THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1131 
Decemper 22, 1860.] 
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pao countenances continually met with, that numbers | no thing about the matter. Just : a when cop Rarey, | | would be likely t to ‘throw a a hack down. Whenever he 
in 
sort to it in the hope that it may be beneficial. 
. Copland. 
Societies, 
URAL: Dec, 
Thibaudia macrant: a, 
ittle known warm greenhouse 
seth 
e woody 
ower, which could not 
con 
HORTI 13. (F1 oral Committee). —|E 
Messrs. Veitch exhibited on this i a specimen of | i 
the aa in first delighted us by a le (if the Tider feels that oa will 
gui ach for his secret, we ri t t actually fall), the opped. 
ed. This entertaining IT like manner he should be walked for several days: 
h matters, er as its | over the roug 
fey a may l 
t era in | stratum and left in holes, 
hd is to B: hoped, ‘indeed, that he should be tr 
self the ie aibo 
ies ee even ‘they will be able to 
hat the gal lant author is count, master of his 
subject, although, as he tells “ he is not, and hever ear 
has been, an inhabi tant o; Sohn ariegated reg A (kiat. th eir h ure- 
the sporting world.’ el om ground, they plac ae ona spoto of level 
gal s 
rider alwa sé > dropping the rein when he blun 
deus in describing the h 
the time of ee 
fe 
measure agg than 2 inches in le ength an 
i pr er, was angu ula arin form, contracted at the das 
g nnd a 
chased, nor betted sixpence [Pee ber “3 gona By troughs of different heights, filled v with 
Mic 
never bred, raced, steeple-c 
e has never seen, 
colt, filly, horse, or mare. 
art we have just 
ful pore ee wavy lines of a rosy red “colour, prettil y or ` be n by, the Jockey- Club. He a der r treatment, the strength, activity, m- 
interspersed over a white ground. For this been on the turf. He does n oh belong to ‘the ning telligence, ant eysight of the animal will, as in a wild 
Pri Certifi ied ae A aa awarded. Peon « Neve’ ies sometimes the performance of state, cordially | be. combined by, him to protec ct him 
Mess Maule & Sons, of Bristol, came a EER public metimes fro private inclinati R s. punishment of fi ; 
he benefit of his health—sometimes for | and so ample and sufficient ee these ree that a 
sa irst-class Gaedane ‘was awarded; and from|recreation—sometimes for rumination—sometimes ine oe will soon find, that pend of haying to hold. his 
r. Salter “img various Clipse the best of | risk his life—and more ais once to save it, he horse up, Phas me ou s power to throw him. 
which was Little Harry, a pretty kind, to which a First and chequered career, had to aoa an | orca in fact, under the iE ayi of piers te rather, 
class Certificate was awarded, and which has | nt g ttle larger than has fallen | than of man, “the hack? in a very short period, and 
favourably mentioned ra us on as an o ome the | to the 1 without going over a fence of any sort or kind, may 
following, from the sam ended, viz, Let us see es alluded to, | thus be made competent to follow hounds across any 
Canary Bird, RATACH Kip ‘Golden. ee Messrs. 
He nde erson had some beautiful Tree e i for | 
ENTOMOLOGICAL: Dec. President in the} 
A eg 
o 
country in the United ys yea Brace: e, on the 
hand, the nag that nee only bee 
Ei deal mig: 
th he 
that of } h aoe fees not justify this statement. Sit 
a ancis oe out that in case of i invasion, om of the 
abs nt arms p OF Jeieneg would b 
fore and w this kind of “force may 
i par formed mea horses are hobbled. Among 
the methods of effecting t 
in: Thr 
er bars, 
most ont bet x we the. 
o be infinitely worse than 
ea of ‘his iter prove 
useless. 
one at 
Mr. Stevens exhibited: a box Berg na many e 
and beautiful beetles, just received i om Mr. the followi neal rogho t Russia, the Cossacks,| “Of e a horse is not a perfect hunter unt 
Wallace, collected at Peili ry ó islands | —whenever tor aT n, small or large, they bave | has had ae amount (for he fies not require mu 
of the Eastern Archipelago, habia tha curious ita bs lea pte or a regiment of horses, to | of experience 5 ie ing; but as h the exception of. 
coca Idæ, Monohammus Grayi, fine specimens of | stand ay i ruminate 6 Eene er in the snow or ona | water, every sable, willing, and eager to jump, 
bo xés of Eucheirns longi, &e. Mr. King | verdant plain—have, for ages, been in the habit of, as | generally PLEN R than is desired, his rider 
exhibited a box of rare British pui. ane it were, age them Pag? e ground, by tying toge- | merely to teach the noble animal beneat th h him to add 
eucanea  putrescens. r. Hogan ezhibite ther their o fore iy s by a pair of hobbles, to ti 2 
apparently new species of Phy llo opodous panier Og centre of w xed a narrow strap. that buckles | not before, but while he leai 
belonging to the genus EARE wore nd some blind | over the. h xt Pe e hind leg. this triangular} “A bu ner when following sR PP excited, that, 
Mey rence (Niphargus sp.), from ick ei iposi | Fania E IE (reighing ite Ooty T p, which out of four | if, in addi tion to his own eagernezs, he be hurried at 
ck f mly o iberty, the : 
fel 
os 
e 
irg 
gave some account of a 
needless trouble. On Fe: other 
f : 
remark parasite found in the bodies | of humble bees, | ai nt PA is DOM D sed ; indeed, he is not | joe l he Eu into 
named rularia Bombi by Léon Dufour, which had | only unable to mo way, but s after his first fall is nad: just as he roaches every fence, i 
pene kba Si kn own in its mature form, the mode | afraid again ho do so. “Tn Mendoza, San alway pat n and gently restrained, he 
of its deve elopmen an d the manner by whic èk it effects | Luis, Santiago, Buenos Ta all other cities in | feels satisfied that he is to be allowed to do the job; and 
an ent tl he Bombus being hitherto | the provinces of Rio de la Plata, in Chili, and in a, l accordingly, cn ing his stride as he mi roaches, he 
unobserved. Mr. Westwood exhibited a oy oe white | whenever: a g dandy, calling upon his innamorata, | does it no i: overly, but without any waste of 
EY of Alci uate z ‘en t is , he | exertion, whi e a comm on hunting-field expres- 
l on, ‘h < 
pra Ba ed Vs Dr. Saba of Medsien Peine: 
ia He also mentioned the occurrence of a 
ain 
pipa sk n) ant rey as crowned with ti houston 
tion of the indurated head of the larva-skin throu 
which the 
two horna By been pion (see Reaumur, 
a iv. en 33, f. dd). of this kind are 
aped por- Pa within the 
ay 
YA pair. of sent hobbles (weighing only, 2 ounce th he aemp manner ne described the art of ridin 
casa,’ tha 
‘om his waistcoat pocket a beau- | sion, ‘he ma 
=), | | Tn ng, 
which by two silver t ti use of spurs, the manage- 
ib of a hunte 
r jumping, 
, of tite. ‘pride, the. ole tr 
in the stable. To these subjec pes 
capi piers on shoeing and roughing, 
ia all thie Ee of “the | neti yeti bridling, and a varie se ape of aE 
pms mi ete paid, and all the songs, to the guitar laneous matters, among v which are ta some very, 
exhausted, 
pecially the use of the la 
Mi Wasi ing t ane A Accord instances. a | 
i Nee Bowring’ s „collection, and anj 
— Mo th in Mr. Stephens’ 
thos 
apairof such hobbles for forhis horse, not i in his pocket, butas s| e 
item 
By this invention a horse is not so thoro oughl 
Museum, were mentioned as rset i in the perfect | 
state the head exer: ng g of Ay arva, „Mr. Westwood |S 
ae BBY that used by the Cossacks; and ac he| every man who Me ves his h t 
ysr pe d, very fresh, and greatly aes aha, he has Head's capital volume; and with adyice ` 
ROWSE TANANI awkwar gai to move away. On active roughing » for whic h it seems likely th that there ae be 
horses have more work t 
Gays: 
also directed a 
would prove efficient for a single ho orse. he ý Although of all axioms no = is more trite and 
that ‘there is a right a 
cover the Siecle oF hath “meet emergin fro! 
sels, at which cig Ti possibly be analogous t to the | 
Mr. 
© 
by e collar chains, by which h arrangem doing everything,’ yet o 
cs y the ment, AY p ght, by an: ny one horse pa ared to learn that the Anglo-Saxon on one side 
Fe strained by the vis inertie of all the rest.” This co: a of the nae ntic roughs a ae in the right way,. 
bitte J Dona P trivance, ae vias mess Ae 5 a ractical application at the he other si the wrong way! 
and upon fe oe ae a of Pa en h species of ohn Burgoyne, and “the result o In oy United States, ne especially. in Canada, the. 
iplax. Mr. Sam. Stevens exhibited umber of | exper ated under the ropeintendence of Colonel | surfac e of which for half a lo y year, 
Staphylinidæ recently captured in a small quantity of | Henry Sandbam, and the able assistance of os Duff, ; ice, 
Dr. Knaggs exhibited some minnte 6 R.E., roved so eminently successful that e| the toe as well as the two- heels of each shoe are 
pparently pierced by a parasite, and stated that he | Visiting ‘Aldershot is now enabled to see six be r eight igh, and as, in consequence thereof, the horse on 
had found the eggs of Trochi Parag, iforme | horses hobbled: at intervals o about gis feet t asùnder, every foot stands s upon a pani hissinews aud muscles 
deposited on the leaves of Sallow stu: amps. | standing motionless, while the rider on. all th he 
| troop to which ther ai with jisa sabres flashing table, bnt while level p the sole. 
T oe TA n the sun, are galloping through them backwards and of each. foot when it presses the ground is parallel to its 
Je forwards; a of cou avalry horses could be made surface, In ascending pa hill the front Sai in descend- 
Notices of sS00ks. do the same, it has horp ert tae taj that | ing, a bill the two bin nd cogs, and in ravening E 
e branch of our my, as also, ow nteer | plain th ; each shoe catch firm 
So ca Fragments, with r Facsi miles by Artists A Ye ae 
nob 
yeomanry, by me 
nce be enable: 
hs ne Sherard Osborn, C.B. Squar 
pnt eg ae 
pases intelligence concerning the | 
ming disclosed to the eyes of 
panen praa and doubly 
antee: n the three cogs, of each s} 
rely carrying hobbies; which only of the gondi and accordingly the horse, kirp 
ould a d, i on leyel ground, works in so 
ffi 
ddition R other Services, to ao A bs pore requisite positon, and i is so efficie oug! out of « 
ie mounted infantry.” ir! We any E 1 
should think that pei abe hobb 5 PTR ight be used for other is ‘glare ice,” almost as T a 
l 
Europeans, ed 
ceeding from so wees eeable akg Mag 
ai 
volume before us we r% e me account of 
history of the islands, of their aranan, 
cope, perly stented by an nd Scenery ; the who le 
d, like those of the Saxon Chronicle 
but others, tee the oe FROR ina far nile . 
advanced style of art. oo oa 
e 4 is admirably adapte: 
= ee 
The Horse and _ Rider. By Sir npn B. Head, Bt. 
= 0. Murray. Pp. 2 
stmas presents the little wit 
la 
f ng alg ! a aiai jea 
te a the battle field to the hunting n- Englan 
ground, Hear mea Sir Francis Head AAA: about con- raen acally ro ied a Toi Tegra wt 
verting a cir hack into a good hun only, A onee, even “al 
a e art tle, i et the “ot [ee Re crete fest AE p y 
i effected b the bri le, and ye ~~ tate of their feet. and fe out of gear—it 
wae ally 7 a ho not only forces them while tra ee Rye level 
bu! ah after all t 
animal finds o 
difionlty 
that he @ tde inefficien 
, | litt 
the bridle g T o be undone. he s in- | the poor 
tead of being papkasi to, travel ta his, iab gg ek ig 
legs lightly touching t und, the}cog or cogs 
the eae portion ot f 
t t be required to. bear 
pals: at uty of the hind le egs. ti In ase ending, his 
the burden, which, it is s. the dui 
peopel 
7 
p ially w 2 he is drvving a pois 
evel; and to induce or rather to oblige the horse to | hea avy load, that he cna pee his Sate off the road 
can sit u tupon a rea s back will be aa aw urpr rised | 
| f his feet, to study geology | in a: es stick i into. it his 
instead of ‘astron onomy, he y en, with | while 
to le: Head that they know little or | 
a loose rein, over every little hole, grip, or heap that tfrom usi ae has esi Rats for him, 
