A COW POISONED WITH THE ALTHiEA ROSEA. 19 
middle of July, having very beautifully striped pink flowers. 
Like lucerne, its root penetrates deep into the earth, some¬ 
times to the depth of fifteen or twenty feet, in search of 
nourishment. But, unlike lucerne, it prefers a dry chalky 
soil, and flourishes where the latter would perish. It attains 
its full growth in about three years, and, with proper man¬ 
agement, lasts eight or nine years, yielding two crops of hay, 
or three or four of green fodder per year. It is chiefly cul¬ 
tivated for hay upon lands which yield but little grass, is 
very nutritious, and much liked by all kinds of cattle. 
(To be continued .) 
A COW POISONED WITH THE ALTHJEA ROSEA. 
By D. B. Howell, M.R.C.V.S., Beading. 
As I believe the case published in the Veterinarian for No¬ 
vember, communicated by Mr. W. Watson, m.r.c.v.s., Rugby, 
is the only one on record of cows being poisoned by eating 
of the x\lthaea rosea, or hollyhock, I am induced to send 
the particulars of a similar case, but which, unfortunately, 
w 7 as attended with a different result. 
On July 9th, 1859? I was summoned to attend a cow, the 
property of the Rev. W. Payne, of this tow r n. On visiting 
her, some very remarkable symptoms w*ere apparent. I may 
here state that she w~as a half-bred Alderney, seven years of 
age, and in the third month of utero-gestation. On the 
previous evening she was perfectly well. I inquired of the 
attendant W'hat she had been eating. To which he replied, 
that during the previous night, by a gate being left open 
which communicated with the paddock, she had walked into 
the garden, and ate nearly a hundred heads off the hollyhocks, 
which w-ere just then in their highest perfection, the majority 
of them bearing double blossoms. But he did not consider 
the illness of the animal was due to that; for w 7 hen he thinned 
the plants in the spring, he threw them to the cow, who 
seemed to suffer no inconvenience from eating them. 
On going into the garden I found she had passed by two 
small ornamental yew T -trees, but although w T e carefully ex¬ 
amined them, we could not detect that any portion had been 
bitten off. 
Symptoms .—She was standing by a shed in the centre of 
the paddock, with her head thrust forward, eyes protruding, 
