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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 17, 1=70. 



brough. lie, R. Corney, Stockton. Clear Buff.—l, J. Jackson, Stanhope. 2, R. 

 Robinson, lie. J. N. Harrison. 



Norwich —Clear Jonque.—l and 2, Moore & Wynne, Northampton, he, T. 

 Irons, Darlington. Clear Buff.—l and 2, Moore & Wynne, lie, R. Simpson, 

 Whitby. Evenly-marked Jonque.—l, R. Hawman, Middlesbrough. 2, Moore 

 and Wynne, lie, C. Greenwood, Scarborough. Evenly-marked Buff- — 1 and 

 2, Moore and Wynne, lie, W. & C. Burniston, Middlesbrough. Ticked or Un- 

 evenly-nuirked jonque.—l and 2, Moore & Wynne, he, R. Hawman. Ticked or 

 Unevenly-marked Buff. — 1 and 2, Moore & Wynne, he, R. Hawman. Crest, — 

 1, T. Irons. 2, R. Hawman. he, Moore & Wynne. 



Coppy Chest.— 1, Fairclough & Howe, Middlesbrough. 2, W. Cotton, Middles- 

 brough. 



Lizard.— Golden-spangled.— 1, R. Hawman. 2, Stevens & Burton. Middles- 

 brough, he, R. Ritchie, Darlington. Silver-spangled.— 1 and he, Stephens and 

 Burton. 2. R. Ritchie. 



Cinnamon.— Jonque.—l, Fryer & McClune, Stockton. 2 and lie, T. Irons. 

 Buff.—l, T. Irons. 2, Moore k Wynne. 



Yorkshire. — Clear Yellow.— 1, J. Rowland, Skelton. 2, H. Ward, Skelton, 

 Clear Buff.— 1, W. W. Johnson, Northallerton. 2, J. Jackson, Stanhope. 7tc, H. 

 Ward. Variegated Yellow.— 1 and 2, Stephens & Burton, he, A. Webster, ]un., 

 Kirkstall, Leeds. Variegated Buff. — 1, R. Hawman. 2 and he, Stephens & Burton. 



Canary.- Clear Green.— 1, Stephens & Burton. 2, H. Jordison, Stockton. 

 he, Tenniswood & Brown, North Acklam, Middlesbrough. Any other Variety. 

 — 1, T. Craggs, Stockton. 2, Moore & Wynne. Collection of Six, in variety. — 



1, Stephens & Burton. 2. R. Layfleld, Darlington, he, 1. Calvert. 

 Goldfinch Mule. — Variegated.— 1, H. Ashton, Prestwich. 2, W.J. Stewart, 



Darlington, he, W. & H. Winter, Guisborough. Dark. — 1, Stephens &Burton. 



2. W. & H. Winter, he, M.Jackson. 



Goldfinch.— L J. N. Harrison. 2, Stephens & Burton, he, Tenniswood and 

 Brown. 



Linnet (Brown, moulted). — 1, W. & C. Burniston. 2, J. N. Harrison. 

 he, Fairclongh & Howe. 



British Bird (Any other variety). — 1, Fryer & McCune. 2, R. Corney, 

 Stockton. he, G. Deighton, Darlington. 



special Class (Brown Linnet Mule).— 1, C. Robinson, Gainford. 2, W. & C. 

 Burniston. he, R. Hall, Stockton. 



Judge. — Mr. John Blenkinsop, Darlington. 



HATFIELD ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S 

 SHOW. 



" We had only seven classes last year. Arthur and I got it 

 up. But you see we have done hetter this year." Verily, Hat- 

 field is a fit illustration of the oft-repeated truism, " Unity is 

 strength." At some places one sometimes finds a want of unani- 

 mity, and we hear of splits in the camp. All don't pull the 

 same end of the rope. Such might take a lesson from the Hat- 

 field "Happy Family." Only seven classes last year, but this 

 year twenty-two, with an entry of more than two hundred 

 birds ! I think that is doing better ; and better will be made 

 better still another year, for a more enthusiastic, energetic set of 

 workers it would be hard to find. "Arthur" is not Secretary, 

 nor was my informant ; indeed, it would be difficult to define the 

 relative positions of the various members of the executive, all 

 were so earnest and hearty. Mr. George Stones, the Honorary 

 Secretary, it was evident, was the mainspring of the clock, but 

 the timepiece seemed made of such a happy combination of 

 material, that undue expansion or contraction of parts is next to 

 an impossibility. 



" Arthur " met me at the railway station with a dog-cart and 

 fast-stepping horse — that is, when it began to step after the 

 manner of horses generally, for its first performance was on its 

 hind legs. I was afraid it might feel inclined to stand on its 

 other legs, and a thick kicking-strap appeared to me very much 

 like evidence that it would rather like the fun. However, after 

 a few capers, backing, and filling, and trying to go astern, the 

 three-j r ear-old condescended to go on, and soon whisked us int ) 

 the historical village of Hatfield ; not so quickly but that 

 "Arthur" had time to tell me with evident pride that as 

 recently as Ma}' last the horse was unbroken, and no one but 

 himself dared open the stable-door. And my life is not insured ! 



I was so much engaged all day that I had no time to explore 

 the beauties of the place, and contenting myself with the in- 

 formation that a battle was fought in 6S8 (I won't answer for the 

 date), at Hatfield Lings, that some of the armour dug up on 

 the field of battle is in the grand old church of St. Lawrence ; 

 and that in the vestry of the same church there is a Peter's pence- 

 box, of which there are only three in England. Contenting 

 myself with this, I resolved to fall back on the county directory, 

 which, unfortunately, tells me nothing. Ex nihil, nihil Jit will 

 apply. I did make a few pencil memoranda on the back of my 

 catalogue, but they're all rubbed out, and I can't help it. I can 

 just make out something about the end of Westfield House being 

 covered with beautiful variegated ivy, and that's all. 



The Show was held in the Boys' School, an old brick building 

 bearing date 16-somehing, erected and endowed with a small 

 annual income by some benevolent old gentleman of the period. 

 The room was very tastefully decorated with festoons and 

 wreaths of evergreens, interspersed with delicious autumn 

 flowers, while several veiy cleverly executed scrolls with appro- 

 priate mottoes were traced on the broad whitewashed beams of 

 the ceiling, from which, too, were suspended some vegetable 

 marrows and pumpkins. It was evident that Hatfield meant to 



do the thing properly. The whole village — village ! it' s more like 

 a town, has a market, and is lighted with gas — was laid under 

 contribution for wherewith to cover the walls ; and the cases of 

 stuffed animals and birds so obtained were in themselves a most 

 interesting exhibition, and sufficient to stock a decent museum. 

 From the collection I should infer that Hatfield is very prolific 

 in weasels, stoats, polecats, and other scented Digitigrada ; that 

 they are found singly, in pairs, and in groups of six, and that 

 they feed on every conceivable form of animal whose blood con- 

 sists of red sealing-wax; that many varieties of Owls, Hawks, 

 and other Accipitres are indigenous to the neighbourhood ; while 

 the Passerina;, Scansores, Gallinacese, and Grallatorias have nu- 

 merous representatives. Frosty weather, too, sometimes brings 

 visitors from the Palmipedes, and a fat little specimen in a neat 

 glass case was pointed out as having been won as a prize at a 

 bird show at Doncaster One bird puzzled me sorely. In shape 

 it resembled nothing which ever issued from an egg. Such a 

 Mule would make any man's fortune. A friend with whom 1 

 had much pleasant chat during the day, said it was a hen 

 harrier, but I think it should go in the " Any variety " class. 



I must not forget the pigs — pigs at a Canary Show ? Yes. 

 Why not ? Outside of course. Proud the owners were of them, 

 and well they might be, as they lay snugly ensconsed in moun- 

 tains of clean straw, themselves hillocks of fat. I thought them 

 a very useful kind of bird to a cottager on 14s. a- week. 



The Show proper was, a great success. All the staging was 

 draped a la Crystal Palace and Sunderland, and very pleasing 

 was the general effect. From the prize list underneath the 

 character of the birds will be easily gleaned. Mr. Young ap- 

 peared for the first time this season, his hitherto matchless Buff 

 Variegated Goldfinch being much admired. No. 121 in the 

 same class, bred and shown by Mr.W. Chesney, was a remarkably 

 nice Jonquc bird. It is of the heavily but evenly-marked class, 

 grand in colour and in splendid condition, but not very large ; a 

 bird very bad to beat in anything but first-class company. There 

 was quite a show of Goldfinches and Linnets, about fifty in all. 

 The district abounds in them. 



The Show was well attended throughout the day, in fact the 

 room was crowded with ladies and gentlemen in the evening, 

 and moving about was a difficulty. It closed at nine, and then 

 began the packing for Stockton, and well it was done. " Arthur " 

 had conveyances in attendance to run the Stockton lots to Don- 

 caster, and he and I did the journey behind the three-year-old, 

 who repeated his morning waltz with a few new steps. What a 

 glorious drive ! a good road, a good nag, a moonlight night, and 

 a beautiful country. Left Doncaster 1.20 a.m., and reached home 

 6 a.m., half frozen. — W. A. Blakston. 



Belgian.— Clear Yellow.— 1, J. N. Harrison, Belper. 2, Ross & White, Atter- 

 cliffe. c, W. Needier. Hull. Clear Buff.-l, W. Needier. 2, J. N. Harrison. 

 lie, Ross & White, c. L. Belk. 



Norwich.— Clear Yellow.— 1 and 2, Moore & Wynne, Northampton, vhc, T. 

 Irons, Northampton. Clear Buff.— 1 and 2. Moore & Wynne, he, J. Thomas 

 Evenly-marked Yellow or Buff.—l, E. Mills, Sunderland I Yellow). 2, H. N. Fos- 

 brooke. vhc, Moore &. Wynne. Unerenlv-marked Yellow or Buff.—l and 2. 

 Moore & Wynne, vhc, J. Thomas (Buff). 7ic, J. H. Clarke. 



Yorkshire— Clear Yellow— 1, E. Mills. 2, T. Fletcher, Sheffield, he, W. 

 Chesney. c, G. Lister. Clear Buff.—l, W. Hutton, Baildon, Leeds. 2, E. 

 Mills, vhc, O. Macdonald. he, F. Higgins. Pontefract. c, T. Green. Marked.— 



1, W. J. Stewart, Darlington. 2 and vhc, L. Belk. he, T. Fletcher, c, F. Higgins. 

 Cinnamon. — Clfar Jonque.—l and 2. T. Irons, vhc, J. Spence, Sunderland. 



c, A. !J. Wells. Clear Buff.—l, T. Irons. 2 and vhc, Moore & Wynne, he, J. 

 Young, Monkwearmouth. 



Lizard. — Golilen-spanqled.— 1, J. Taylor, Middlesbrough. 2, J. N. Harrison. 

 vhc, E. Mills, lie, L. Belk. Silver-spangled.— 1, J. N. Harrison. 2, L. Belk. 

 vhc, J. Taylor. 



Crested or Turncrown (Any variety).— 1, J. Young (Crested Norwich). 



2, W. Hutton (Coppy Crested), vhc, J. J. S. Clarke, lie, J. Thomas (Clear 

 Crested) ; T. Johnson. 



Canary (Green or Grey).— 1, — Atkinson, Gateshead (Clear Green). 2, E. M. 

 Shaw. The Parks. 

 GoLnFiNCH.—l. J. N. Harrison. 2. G. Addy. 8, Miss Birdsall. Light Male — 



1. J. Young. 2, W. Chesney. vhc, W. Needier ; J. Stewart ; W. & C Burniston 

 Middlesbrough- Dark Mule. — 1, Moore & Wynne.. 2, J. Young, vhc, W. 

 Chesney; W. Hutton. he, W. Needier. 



Linnet. — 1, J. N. Harrison. 2. Miss A. Poskitt, Hatfield. 



British Bird (Any variety).— 1,C. Gunnee, Hatfield (Chaffinch Rockingham). 



2, T. E. Fosbrooke (Bullfinch). 



Foreign Bird (Any variety).— 1, T. E. Fosbrooke (Diamond Sparrow). 2, A. 

 J.Wells (Loobird). 



Local Class.— Canary (Any variety). — 1, C. Gunnee, Hatfield. 2, A. Fos- 

 brooke (Marked Norwich). 



Judge. — Mr. W. A. Blakston, Sunderland. 



NORTHAMPTON CANARY SHOW. 

 If ever a Canary Show merited the support of the fanoy, 

 surely that under the management of Mr. G. Moore at North- 

 ampton is, of all others, that show. I notice that the entries 

 close on the 19th, that is on Saturday next, and Mr. Moore 

 ought to receive such a bumper as is not often accorded to any 

 Secretary. Moore and Wynne, the Siamese twins, a kind of 

 double-yolk arrangement, are, I think, the greatest supporters 

 of our Canary shows in England, while the town of North- 



