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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION.— June 24,185G. 
causes. The above-ground parts of the Vine are, perhaps, kept too hot, 
and the roots too cold. 
Seeds of Picba. nobilis.— G. A. says, “ We have a beautiful Picea 
nobilis, that has about twenty cones on it, six inches long already. Could 
you inform me whether there have been any cones that have matured 
their seed in this country ? We had two cones last year on this same 
tree, but the seeds were imperfect.’*—We shall be obliged by any cor¬ 
respondent informing us if this Pinus has ripened seeds in these 
kingdoms. 
Names of Plants ( Mus ). — Claytoniu perfoliata; it must have 
strayed from some garden. (W. X. W.). — Reseda alba , White Migno¬ 
nette, a biennial. (Subscriber).— 1. Geranium angulatum . 2. G. stria¬ 
tum. 3. Seems to be a small Turban Ranunculus. 4. Veronica chu - 
meedrys , or Germander Speedwell. Your Pelargonium leaf shows that 
there is something very wrong at the root. It is excessively diseased. 
(Shagpat).— 1. Apparently a young frond of Aspidium acuminatum. 
2. Aspidium recurvum. *•« 
THE POULTRY CHRONICLE. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
Agricultural Society (Royal). At Chelmsford, July 14th to 19 th. 
Sec. J. Hudson, Esq., 12, Hanover Square, London. Entries closed 
June 1st. 
Anerley. July 29th, 30th, 31st, and August 1st. Sec., C. Lawson, 
Esq., Anerley. Entries close July 9 th. 
Bristol. June 25th and 26 th. Sec. Robert Hillhouse Bush, Litfield 
House, Clifton, Bristol. 
Essex. At Colchester, 8th, 9th, and 10th of January, 1857 . Secs. 
G. E. Attwood, and W. A. Warwick. 
Gloucestershire. 27 th. Nov. Sec. E. Trinder, Esq., Cirencester. 
Hull and East Riding. At Hull, June 25th. Sec., B. L. Wells, 
Esq., 23, Bishop Lane, Hull. Entries close June 18th. 
Leominster. Thursday, October 16. 
Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society. At Wigan, 
Thursday, August 7th. Secs, for poultry, J. H. Peck, and J. S. 
Marshall, Esqrs. Entries close July 24th. 
Nottinghamshire. At Southwell, December 17 th and 18th, 1856. 
Sec., Richard Hawksley, jun. Entries close November 19 th. 
Nottingham Central Poultry Association. January 14th 
and 15tli, 1857. Sec., John Spencer, Nottingham. 
Prescot. July 8th. Sec., Mr. J. F. Ollard, Prescot. Entries close 
June 21st. 
Whitby. July 16 th and 17 th. Sec. 8 . Burn, Esq., 1, East Terrace, 
Whitby. Entries close June 30th. 
Yorkshire Agricultural Society. At Rotherham, Wednesday 
and Thursday, August 6th and 7th. Sec., J. Hannam, Esq., ICirk 
Deighton, Wetherby. 
N.B.— Secretaries will oblige us by sending early copies of their lists. 
THE WINDSOR POULTRY SHOW. 
(From a Correspondent.) 
“ All the birds to be in Windsor on the night of Monday, 
the 2nd of June,” was a perfectly clear announcement from 
the Windsor Committee ; great surprise was, therefore, na¬ 
turally expressed when sundry hampers with birds for the 
Exhibition were admitted at ten o’clock on the morning 
of the following day. A protest was immediately given in 
to the Committee, but by them rejected on the ground of 
their discretionary power being sufficient to authorise this 
deviation from their rules. 
Secretaries and Committees, indeed, have frequently just 
cause to complain of the infraction of their rules by ex¬ 
hibitors ; but probably on no previous occasion have a Com¬ 
mittee been found thus setting aside their own regulations, 
and, in fact, nullifying their subsequent proceedings. 
Now, a knowledge of the benefit that is derived from 
Poultry Shows calls loudly for some assurance that such 
things may not occur again ; for, in the putting aside of one 
rule definitely set forth, grave apprehensions may reasonably 
be founded, that others may be as little regarded, when such 
a change may he desired on the part of the officials. 
But, in another light, this error bears most unfairly 
on exhibitors. Had the exhibitors, for example, been 
generally permitted to send in their birds on the Tuesday 
morning, the night trains would have brought very many of 
those that an observance of the rules consigned to the 
greater fatigue of travelling by day, and being penned up 
fourteen or sixteen hours before their competitors. 
The winners of the Cup in the Spanish class, it is said, 
thus benefited by the unwise relaxation of the regulations, 
while those that took the second and third prizes ex¬ 
perienced the disadvantage that has been alluded to. It is 
by no means probable, indeed, that under other circum¬ 
stances their relative places on the prize-list would have 
undergone any change, since the decision of the Judges 
here, as elsewhere, in this Exhibition, was eminently just 
and fair. Had a different selection, however, been made 
from the birds in the second and third Spanish pens, a bal'd 
fight must, at any rate, have ensued before the victory 
would have been achieved. This seemed to he the general 
opinion, hut future competition may afford opportunities for 
judging of its correctness. Mr. Henry’s name was looked 
for as a competitor in this class, hut he seems disposed to 
rest satisfied with his Birmingham victory. 
The Windsor Committee deserve the thanks of exhibi¬ 
tors for many excellent arrangements, but their pens were 
hardly of sufficient size for the larger fowls ; and, in arrang¬ 
ing hampers and baskets when placed beneath the birds 
sent in them, care should be takeu that the owner’s name 
and address should not be visible. It is always prudent to 
avoid the slightest ground for subsequeut discussion. 
THE POULTRY AT THE PARTS EXHIBITION. 
The extension of Poultry Shows to France is in itself au 
event, and the connection in which they are placed to agri¬ 
culture is an evidence of a correct appreciation of their ad¬ 
vantages to those engaged in that pursuit. 
Success is always the result of combination, and no man 
was ever distinguished or pre-eminent iu any calling who 
was unmindful of the minutise of it. 
Poultry will never compete in importance with the quad¬ 
rupeds, hut it is not the less a valuable help. Our neigh¬ 
bours across the channel are wiser than ourselves in this 
respect. Their fowls are made to produce more. Let us he 
understood. They adopt no process to make them lay, hut 
they pay more attention to them, and to their capabilities of 
making money. Men who farm eight to twelve hundred 
acres make it a business to rear fowls and turkeys, and to 
produce eggs in order to supply England. Belgium, the 
Rhenish provinces, and even Sardinia are visited by men 
whose calling it is to collect eggs for this country. On a 
largo farm, the poultry should never pay less than .£40 per 
year. It is not a large sum, hut it is the equivalent to the 
produce of a certain number of acres, or it will pay the rent 
of them. Again, poultry is an article of food, and those 
who are not closely connected with it have no idea of the 
amount annually expended upon it. It amounts to millions 
in the United Kingdom. No manure is stronger than that 
made by poultry. We felt it our duty to inquire among 
those who kept much of it, and the answer invariably was, 
that being mixed (for it was too strong to use by itself), it 
might be seen to an inch, by the superiority of the crop 
where it was put. Fowls in a farm-yard pick up and con¬ 
sume all the stray grains which unavoidably are thrown out, 
and make the same return as other stock. Our agricultural 
friends in France are more alive to its merits than our 
fellow-country m en. 
We have had poultry shows in England, till we have ar¬ 
rived as near perfection as possible in them ; and it would be 
too much to expect that the second in Paris should not 
have some little details with which we could find fault. It 
would, however, be ungenerous, for although we have seen 
many poultry and many agricultural exhibitions, we have 
never seen ono so well attended, or so well adapted to please 
the eye, as the Parisian. It has, in all its particulars, been 
well chronicled in the daily journals, so that we may confine 
ourselves to our own sphere—the poultry. 
The pens, containing a goodly number of choice birds, 
sent from all parts of the United Kingdom, France, and its 
dependencies, were tastefully arranged in a circle, in the 
centre of which was the beautiful fountain that attracted so 
much attention during the Exhibition of 1855. It is com¬ 
posed of a group of splendid metal flowers, coloured after 
nature, and spouting water from their blossoms. In the 
basin in which it stands are several floating Water Lilies of 
the same materials, and looking like life. It was a great 
novelty to have birds attended to by a staff of guardians in 
cocked hats and green uniforms, and watched day and night 
by the ubiquitous sergents de ville. 
