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males, and was that which showed the most uniform cha¬ 
racters as a distinct breed. They were all remarkable, not 
only for their beautiful conformation, but also for their 
finesse. They were the admiration of everybody ; and we 
may say, if the Angus breed continues to be exhibited in the 
other agricultural gatherings as it has been this year in 
Paris, it will dethrone the Durhams; and for our own part, 
adds M. Richard, we should, perhaps, give it the preference. 
—P. F. Klik. 
IMPLEMENTS OF THE ROYAL AGRICUL¬ 
TURAL SHOW. 
The extent of the Show will be understood by the follow¬ 
ing classiticntion of the respective exhibitors :— 
Barley awners .... 
Bean splitters .... 
Bone mills. 
Carts . 
Chaff cuttters. 
Cheese presses .... 
Churns . 
Clod crushers and rollers 
Cooking apparatus 
Corn dressing machines 
Cultivators. 
Draining implements 
Drills . 18 
Fencing. 
Fire engines . 
Flour dressing machines 
Flower stands. 
Forges, and forge tools. 
Forks . 
Garden implements ... 
Gates and posts. 
Gorse bruisers. 
Grinding mills . 
Grubbers . 
Harness 
Haymaking machines 
Hoes . 
Hurdles 
6 
Mangles. 
... 22 
13 
Manure distributors. 
... 5 
2 
Mincing machines . 
...10 
Models . 
. .. 8 
46 
Oat bruisers . 
... 4 
5 
Oil-cake breakers ... 
... 23 
10 
Pails and buckets ... 
... 7 
25 
Ploughs. 
2 
Pumps . 
18 
Iiakos. 
15 
Reaping machines.. 
... 5 
8 
Rick stands . 
18 
Sackhoulders. 
... \ 
6 
Saw tables. 
3 
Scarifiers . 
7 
Seeds, roots, Ac. .. 
5 
Sowing machines .. 
3 
Spades, or shovels.. 
... 8 
7 
Stable fittings . 
...11 
37 
Stack pillars . 
10 
Steam cultivators .. 
3 
Steam engines . 
... 31 
22 
Steaming apparatus 
... 6 
3 
Stoves, or ranges .. 
... 5 
4 
Subsoil pulverisers 
... 10 
3 
Thrashing machines. 
... 33 
17 
Troughs . 
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10 
Turnip cutters . 
3 
Vegetable washers.. 
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24 
Wagons . 
16 
Washing machines 
... 8 
17 
Weighing machines 
... 8 
9 
Wheelbarrows . 
... 8 
5 
Wheels and axles .. 
25 
Whippletrees. 
7 
’Winnowing machines 
.. 13 
8 
Wire netting. 
...10 
a large number of small 
articles 
Linseed and corn crushers 
Malt mills . 
Mangers and railway,... 
In addition to these, 
were exhibited, which cannot strictly be classified under any 
one of the above heads.— Essex Gazette. 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
GARDENING. 
CROWFOOTS.—CUCKOO BUDS.—LINUM GRANDI- 
FLORUM. — ANISANTHUS CUNONIA. — HIMA¬ 
LAYAN POPPY. 
“Will Mr. Beaton be good enough to mention where 
Ranunculus aeris jl. pi. is procurable, and at what rate? 
In his notice of this invaluable bedding-plant, Mr. B. says 
(page 202)—‘There are not ten men in a parish who can 
tell a Buttercup from a single-dowered Bachelor’s Button, 
* * * or from a bulbous-rooted Crowfoot, which is fully 
as common in the fields as the true old English Buttercups.’ 
Is there any bulbous-rooted Crowfoot besides R. bulbosus ? 
If so, I should be indebted to Mr. B. for a description of 
the points of difference between the two. May I also 
suggest a query, whether Ficaria verna or Cult ha palustris 
will not answer better to Shakespere’s ‘ Cuckoo-buds of | 
yellow hue ’ than Buttercups, coming, as they do, pretty 
nearly together with Cartlamine pratensis and the sweet 
Violet ? 
“ In reference to Mr. Beaton’s suggested period for sowing 
Linum grandijiorum, I may mention that 1 sowed a shilling 
packet of seed in pots, in a light, airy greenhouse, about 
half on February 10, the rest about three weeks later. From 
one sowing I raised six plants, from the other five; two 
more came up, but died off immediately. The first bloom 
expanded June 5, and all were in flower by the end of the 
month. I had removed them in May from the greenhouse, 
which has, unluckily, no shade, to a frame, and, before they 
flowered, to the open air. I am allowing my plants to form 
their seed, as I greatly fear they will not turn out to be 
perennials. What does Mr. Beaton think on this last point ? 
“Is Linum coccineum of some seedsmen the same plant? 
“ I shall be very thankful for instructions for raising 
Anisantlius Cunonia from seed. 
“ There is a Poppy which I do not find in any catalogue 
under the only name by which I know it, viz., Himalayan 
Poppy. Its habit is much that of our English species, 
with pinnatifid leaves, not glaucous or succulent; the flowers 
on long, slender stalks, only semi-double; colour, crimson of 
all shades to white, with lovely mother-of-pearl reflections in 
the cup. A bed of them expanded under the mid-day sun 
was a beautiful sight. Can you from this description help 
me to the true name of this Poppy ?— Anxhomanes.” 
[We fear the double Crowfoot is not to be had in the 
trade yet; but they must get it, and in great abundance, for 
we mean to keep it under the trumpet till our gardeners are 
all served; meantime, ask it of all the nurserymen you deal 
with. There is[no other bulbous-rooted Crowfoot, native of 
Britain, than the one mentioned, but there are two or three 
bulbous ones in the south of Europe, and there is one in 
Hungary; but all of them are merely botauically interesting, 
as far as we know. Shakespere was too good a naturalist 
to call Ficaria or Caltha “ Cuckoo-buds." They do not bud 
at the coming of that “ harbinger.’’ You are quite right to 
save seeds of Linum grandijiorum; there is no doubt of its 
being only an annual. Linum coccineum and Linum grandi- 
fiorum rubrum are one and the same thing ; the foolish and 
the fraudulent always give the highest colour to new plants. 
The seeds of Anisantlius Cunonia should be sown at the end 
of September, or, if you sow them in May, when they are 
ripe, or at any time through the summer, they will be idle 
till after the middle of September, which is their natural 
time to begin to sprout. The Himalayan Poppy is probably 
Pupavera umcena; at least, this comes nearest your de¬ 
scription.] 
HARDY FOREIGN FERNS. 
“Will you kindly publish a list of Foreign Ferns hardy 
enough to bear the climate in an out-door Vinery in the 
south of England?— An Old Subsciubek.” 
[The following will answer your purpose, and are all Fo¬ 
reign Ferns:— 
Adiantum pedatum. 
Asplenitnn acutum. 
„ Michauxi. 
„ rhizophyllum. 
Botrychium fumarioides. 
Cconopteris Japonica. 
Dicksonia piloriuscula. 
Ilypolepis Dicksonioides. 
Lomaria Magellanica. 
Onoclea sensibilis. 
Osmunda cinnamomea. 
„ interrupta. 
„ spectabilis. 
Plat.yloma falcata. 
Polypodium Canariensis. 
„ rugulorum. 
„ Virginianum. 
Polystichum acrostichoides. 
Struthiopteris Germauica. 
Woodwardia angustifolia.] 
SEEDS OF PICEA NOBILIS. 
“Having lately seen in your pages several notices re¬ 
garding the cones and seeds of Piccu nobilis, particularly a 
very earnest warning as to their treatment from ‘ W. B,’ in 
your number for the 8th inst., may I venture to ask the said 
‘ W. B.’ if, in the case of his cone, which proved to be fertile, 
there was any artificial impregnation ? and if the presence 
of the male blossom was distinctly apparent on the tree ? 
“ These questions I ask from having a considerable interest 
