one another. My double white is the produce 
of a single white (one of my seedlings second 
or third generation) by a double red ; but 
four other seedlings from the same fecunda¬ 
tion are either white, pink, or red, and all 
single flowers. 
And iu this there is nothing astonishing. 
Why should the laws of nature vary and act 
differently in the vegetable world from what 
they do In the animal world ? Nature and 
parently thick on account of its very abund¬ 
ant hackle. 
Comb.— Single, high and large, prolonged 
behind, as straight as possible, and regularly 
toothed. The comb is sometimes double and 
granulated, especially in the White variety- 
Wattle*.— Long, large and hanging. 
Cheek*.— Covered, with small, short, white 
feathers. 
Ears .—Rather long, red at the ends, of an 
PROPAGATING FROM GREEN WOOD 
A RARE FLOWER WANTED 
Editors Rcral New-Yorker : — I notice 
in your issue of the 21st an excellent article 
on grapes from the pen of our old friend, F. 
R. Elliott. Few men of this age have done 
better service to the cause of horticulture, 
but I must differ with him in regard to the 
value of plants grown from green wood cut¬ 
tings. The impression conveyed to the mind 
of the reader from a perusal of his article, 
would be that the cause of failure or disease 
among several of the varieties of grapes was 
att ributable to growing from unripe wood. 
This idea has been advanced by some who 
claimed that the Iona had been forced till its 
vitality was impaired, and that good vines 
of this sort could only be grown from old 
wood layers or from grafting on strong va¬ 
rieties. But even when grafted on Isabella 
roots it fails after a few years, showing it to 
be naturally defective iu vitality. It is gen¬ 
erally admitted by nurserymen and florists 
tit the present day that green wood cuttings 
of roses, shrubs and herbaceous plants are 
not only more easily rooted than ripe wood, 
but that when such plants are well handled 
and thoroughly ripened they are quite as 
good as any others ; and very few, either in 
this country or in Europe, propagate in any 
other manner. 
The Catawba was introduced and pretty 
generally disseminated prior to the use of 
propagating grapes extensively from green 
wood in this country, and has not borne 
price to warrant that method of growing 
since; no that very few vines, if any, have 
ever been grown of it, except from old wood 
layers or cuttings, hence its rotting cannot 
be attributed to that cause. 
We have never grown grapes from green 
wood ourselves, as we l:ave had a large vine¬ 
yard to propagate from, and uny new sorts 
that we have needed we have prefered to 
buy rather than grow them ourselves. We 
have, in this way, used vines grown in all 
ways, and have never been able to see that 
good, strong, ripe plants were any more satis¬ 
factory for vineyard culture when grown by 
layers or cuttings than those grown from 
green wood. When planters of vines or trees 
fail of success, they almost invariably lay it 
to the nurserymen — not knowing what else 
to charge it to. There is no doubt but some 
trees and plants go out with an enfeebled 
constitution and of necessity f«il sooner or 
later ; bat the same may be said of all other 
productions. The stock grower can never 
invariably produce strong, healthy animals, 
no matter how carefudy he handles them. 
Some must be discarded. 
Young plants aDd trees are sent out before 
their age admits of all defects being seen ; 
and as some hav? less vigor than others, ow¬ 
ing to climate or other unkoown causes, 
there will be observed a difference in their 
growth and value. 
It is the earnest endeavor of all nursery¬ 
men, of any note, to grow trees and plants 
in the best and healthiest manner possible, 
and to grow such varieties of fruits as the 
public need and in the proportions called for, 
and every effort is made by them to prove 
the value of newly-introduced modes of cul¬ 
ture and varieties of fruits, adopting any 
that promise to be desirable and discarding 
those that prove unworthy. 
It is hardly probable that all this class of 
propagators are mistaken and are following 
a course that only produces sickly, diseased 
plants, or that they designedly grow and 
send out such stock. We in this country are 
but experimenting in horticulture yet, not 
having had time to positively determine, by 
a series of experiments, what may or may 
not be the cause of decline in certain varie¬ 
ties. We only know that certain varieties 
do well with us. while others that did form¬ 
erly do v ell will not now succeed. We are 
anxiously endeavoring to llud the cause, but 
until we do we must be content to grow 
those fruits that succeed and drop the others 
from our lists. J. B. Jones. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
amateur or private tea rose house (for the 
growing and blooming of Tea roses); best 
mode of heating, care of plants and propaga¬ 
tion of the same. It had occurred to me 
that a house forty foot long, twelve feet 
wide, excavation three feet, gable roof one- 
third or forty-five degrees pitch, coming 
down to withiti one foot of the ground, would 
give a row of benches on each side feet 
wide, walk on each side 2 foot, and a bod for 
plants in the center 3 feet wide, walled up 
with brick 2}£ feet high. I simply throw 
out these rough outlines invltlug correction 
as any may seem fit.— S. C. Browning. 
From the above we conclude that you 
have a good id a of what is wanted for a 
rose. But we would suggest that one not 
quite as wide, with the walk iu the center, 
and beds for the plants might, answer the 
purpose better. If there are two passages 
and a wide bed in the center, the house will 
have to be at least two feet higher in order 
to give head room, and this is a disadvantage 
in forcing roses, because if the plants are 
near the glass they bloom much better than 
at some considerable distance, besides the 
higher the roof the greater the volume of air 
to heat. We would not make Such a house 
as you propose more than nine feet wide in¬ 
side, and eight will answer very well. The 
beds on each side of the walk two and a half 
feet wide and the walk about three feet, 
allowing something for the space occupied 
for the pl-inks used In making the beds. 
These beds may be placed directly upon the 
ground or dev .ted sufficient to have the 
heating pipes pass underneath. The latter 
plan would be preferable, although more ex¬ 
pensive, because the materials used for the 
bot'om must necessarily be of a durable 
kind. 
Luese beds should bent least a foot deep 
and tilled with rich soil, into which the roses 
are planted, not plunged, in pot. Of cour-e 
a hot-water apparatus is the best for heating, 
but rather expensive. A good brick furiace, 
with ordinary six-inch tile pipes, will answer 
very well and at the same time are not very- 
expensive. 
Probably by visiting s me of the florists in 
your neighborhood you may lino a house 
similar to the one proposed. The furnace- 
room attached to one end of the house is 
always a necesdty, no matter what kind of 
an apparatus is used for heating. It is also 
well to have a small space reserved in the 
house, and over the pipes or floes, for a cut¬ 
ting bed, covered with glazed frames, A 
tank or cistern for water, a store-room for 
coal or wood must also be provided, as well 
as other necessary adjuncts to a house of this 
kind. 
Large, liigh-roofed, showy houses are all 
well enough, where expense is not consid¬ 
ered, but they are usually more expensive 
than satisfactory. As for propagating roses, 
t his may well be deferred until the house is 
built and a stock to propagate from secui ed. 
Fig, 20.—Dorking Cock. 
science have not yet taught us why the off¬ 
springs of the same father and the same 
mother are always different from one an¬ 
other, notwithstanding their family likeness. 
And it is very likely that man will always 
be ignorant of th ( s. The only thing I know, 
and every horticulturist knows, is that to 
obtain double flowers, single flowers must be 
fertilized by double ones. 
azure blue, and pearly near the ear passage. 
Beak.— Strong, and curved downward ; 
black and yellow. 
Eye,— Iris, dark red ; pupil, black. 
Foot—01 medium length, strong, fleshy 
and good, pinkish white ; soft and of a very 
fine texture. 
Toes.—Strong, well-jointed, five in num¬ 
ber, and of the Fame characteristics as the 
foot {figs. 28 and 2.). 
THE POULTRY-KEEPER.-No. 12 
THE DORKINQ.—COCK'S GENERAL CHA'ACTERISTICS. 
Of a noble deportment, though of a rather 
rounded form, stout > ud large, covered by 
abundant plumage. Hackle thick ; tail of 
medium length ; comb single ; wattles and 
Fig, 29—Dorking’s Foot, Under Side. 
Plumage .—The Gray Dorking, which is the 
most noted and characteristic variety, has 
the baekle and the loug saddle feathers of a 
beautiful straw color, thickly marked with 
small black spots. The shoulders are of a 
deep yellow. The feathers which cover the 
wings are of a fine black, with very bright, 
purplish iridescence ; the large flight feath¬ 
ers white ; the breast brilliant black : the 
sides, thighs and abdomen of a dull black ; 
the large tail feathers black ; the covert 
feathers of the tail and the sickels black, 
with green and bronze iridescence. 
The cock is very beautiful and of a very 
sedate aspect. Its head, wattles and thick 
hackle give it a very patriarchal appearance. 
RAISING PELARGONIUMS, 
Mr. Sislf.y, well known as the originator 
of several choice, varieties of double zonal 
Pelargoniums, describes his practice thus: 
My friend Cai riere, speaking of my double 
white zona! in the Hevue Horlicole of Oct. 
1st, says that it is the result of scientific com¬ 
binations. I must decline to accept this 
encomium, and am willing to make the hor¬ 
ticultural world acquainted wilh my very 
simple practice, which I have never kept a 
secret. When, six years ago, I began the 
artificial fertilization of zonal Pelargoniums, 
1 procured about fifty of the best varieties of 
single flowered zonal Pelargoniums of dif¬ 
ferent colors, and about 200 plants of the 
then existing double - flowered varieties. 
And unt il 1870 1 continued to buy all the 
now double varieties that were brought out, 
and all the single-flowered sorts which were 
of different shades from those in my collec¬ 
tion. Without any preconceived theory I 
fertilized all the single-flowered with the pol¬ 
len of the double oues which had stamens. 
For three yeurs I did not obtain a seedling 
worth mentioning, and I was on the eve of 
giving up artificial fecundation, when iu 1869 
I obtained Victoirc do Lyon and Clemence 
Royer, which, although uot perfect, la form, 
were very different iu coloi from any double 
zonal Pelargonium then produced. This led 
me to continue my efforts. I have not learned 
by my practice anything that can be called 
a theory, because among my seedlings com¬ 
ing from the same mother and the same 
father I have found them all differing from 
COCKS’ COMBS AS FOOD 
The combs of Spanish and Leghorn fowls 
are sold in some parts of Europe as choice 
delicacies for the palates of those who sigh 
for fresh appetizers. Under the name of 
“Cretes de Coq,” a supply of these morsels 
has been recently imported hither from Paris. 
Tne combs are of large size, both single aud 
rose, and are put up in white vinegar, in 
long tubular glass bottles, holding about a 
pint, sealed with black wax. When we say 
that these small L jI ties cost, at wholesale in 
Paris more than a dollar in gold each, the 
reflection is forced that many a large combed 
rooster may iu future be sacrificed to Mam¬ 
mon, as many were offeied up toEsculapiua. 
There are enough large combs in the yards 
of some of our breeders to make a fortune if 
they could be utilized. We hope, however, 
the combs on the Mediterranean class will be 
reduced in size, as many large ones amount 
to positive, deformity .—Poultry World, 
Fig. 27—Dorking Cock’s Head. 
ears very long ; five toes to each foot; bones 
fine and light (%. 26). 
Weight ,—At full age, from 7% lbs. to 8% 
lbs. 
Flesh.— Abundant, very white, very flue, 
and easily disposed to fatten. 
Shape.— In all cases the bird should be of 
The Best Grapes for Yatss Co., N. Y.— 
A. C. Younglove of Vine Valley, Yates Co., 
N. Y. (as stated in the Rural Home), names 
as the most profitable grapes for that locality 
the Delaware first, then Isabella, Catawba 
aud Diana ; to which Mr. Hawley, a large 
vineyardist of the same place adds Concord. 
Iona succeeds sometimes, and Croton, if fre¬ 
quently dusted with sulphur to remove mil¬ 
dew, but this cobIs more than llie grapes are 
worth. For a line white grape for home use, 
the Rebecca succeeds every year. These 
gentlemen state that there are about 2,000 
acres of vineyard in Vine Valley ; and if 
yielding tliree tons per acre would give 6,000 
tons, or enough to supply three pounds daily 
to 2.’5,000 families from October 1st till March, 
or all the inhabitants in Yates and Steuben 
counties. 
Much to Odr Regret, we are compelled 
to defer valuable articles in type for this De- 
E artment. But let no one be thereby led to 
elieve that we are not glad to give space to 
and will not find room for, sooner or later, 
proctieal poultry experience. 
Fig. 28—Dorking’s Foot. 
ample size, yet proportioned to its hight, 
and never long and narrow. 
Head (Jig. 27).—Strong, upon a neck ap- 
