, such as 
are usually considered inmates of the greenhouse and 
stove, and yet they thrive, as managed here outdoors, 
flower well, and have been unharmed even by the late 
severe winter. Among them we noted a large clump 
of Hæmanthus natalensis, with very stout ; growths, 
sume 
Hanes i some strong bulbs of the fine ola 
scarlet Amaryllis Ackermanni, Crinume, and other 
Amaryllids, sei such a large number of tender 
growing open gong 
that there seems no reason why such od o 
growing Andean, African, and highland bulbs should 
not be 98 extended. 
ough the Orchid- houses at South Lodge are 
warm-house kinds being 
cultivated in the plant-atoves or 1 aia 
such accommodation is thought t 
Mr. „ the 3 gardener 8 
uth Lod, a great charge, a very 
creditable to — that he succeeds f in Nash to 
ing upon the convenience provided for 
that the desired end i is s accomplished. 
grown D. Ws h their long 
bulbs covered with fine flowers drooping over, were 
remarked, 
the next house were fine specimens in flower of 
Dendrobium Dalhousieanum, rsiflorum 
other B 
ere is a pro- 
pagating- house at one end, the first contained among 
a varied collection of varieties of Dendrobium 
nobile, some well-flowered D. fimbriatum o oculatum. 
an eren * a warm and moist house in 
xamples of Miltonia Roeziii, 
— Elisabether, Angrecums articulatum 
sad sà sesquipedale, and a few plants of ae 
'ya-house contained a very fine lot 
. patie of which a fair quantity was in flower, and a 
promising show of she 
aths was noted on plants of 
spurred hens of this large breed 
o- Cole fr that the r exist 
Mendeli, C. Mossi, &c, Leelio-Cattleya & 
Schilleriana had a spike of five flowers, and there 
ac 
vexillaria p Odontoglossum citrosmum were ab 
to flower well, the latter evidently being exactly 
Cœlogyne 
8 3 O. 5 O. glor 
ande, Maedevallia Chimera, M. 
Oncidium cucullatum, Epi- 
These 
8 and Gees: 
eee vitellinum, and Cattleya citrina. 
year, which is a feat few succeed i in accomplishing. 
OUR FPO 
By Harrison WEIR. 
(Copyright.) 
(Continued from p. 400) 
ow, of the Dorking fowl: the 3 name 
is a household word, and carries with it a world- 
wide * ion as one pi the ai bent for table 
purposes ever 
croubled or ctidenvoured et a 0 pi ate or oa 
find for themselves what the real and true Dorking 
was or is. Also, it is a curious fact that most, if not 
all, of the writers on the subject have simply fol- 
lowed what has too often been erroneously stated by 
the previous one as to what e 
fowl. Gene 
used, “ that this breed is chiefly known 
five toes or claws on each foot, th 
ignoring the fact that 3 are other varieties or 
e extra toe, the 
aad 6 i used to be some 
x, and a few of the 
Surrey breeds, 100 only e the fifth toe, 
but some of the Eaglish breeds, the hens as well 
as the cocks, had long spurs, and they have even 
le that p 
neh kind; 
„ a 
double - spurred coc ee * throughout my long 
experience and observation of these fo wis. 
„I have come 
to the conclusion that these large five- toed fowls, 
and what is now termed the old English 
were introduced by the Romans, We kno 
ading the leg bones among the 
oman atations, and our southern 
columella, who espe- 
cially mentions we only the fifth toe, but the spurs 
on the hens. old author writing in ay sixteenth 
century (1586), per the best kind (as Columella 
sayth), are such as have five eh 80 “that they be 
free from spurres; for such as w these — 
deen e ave not good for bebe and disdayne 
spurres — breake 
only were 
rin chore ts were there 
isted here e 
sixteenth century. Markha a century later 5 70 
“to have many and strong ee is good, but to want 
hinder claws is better, for af oft break their egs 
and such hens sometimes pro : 
Columella says they should ‘te 
Oar old southern barn - d 
is white deaf ears until they were crossed 
with the red-eared e fowls, Cochins, Shanghais 
or o- called Bramahs; and even sa with all the 
mongrelising — is rife in the 
and again the o 
i i 
restore as much as possible the finer — of = 
2 * b n to the 
i and the white ear- 
one of them, although some of the Kent, 8 ion as 
CHRONICLE. 
9 
peg fowls did not have quite white e 
l five net for the reasons I s hall show de 
ri my own part, I very much prefer to b 
those aie the ear-lobe as white as I can 85 
care for any of the so-called Dorkingg With the 
entirely red- -lobe, for it clearly denotes much “onte 
smaller than the five — four-toed Kent, 7 
and then had 
remark, that although the breed vm 
white yee the bayer and ski in was more of an ivory. 
+i 
Kent larger single-combed five-toed white te varieties, 
It is asserted, and it is possible, that this White Dork. 
ing breed has its origin from those that the Romans 
bee for there once exiated a Roman road which 
passed through Dorking, and doubtless, in my belief, 
the e presence of the Romans and their long Toads 
„ OF even the 
vug 
they were the originators of the fine large five and 
tender constitution, an 
another belief was that they were easily seen 
by birds of prey, foxes, or thieves, and thus it wat -1 
bro 
and bright ‘spec 5 
now scarce—a fact chiefly, if not entirely, owing to 3 
the unwise schedules of the poultry shows, 
equally unwise judges preferring the greys or near 
black. There i is, however, the silver colour, which iss i 
breed much quality, much beauty, and muc 
admired, and it may well be allowed to be one of 
the very, very few cases in which the modern fancier 4 
has improved the colour without lessening the actu l! 
utility and quality of an ancient and in every Way : 
a valuable breed of our poultry. 
To be continued.) 
THE ROSARY. 
RUGOSA, JAPANESE OR RAMANAS” — 
ROSES, 
I one class of ee more hardy than 
Sert 1 5 it to be R 
ips. 
very early, and contin 
comes, If the blooms individually are pe 
short-lived, a constant succession of the 
duced, which keeps the plants gay. A P 
and a mauve were the originals, but n 
several forms and crosses, 
