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July 13 . 
The arduous and, at times, unpleasant duties of Judges, 
were on this occasion most ably performed by Mr. W. Con- 
nett, of High-street, Exeter : the Rev. F. Thomas, of Park- 
ham, and the Rev. R. R. Wright, of Marhamchurch, Corn¬ 
wall, (who were kindly entertained by the Mayor), and 
Goldie Harding, Esq., of Halls Annery House, Bideford. 
The following is the prize-list. 
SPANisn.— 1st prize, Mr. R. Rranwell, Holsworthy; 2nd ditto, Mrs. 
Keats, Bideford, and Mr. W. W. Hcwett, Abbotsham, near Bideford, 
commended. 
Dorking.— Coloured.—1st prize, Mr. R. Branwell, Holsworthy; 2nd 
1 ditto, Mr. A. B. Wren, Bradworthy ; and Mr. W.Turner, Grange, Bide¬ 
ford, commended. The birds in this class were very beautiful, but badly 
penned. 
Dorking —(White) none entered. 
CocniN-CniNA —Cinnamon or Buffs.—1st prize, Mr. Charles Hole, 
Bideford ; 2nd, Mr. James Partridge, Barnstaple. 
CocniN-CniNA— Brown or Partridge.—1st prize, Mr. George Mill, 
Northam; 2nd, Rev. Edward Reynolds, Appledore. Mr. T. D. 
Gregory, Bideford, commended. 
Chicken of 1851.—Fourteen Pens Entered.—1st prize. Rev. J. B. 
Clyde, Bradworthy (Dorkings). Mr. R. Branwell, Holsworthy; highly 
commended (Dorkings) ; ditto, commended (Buff Cochins). Mr. 
James Partridge, Barnstaple, commended (Buff Cochins); Mr. A. B. 
Wren, Bradworthy, commended (Dorkings). 
Game. —1st prize, Mr. G. C. Turner, Woolfardisworthy ; 2nd, Mr. 
W. D. Braginton, Great Torrington; Mr. W. Turner, Grange, Bideford, 
highly commended; Mr. John Short, Bideford, commended. 
Hamburgh.— Golden Pencilled and Spangled.—1st prize, withheld; 
2nd, Mr. C. T. I.e Gallis, Barnstaple. 
Hamburgs. —Silver Pencilled and Spangled.—1st prize, withheld ; 
2nd ditto, Mr. E. U. Vidal, Abbotsham, near Bideford. 
Polands— Black and White Crested.—1st prize, withheld; 2nd ditto, 
Mr. W. W. Hewett, Ashburton. Mr. A. B. Wren, Extra Prize. 
Polands— Gold and Silver.—1st prize withheld; 2nd ditto, Mr. 
Henry Parsons, Bideford. 
Barn Door.— 1st prize, withheld ; 2nd ditto, Mr. W. Turner, Bide¬ 
ford. 
Turkeys.— Only one Pen, Mr. W. Turner, commended. 
Geese.— 1st prize, withheld; 2nd ditto, Mr. J. B. Torr, Westleigh. 
Extra Prize, Mr. K. W. Horlock, Barnstaple. 
Ducks— White Aylesbury.—First prize, Mr. E. U. Vidal, Abbotsham. 
2nd ditto, Mr. K. W. Horlock, Barnstaple. 
Ducks —Any sort.— 1st prize, Mr. Arthur Ley, Bideford; 2nd ditto, 
Rev. Charles Wood, Beaford, Devon. 
Pigeons.— Almond Tumblers, Mr. J. Tinson, Barnstaple; Fantails, 
Mr. Henry Parsons, Bideford. 
White Cochin-China.— Prize awarded to Mr. Branwell. 
Best Pen not Classed. —Mr. J. B. Torr, Westleigh. 
RETENTION OF VITALITY BY UNHATCHED 
CHICKENS.—POULTRY REGISTRY. 
Some of your (Poultry-keeping readers may he glad to 
read the following, which, as I am able to give the exact 
days and hours, may he relied upon. 
At eight o’clock on the evening of the 28th May, I set a 
hen (a good mother) on eleven Dorking eggs, that had 
travelled about seventy miles a day or two before. At five 
p.m., on the 8th of June, on my return home, I found the 
hen sitting on two eggs in the adjoining nest; her own 
feeling cold to my hand, and I had come home outside the 
coach. I could not discover how long she had been off, for 
none of my family had seen her. However, I immediately 
put her on again; and she sat closely the remainder of the 
time. One or two chickens were hatched on Sunday the 
18th of June ; and upon further examination, on the next 
morning, I was pleased to find eight perfect chickens, and 
three addled eggs (quite liquid). 
I take this opportunity of asking (from some of your 
readers) for a good form of Register for the Poultry-yard. 
I give you the form I now use ; but it does not meet all my 
wants. 
Hatched. 
Description. 
Date of 
Sitting. 
No. & sort 
of Eggs. 
Produce. 
Remarks. 
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W. AV. IT. 
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QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
GARDENING. 
PLUMBAGO LARrENTBL—MOVING STOVE FERNS. 
“ I have a plant of Plumbago Larpentce in my green¬ 
house. It is perfectly healthy, and luxuriant in foliage; but 
lias never blossomed, though I have had it two years. I 
have never disturbed it. Am I to repot it and change the 
soil? 
“ I also wish to know whether Stove Ferns in pots should 
he repotted at any season, and what soil will usually suit 
them ? 
“ Adiantum tenerum, Adiantum cuneatum , and Ptcris sernt- 
lata , are those I have, and a species of Lycopodium, with a 
beautiful bluish bloom on the leaves, which I should like to 
increase, and wish to know when, and how I ought to do 
so ?—G. E. S.” 
[Let your Plumbago remain untouched; and, if it has 
had plenty of light, it will, probably, bloom about August. 
Stove Ferns, it is true, may be shifted at any time; but ns 
a general rule, the spring, about April, is the best time for 
propagating them by dividing them ; but were we asking for 
a bit of either the Lycopodium you speak of, or either of the 
kinds of Ferns you mention, we would just as soon have it 
now as at any time in the whole year. The Moss-like 
plant is the Lycopodium caesium, and the handsomest of the 
genus. This and the Ferns all delight in a peat soil, and a 
little charcoal mixed with it.] 
STAUNTONIA LATIFOLIA. 
“Does the Stauntonia lalifolia twine in the same direction 
as the Scarlet-runner (French Bean) ; or in that of the 
Hop ? All twiners will easily twine round rods, or sticks ; 
but how are they to be induced to twine round trees of some 
considerable circumference ?—J.” 
[This question is referable to an old doctrine, the facts 
founded on which we can neither affirm nor controvert. 
According to the rules insisted on by at least some of 
the authors who affirmed this doctrine, all the climbers, 
and more particularly, all the twiners, which inhabit the 
north side of the equator, grow, or ought to grow, towards 
the sun ; that is to say, they twine from the right hand to 
the left, and are, or were, called Dextrorsers. Whereas, 
such twiners as are natives beyond the line should twine 
from left to right, and these were called Sinistrorsers. Wo 
have looked about, but could not see a hop-plant, and 
the scarlet-runners in these parts are not staked; the stakes 
cost more money than the crops are worth, and they grow 
in all directions; but we have just looked at our own 
Stauntonias outside the door, where they withstood the 
rigours of the last winter and spring without protection, 
and we find them to be of the dextrorsus class, growing from 
right to left, and that most vigorously. We purpose to treat 
them like grape vines; for the first three years prune them 
down to near the ground late in the autumn; after that, the 
roots will be sufficiently strong to throw up shoots strong 
enough to embrace large trees; not, perhaps, by twining 
round them, but by nailing and training as we would a 
grape vine, or a honeysuckle. AVe never heard of any other 
way for leading twiners or climbers round large trees. 
Stauntonia lalifolia promises to grow fast, and as strong as 
a common honeysuckle, and like the Wistareu sinensis , we 
think it will bear being trained without much twining, 
except the young growths. It is, certainly, a noble-looking 
evergreen. AVe take it to be the Stauntonia which Dr. 
Hooker mentions as one of the best fruiting plants in that 
part of the Sikkim Hymalayas, where he saw it; still we 
are not sanguine about the fruit, or the flowers; but we 
would earnestly recommend it as one of the very best ever¬ 
greens to train over a veranda, or summer-house, and we 
would prevent it from twining until the spaces were regulaily 
covered, just as we would a AVistarea.] 
HERACLEUM GIGANTEUM. 
“ Is not ten feet a great heighth for this plant to attain, 
with the girth of its stem twelve inches ?—P.” 
[AVe cannot give you a better answer than the following 
note received by the next post from Bishop’s AYaltliam : — 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
