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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
August 3. 
describes tiro treatment as that recommended by me in The 
Cottage Gardener (see last vol. page 3!t0), and states, “1 
have every reason, therefore, to thank yon for your valuable 
contributions to The Cottage Gaedenee, they are almost 
the only attempts I have ever seen to treat the Diseases of 
Fowls on the rational principles of systematic medicine.” 
I should not have quoted the last sentence, but that the 
statement has recently been made, that nothing is known 
respecting the diseases of fowls. To such an assertion the 
above case, scientifically and successfully treated, is alone a 
sufficient answer.—W. B. Tegetmeiee, Willesden. 
HERACLEUM GIGANTEUM. 
I saw, in your last number of The Cottage Gaedenee, 
an account of an Heracleum giyantcum , from Bishop’s 
Waltham, being eleven feet six inches high; I beg leave to 
inform you, that I exhibited one at the Malvern Flower 
Show which was twelve feet high to the centre bloom, and 
the outside blooms that were round the centre one, were 
ten inches higher than the centre one. It was twenty inches 
round at its base, and the leaves measured from their base 
at the stem, seven feet long, and three feet four inches across. 
It sowed itself last Autumn in a spot of very poor, unculti¬ 
vated ground we used for lumber, under a large Oak. All 
the assistance it received from me was two pails of water a 
week, one pail of weak manure-water, the other simple 
water. I exhibited it in a large mashing tub, and it took 
six men to carry it to the tub, it having an immense ball of 
iron clay attached to its roots. I also beg to say, that it 
now looks as fresh as when taken up, which was on the 
2!)th of June. It was not above two feet high in February. 
—J. W., Miss Dorville’s, Highcrojt, Great Malvern. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S POULTRY 
SHOW AT LINCOLN. 
In the two latter cases, one increased lib. in 17 days; 
and the other lib. in 21 days; nothing extra had been given 
in the shape of food, and the woigliing took place on each 
day about the same time.—II. B. S., Monmouthshire, 
COVENT GARDEN.— July 25tii. 
The supply continues abundant in Cut Flowers, in 
bunches of Catananclie, Carnation, Mignonette, Pansies, 
Roses, Stocks, Sweet Peas, Pinks, Cloves, Gentaureas, Helio¬ 
tropes, Lilies, Gladiolus, Verbenas, Lupines, Larkspurs, &c., 
at Id to Is Od per bunch; Bouquettes, Is. 
FEUIT. 
Tine Apples, Is to 6s per lb. 
Grapes, Hambro’, 2s 6d to 8s 
Forced Peaches, 7sto 18s p.dz 
Nectarines, Os to 10s per doz. 
Apricots, Moor-park, 2s 6d 
Strawberries, (id to Is 3d p. put 
Gooseberries, 5s Od per bush. 
Black Currants, 4s 6d p. hf. s. 
Black Cherries, 3s 3d p. dz. lbs 
White Cherries, 3s Od p. dz.lbs 
Raspberries, Od per gallon 
Plums, 3s to 4s per sieve 
Dessert Plums of Green Gage 
and Orleans, Is per punnet 
Gooseberries, 2s pr half sieve 
Apples, 7s fid pr bsh., kitchen 
Currants, Red and White,3s fid 
per half sieve 
Pears, Jargonelle, 2s fid to 4s 
per half sieve 
Oranges, Lemons, Nuts, Al¬ 
monds, as last week. 
VEGETABLES. 
Ash-leaved Kidney Potatoes, 
12s per cwt. 
Regents, 5s to Os fid per cwt. 
Leeks, 3d per bunch 
Young Onions, 4d per bunch 
Cabbage, Od to Is per dozen 
Lettuces, Is fid per score 
Carrots, 4d per bunch 
Beet, fid per bunch 
French Beans, 3s fid p. hf. 
Onions, 3s to 5s p. doz.bnch. 
Turnips, 2s to 3s p. doz. bnch. 
Celery, Is 9d per bunch 
Cauliflower, 2s per dozen 
Horse Radish, 3s Od per bnch. 
Radishes, 2d per bunch 
Mushrooms, 2s per pottle 
Cucumbers, 2d to Is each 
Tomatoes, 2s per punnet 
Walnpts, pickling, 10s p. bsh. 
s. 
HEEBS. 
Last week we published the prize list of this Exhibition, 
merely adding that the show was superior to those of 
previous years, especially in Dorkings. We might rest con¬ 
tented with that brief comment, if we had not promised a 
fuller notice, for we find all judges consenting, that though 
better than the Society’s preceding shows, yet that a more \ 
correct mode of expression would have been, that it was not 
so bad as those which the Society had previously effected. 
Any great improvement in this department of the Society’s 
Exhibition will not be secured until farmers estimate 
poultry-keeping more highly. At present, their “talk is of 
bullocks,” and improved implements, and they offer large 
prizes for them ; whilst Poultry, Pigeons, and “ other such 
small deer,” are not game lofty enough to be so favoured. 
Whether they are correct in this course, we shall not now 
pause to enquire; nor shall we publish any longer report 
than the following, which will enable our readers to form a 
satisfactory opinion of the comparative merits of the 
prize birds:— 
“ The Dorkings, as a class, were excellent. Spanish pretty 
good. Game very good. Hamburgh s very bad. Shanghai’s 
infamous. Geese and Turkeys superior. Ducks only 
moderate.” 
RATE OF GROWTH IN SPANISH AND 
SHANGHAE FOWLS. 
As you have been asking for facts relative to the weight 
of poultry, I send you a few; you can make what use you 
please of them. 
WEIGHT. 
Hatched. 
June 30. 
July 17. 
July 21. 
Spanish Cock - 
March 31 
lbs. ozs. 
3 0 
lbs. ozs. 
3 8 
lbs. ozs. 
3 9 
„ Pullet - 
2 2 
2 8 
2 8 
Shanghae Cock - 
on 
>> 
2 12 
3 12 
3 12 
2 0 
3 4 
3 6 
Shallots, Garlic, Fennel, Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Parsley> 
Marjoram, Mint, Tarragon Mint, 2d to fid per bunch > 
Chervil, 2d per punnet. 
GARDENS AND NURSERIES. 
PERENNIAL PLANTS IN FLOWER. 
Astragalus maximus 
Aconitine napellus 
,, excelsum 
,, lycoctonum 
,, album 
Arenaria linifolia 
Achillea lingulata 
„ sylvatica 
„ filipeudulina 
Alstrremeria pscitacina 
„ ovata 
„ aurea 
Antirrhinum Youngii 
Ajuga pyramidalis 
Bupleurum multinerve 
,, fruti cosum 
Coronilla varia 
„ iberica 
Clematis erecta 
„ pumila 
„ liybrida 
„ diversifolia 
„ integrifolia 
Cerastium tomentosum 
„ Ledebouri 
Campanula nobilis 
„ carpatica 
„ glomerata 
„ colorata 
„ rapunculoides 
„ Americana 
„ persicifolia 
„ urticifolia 
„ nana 
Cannabis sativa 
Cenia turbinata 
Centaurea cyanus 
Cen Iran thus angustifolius 
Catnnanebe ccerulea 
Dielytra formosa 
i „ spectabile 
Digitalis lanata 
„ purpurea 
Dracocephalum peregrinum 
Dipsacus sylvestris 
„ fullonura 
Dianthus barbatus 
„ asper 
„ Armeria 
„ liispanicus 
„ campestre 
Eschscholtzia californica 
Erigeron alpinus 
„ pumilus 
Epilobium angustifolium 
Funkia Sieboldiana 
Geutiana cruciata 
„ gelida 
Glaucium luteum 
„ corniculatum 
Geranium strictum 
„ pratense 
„ anemonefolium 
„ Vlassovianum 
„ Lancastriense 
„ sanguineum 
„ nodosum 
„ albiflorum 
