1848. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
275 
and fine below it,. 2 
VII. Hind quarters from the huckle to the point 
of the rump, long and well filled up ; the 
legs not to cross behind in walking,. 2 
VIII. Growth,. 1 
IX. General appearance,... 2 
Perfection,.. 28 
No prize shall be awarded to a bull having less than 
20 points. 
Scale of Points for Cows and Heifers . P’ts. 
Art. I. Breed, on male and female sides, reputed 
for producing rich and yellow butter,... . 4 
II. Head small, fine and tapering ; eye full and 
lively. Muzzle fine and encircled with 
white ; horns polished and a little crum¬ 
pled, tipped with black ; ears small, of an 
orange color within, .................. 8 
III. Back straight from the withers to the set¬ 
ting of the tail; chest deep, and nearly of 
a line with the belly,.. 4 
IV. Hide thin, movable, but not too loose, well 
covered with fine soft hair, ... 2 
V. Barrel hooped and deep, well ribbed home, 
having but little space between the ribs 
and hips; tail fine, hanging two inches 
below the hock, .. 4 
VI. Fore legs straight and fine, thighs full and 
long, close together when viewed from 
behind ; hind legs short, and bones rather 
fine; hoof small; hind legs not to cross 
in walking, .. 2 
VII. Udder full, well up behind ; teats large and 
squarely placed, being wide apart ; milk 
veins large and swelling,........ ...... 4 
VIII. Growth, .. I 
IX. General appearance, .................... 2 
Perfection for cows,... 30 
Two points shall be deducted from the number re¬ 
quired for perfection on heifers, as their udder and milk 
■veins cannot be fully developed. A heifer will there¬ 
fore be considered perfect at 28 points. 
No prize shall be awarded to cows, or heifers having 
less than 21 points. 
These rules, with but few exceptions, would be ap¬ 
proved by our best dairymen and stock raisers. In one 
point, that of a u thin hide,” a variation would be pre¬ 
ferred for so severe a climate as ours. A hide of more 
substance , but still 11 mellow” and elastic, would bet¬ 
ter enable the animal to bear the inclemencies of the 
weather, and would not in the least detract from its 
thrift or other good qualities. 
Le Couteur states that the course pursued by the 
society has produced a great improvement in the Jer¬ 
sey cows; for while they are brought so near the 
standard of perfection that some are awarded nearly 
every good point in the seale, they are fully equal on 
the average, as dairy cows, to the old stock,—some of 
the improved variety giving fourteen pounds of butter 
in a week, and ten pounds per week being common, 
through the spring and summer months ; and they give 
milk till within six weeks of parturition. 
On applying the scale of points to the ec Old Jersey 
Cow,” the following points, according to Le Couteur, 
would be taken from her, viz :—■ 
11 Cheek large, 1—ewe neck, 1—hollow back, 1— 
cat ham, I—fiat side, 1—not ribbed home, 1—hind 
legs crooked, I—general appearance, 1. In all 8; 
these deducted from 26, the number less the pedigree, 
leaves 18, which was about the average number the 
best cows had at the formation of the society.” 
Mr. Colman, in his “European Agriculture,” speaks 
of the successful efforts which have been made to im¬ 
prove the Jersey or Alderney cows; and, as a speci¬ 
men of what has been accomplished, refers to a young 
cow of this breed, which he saw at one of the cattle- 
shows. He thinks she was the handsomest of the cow 
kind he ever saw, and u gave the best promise of what 
a cow should be. She was of moderate size, compact, 
and well shaped, of that yellowish-dun color which 
generally characterizes the breed, with a large and 
golden udder, ears of an orange color inside, a thin and 
clean neck, and the bright eye of a gazelle.” 
E. A. G. 
Worcester co., Mass., -dug., 1848. 
HORTICULTURAL DEPAHTMEIT. 
CONDUCTED BY J. J. THOMAS. 
Sapports for Climbing Roses. 
In ornamental gardening, it must always afford the 
mind relief to escape from the stiffness of artificial ar¬ 
rangement, to the freedom and grace of skilful combi¬ 
nation of natural and beautiful forms and colors. It 
was with this feeling that we were particularly pleased 
with the late remarks of an English writer on the 
training of tall and climbing roses, on such trees as af¬ 
ford the best natural supports, instead of painted sticks 
or cast iron rods. Where, in all the cut and clipped 
pillars, is there anything equal to the wild Michigan 
rose of the west, ascending to the tops of forest trees, 
and covering them with its variegated bloom ? An imi¬ 
tation, with improvements, of these natural beauties, 
cannot fail to be eminently pleasing. 
The following extracts are worthy the attention of 
all gardeners of taste—but the practical fact must not 
however, be forgotten, that well prepared earth, and 
good cultivation, at least for a few years, will be es¬ 
sential to success: 
u The mountain-ash, when growing as a tree, is ad¬ 
mirably suited to prop a climbing rose. Its foliage is 
pinnate, and not to be easily distinguished from the foli¬ 
age of the rose; the color of its trunk and that of the 
stem of the rose, are the same ashy gray; in size it is 
decidedly a small growing tree; in habit it is stiff and 
formal, with spray full of antlers or little hooks, all 
tending upwards, just as if Dame Nature had made a 
tree of pegs to hang her rosy mantle on.” “ Now, lest 
any one should imagine that I think of filling up a flow¬ 
er-garden with mountain-ash trees, I must beg leave to 
state, that where there is room for the rose-trees that I 
propose, there will be no lack of space for the stakes 
or props, for they will be within the rose-trees. These 
rose-trees were never intended for small gardens, and 
scarcely for large ones; they are the gigantic materials 
for fields of flowers high and wide, of long and deep 
avenues, the foreground figures fair and fragrant in the 
glades and dells of park scenery, where rides and 
drives invite. The bramble is another brother of the 
rose family, and this, as well as the mountain ash, ram¬ 
bles at large by ravine and crag, growing freely in any 
reasonable situation, and in spots where neither grazing 
nor tillage can be carried on. Surely, then, we may 
reasonably hope to establish a climbing rose in a loca¬ 
lity where two brothers of the same family already 
flourish. 
“ The dwarf or weeping elm, engrafted on the com- 
