September 1C. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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keep up the game much longer; and the question is, when 
the maw is full, which of the three kinds has eaten the 
most? My grouse-coloured fowls have rather a long body, 
and more tail than the other kind, which they invariably carry 
to one side; their eggs are larger and darker than the others, 
but the chickens are not so hardy. We had a couple for 
i dinner the last week of August, which weighed, without the 
feathers, four pounds each; they were hatched the begin¬ 
ning of April, with others, two of whicli have now (Sept. 1st) 
laid regularly for ten days. The Durham Vicar’s accounts 
and mine, as to profits, would agree; and the prices here of 
poultry and eggs are similar. In my opinion, the profit is 
with the farmer’s wife, who feeds on the refuse corn, and to 
the miller and brewer. I have seen noticed in your paper 
an account of Richardson’s book, which speaks of Cochin- 
China fowls laying two or three eggs a day. This I should 
consider an impossibility. I have had an excellent breed 
of Dorking fowls, for many years crossing them with the 
best breeds I could procure. Although I have sent away 
my cocks and killed off all my hens, except ten, I am still 
doubtful whether I may not retain them; but I will give 
all a fair trial. I have kept Polands, but they are too deli¬ 
cate ; besides, they get their beautiful crests so besmeared 
with food that I seldom could keep any fit to be seen. 1 am 
very fortunate in rearing Turkeys, and am going to try 
entirely white ones, but my fear is, a want of constitution 
in them; but I am assured they are as strong as the dark 
ones. G. S., Notts. 
BURY AND RADCLIFFE POULTRY SHOW. 
This was held at Radcliffe (Lancashire) on the 3rd 
instant. The Cochin-Chinas were a very good gathering; 
the Dorkings very indifferent; the Spanish first-rate; and the 
Geese and Ducks generally very superior. Great praise is 
due to Mr. Cross, the secretary, for his excellent arrange¬ 
ments, and for the accommodation provided for the poultry. 
The only suggestion we would offer for the future, is that 
prizes should be also given for Chickens, for at this time of 
the year the best full-grown birds are usually moulting. 
The judges were S. Hutt, Esq., of York, and M. Delaunay, 
Esq., Crumpsall, Manchester. 
LIST OF PRIZES. 
Spanish— Four competitors—Cock and 2 Hens. 1st. Captain W. Hornby, 
R.N., Knowsley, Prescot. 2nd. John R. Kay, Esq., Bass Lane, Bury. 
Age 1 year. 
Dorking —Two competitors—Cock and 2 Hens. 1st. John R. Kay, Esq., 
Bass Lane, Bury. Age 2 years. 2nd. Mr. James Tongue, Farnworth, 
near Bolton. Age 5 months. 
Cochin-China —Twelve competitors—Best Cock and 2 Hens. 1st. Mr. 
George C. Adkins, Edgbaston, near Birmingham. Age 2 years. 2nd. 
Captain W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley, Prescot. Age, cock 4 months 
and 13 days, hens 1 year and 3 months. 
Malay. No award. 
Game Fowl— One pen only—Best Cock and 2 Hens. Mr. 1). Hender¬ 
son, Whittle. Age 1 year and 2 months. 
Golden Pheasant. None exhibited. 
Silver Pheasant —Two competitors—Best Cock and 2 Hens. 1st. Mr. 
D. Leeming, Halifax. Age 2 years and 4 months. 2nd. Mr. Silas 
Horning, Little Wardley, Worsley. Age about 2 years. 
Chitteprat— Five competitors—Best Cock and 2 Hens. 1st. Mr. David 
Henderson, Whittle. Age 1 year and 3 months. 2nd. Mr. John 
Taylor, Kearsley, near Bolton. Age 4 months. 
Poland Fowl —any variety. Two competitors—Best Cock and 2 Hens. 
1st. Mr. George C. Adkins, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, “ White- 
crested black Polands.” Age about 16 months. 2nd. Mr. John Kay 
Farnworth, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, “ Black Polands.” 
Any other distinct breed —Four competitors—Best Cock and 2 Hens. 
1st. Mr. George C. Adkins, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, “ Chinese 
Bantams.” Age 2 years. 2nd. Mr. Dennis Lowe, Kearsley, near 
Bolton, “ Yellow creels.” Age 5 months. 
Bantams: Gold or Silver-laced— Seven competitors—Best Cock and 2 
Hens. 1st. Captain W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley, Prescot, “ Gold- 
laced.” 2nd. Mr. George C. Adkins, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, 
“ Golden-laced.” Age about 2 years. 
Bantams: White, Black, or any other variety. None shewn. 
Geese: of any breed —Seven competitors—Best Gander and 1 Goose. 
1st. Captain W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley, Prescot, “ Toulouse 
geese.” 2nd. Mr. Robert Hampson, Crow Trees, Radcliffe. Age, 
gander 3 years, goose 4 years. 
Ducks: of any breed —Fifteen competitors—Best Drake and 2 Ducks. 
1st. Wm. Ashton, Esq., the Oaklands, near Bury, “Aylesbury 
Ducks.” Age 4 months. 2nd. Captain W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley, 
Prescot. “ Aylesbury.” 
Turkeys: of any breed. One pen. Best Cock and 1 Hen. 1st. Mr. J. 
K. Farnworth, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, “Norfolk.” Age 2 years. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Pine Growing (A Practical Man). —As for twenty or thirty lines 
settling so broad a question, if such could be done, why write books ? 
As you are in a hurry, we will try our hand at brief answers to your 
queries, but let it be understood that such is the present position of hor¬ 
ticulture, anything but stationary, that any one of the answers may 
speedily prove debatable ground. “ How many houses ? ” That depends 
whether you plant out, or in pots; each system has its advocates. “ How 
many plants to keep up a succession of one hundred ? ” Two hundred, if 
in pots ; one hundred fruiters, and the other successions. “ How to be 
heated , bottom and round?” We say hot-water piping. “ Whereto 
be bought ? ” At the cheapest and nearest market, providing they are 
clean; generally through the medium of a nurseryman. “ Price to be 
given?” Dependant on quality and kind; strong fruiters, perhaps, 
about 4s. to 5s.; successions, Is. fid. to 2s. fid. “ What earth to plant 
in ? 99 Good loam, adding half rotten manure. “ What sorts do best ? 99 
Queens, Providences, and Envilles, are most generally grown as a com- i 
mercial spec. “ What disease attacks each stage? ” None that we know 
of. “ What heat required?” Dependant on time of year; summer 
80° to 90°; winter 65° to fi0° ; other periods intermediate. “ What light 
required?” All that a British sky affords. “ What care at night?” 
None besides securing the necessary temperature. “ What aspect best? 99 
South. “ How many can one man manage?” If nothing else to do, 
some hundreds. “ What wages fair?” Money, or equivalents equal 
to a guinea per week. “ What time required to grow in?” From the 
sucker to the ripening, nearly two years. “ How to destroy insects?” 
You must not hear tell of insects on yours; recipes for the unfortunate 
will be given as the case arises. “ Where to buy tan, if needful ? 99 No 
tan for us ; if you will have it, such depends on the nearest tan-yard, of 
course. “ Will guano assist them ? ” They are grown in first-rate style 
by men who care not a button about the Lobos Islands. “ Bo they like 
dry or damp heat ? 99 They abhor a dry heat. “ To have a hundred j 
fruiting pines, how many to be kept in the other stages?” As before ! 
observed, one hundred fruiters, and about one hundred and twenty j 
strong successions, would be a fair start for a beginner; he would soon 
have suckers to hand, which would keep up succession without purchase. 
One thing we had almost forgotten—pray do not grow from imported 
fruit, if you do, you may, perhaps, rue it. Your houses may stand 
either north and south, or east and west, and yet succeed well. As to 
glass, if north and south the ground plan, we should say, British sheet; 
if east and west, rough plate will be found useful.—R. E. 
Fumigating Beks. —We publish here a note from Twickenham , 
with a comment by A Country Curate. “ On looking over some old 
stores the other day, I found some pieces of pastiles, used, I believe, for i 
sick rooms, it struck me it would answer for fumigating bees. I bruised j 
half a stick, placed it in a tobacco-pipe, took two or three whiffs, got it 
well alight, and applied it to the hole on the top of a ten-inch glass, on 
a doubling-board, containing comb and 300 or more of old bees ; in one 
minute they were on the floor-board, and in two more, I took them in 
my hands, like so many beans, they were about an hour before they all 
recovered. I have tried it three times since in the same glass, and have not 
destroyed a single bee with it. I tried it again this morning, in conse¬ 
quence of what I read this and last week by the * Country Curate,* who 
calls fuming a filthy process. I have found nothing of the kind—no 
dirt, no filth—the comb, glass, and floor-board as clean as before. 
Fuming ought, I think, to be done from the top of the hive, and not from 
the bottom. If the hive or glass does not fit close, some luting or a wet 
cloth should be fixed tight round the bottom, leaving only a small crevice 
for the escape of the pure air, which is in part driven down by your 
forcing the smoke in at the top. As the fumes descend, the bees follow 
to the floor-board, and do not attempt to ascend again; if you fume 
from the bottom they work up. I have enclosed you three pieces, and 
should like the ‘Country Curate’ to try it, and report progress.” ‘‘I 
am obliged to your correspondent for the pastile he has sent me ; when I 
am a little more at leisure, I will endeavour to make trial of the new' 
narcotic. Where may it be had ? His plan of fuming at the top of the 
hive is a clever thought, and if it is only generally effective in its opera¬ 
tion, it promises to remove much of the partial success of the present 
mode of turning, and to avoid a good deal of the filthiness thereof. Will 
your correspondent try its influence on a full hive of bees, from the top, 
and let us know its result?”— A Country Curate. 
Flower-garden Plan (5. S .).—Yes ; “ the mere forms of the beds ” 
will do on paper, but let us have their positions also, just a mere scroll 
of all the beds as they stand. Number them all, and keep a copy of the 
plan to read the answers from. You will bear in mind that we do not j 
select “ the gayest and most varied plants,” or any selections whatever , 
for any one, because tastes differ as much as the colour of the flowers. 
Like a salesman in a large warehouse, we show off all wares for the ! 
flower-garden to the best advantage; selections we must leave to our 1 
customers to make for themselves, unless, indeed, any of them come to 
the counter; then, after a little gossip, we find no difficulty in making 1 
a private arrangement, and are sometimes able to throw out suggestions 
for a plan. We can always say with confidence if a plan is rightly tilled j 
up if we see the list. 
Climber over a Cellar Area (E. S. E .).—Your gardener’s sug- i 
gestions of placing a box on the grating to grow a climber in, seems to ' 
us the only and last hope in such a case. 
Surubland Rose Petunia ( Semper Vigilans). —Mr. Appleby can 
send you this Petunia quite true. The flower is a delicate rose colour, | 
with a pure white eye. There was a bed of it at Kew Gardens, but we 
have seen quite a different Petunia given out from Kew under this name j 
this spring, through some mistake in the tallies. We do not know who 
supplies the rose John Baptist. 
Ants on Cinerarias {Amateur). —Do not attempt to destroy the 
ants, but be grateful to them, as you would to the Monitory Lizard, for, 
like him, they tell you that mischief is at hand. Be assured that the 
Green-fly is upon your Cinerarias, and it is after that pest that the ants 
come. Fumigate your plants with tobacco-smoke. 
Exporting Auriculas, Pansies, and Polyanthuses (A Sub¬ 
scriber). —As these will have to be a month in confinement whilst con- I 
veying them to America, we recommend you to plant them quite close 
together, in a stout, iron-bound box, and to have the top glazed, the j 
glass being puttied in so as to be air-tight. Let the glass be sunk an 
