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twenty-four feet long and twelve feet broad, in 
which the fish may be kept until wanted for the 
table or for the market 
Walton recommends that the pond be cleared 
once in every three or four years, by letting ofif the 
water and allowing it to remain dry during 
some months. This will kill water-weeds, and 
encourage the growth of grass. He even advises 
the sowing of oats in the bottom after the wmter 
has dried off. Bushes and reeds should be pulled 
up, but the mud must not be removed. Enough 
water should be left in and about the sluice, to 
sustain the fish necessary to re-stock the pond. 
Boccius says that in England the ponds being 
neglected, the fish are muddy, earthy, or weedy, 
and hence they are not esteemed ; but if properly 
attended to, the fish will not only prove fat, but of 
far superior flavor to those taken from common and 
ill-regulated ponds and stews. He also insinuates 
that much is to be learned respecting the modes of 
cooking fresh-water fish. As soon as killed and 
cleaned, they should be well rubbed, within and 
without, with salt, to extract the watery particles. 
They should then be allowed to remain so for some 
time, before they are cooked, when they should be 
well washed out with pure cold water, wiped 
thoroughly dry with a clean cloth, and afterwards 
cooKed by an approved mode. D'Jay Browne. 
New York , Sept. 10, 1846. 
TREES AND PLANTS TO WITHSTAND 
THE SEA-AIR. 
Will Mr. Browne or some other correspondent 
inform me what ornamental trees and plants will 
grow, without injury, in the immediate vicinity of 
the sea ? A Summer Resident of East Jersey. 
In consulting Mr. Browne on this subject, he has 
furnished us with the following list:— 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
American sycamore, ( Platanus occidentalis.) 
Norway maple, (Acer plcitanoides.) 
European sycamore, (Acer pseudo-platanus.) 
Sea buckthorn, (Hippophae rhamndides.) 
Willow-leaved buckthorn, (Hippophaesalicifolia.) 
White pine, (Finns strobus.) 
Cembrian pine, (Pinus cembra.) 
Stone pine, (Pinus pinea.) 
White beam-tree, (Pyrus aria.) 
Japanese quince, (Pyrus japonica.) 
Beach plum, (Prunus maritima.) 
Scorpion senna coronilla, (Coronilla emerus.) 
Beautiful Leycesteria, (Leycesteria formosa.) 
French tamarisk, (Tamarix gallica.) 
German tamarisk, (Myricaria germanica.) 
Willow-leaved spiraea, (Spircea salicifolia.) 
Bloody-flowered colutea, (Colutea cruenta.) 
Racemosed-flowered elder, (Sambucus racemosa.) 
HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
Broad-leaved statice, (Staticelatifolia.) 
Tartarian statice, (Statice tatarica.) 
Heart-leaved hydrangea, (Saxifraga cordata.) 
Rough-leaved saxifraga, (Saxifraga crassifolia.) 
Evergreen iberis, (Iberis sempervirens.) 
HEREFORDS.—No. 3. 
After a long pause, I resume my articles on the 
Herefords. The delay from the last number to this 
time has arisen partly from my own inattention and 
partly from the neglect of my friend Sotham, to 
furnish me- certain information. 
While he was inattentive to his own interest, 
and I to the continuation of the series, I began a 
correspondence with several persons in England, 
with a view to obtain information as to Herefords, 
from the breeders of Herefords. I sought to possess 
a knowledge of the herds of several of the distin¬ 
guished breeders. To some of my letters no 
answers have been returned. 
I had hoped to give to the public full particulars 
of the herds of Mr. Price, of W orcestershire, and 
the late Mr. Tompkins, as continued by his daugh¬ 
ters, Westcar, the Seignors, &c. Unfortunately, 
Mr. Price was dead, and no one could give me the 
desired intelligence. Of the Misses Tompkins I 
learned one or both were dead, and that the herd, 
left by their father, had been for a while continued 
to be bred by them, but had at length been sold at 
high prices, and dispersed. Mr. Price had been a 
breeder for sixty years, and his father before him. 
Mr. Tompkins died about 1817, an aged man, and 
had bred Herefords for fifty years before his death. 
Mr. Price had a reputation all over England as a 
breeder, while yet both the Collings were known 
only provincially; and had shown wonderful oxen 
long before the Durham Ox of Mr C. Colling and 
the White Heifer of Mr. R. Colling were exhibited, 
and had called attention to the Short-Horns. This 
was at the period of the breeding of the two Col¬ 
lings. In their day, the Short-Horns were confined 
to the North of England, while the Herefords, as 
the great grazing and beef animals, occupied the 
whole of the South and Middle of England, almost 
exclusively, and had penetrated the North, in 
some measure, even to the borders of Scotland. 
Among the first of breeders of Herefords he was 
known wherever they were bred, and bulls from 
his herd were annually let at high prices to breeders 
in every part of England. But, unfortunately for 
him, he did not claim to have created the Herefords, 
and no one did it for him. He was only perpetu¬ 
ating and improving them. 
While the Short-Horns had historians to trumpet 
their excellence to the world, and the papers were, 
through interested parties, heralding the sales ol 
Charles and Robert Colling, nobody wrote of the 
Herefords; no paper spoke of the annual letting of 
bulls at enormous prices, by such Hereford breed¬ 
ers as Price and Tompkins, and the great sale of 
Mr. Tompkins (about the period of that of the 
Messrs. Colling) never was published in any 
public journal. And why was all this? The 
Herefords were so widely spread, and so generally 
known and appreciated for their great capacities, 
that no one felt it was necessary to tell the world 
these facts. As demand outwent production, their 
breeders did not feel that it was necessary to sound 
their own praises, and inform the world of the 
merits of their cattle. The result was, that when 
the breeders of Short-Horns came into the field of 
history with their animals, they alone were in pos¬ 
session of it. 
