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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ February 3, 1S63. 



Weeds on Lawn (C. 3.).— There is no way of destroying "Wild 

 Marjoram," or creeping Buttercup, or Daisy, or Plantain, or any other 

 weed on a lawn except by hand-pi?king, or unturfing the parts and relay- 

 ing with better turf, although close and constant mowing does much 

 towards exterminating them. 



Fuchsia. Seedlings (Christine).— Your Fuchsia seedlings are not hybrids- 

 unless you had them between two wild kinds called species ; they are 

 cross-bred varieties by crossing two seedling varieties in-and-in, as all 

 improvements in florists' flowers are obtained. Of course they will be 

 such as you never 6aw before, just like our own seedlings, but better m;iy 

 have been already in the field; but no one can believe that of a seedling 

 until the seedling itself proves it one way or the other. Your dwarf seed- 

 ling, with the developed red leaves, is the most fashionable of them all. 

 It intends to be a foliaged plant like Meteor, with which the Messrs. Carter 

 made half a fortune last year ; so you must look to it in earnest, but do not 

 hurry it. 



Book on Conifers (T. Malcomao7i).~ There is nonebetterthan Gordon's, 

 "The Pinetum." It is published by Bonn, and, with its Supplement, 

 includes information on the species known down to last year. 



Gardener's Education.— The first part of "A Young Gardener's" 

 question Mr. Fish wiil attend to as soon as possible, but the question of 

 lodgings has two sides. Where many young men are kept in a bothy, it 

 tends to increase the number of gardeners, and the number is already too 

 great for the demand. You would see the whole philosophy of the pro- 

 ceeding treated by Mr. Fi*h some years ago. The same nurseryman 

 alluded to there has written the other day saying, " Oh, for a weeding- 

 out ! " The matter most likely will be taken up with other collateral 

 subjects ere long. To those not answered privately, and who want good 

 men at very low wages, Mr. Fish would refer them to some remarks made 

 last year when describing the small garden of Dr. Neligan, at Blackrock, 

 near Dublin. To see the full drift of his argument th'it article, and the 

 one above on "attention," &c. t should be read together. It was the least 

 of his intentions, when recommending "attention," &c, to further the 

 idea that a good gardener was to be had for so many shillings per week. 



Weight of Grate and Strawberry Crops (G.). — We once made a 

 ir.emorandum of such matters, but cannot now find it, and without it we 

 would rather not answer the query, and more especially as such questions 

 are seldom made except to serve a purpose. But for that, we would say 

 3 to 4 lbs. of Grapes in good-sized pots, and well done, and from 2£ to 3 ozs. 

 of Strawberries. We have had much less, and in some fine pots much 

 more. 



Manuring Strawberries (A Subscriber). — If your plantation is in row s 

 -^ feet apart, a coating of well-rotted dung might be laid on the space 

 between, aud very slightly forked-in, not allowing the fork of the operator 

 to descend more than 3 inches at the utmost. If this does net bury the 

 dung, spread a little fresh mould on the surface, aud the result will be 

 satisfactory. It is better not to cut the leaves much, as they shelter the 

 crowns. The leaves will die down when they are no longer wanted. 



Geranium: Helen Lindsay (Lewes).— We also want to know where 

 Helen Lindsay, the new Lobelias, and the other fine seedlings mentioned 

 in our pages are to be had. But we must wait the dealers' time, and learn 

 from the advertisements. We do not know of any new Lobelia which we 

 have not described already, and until they are announced for sale we do 

 not know where to look for them. 



Peat Ciiarcoal (G. C.).— There was a manufactory near London, but 

 we suppose it no longer exists, as we never see its advertisements. Write 

 for information to "The London Manure Company," Bishopsgafce Street. 



Names of Plants (R.F.). — 1, Asplenium triehomanes ; 2, Pteris tre- 

 mula ; 3, Asplenium marinum ; 4, specimen insufficient ; 5, Lastrea filix- 

 :nas; 6, Cyrtomium falcatum; 7, Pteris hastata; 8, Doodia caudata. All 

 Adiantums are Maiden-hairs, and all Maiden-hairs are Adiantums. 



POULTRY, BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHRONICLE. 



WHO WILL BE WINNERS IN 1863? 



Mueehy made a hit when he predicted the hard weather. It 

 is said that the respected "Francis Moore, physician," who 

 was supposed to preside over the compilation of a certam 

 " Vox Stellarum," or " Loyal Almanack," published annually 

 by the Stationers' Company, came into note, and was made by 

 the fact that in a fit of ill-temper he predicted snow for the 1st of 

 June, and there was snow. The almanac also gave an annual 

 hieroglyphic. It was generally made up of a crown, coffin, and 

 dragon. This sort of thing did for the dreamy times, when 

 people travelled in coaches, and paid 2s. for a letter ; but it is 

 different now. Were it not that now and then a bad wife calls in 

 a " cunning woman" to know how much longer the old man will 

 live ; or the frightened and half-repentant housemaid goes to 

 the " clever man " to know when her " young man " will 

 return the plate she lent him, and also whether he will surely 

 marry her, we should say the days of predictions were passed. 

 But we forgot the turf prophets — Vates, Agrippa, Sphinx, 

 Oracle, Jones's Boy, the Lucky Baker & Company, who for 

 the small " tip " of thirty postage stamps, will unveil the future 

 in re racing, and tell you all the winners of all the great stakes. 

 It was remarked of old, and we suppose it is true now, that he 

 who can make the fortunes of others is generally poor himself. 



Undeterred by that fact we assume the character of the " wise 

 man," and we pierce the dark future, venturing to predict, even 

 at this early time, the principal winners in the poultry world for 

 1863. " Ladies and gentlemen, make your game." 



Some of our readers will recollect the days of lotteries. " Five 

 of 30,000, six of 10,000, and all prizes and no blanks." The 

 latter signifying that by investing £32 you were sure to win (?) 

 a sum not less than £1 ! Nothing was beyond the capability of 

 a ticket in the lottery. Only dream of a lucky number, or come 

 in contact with it, and you were sure to win. We knew a man 

 in a frost who slipped, and broke his leg opposite 311, Oxford 

 Street. He bought a share of the number, and received guineas 

 for pourfds. You had only to buy a ticket, and then, if „ 



" You'd portion a daughter in marriage, 

 Or live independent and free, 

 If you'd set up in trade, keep your carriage, 

 Or a member of parliament be," 



why, the ticket would do it. The ticket must be bought before 

 the drawing. In lotteries, as in everything else, numbers of 

 people knew the winning number after it was made public ; but 

 they kept their knowledge quiet till then. 



Our prediction is, that poultry as an article of consumption 

 will be dear this year, and they will be the winners who set 

 about rearing and feeding their chickens now for April and May. 

 We promise prizes to all those who in those two months shall 

 provide and fatten chickens of the year to the weight of 3 lbs., 

 or 3J lbs. This is the neglected part of the poultry fancy, and 

 we are aware we are wont to harp upon it. 



We shall return to it. Oar motive for beginning thus early 

 is, that now is the time when the chickens must be hatched, or, at 

 any rate, the eggs put under the hens. 



NO ONE SHOULD BE AN EXHIBITOR AND 

 JUDGE AT THE SAME SHOW. 



Iw looking over your Journal of Tuesday last I find a list of 

 awards at the Liverpool Poultry Show, also the names of the 

 Judges. I find Mr. B. Teebay, of Fulwood, near Preston, as a 

 Judge for poultry ; also a Mr. R. Teebay that has taken the 

 silver cup for Spanish fowls, also first and second for Brahms 

 Pootras. It is quite a new idea to see a person acting as Judge 

 and exhibiting at one time at the same Show. I consider Mr. 

 Teebay would have been in his proper place as a Judge or an 

 exhibitor, but not both at one time. 



I am not accusing any one of unfairness or partiality, but I 

 think it looks very bad for any exhibitor to be in the same room 

 at the same time that the Judges are awarding the prizes. — 

 AW EXHIBITOE. 



[We noticed the fact mentioned by our correspondent, and 

 thought it a great error on the part of the Committee. ~8o 

 charge is brought against Mr. Teebay, and he was Judge only of 

 classes in which he was not an exhibitor, yet he was in the room 

 while those classes were being judged in which he did exhibit, 

 which ought never to be permitted. It gives rise to suspicions 

 which are injurious to all parties. — Eds. T. of H.] 



WORCESTERSHIRE POULTRY AND PIGEON 



SHOW. 



The announcement of this Show, which is in our adver- 

 tising columns to-day, is very satisfactory. It is to be held in 

 grounds adjoining to and on the same days (July 20th — 24th) 

 as the Royal Agricultural Society holds its Exhibition at 

 Worcester. The prizes are liberal, and we have no doubt the 

 Show will be well supported. 



SILVER-GREY DORKINGS. 

 Awothee breeder of Silver-Grey Dorkings, and one who hag 

 been well known as one of the largest and most successful 

 exhibitors in that class, begs leave to indorse the Editors' opinion 

 as to the impossibility of Silver-Grey Dorking3 keeping pure in 

 colour after the first moult. Take, for instance the statement of 

 " Awotfee Beeedee of Silvee-Geeys," that the hens should 

 be pure Silver-Grey, as free from brown on the wings as may be ; 

 the breast salmon colour, not, as is too frequently the case even 

 in winning pens, with one hen, or sometimes both, with breasts 

 nearer approaching to a brownish-white. His own words prove 

 the difficulty there is in obtaining a pen of Silver-Greys pure 

 in colour. I also beg to say I have been to most of our poultry 

 exhibitions that have been held this past season, and yet havo 



