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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
May 13. 
about the colour of London porter—quite as bright, and, as 
most persons state, quite as good. 
One ton of beet will produce from 10 to 18 bushels of 
dried roots, the cost of drying about 12s. per ton. Some 
did not cost so much ; but the maltster objects to dry more 
under that price, as it requires longer time and a stronger 
fire than malt to effect the object well. 
A correspondent, signing himself “ Amateur,” says:— 
“ Your correspondent, Anster Bonn, in The Cottage 
Gardener for last month, has proposed questions of great 
interest to most lovers of Cochin China and other pure 
breeds of poultry. When and where is this Metropolitan 
Poultry Show to he ? To advance the affair one step, will 
some kind, public-spirited gentleman draw up rules, and 
allow his name to be used for receiving communications, 
promises of support, subscriptions, etc. ? ” 
We shall be glad to receive such communications, 
and will readily co-operate in furthering the plan. 
The following is a list of the Horticultural and 
Poultry Shows of which we arc at present aware. We 
shall he obliged by any of our readers sending us ad¬ 
ditions to the list, and giving the address of the Se¬ 
cretaries. 
HORTICULTURAL SHOWS. 
Barton-upon-Humber. First show 14th July ( Sec. C. 
Ball.) 
Botanic (Royal), May 19, June 9, 30. 
Caledonian (Inverleith Row), Edinburgh, June 3, Aug. 7, 
Sept. 2, Dec. 2. 
Cheltenham, May 13, June 15, Aug. 20. 
Chatham, July 8, Sept. 11. 
Chiswick, June 12, July 10. 
Colchester and East Essex, May 26, at Mr. B. R. Cant’s 
Nursery; June23, at Mr. J. Taylor’s, West Lodge, Lexdon 
Road; Sept. 8, at the Rev. T. Round’s grounds, Holly 
Trees, All Saints. 
Derby, May 20, Aug. 4. 
Durham, June 10, Sept. 8. 
Forfarshire (Eastern), Juno 9 (Forfar); July 21 (Bre¬ 
chin) ; Sept. 15 (Arbroath). 
Guildford, June 10 (Millmead House). 
Hampshire, May 18 (Southampton), July 1 (Winchester), 
Sept. 9 (Southampton), Nov. 18 (Winchester). (See. 
Rev. F. Wickham, Winchester.) 
Hexham, Sept. 15,10. 
Hull, May 27, June 24, Aug. 4, Sept. 16. 
Kirkcaldy (Fifeshire), June 24, Sept. 9. 
Lincoln, May 25, July 27, Sept. 14. 
Liverpool, May 20, June 24, Sept. 2 (Botanic Garden). 
London Floricultural (Exeter Hall, Strand), May 25, 
June 8+, 22, July 13+, 27, Aug. 10+, 24, Sept. 14+, 
28, Oct, 12+, Nov. 9+, 23, Dec. 14+. 
Mid Calder (Parish school-room), July 9, Sept. 10. 
National Tulip Society, May 27 (Birmingham). 
North London, Sept. 14; Nov. 23, Chrysanthemum. 
Northampton, May 25, Tulip ; June 29, Rose and Pink; 
July 27, Carnation; Sept. 27, Dahlia. 
Oxfordshire (Royal), May 25 ; June 23; July 29; Sept. 
t 23. (Secs., C. Tawney, and W. Undershell, Esqrs.) 
South Devon Botanical and Horticultural, May 18; 
July 13 ; Sept. 7. (See. J. Cree Llancock, Esq., Stone- 
house.) 
South London (Royal) May 13+, 20, June 17+, 23, July 
15+, 21, Aug. 19+, Sept. 2+, 8, Oct. 14+, Nov. 11+, 
Dec. 9+, 16. 
Shacklewell, Sept. 1. 
South Devon, May 18, July 13, Sept. 0. 
Surrey Amateur (George Canning, Grove Lane, Camber¬ 
well), Sept. 15, Dahlia. 
Turriff, June 11, Aug. 0, Sept. 17. 
Whitehaven, July 9, Pinks ; Sept. 17, Dahlias. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
Agricultural Society (Royal), Lewes, July 12. 
Cheltenham Monster Show, June 3. (Secretaries, 
Messrs. Jessop, Cheltenham.) 
f For seedlings only. 
THE LONG-LEAVED BROMEL. 
(Bromclia longifolia.) 
A natural order of plants, having a peculiar aspect and 
constitution, is named Bromelworts after this genus. 
This order includes the delicious Pine-apple, the gay 
BEchmeas, the rigid Bilbergias and Pitcairnias, together 
with the graceful moss or liclicn-like Tillandsia us- 
neoules, pastil, or Indian moss, which liangs down from 
the branches of trees in tropical woods from Mexico to 
the Brazils, and others, but originally all natives of the 
American continent and adjacent islands, where they 
have been highly prized for their various uses, as well as 
for their half air-plant-like habits in the gardens of the 
curious. 
The genus Bromelia was founded by Linnaeus, and 
in it lie enumerated the Pine-apple, which has been 
since very properly divided from it, and made another 
genus, called Ananassa, hyGaertner, a German botanist 
The Bromels, or Bromelias, are now, therefore, confined 
to ornamental plants, of which the subject of our present 
notice is very showy, with rigid, narrow, milky-green 
leaves, two feet long, well armed on the edges and points 
with toothed spines, and, like the generality of the order, 
they are channelled. ( Paxtons Flower Garden, ii. 139.) 
The flower-spike carries a head of gay flowers, of a 
bright rosy hue, issuing from narrow spiny bracts, of a 
deep crimson colour. The plant is a native of Guiana, 
whence it was recently introduced, and was exhibited 
for the first time, beforo the Horticultural Society, by 
Mr. Henderson, of the Wellington Nursery, Edgewarc 
Road, London. It was first noticed in Budge’s Plantcc 
Guianenses. All the Bromelworts belong to the G-Hex- 
andria 1-Monogynia in the Linmean system. B. J. 
Propagation and Culture. —This is a very showy plant 
while in culture, and is one of those accommodating ones so 
