July 7 . 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER, 
209 
l there! The “Clockmaker” is in England! (or was very 
lately) perhaps taking notes; if so, “ faith he’ll prent them.” 
Look ont ladies! He says he has been “ pretty much to 
Slickville lately,” for some reason which we leave the fair 
sex to guess; but “ he must make another tour in the 
provinces,” for he “ reckons they raise handsomer, and 
stronger ladies” there than “ they do in Connecticut, al¬ 
though they do crack for everlastin’ about beatin’ all the 
world in Geese, Gals, and Onions.” 
liut turn we to those Pcconiu Moutans, floral monopolisers 
here, comparatively, with the humble grasses, which arrange 
i themselves according to “ Lindley’s Synopsis.” Medical 
plants take a position around, upon recommendations for 
their therapeutic virtues. From the boundary of this spot 
we pause to enjoy a reflection, proud and deep, as we view, at 
one swoop, the colleges of Christ Church and Merton. The 
lower aquarium is in this vicinity; the gates are locked, so 
we pass round, skirting the river Cherwell, till the “ new 
houses” (ridge and furrow), open upon us, but not to us, 
which proves a lucky circumstance, as it is after one o’clock, 
and the fete at Worcester College Gardens opens for the 
public at two o’clock, so we will even contemplate our first 
love, and not trust to that dangerous expedient—“ two 
strings for our bow.” We will, therefore, according to time, 
cull a few conspicuous particulars, as seen through the 
glass. In the “hothouse” we observed Papaw trees in 
fruit, Bananas, Sec. The Citrus, inhabitants within and 
without the orangery, appeared to have recently undergone 
a severe beheading process. We noticed there a collec- 
! tiou of Ferns, Sec. Next, the Victoria Lily house and 
tank, too over-crowded, we thought, with distant connec¬ 
tions. Three of its leaves had appeared, looking weakly, 
each not more than a foot in diameter. Its allied sisters, 
around the margin of the tank, in bloom, or thinking about 
it, were— Nymphea cocrulea, N. cyanea, N. deniata, and the 
Egyptian Lotus. It would prove acceptable if the names 
of the three water nymphs were legibly suspended around 
the tank for the benefit of outsiders ; few pass this house, 
we suspect, without taking a peep at the beauties ; and now- 
a-days, people feel sorry to turn away from a plant without 
being able to learn its name. The orcliid-house is well 
stocked, and capable of affording quaintness, from Acropera 
to Zyyopetalum. A glance at the Roses, and a young col¬ 
lection of Coniferoe (both suffering from the late drought), 
warn us to proceed, and we find ourselves once more on 
the space within the garden fronting the buildings; the 
first in order of which is the stove, whose chief occupants 
1 are Gloxinias, in varieties, including an unfortunate monkey. 
The Professor’s house adjoins the stove. How nice to be 
a Professor ! There are three greenhouses ; the first minus 
its namesake varieties; the second occupied with Ericas, 
Sec. ; and the third chiefly with the Cactus species; the 
entrance gateway and lecture rooms intervene between 
them, in architectural array, which brings us to the spot 
where we started from. Pleased and instructed, we pocket 
our pencil, take a peep at two uncomfortable-looking beans 
experimentally suspended in two vials of liquid, and decide 
to depart, but become once more arrested by some menagerie 
sounds proceeding from a cage-like opening in the wall. 
Monkeys again ! A brass plate informed us they were the 
“ Cercopithecus fuliynosus,” Sootey Monkey, or Mangoley; 
Africa; and the “ Papio Bhcesus,” the Bhunder; East 
Indies. They appear on very amicable relations with each 
other, Indian and African brothers literally shaking hands 
through the wires. The electric wires are accomplishing 
this feature for all the world. The sooner the conclusion is 
arrived at the better. What a capital thing it would be, if 
quarrelsome Emperors could be caged until they were 
brought to acknowledge the same necessity ! By-tlie-by, 
some years since, a young gentleman, of facetious memory, 
expounded for us a remarkable and rare piece of zoological 
information (viz) ; how men were formerly monkeys; but 
from a habit of sitting they in later days contracted, all 
semblance of tails became obliterated. Zoology is not to be 
blamed for suppressing this subject, though some sanguine 
people independently imagine, even now, they can discover 
an occasional resemblance. 
Outside the garden-gate the prospect is comfortable and 
substantial. Magdalen College, with its handsome tower, 
adding reverence and majesty to the scene. We turn down 
towards the river, and claim acquaintanceship with a fine 
specimen of the Cedrus Deodara; also with a bright shoal 
of minnows, rejoicing in the stream below, apparently quite 
unconscious of the Triton which people are wont to infer 
amongst them. Our thoughts wandered to the river Lossie 
(Scotland). How many Tritons would appear amongst you, 
little fishes, if tlio likes of you were to be found there 1 
Notwithstanding Lord Byron’s anathema, we are sufficiently 
evil-disposed to wish the power to sacrifice a score of your ! 
tiny lives, place you amongst some dry bran in a box to 
harden, and to find ourselves arising by day-break, to-morrow I 
morning, at Lossie mouth (with our best trolling tackle), in 
order to fish the river as far as the “go-a-head" town of 
Elgin. If we did not, under these circumstances, arrive 
there by breakfast-time, with a good appetite, a clear con¬ 
science, and a basket well filled with sea, or any other 
trouts, we are no disciples of Isaac Walton. 
Transferring our steps up the High-street we forget all 
about the fishes ; quite different feelings possess us ; some¬ 
thing—if we express ourselves as an Englishman—some 
thing which makes us feel proud of our country, and her noble 
time-worn institutions. A superior feeling we only to the 
degree experienced in one place we ever visited, namely— 
Princess-street, Edinburgh. A parallel superiority of mind 
and spirit, we engage to predict for nine people out of ten, 
whenever occasion may afford them opportunity to judge of 
this for themselves. Minerva, with her immortal vEgis, 
appears to reside in these spots as their natural tributary 
goddess. This superiority of feeling increases as we ascend 
Princess - street to the Calton-hill, Edinburgh. So it 
gradually decreases as w r e near the corn-market, Oxford. 
It is curious; but it is a fact.— Upwakds and Onwalds. 
(To he continued.) 
GAPES IN CHICKENS. 
M. R. complains that he loses a great many chickens 
from “the Gapes.” I, too, find that immediately my chickens 
are three weeks old they are invariably attacked by this 
disease. Having devoted a great deal of time to discover a 
cure for it, I find that every (so called) remedy which I have 
hitherto tried has failed, with the exception of the “ feather 
operation.” By this, however, I have saved five out of every 
six chickens on which I have operated. Having stripped a 
feather in the manner described by Mr. Tegetmeier, I dip it 
in spirit of turpentine, thrust it down the windpipe of the 
chick, and give it a slight twist, after which, by pressing the 
windpipe, I generally find that some of the worms are 
“ coughed” up. 
I have tried smoking them, soaking their wheat in tur¬ 
pentine, and numerous other experiments, but found little 
or no benefit from them. Probably by smoking a chick 
before the disease has weakened it, the smoke may cause 
it to cough, and so expel the worms. I have likewise 
opened the windpipe, and effected a cure in that way, but 
this being too “ nice ” an operation, I should not recommend 
it to be tried, except as a last resource. The worms are 
found in all parts of the windpipe. I have extracted as 
many as sixteen from a chicken about a month old. But as 
to how they get there, I shall not risk an opinion, as I know 
of one yard in which last year not a single chicken died 
from this disease, where now only two birds have been 
reared from seven (fair) broods. 
Some few months since you expressed a wish to hear 
which sex predominated in broods of chickens bred from 
last year’s birds. I can now inform you that out of eighteen 
Dorkings I have only five pullets.—W illiam Pope. 
ANATOMIZING LEAVES. 
Skeletonizing leaves, &c., is effected by laying them in 
rain-water until the upper and under skins readily peel off, 
and the pulp washes away; a little help to clear off the 
pulp from leaves of stout fibre may be given by means of a 
painter’s fourpenny bristle brush, held between the finger 
and thumb, in a perpendicular position, and gently tapped 
up and down upon the leaf, which must he under ivatpr at the 
