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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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secare chance flies, moths, &c. Some take long journeys from their 

 nets, to which they return as winter retreats when the weather is severe. 

 One has been noticed to be absent for several weeks, but it would turn up 

 again, and the only way to explain this is to suppose that while on an 

 ■excursion, through a change of temperature, it is rendered sluggish for a 

 time, and cannot get home. 



Insects (Ignoramus). — The white grubs, just lite those found in Hazle- 

 nuts, which have destroyed the roots of your Ficus elastica, are the 

 larvas of a brown beetle of the weevil family, belongiog to the genus 

 Otiorhyncbus, which in the spring time feed on the young foliage after 

 ■dark. The only plan to get rid of the grubs is to repot your plants, and 

 burn the old soil.— I. O. W. 



Names of Fruit {J. B., Torquay).— The Peach with the flesh like a 

 highly-coloured Beetroot, is Sanguinole. {X. T.).— -Hu&t's Deux Aus. 

 (Portland House).— 1, Beurre Amanda ; 5, Dunmore ; 7, Beurre Clairgeau ; 

 10, Beurre d'Aremberg; 11, Fondante d'Automue; 12, Beurre Defais; 

 14, Seckle ; 16, Marie Louise; 17. Knight's Monarch; IS, Passe Colmar; 

 20 and 21, Urbaniste ; 22, Bezi d'Esperen. Apple, Cellini. {W. Miller).— 

 % Kentish Codliu; IJ, Court pendu-plat; 13, Golden Russet; 22, Coe's 

 Golden Drop. (B.. Martin).— U Huyshe's Prince of Wales ; 2, Bellissime 

 d'Hiver; 3, Hampden's Bergamot ; 4, Beurre Bosc; 6, Belle apres Noel. 

 (Peter Tait).~l, Margil ; 3, Aromatic Russet ; 4, Marsh Pippin ; 5, Morris's 

 Kusset; 6, Herefordshire Pearmain. The Pearis KingEdward's. {W.aad 

 M. M. Qouldingj.-l, Gendebien ; 2, Triomphe de Jodoigne ; 3, March 

 Bergamot. 



Names of Plants (5. fl".).— Anemone vitifolia, native of the Himalaya. 

 (iJ. L. !>.).— A, Calceolaria chelidonioides, native of Peru and Chili. 

 :b, EpilobiuQi montanum, a common wildling. c, Centranthua ruber, 

 the Ked Valerian, d, Anemone japonica. (J.J. S.) — The Finger-grass, 

 Digitaria sangninalis, otherwise Panicum sanguiuale. (W. D. A.).~The 

 •Calceolaria is C. chelidonioides. The purple flower is Perislrophe speciosa, 

 more generally known as Jasticia speciosa. {./. C.).-~l, Polypodium 

 Schkuhrii, a variety of P. pectinntum ; 2, Adiantum tenerum; 3, Asple- 

 aiium (Darea) Bellangorii, flZias Veitchianum. (W. B.). — The Anemone 

 we received from you (flower only, not a scrap of other information), 

 and which we named A. pavonina (A. fulgens), we now think may be 

 A. japonica, of which we this week have received a similar specimen from 

 another correspondent. Its blooming at this season in that case would 

 toe perfectly consistent. {A. £.).— You sent thirty-six specimens. 



POULTRY, BEE, AND PIGEON CHRONICLE. 



POULTRY EXPERIENCE PURCHASED.— No. 3. 



My misfortnnes sinee I' commenced poultry- beeping have 

 been so many and so various, I am inclined to believe that the 

 happy people I read of weekly have all ihe pleasure and profit 

 connected with it, and my unhappy self all the trouble and 

 loss. Bat for the fact of so many ladies being prizewinners, 

 I should imagine Fortune bestows her favours only on the 

 sterner sex, and ref ases the honours to her own. 



Let me tell you how I once fondly imagined 1 oonld rear 

 Black Spanish, and how I suffared for my presumption. I 

 began by coveting my neighbour's birds of that noble breed, 

 which wag very wrong ; then I got dissatisfied with my own six 

 good motherly hens, because they were of that very useful but 

 plebeian strain — barndoor. My neighbour did not wish to sell 

 any of his poultry, and I thought I was doomed to the fate of 

 Tantalus on a small scale; however, his gallantry ultimately 

 •overruled his selfishness, and he sent me two cockerels and a 

 pullet, the only ones he could spare (they were hatched late, 

 -end of July), since I seemed anxious to possess the breed. 

 Though grateful for the concession, I was rather astonished at 

 the chickens, then about eight weeks old, for their first ap- 

 pearance was anything but prepossessing. All the little 

 chickens I had ever seen were at that age comfortably clothed 

 with feathers, but these were quite innocent of anything save a 

 ■few patches of dirty grey down, and I thought that if " fine 

 feathers do make fine birds," no feathers at all make very ugly 

 -ones. Still I hoped they would improve as they grew older, 

 and inherit the grace and majesty of their parents. They grew 

 older and rather bigger certainly, and looked like a kind of 

 cross between a miniature Ostrich and the "Jackdaw of 

 Bheims." The sis highly respectable hens resented the pre- 

 sence of the immodest creatures in their run as a personal 

 insult, and speedily ejected them in a most unceremonious 

 manner, so they ran about outside in the garden, which was 

 very bleak and exposed. As the weather for early autumn was 

 very raw and cold, when the poor things saw a little sunshine 

 in the next garden they very naturally flew over to bask in it. 

 My friend next door, however, was very proud of his neat little 

 garden, and he mildly suggested I should keep my chickens at 

 home, a request so very reasonable that the few wing feathers 

 of the " Spaniards " were at once clipped, which, as it was the 

 only protection they had, it was refined cruelty. 



The children had named them respectively ' ' Jack," and " Jack's 

 brother " and "sister," and the wretched trio would persist in 

 standing shivering at the back door, till the children, brimming 

 over with pity, let them in " just for one good warm," at the 



kitchen fire, but their kindness gave poor Jack a most distress- 

 ing catarrh ; something else covered their mouths and throats 

 with what I believe is called canker ; the cocks had their tall 

 straight combs frostbitten, their faces became full of sores be- 

 cause I fed them on beefsteak and gave them too much. The 

 six hens persistently refused to let them share their warmly- 

 covered run, by giving them a practical and painful illustration 

 of their fighting propensities, and we all eventually succumbed 

 to this formidable army of misfortunes. One wretched 

 morning in December, Jack and his brother and sister all 

 went a long journey to the happy hunting grounds (return 

 tickets not issued), and it is my firm belief that Fortune is 

 not so blind as she pretends to be, but can just see sufSciently 

 through her bandage to turn her wheel the wrong way when 

 she sees me coming. Now, before I close my letter, if I have 

 not "adorned a tale," let me try to "point a moral." Never 

 attempt to rear birds of the Castilian breed until you know 

 something of their habits and requirements. — J. K. Jj. 



CURE OF ROUP. 



When a bird is attacked with the characteristic cough of this 

 malady, or has tenacious mucus about the beak with difliciulty 

 of breathing, I place it in a wicker coop in a quiet shed, and 

 put before it a drinking fountain containing about a gill of 

 water with which I have mixed one drop of tincture of aconite. 

 In every instance during three years this treatment has had 

 an effect almost marvelloiis, for, upon visiting the patient an 

 hour or two afterwards, I have found that the symptoms have 

 vanished. The attack for a day of two is liable to return, yet 

 each time in a lighter form, but continuing the application has 

 in no instance with us failed completely to remove the ailment 

 in about forty-eight hours. 



In case the disease should have made so much progress 

 before it is observed that the sufierer is unable to drink, it will 

 be necessary to give the dose. This is easily accomplished by 

 pouriag-into the throat about a teaspoonful of the medicine as 

 described. Such an instance occurred here during excessive 

 wet weather, when I was absent from one of the houses two 

 days. Upon going to see that all was kept in condition, I 

 found a fine old fellow under one of the perches almost dead 

 from very acute roup. I separated and dosed him immediately. 

 He soon lost all the roupy symptoms, but continued extremely 

 weak, and appeared to be fast sinking from atrophy. A medical 

 friend suggested trying the homoeopathic administration of 

 arsenic. His advice was taken, with the best result. This 

 very bird will, we hope, appear at the Crystal Palace Show. 



The aconite dilution 3, may be purchased of any homoeo- 

 pathic chemist. — Mes. Fbank Cheshibe. 



OINTMENT FOR FOWLS' WOUNDS. 

 The following forms an ointment which I have tried with 

 great success ; it heals in a very short time the wounded heads 

 of cocks after they have been fighting. Mix an ounce of oxide 

 of zinc with 2 ozs. of hogs' lard ; add, after mixing, a little 

 olive oil, and apply with a feather once or twice a-day. — 

 DiaiTAiis. 



Devizes Poultey Show. — As there appears to be some mis- 

 understanding amongst exhibitors as to whether the Poultry 

 and Pigeon Show to be held in Devizes in December is to be 

 open to all, or confined to the county of Wilts, allow me space 

 to say that competition is open to the whole kingdom, or I may 

 say the whole world. — One or the Committee. 



[We hope " the whole kingdom " will see this and patronise 

 the Show, for the schedule of prizes is good. — Eds.] 



Sale of Me. James Watts's Poultey. — The poultry of Mr. 

 James Watts, whose lease of Hazelwell Hall, King's Heath, 

 has expired, was sold by auction by Messrs. Ljthall & Clarke, 

 on the 11th inst. The bidding was brisk, and high prices were 

 realised. The following are some of the highest prices ob- 

 tained : — A Dark Brahma cock, the winner of several prizes, 

 £6 OS.; a pair of hens, £10; a pair of pullets, £5. Light 

 Brahmas sold well, one pair of pullets fetching £i 5s., whilst 

 single birds realised £1 15s., £1 6s.,' and £1. A clear Bnfi 

 Cochin-China cock, winner of many prizes, fetched £5 5s., a 

 hen £3 10s., and other birds £2 4s., £1 10s., and £1 5s. Silver- 

 spangled Hamburghs and Spanish also fetched good prices. 

 For dark Grey Dorkings £1 8s. and 15s. were given for single 

 birds ; Bantams (single) were sold for £2 2s., £1 16s., £1 10s, 



