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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
August 4 
breed were eminently attractive. They were of the purest j 
dead white, light, and sylphid in form, remarkably deeply 
vulture-hocked, and booted. They were very rapid and 
gliding in their movements, and very timid, we should 
think from being frequently hunted up to shew themselves, 
for the parents are sufficiently sedate. Dr. Burney informs 
us that they do not care for corn and the usual food of 
chickens, but prefer ant’s-eggs, and the insect food of a pas¬ 
ture. They were imported by a relative of Dr. Burney, but 
at present he cannot state from whence. 
The Algerian Silk Fowls have a dull brownish - yellow 
plumage, very much resembling the under fur of a hare. 
They are single combed, with neck hackle grizzled wiLli 
black, and are almost tailless. 
The Chamois Polands are the same as the Yellow Spangled. 
The Jerusalem Fowls seem to be a cross between the 
Malay and the Silver-pencilled Hamburgh ; and the Russian 
look like a bearded cross between a Malay and Lemon- 
coloured Shanghae. Though bearded, they have no top- 
knots. 
The White Polands with black top-knots are only an 
approach to that much-coveted variety; the top-knot and 
hackle being faintly laced with black. 
The Silk Shanghae Hen, or, as it is now called, the Emu 
fowl, which we described when exhibited at Farningliam, 
was also here, and some chickens bred from her by a 
Shanghae cock. They were in no respect different from 
buff Shanghae chickens, with black hackle and feathered legs. 
We made some notes upon the crosses between various of 
the old varieties, which we shall place before our readers at 
another opportunity. 
The Spanish classes were the best we ever saw gathered 
together in one arena. Captain Hornby, most deservedly, as 
usual, carried off the first and second prizes. The birds, 
however, were not in such fine condition as we have seen 
them, which is not a matter for surprise, when we remember 
the nearness of moulting, the badness of the weather, and 
their recent exhibition in an open shed at Gloucester. We 
must observe, that in pen 26, belonging to Mr. Jones, the 
cock was highly excellent in form and other points, but was 
very out of condition. The Spanish chickens were not pre¬ 
eminently good, but we must except the cockerel in Captain 
Hornby’s prize pen. It is a most promising bird, and the 
white face is developing unusually early and well. 
The Dorkings were all eminently good. Captain Hornby 
here, also, took the first and second prizes. His birds had 
a breadth and size unapproached by their competitors. The 
cock in Mr. Parker’s pen, which took the third prize, was a 
very stylish bird, but the whole were below the other two 
pens both in size and substance. The Dorking chickens 
were all good, and some were as large as the full-grown 
fowls in some of the pens of old birds. The White Dorkings 
were as good as they usually are now, but we feel assured 
that they are much degenerated in size from what they 
possessed in former years. They seem to want fresh blood ; 
and who can answer the rejoinder, Where is it to come 
from ? 
With the exception of the three prize pens, the full-grown 
light-coloured Shanghaes were below an average in merit 
and number, which might be on account of the earliness of 
the moulting season. In chickens of the light varieties 
there were no less than 136 pens ; and either we are become 
more fastidious, or the whole of them were far from very 
superior. In the darker varieties, and among the 'White, 
there were some very superior birds—indeed, Mrs. Her¬ 
bert's and Mr. Peter’s White chickens were the best we have 
ever seen. It must have somewhat puzzled the judges to 
decide which should be first. 
Game fowls were very few in number, but there were some 
very good birds among them. Mr. Buckley’s prize chickens, 
though not uniform, were as good as any we ever saw. The 
j chickens which Mr. Adkins put the highest value on took 
only the third prize, whilst his lower-priced birds obtained 
i the second. He will not be surprised at this, when he 
! notices what a bad mixture there is in the colour of the 
j former’s plumage. 
The Hamburghs, as a whole, were inferior, with the ex- 
| ception of the Golden-spangled. The birds which took the 
first prize belonged to Mr. Adkins, and were eminently rich 
in their colour and markings. 
The Polands were good in all the classes; and we would 
observe, as bearing upon a recent controversy, that in every 
instance of which we took a note the prizes were awarded 
to bearded specimens. We venture to observe that, when 
the judges awarded the third prize to Pen 1, in Class 38, 
they must have overlooked the total want of uniformity of 
colour in their beards. We never saw Black Polands in 
much worse condition. 
In Bantams, could we have seen correctly that the combs 
of the hens in Pen 42 had been trimmed? Pens 33 and 35, 
White Bantams, belonging to the Lev. G. F. Hodson and 
Mr. Moncey, were very good. 
Geese and Ducks were also very good; but Turkeys were 
few, and not first-rate. 
The total number of pens occupied by the different I 
varieties was as follows :— 
48 Spanish. 
98 Dorking. 
355 Shanghae. 
33 Malay. 
32 Game. 
103 Hamburghs. 
47 Polands. 
51 Bantams. 
62 Distinct Breeds. 
12 Geese. 
46 Ducks. 
4 Turkeys. 
8 Guinea Fowl. 
154 Pigeons. 
Altogether, amounting to 1053 pens. 
The judges were Edward Hewitt, Esq., Eden Cottage, 
Sparbrook, Birmingham; William Symonds, Esq., Rodwell, 
Weymouth ; and Mr. John Baily, Mount Street, Grosvenor 
Square. The prizes they awarded were as follows :— 
Class I.—SPANISH. (Cock and two Hens.) 
10. First prize, Captain W. W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley, Prescot. 
9. Second prize, Captain W. W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley, Prescot. 
2. Third prize, T. H. Fox, 44, Skinner-street, Snow-liill. 
Class II.—SPANISH. (Cock and three Pullets, Chickens of 1853.) 
4. First prize, Captain W. W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley, Prescot. 
6. Second prize, Edward Owen, High-street, Shadwell. 7* Third prize, 
Edward Owen, High-street, Shadwell. 
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Class III.—SPANISH. (Cock and one Pullet, Chickens of 1853.) 
4. First prize, J. G. Ramsden, Ivy Lodge, Twickenham. 9. Second 
prize, James Buckley, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire. 
Class IV.—DORKING—COLOURED. (Cock and two Hens.) 
12. First prize, Captain W, W. Hornby, Knowsley, Prescot. 13. 
Second prize, Captain W. W. Hornby, Knowsley, Prescot. 29. Third 
prize, Mrs. T. T. Parker, Astley Hall, Chorley, Lancashire. 
Class V.—DORKING—COLOURED. (Cock and three Pullets, 
Chickens of 1853.) 
17. First prize, Rev. James Boys, Biddenden. 8. Second prize, Capt. | 
W. W. Hornby, Knowsley Cottage, Prescot. 9 . Third prize, Captain 
W. W. Hornby, Knowsley Cottage, Prescot. 
Class VI.—DORKING. (Cock and one Pullet, Chickens of 1853.) 
4 . First prize, Captain W. W. Hornby, R.N., Knowsley Cottage, 
Prescot. 21 . Second prize, Mrs. T. T. Parker, Astlcy-hall, Chorley. 
Class VII.—DORKING—WHITE. (Cock and two Hens.) 
6 . First prize, Joseph Jennens, Moseley, Birmingham. 1. Second 
prize, Mrs. Mills, Bisterne, Ringwood, Hants. 3. Third prize, John 
Fairlie, Cheveley Park, Newmarket. 
Class VIII.—DORKING (Cock and three Pullets, Chickens of 1853.) 
7 . First prize, Nathaniel Antell, Portsea, Hants. 10. Second prize, 
Mrs. Ann Wilcox, Nailsea Court, Bristol. 3. Third prize, John Fairlie, 
Cheveley Park, Newmarket. 
Class IX.—COCHIN-CHINA—CINNAMON, BUFF, or LEMON. 
(Cock and two Hens.) 
43 . First prize, T. H. Potts, Kingswood Lodge, Croydon. 40. Second 
prize, Lord Berwick, Cronkhill, Shrewsbury. 38. Third prize, Charles 
Punchard, Blunt’s Hall, Haverhill. 
(This^lass not meritorious.) 
Class X.—COCHIN-CHINA—CINNAMON, BUFF, or LEMON. 
(Cock and three Pullets.) 
5C. First prize, Edward Terry, Aylesbury. 90. Second prize, H. M. 
Sparham, Brigadier-hill, Enfield. 126. Third prize, Henry Gilbert, 47 , 
Upper Phillimore-place, Kensington. 
Class XI.—COCHIN-CHINA—BROWN, PARTRIDGE, or GROUSE. 
(Cock and two Hens.) 
6. First prize, C. Punchard, Blunt’s Hall, Haverhill. 1. Second prize, 
John Fairlie, Cheveley Park, Newmarket. 
Class XII.— COCHIN-CHINA—BROWN, PARTRIDGE, or GROUSE. 
(Cock and three Pullets, Chickens of 1853.) 
11 . First prize, W. B. Mapplebeck, Bull-ring, Birmingham. 19. 
Second prize, Charles Punchard, Blunt’s Hall, Haverhill. 
Class XIII.—COCHIN-CHINA—CINNAMON, BUFF, LEMON, 
BROWN, PARTRIDGE or GROUSE. (Cock and one Pullet.) 
69 . First prize, John Harrison, jun., Snelston Hall, Ashbourne. 67 . 
Second prize, Charles Punchard, Blunt’s Hall, Haverhill. 
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