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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
Eebruaky 20. 
Cross between the Game and JIalay {Constant Header), —The 
sli'htest cross of M.-iIay in a Game Fowl is perceptil)Ie, because a coarse 
co ni), and unkind, cruel face, takes the place of the gallant and lively 
looks peculiar to the latter. A Duck-winged Game cock should have a 
straw hackle, black breast, red saddle, and diiclc-iving. 
White Bantams and Silky Bantams {Idem), —These are distinct 
breeds. The latter, as their name implies, have silk instead of feathers. 
Their combs, faces, bones, and flesh, are all blue. The Spanish is the 
only breed where the combs of the hens should droop, while that of the 
cock is upright. The description of the case of your hen gives us a bad 
opinion of it. We have had many such without being able to effect a 
cure. Wash freely with alum and cold water, and keep the body open 
with castor-oil. 
Characteristics in a Pen of Game Fowls (Tvro).—To match a 
Black-breasted Bed Game cock putbrow’n hens with lighter brown breasts 
and hackles. , To lled-breasted cocks put dark hens with lighter hackles 
approaching to golden colour. To a Duck-wing cock put grey hens, 
I pencilled hackle, and slight tinge of salmon colour on the breast. Uni¬ 
formity of colour in the legs of a Game pen is more important than a 
, shade in the colour of the hens. In that latitude is always allowed, but 
not a glaring discrepancy. 
I WooD-AsiiES (Omicron ).—We do not think that Wood-ashes would 
prevent the appearance of Caterpillars upon the leaves of Gooseberry 
an<l Currant bushes, hut it is an e.vperiment very easily tried. 
IIOSE-CDLTURS {Harriet C. A. L .).—We know of no cheap trust¬ 
worthy separate work upon this subject, took at the article Rose in 
“The Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary.” There is no better monthly 
Calendar at present than Abercrombie’s “ Gardener’s Pocket Journal.” 
Address (A.vferj. -hlr. Chater, Florist, Haverhill, Suffolk, is his 
proper address. 
I Names of Plants (P. B. L .).—As near as we can make out from 
mutilateil specimens. 1. Pinus insignis. 2. Pelargonium species. 3. 
I Mentha Rotundifolia, var. variegata. 4. Begonia Hydrocotylifolia, var. 
! hybrida. 5. ffiscliynanthiis pulcher. 6. Unknown. {E. A. /i.b—Your 
plant from Paris is C'aculiu rnacinea, a pretty annual to be found named 
in all our seedsmen’s lists. About half-a-dozen seeds, sown in a ti-inch 
I pot in the first half of April, and brought forward in a very gentle hot¬ 
bed, will produce plants to turn out into the borders without disturbing 
j the plants, towards the end of May. This is better than transpl,anting 
' the seedlings singly. {J. P.). —Yours is Aster agrophyllus, or IMusk- 
scented Michaelmas Daisy. {G. Carson). —I. Origanum dictammis ? 
but certainly an Origanum. 2. Omjihalodes Uerna., a very pretty hardy 
plant for the sunny side of a Rockerf. 
Lawn (L. S. G.).—Nothing will kill the Daisies but having them rooted 
out. Two women uill soon remove them all. Then, after giving a dress¬ 
ing of etirth. but no manure, sow a mixture of the grass-seeds recom¬ 
mended by Mr. Beaton a few weeks since. Sow them in hlarch, or early 
in April. Hogg's Edging Tiles, now advertising in our columns, will 
suit j'ou. 
London : Printed by Hdgh Barclay, Winchester High-street, in 
the Parish of Saint Mary Kalendar ; and Published for the Proprietors 
at The Cottage Gardener Office, No. 20, Paternoster Row, in 
the Parish of Christ Church, City of London.—February 26 , 1856. 
IHUbcvtiScintut^. 
! T^illiam B. Jeffries’ Arboretum 
^ ’ Nurseries, Ipswich, begs to offer the following CHOICE 
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