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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
August 25. 
Class XXXVI. (Cock and two Pullets of 1853.) 
10 . First prize, John Fairlie, Chevcley Park. Brahma Poutras. Twenty 
weeks. 2 . Second prize, Rev. J. N. Micltlethwait, Horstead, Norwich. 
Andalusians. Four and three months. 
Class XXXVII.—BANTAMS.—GOLD-LACED OR PENCILLED. 
(Cock and two Hens.) 
7. First prize, Henry D. Palmer, Southtown, "Yarmouth, two years. 
8 . Second prize, Henry D. Palmer, Southtown, Yarmouth, two years. 
Class XXXVIII.—SILVER-LACED OR PENCILLED. (Cock and 
two Hens.) 
1 . First prize, Christopher Rawson, Walton-on-Thames, one year. 2. 
Second prize, James Monsey, Thorne Lane, Norwich, eighteen months. 
Class XXXIX.—BLACK. (Cock and two Hens.) 
10. First prize, James Monsey, Thorne Lane, Norwich, eighteen 
months, 6 . Second prize, John Fairlie, Chevelcv Park, onc-ycar-and-a- 
half. 
Class XL.—WHITE. (Cock and two Hens.) 
4. First prize, James Monsey, Thorne Lane, Norwich, eighteen 
months. 8. Second prize, Arlhur Pratt, Sprowston Lodge, one year. 
Class XLI.—GEESE. (Gander and two Geese.) 
1. First prize, Christopher Rawson, Walton-on-Thames, one year. 
4. Second prize, John Fairlie, Chevcley Park, one-year-and-a-lialf. 
Class XLII. (Three Goslings of 1853.) 
2 . First prize, John Fairlie, Cheveley Park, five-and-a-lialf weeks. 1 . 
Second prize, Christopher Rawson, Walton-on-Thames, sixteen weeks. 
Class XL1II.—DUCKS.—AYLESBURY. (Drake and two Ducks.) 
6 . First prize, John Fairlie, Cheveley Park, two years. 1 . Second 
prize, Christopher Rawson, Walton-on-Thames, not known. 
Class XLIV.—ROUEN. (Drake and two Ducks.) 
2. First prize, John Henry Sams, Clare, three months. 
Class XLV.—ANY OTHER VARIETY. (Drake and two Ducks.) 
5. First prize, John Henry Sams, Clare. White Muscovy. Full. I 
8 . Second prize, W. Woods, 26 , Park-place, Kensington, London. 
Gigantic Domestic Duck. 
Class XLVI.—FOR ANY OTHER VARIETY. (Three Ducklings.) 
3. Second prize, Rev. E. H. Ivittoe, Chadwcll Rectory, Gray’s, Essex, 1 
ten weeks. 
Class XLVIII.—TURKEYS.—WHITE. (Cock and two Hens.) 
1 . First prize, John Fairlie, Cheveley Park, one-year-and-a-half. 
Class XLIX.—ANY’ OTHER COLOUR. (Cock and two Hens). 
3. First prize, John Fairlie, Cheveley Park, sixteen months. 
. Class L. (Three Poults of 1853.) 
1 . First prize, John Fairlie, Cheveley Park, six mouths. 
Class LI.—PIGEONS. 
4. Augustus Balls, Nazing, Essex. Black Carriers. 6 . Augustus Balls, 
Nazing, Essex. Red Pouters. 5. G. C. Adkins, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 
Carriers. 10 . Augustus Balls, Nazing, Essex. Red Tumblers. 16 . 
John Playford. Great. Yarmouth. Short-faced, Black, Mottled Tumblers. 
18. G. C. Adkins, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Barbs. ID. Christopher 
Rawson, Walton-on-Thames. Runts. 21 . Augustus Balls, Nazing, 
Essex. Blue Dragoons. 26 . G. C. Adkins, Edgbaston. Birmingham. 
Owls. 29 . W. H. Goddard, Edgbaston, Birmingham. White Fantails. 
One year. 31. W. H. Goddard, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Black Fan- 
tails. One year. 33. Christopher Rawson, Walton-on-Thames. Turbits. 
One year. 40. G. C. Adkins, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Jacobins. 42. 
W. II. Goddard, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Mottled Trumpeters. 45. 
G. C. Adkins, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Porcelains. 
SCRAPS FROM MY NOTE BOOK 
Horseradish —In taking a short walk in the neighbour- 
; hood of Uxbridge, I saw, in the garden of one of the cottagers, 
! a number of draining-pipes, standing erect, with the leaves 
of the horseradish protruding through the top: the sight 
exciting my curiosity, 1 called upon the occupier to learn the 
■ why and because. I will, as shortly as possible, state his 
explanation. Horseradish, Sir, is generally planted in 
trenches from one to two feet deep, and you will observe, 
that unlike a carrot, instead of growing down into the earth, 
its growth has an upward tendency; hut then it is difficult to 
l get really good, thick, straight sticks, they are generally forked 
j and small. They are also very difficult afterwards to eradicate, 
and, therefore, become troublesome weeds. My plan is to 
get draining-tiles one foot long, and about 1] or 2 inches 
diameter (costing here 4s. per 100); the ground is well 
manured, and trenched two spits deep, and the crowns are 
planted in rows, and are only just covered with mould, and 
the pipes placed immediately over them and slightly earthed 
up to prevent their falling. I plant in November, and by 
the following year, at about Christmas, each pipe will be 
tilled with a straight, solid stick of horseradish. No digging 
is required to gather the roots, the pipes and roots have merely 
to be pulled up,and the crown again planted in asimilar man 
ner. My informant was a respectable man, and I have no 
reason to doubt his statement. I intend to try his plan. 
Some of your readers may also, perhaps, do likewise. 
Cheap Trellis for Cucumbers or Melons —As soon as 
the plants have had their last moulding-up of earth, place 
pea sticks at the bottom of the pit or frame, laid one across 
the other, and let the vines be trained over them (the sticks 
are laid pretty thickly). This plan wi 11 he found far superior 
to growing them on the ground, and, by creating a kind of 
hollow chamber under the vines, causes a nice genial heat; 
indeed, it possesses nearly all the advantages of the trellis. 
Filtering Paper —'The following, though, perhaps, not 
strictly appropriate to a Gardening Periodical, may prove 
useful to some of your readers. The writer, some time since, 
upon taking the tap out of a cask of hitter ale, which had 1 
been tilted till all the beer was supposed to have been I 
drawn, discovered a considerable quantity of dregs and hops 
remaining ; they were emptied out through the bung-hole, 
and the hops were squeezed out, and the nmddy-looking 
liquor put into a funnel, lined with filtering paper in the 
usual manner; the end of the funnel being placed into a 
glass bottle, the quantity of good beer, as line as crystal, 
obtained, consisted of nearly three (so called) quart bottles, 
which were corked, and in three weeks were very excellent: 
the cost of the sheet of filtering paper (obtainable at any 
stationer’s) was one halfpenny; the beer, if it had been | 
purchased in the bottle, would have cost at least two shillings. I 
—J.M. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
*** Wc request that no one will write to the departmental writers of 
The Cottage Gardener. It gives them unjustifiable trouble and 
expense. All comnjunications should be addressed “ To the Editor 0 / 
the Cottage Gardener, 2, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London.” 
Cineraria Sport (A. ill. E.). —This is a very singular and uncommon 
sport indeed—“ instead of the usual rays round the circumference of the 
1 (lower, there are a number of small, distinct, double flowers, something 
like the lien and chicken Daisy.” We saw a double blue Cineraria in 
1845 ; and a correspondent, at Durham, sent us word of a double one he j 
had raised in 1849, or 1850, but we know nothing more of cither, and we j 
suppose they died, without increase. Pray take good care of your sport; ; 
if possible, get a few cuttings from it, as no reliance can be placed on j 
saving the old plant after seeding. The seeds are likely to produce the 
sport in a more developed form, judging by analogy. The order of Com- 1 
posites is more prone to give double flowers, so to speak, than any other 
in the vegetable kingdom. 
Hymenophyllum Tunbridgensk. —We hear from Messrs. Weeks j 
and Co., King’s Road, Chelsea, that they have a large patch of Hymeno- 
phyllum Tunbridgense measuring eighteen inches by twelve inches, 
which is certainly an extraordinary fine specimen of this rare Fern. 
Fancy and Scarlet Geraniums (An Amateur, sec page 331).—It 
was meant that stress should be laid on the words, a little dry. They 
are not so succulent, and, therefore, should not be dried so much as the 
strong-growing old florist kinds ; neither should the plants be kept so 
dry for a week or so afterwards, but, instead of watering them much, 
syringe the stems, and moisten the ground or material on which they 
stand, and only water rather freely when the shoots have broken regu¬ 
larly, and then you need not be long in shifting. Your frame will do 
very well for standing these skeleton plants in, but we very often let 
them break out-of-doors. We seldom cut back the slow-growing, hard- 
wooded fancies so freely as we do a succulent florist Pelargonium ; and 
not only in this, but in every part of their growth, they require rather 
more care, but they repay it all by the long time they delight us with 
their bloom. Scarlet Geraniums that we mean for pots, See., in summer 
and autumn, we prune as we pot for the w inter, being guided by the 
room wc can spare, and the size we wish to have them. 
Tea Roses (Ibid). —These done blooming, plunge out-of-doors, they 
will probably then bloom in winter, or autumn, if taken in-doors. If kept 
out, protect from frost, and prune and mulch in April or May. The 
closer you cut them, the finer will be your flowers ; but you will have to 
wait longer for them. They are w ell deserving of house room in spring 
and early summer, as the flowers are delicious then. When kept in beds, 
out-of-doors, they generally require to be cut-in rather close in April, 
and then, it the place is warm enough, they will yield strong shoots and 
good bloom in July and August. 
Calceolarias Cut Down (Ibid). —These, you say, show no symptom 
of life. You should have looked after the cuttings. Most of these fine, 
large kinds are next to impossible to keep otherwise than by cuttings ; 
and some defy the best attempts then, and, therefore, most people raise 
every year from seeds. You would see full directions about this lately. 
Flowers in a Greenhouse at Christmas (Sarah). —Let the 
house average at night from 4 5° to 50°. Then have bulbs, such as Tulips 
and Hyacinths, potted as soon as they can be got, and helped with a 
hotbed, after being rooted. Chinese Primroses, Perpetual Carnations, 
Salvia splendens and fulgens; Epacris impressa, and kindred sorts: 
Erica hyemalis, E. Linnceoides, E. Willmoreuna, Sec. ; Genista lini - 
