April 13. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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material, under due management, standing a fair chance of 
excelling the marmalade of Macon, and is now converted 
into an excellent preserve. 
Peaches, called Soppunoonoo, are of two varieties, distin¬ 
guished more by one having a bitter and the other a sweet 
kernel than by the respective qualities of their pulp, and 
held therefore as indifferent. 
“ Tser and Bliota Tser, or Apricot of Tibet, neither parti¬ 
cularly good. 
“The best of the family is the white Apricot of Bailee, 
which is in perfection in the garden of the Kaloon or Prime 
Minister at Ayoo, but on account of the great distance, is 
only procurable with much difficulty and expense. 
“ A very large Apricot Kotach is found, but it comes in 
season in the rains, and is generally spoiled owing to flies 
depositing their eggs in the pulp. 
“ Plums are of few varieties, and as they are not fully ripe, 
I can say little respecting them, except that a green variety 
called Sttbza borders on the greengage, but its sweetness is 
not sufficiently relieved by acid. 
“ The best plum in India is a variety with small fruit in 
the garden of the Jooma Musjid in the Fort of Lahore. 
This has peculiar characters, and seems to hold a rank 
between a loose-pulped cherry and a plum. 
“The Cherries, called here Gilas, are of three varieties; 
two approach to the character of the Bigarrseux and May 
Duke, and the third is decidedly the Morel or late black 
bitter Cherry. The fruit is rather smaller than that of 
Europe, and of this, as well as of the Apricot, there are 
wild varieties. 
“Vines are of many varieties, both of exotic and indige¬ 
nous origin ; of the former are the Moskha, Sahibee, Hoo- 
senee, and Kishmishee, which last was introduced by the 
Emperor Juhangeer Kabool. The latter, or those indige¬ 
nous and cultivated, are, Pamulhil, Takree, Upamahee, Bura 
kawur, Nika kawur, Kacheeboor JCanahepec, Harduch, and 
Kathoo Hoosenee. The wild grapes are Deza, Kuwadueh, 
and Umburbaree. 
“The four first are good, but it is said that those of 
similar name in Kabool are still better. 
“The skirts of the southern face of the northern hills 
were formerly largely clothed with vines, and under Hindoo 
rule much wine was made. 
“ The practice was continued to, or revived in, the reign 
of Juhangeer. 
“ A little Brandy is occasionally distilled, even now, and 
under suitable management might vie with Cognac. 
“ The Mulberry has many varieties, with fruit large or 
small, sweet or sour, round, oblong and cylindrical, black or 
white, with and without seed. 
“The sweet are Boota, Seea, Stiffed, and Bootanee. 
“ The sour is the Shah Toot. No Mulberry of Europe or 
of Lower India is equal to the sweet varieties, of which the 
juice furnishes a material for wine and spirit. The fruit of 
the Shah Toot is much superior to the European Mulberry, 
being larger and more juicy, with a pure rich acid uncon¬ 
taminated by any medicinal flavor. 
“ This fruit would afford a great resourco to the popula- i 
tion of India, as well when eaten ripe as for wine and 
vinegar. 
“The Pomegranate has the following varieties, viz., 
Duhan, Julalabadce, Kathideliun, Hudehun, and Jiggree. 
“ Several of these are particularly fine as to flavor, and 
the size is large. 
“The Almonds are not especially good. The Walnuts 
are of four varieties, viz., Kanuk doonoo, which is wild and 
worthless, Wunloo, Doonoo, and Kagnzee. The three last 
are cultivated, and the Ivagazee is the best, but its thin 
shell exposes its kernel to the attack of the Boolbool. 
“ In Kashmeer the Custom-house pass return of the pro¬ 
duce of the fruit in oil and oil-cake amounts annually to 
1,30,000 rupees, independently of the quantity of nuts con¬ 
sumed by man. The quality of the wood of the cultivated 
Walnut, also, for gunstocks, is little inferior to that of 
Britain." 
The week commencing July 17th will witness the meet¬ 
ing of the Royal Agricultural Society at Lincoln, where 
liberal prizes are offered for the encouragement of those 
who are endeavouring to improve our farm poultry. 
Dorkings, as might have been anticipated, occupy a 
prominent position on the schedule, no less than four 
prizes being assigned to the young and old birds respec¬ 
tively. Spanish, Slianghaes, Brahma Pootras, Game 
Fowls, Hamburghs, in their several varieties, and Malays 
follow, and then a class for Polands, an addition, if we 
remember rightly, to the last year’s list. Turkeys, Geese, 
and Ducks, are to be shown without any restriction as 
to age, but none of these birds have a higher first prize 
than X‘3, while the principal fowls are allotted X'5, £3, 
X2, and XT, respectively. But the former are surely 
not less important in the economy of the farm-yard, and 
might, therefore, have been placed on an equal footing. 
A great boon to intending purchasers will bo granted 
by the exhibition of single cocks of the Dorking, Spanish, 
Shanghae, and Game breeds, although the older birds 
will appear to disadvantage from the usual raggedness 
of their plumage at that season of the year. 
W e shall bo glad to find that the inconvenient, open 
shed in which the birds were shown at Gloucester, has 
given place to some arrangement better calculated for 
the exhibition of the specimens themselves and the 
comfort of spectators in the event of bad weather. The 
disagreeable experience of the tenacity of Gloucester¬ 
shire clay should also induce precautions against a 
similar immersion in Lincolnshire mud. The main 
path-ways, and the alleys between the different sheds, 
should be either gravelled, or laid with some material 
that may permit walking after rain without at each step 
risking the loss of a shoe, or finding ourselves prostrate 
in a morass. 
The prize-list is decidedly well-arranged, and provides 
for the competition of all fowls that are likely to benefit 
the farm; and the presence of the birds, in conjunction 
with so distinguished a collection of equine, boviue> 
ovine, and porcine aristocrats, may serve to attract 
notice and favour even from those who are as yet dis¬ 
posed to think lightly of their profitable character. 
The arbitrations on the live-stock at the meetings of 
this Society have frequently been concluded at an early 
hour in the afternoon; should this be the case on the 
present occasion, we trust that the public may then be 
admitted,—a request, indeed, of which the justice can 
hardly be denied. 
MANAGEMENT OF THE SMALL HOLDER’S 
COW. 
In my last, it will be remembered, I offered a few 
remarks on the breeds of Cows adapted to small holders; 
I may now say something about the fodder question, 
and this, I hope, will gradually lead us up to a free 
consideration of crops requisite, and to cultural matters. 
I need scarcely remind even the most uninformed of 
our readers, that good hay is a most important item or | 
part of the fodder for Cows, especially milking stock ; as, I 
however, 1 am merely attempting to advise those who 
know little or nothing of such matters, I mean to touch 
on every little topic connected with the subject, however 
