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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
August 5 
sporting in the sun (and restricted in its locality in England, 
I believe, to Blackheatli) ; these, and the many insect tribes, 
furnish abundant interest and pleasure to the tourist anil 
lover of natural history. 
“The fruit, vegetable, and fish markets of St. Heliers will 
well repay a visit, not omitting even the cattle market, in 
which may be seen the beautiful Jersey cows, led about by 
women with halters, who act the part of vendors. A pair 
of these tractable animals we brought away on board our 
steamer. By the address affixed to their horns, I saw they 
were for some gentleman in Connecticut, United States, and 
thoroughly pitied them, both for their change of home and 
their voyage.”—S. P., liushmere. 
Another correspondent says— 
“ I made a mistake in stating the Standard Pyrus Japonica 
to bo twelve feet high, and, therefore, wish to correct it. The 
one I have is on its own roots, and has several stems rising 
from the soil. It is ten feet within an inch or two, and is 
seven feet in diameter at the base, and trained as a pyramid. 
I expect to see it much higher than it now is; when I took 
it in hand, it had been left to run wild, and though then a 
splendid specimen, nothing compared to its present appear¬ 
ance. This last season it was a mass of flowers from the 
ground to the top, and was a most gorgeous sight. It is a 
very old tree. One against a trellis, which has only been 
planted four years, is twelve feet High, and was it not 
stopped on account of a Wistaria running above it, would 
grow higher.”— Evesham. 
The wetness of -Tune seems to have been very pro¬ 
motive of vegetable diseases connected with the de¬ 
velopment of fungi. The Potato disease is very virulent 
upon the leaves in Devonshire, Cheshire, and Hamp¬ 
shire ; but we have not heard of any serious attack 
upon the tubers. If we have a dry August we think the 
loss will be small. Wherever the haulm is turning 
yellow we recommend the crop to be taken up, and 
stored forthwith in a dry shed, and in dry earth, ashes, 
or sand. We are sorry to find, also, the Vine mildew 
very prevalent in Hampshire. 
It appears from the returns prepared by the Board of 
Trade, that during the five months ended the 5th of 
June last, we imported no less than 52,338,676 eggs, the 
whole of which were entered for home consumption. Of 
these, two-thirds were delivered to supply the London 
markets. The average monthly consumption of foreign 
eggs is 15,000,000. We hope to see the day when this 
importation shall cease, owing to the more general keep¬ 
ing of poultry. 
The following is a list of the Horticultural and 
Poultry Shows of which we are at present aware. We 
shall be obliged by any of our readers sending us ad¬ 
ditions to the list, and giving the address of the Se¬ 
cretaries. 
HORTICULTURAL SHOWS. 
Allendale, Sept, lltli. (Sees., G. Dickinson anil G. J. 
French.) 
Bath, Sept, lfith. (Sec. H. T. St. John Maule, Esq.) 
Bridgewater, Sept. 22. (Secs., Mr. J. Leaker and Mr. 
J. Hayward.) 
Brigs, Sept. 15th. (Sec. Mr. D. Nainby, Jun.) 
Bury St. Edmunds, Sept. 10 (Abbey); Nov. 26 (Chry¬ 
santhemums). (Sec. G. T. Clay, Esq ) 
Caledonian (Inverleith Bow), Edinburgh, Aug'. 7, Sept. 2, 
Dec. 2. 
Cheltenham, Aug. 26. 
Clatham, Sept. 11. 
Colchester and East Essex, Sept. 8, at the Eev. T. 
Bound’s grounds, Holly Trees, All Saints. 
Durham, Sept. 8. 
Forfarshire (Eastern), Sept. 15 (Arbroath). 
Glasgow, Sept. 10. 
Halifax, August 18. ( Sec. E. Pliolman). 
Hampshire, Sept. !) (Southampton), Nov. 18 (Winches¬ 
ter). (See. Rev. F. Wickham, Winchester.) 
Hexham, Sept. 15, 16. 
Hull, Sept. 10. 
Kirkcaldy (Fifesliire), Sept. 9. 
Lincoln, Sept. 14. 
Liverpool, Sept. 2 (Botanic Garden). 
London Floricultural (Exeter Hall, Strand), Aug. 10 1 , 
24, Sept. 14+, 28, Oct. 12+, Nov. 9+, 23, Dee. 14+. 
Maidstone. In-door Show. Sept. 8. (Sec. Mr. J. G. 
Smith, Week-street.) 
Mid Caldf.r (Parish school-room), Sept. 10. 
Newbury, Sept. 3. 
North London, Nov. 23, Chrysanthemum. 
Northampton, Sept. 27, Dahlia. 
Oxfordshire (Eoyal), Sept. 23. (Sees., C. Tawney and 
W. Undershell, Esqrs.) 
rEEBLESHinE, Sept. 14th. (Sec., J. Stirling.) 
Pontf.i.and (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Sept. 8. (Sec. Rev. j 
J. M. St. Clere Raymond.) 
South Devon Botanical and Horticultural, Sept. 7. 
(Sec. J. Cree Hancock, Esq., Stonehouse.) 
South London (Royal), Aug. 19+, Sept. 2+, 8, Oct. 14+, 
Nov. 11+, Dec. 9+, Hi. 
Shackle welt., Sept. 1. 
Surrey Amateur (George Canning, Grove Lane, Camber¬ 
well), Sept. 15, Dahlia. 
Trowbridge (Grand Exhibition), Aug. 25. 
Turriff, Aug. 6, Sept. 17. 
Whitehaven, Sept. 17, Dahlias. 
pour ,try shows. 
Birmingham and Midland Counties, 14th, 15th, lfith, 
and 17th December. 
Bristol Agricultural, December 7tli, 8tli, and 9tli. 
(Sec. James Marmont.) 
Bury and Radcliffe (Lancashire), Sept. 3 (Radcliffe). 
Cornwall (Penzance), about a week after the Birming¬ 
ham. (Secs. Rev. W. W. Wingfield, Gulval Vicarage, 
and E. H. Rodd, Esq.) 
Liverpool, Sept, 23. 
t For seedlings only. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTING. 
Wf. take blame for not pointing to this important 
procedure sooner; not that it is too late, but that in 
order to obtain a fine crop the first year the runners 
should be got out by the middle of July, or sooner, if 
obtainable. The providing good and early runners is, 
therefore, no trifling affair; so important, indeed, that 
the success of the next season is principally dependant 
upon their quality and earliness. By this, it is plain 
that it is not wise to leave the production of runners for 
planting entirely to chance, inasmuch as seasons differ; 
and in some dry springs and summers, we have known 
it difficult to obtain them well rooted until September. 
In our younger days, we used to plant detached beds 
purposely for breeders, so that the kinds being far apart 
could not by any possibility become introduced; and, 
after all, there is no better practice. One row was put 
in the centre of a four-feet bed, the plants six inches 
apart only; #nd each side of the bed was cased over in 
the beginning of April with a good coating of half- 
decayed mulch for the runners to nestle in. It was the 
practice to water frequently whilst the runners were ex¬ 
tending, through the month of June; and, by such 
means, abundance of fine runners were, in all seasons, 
available by the beginning of July. Now, this we 
recommend to every amateur who loves distinctness in 
his kinds, and simplicity in practice. It is gratifying 
to observe how speedily the runners become rooted by 
contact with the mulch—they are plants directly—and 
