September 8. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
451 
sows, of which there were 30, sold at various prices from 5 gs. to 55 gs. 
each, and seven hoars went off at 21, 14, 30, 62, 27, 10, and 9 guineas. 
The principal buyers were Lord Lisburn, Col. Kingscote, Messrs. Field, 
Thursby, Booth, Barthropp, Gunter, Fryer, Wilson, Niblett, Robinson, 
Blathwait, Bengough, Carr, Hyatt, &c. &c. The whole lot of Pigs 
realized 722 /. 8s. and this closed a day which will long be remembered 
in the annals of the sales of live stock. 
SECOND DAY. 
The unfavourable state of the weather, (heavy rain having set in about 
two o’clock in the morning, and continuing at intervals throughout the 
day, terminating in a perfect torrent at night,) had a very visible influence 
upon the attendance of company, which was thin in comparison with the 
crowds of the previous day, and which no doubt put almost a complete 
stop to the visit of the numerous ladies who had entertained the intention 
of being present at the sale of the Cochin-Chinas. For the company who 
were there, however, a luncheon was laid out with characteristic liberality, 
and that»over, the business commenced with the sale of the 
SHEEP; 
which were described as being descended from the renowned Flocks of 
the Duke of Richmond, Col. Kingscote, Capt. Pelham, Messrs. Elman, 
Barclay, Harris, Rigden, and Webb. There were seventy-five lots of 
Ewes and Wethers, and eighteen Rams, but we are compelled to 
generalize the prices they fetched. The full-mouthed ewes sold at from 
50s. to 130s. each; the six-tooth ewes, from 55s. to 180s. each ; the four- 
tooth ewes, from 56s. to 68s. each ; the two-tooth ewes, from 56s. to 140s. 
each; some mixed ewes at 46s. each ; ewe lambs, from 27s. to 54s. each ; 
the two-tooth wethers, from 30s. to 47s. each; and the wether lambs, 
from 19 s. to 26 s. each. Among the buyers were Lord Lisburn, Messrs. 
J. Webb, Anderson, Little, Wells. Berrington, Bengough, Blathwait, 
Carr, &c. &c. 
Pure South Down Rams. —The best South Down ram, a four-tooth, 
was knocked down to Lord Lisburn at 60 /.; a full mouth ram, Ellman’s 
No. 10, to Mr. Hart, at 21/.; a two-tooth to Mr. Grenfield, at 11/.; 
another to Mr. Crisp at 26 /.; another to Mr. Clifford at 7/.; and another 
to Mr. Holmes at 30/. The ram lambs sold at prices from 10/. to 25/. 
each, the buyers being Lord Lisburn, Colonel Kingscote, Messrs. Bell. 
Holmes, Carr, Karney, Clifford, &c. 
The sale of the ewes and lambs produced 2176 /. 5s., and the rams 
326/. 10s., making a total for the sheep of 2502/. 15s. 
COCHIN-CHINA FOWLS. 
The last feature of this remakable sale now commenced, and appeared 
to excite as great a spirit of competition as those which had preceded it; 
but’we will only instance a few of the lots, which were 64 in number. 
“Sir Robert,” a celebrated prize bird, bought "at Mr. Potts’s sale 
for forty guineas, was knocked down to Lord Ducie at 27 guineas; a 
cockerel, falcon-hocked, and two beautiful pullets, 23/.; a cockerel and 
two pullets, clear and fine, 20 /.; three chickens, hatched 18th June, 16 /.; 
cockerel and two pullets, 14/.; ditto, 12/.; ditto, 15/. 10s.; cum multis 
nliis, producing, in the aggregate, no less than 340/. 4s. for the poultry. 
So ended the sale'of this far-famed stock ; and although 
it was gratifying to many a man there to witness, in the 
prices realized, an ample vindication of the spirit and en¬ 
terprise of the deeply lamented nobleman who had devoted 
so much of his time and attention to its collection, yet 
was there withal a predominant feeling of melancholy at its 
dispersion, and of abiding regret for its sorrowful occasion. 
That the name of Ducie will long be held in deserved venera¬ 
tion by the agricultural world was strikingly evinced in the 
expression of many a countenance on Wednesday last, at 
the sale at Tortworth Court. 
At the sale of Mr. C. Collings’s short horns, on the 11 th of October, 
1810, six cows brought 1596 /.; one, (Lady) 14 years old, brought 206 
guineas ; her daughter, (Countess) 9 years, 400 guineas ; a bull, (Comet) 
1000 guineas; seven bull calves, under a year old, 655 guineas; seven 
heifers, 808 guineas.—At the sale of his brother’s stock, a two-year-old 
cow brought 331 guineas ; a five-year-old, 370; a year-old bull calf, 270 . 
SUMMARY OF THE TORTWORTH SALE. 
£. 
S' 
d. 
S' 
d. 
49 Cows and Heifers 
6867 
0 
0 
13 Bulls 
2494 
16 
0 
— 
9361 
16 
0 
63 
30 Sows 
534 
0 
0 
8 Boars 
187 
19 
0 
— 
722 
8 
0 
38 
79 Lots Sheep 
2176 
6 
0 
18 Rams 
326 
10 
0 
— 
2502 
15 
0 
97 
64 Cochin Fowls 
• • • • . . 
340 
4 
0 
^12,927 3 0 
SUMMARY OF THE CATTLE SALE AT MR. C. COLLING’S, ON 
OCTOBER 11, 1810. 
47 Head.7115 17 0 
SUMMARY OF SALE AT MR. R. COLLING’S, SEPT. 1818. 
61 Head . 7484 0 0 
Gloucester Journal. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
*** We request that no one will write to the departmental writers of 
The Cottage Gardener. It gives them unjustifiable trouble and 
expense. All communications should be addressed “ To the Editor of 
the Cottage Gardener,?, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London.” 
Roses to blow at Christmas (M. J.). —Our correspondent has 
Tea, China, and Hybrid Perpetuals, “ now breaking fast,” and they are 
not yet pruned or potted. These, therefore, must have been started 
early last spring, and kept up to their work till late in May, and early in 
July the season’s work was finished. They then went to rest, and by 
the middle of August they are thus “ breaking fast,” or starting into 
new growth. Now, to get these to bloom by next Christmas do not 
prune them nearly so close as you would for spring planting; cut the 
very small twigs out altogether, and only shorten the best shoots one- 
half their length ; and, unless the roots are very much cramped indeed, 
you had better not repot them—all the feeding they require may be given 
in liquid-manure. It requires a great deal of care and long forethought 
to get Roses to bloom well at Christmas, 
Strawberries find). —You “want Strawberries at the same time” 
(Christmas), and you have Alice Maud, Keen’s Seedling, and Black 
Prince. When you wish your Strawberries to be ripe, and fit for table, 
is about the usual time to begin forcing them ; therefore, it will be of 
more interest to let us first hear of your own plans for forcing Straiv- 
berries. 
Seakale Forcing {Ibid).— A cucumber-house will be ten or fifteen 
degrees too hot for Seakale at Christmas—at all events, too hot for one 
who does not know the right time to introduce the roots. Take our 
word for it, you will burn your fingers with the three articles, and in 
each of them—Roses, Seakale, and Strawberries—for the Christmas 
dinner-table. In attempting to outstrip the globe you will break down, 
we fear. Read Mr. Errington’s papers again. 
Diseased Cochin {An Amateur).— The symptoms described, trem¬ 
bling of the legs, &c,, are those of a disease which may be termed leg 
weakness, and which is very difficult of relief, from the inability to rest 
the affected parts. I have tried various remedies with but little advan¬ 
tage, and am now giving small doses (one grain) of citrate of iron twice 
a-day, with apparently some benefit. If there is any feverishness, the 
citrate had better be preceded by a single dose of calomel—about two 
grains.—W. B. Tegetmeier, 
Packing Cape Bulbs {Constantia). —The way to pack these, and all 
other bulbs, is quite easy. Let them be looked after when they are in 
flower, and marks put to them ; and at the end of the rainy season, and 
before the leaves are quite dead, let them be dug up, taken home, and 
laid out to dry for a week or ten days, just as we do with onions ; then 
tie each sort in a piece of coarse brown paper, and put numbers, or 
names, inside with them ; put the whole into a strong wooden box, and 
write the address on the wood, or lid of the box. Your box would be a 
good windfall to some people out there—so many choice things would do 
to divide, and set off lots of common rubbish. Be sure, therefore, and 
see it safe on board, and charge the captain to give it into the care of a 
respectable ship broker at this end of the journey. 
Pillar Rose {Ibid). —Pray be advised not to use any of the Roses as 
a pillar decoration in the conservatory. They are so liable to insects 
that they will smother your other plants with tobacco-smoke or green 
fly. The Cloth of Gold flowers well in large houses, but we hardly know 
“ a deep red one ” that would. 
Valotta purpurea {Ibid). —“I have a fine Amaryllis Valotta pur¬ 
purea, now going out of bloom ; should I repot it and keep it warm till 
the leaves turn yellow, as you recommend for bulbs in general ? or should 
I take it out of the pot, and bag it up in wadding, or paper? ” Gar¬ 
deners were just puzzled in the same way when the bulb was first intro¬ 
duced ; and the best of them could not grow it more than three seasons, 
and hardly that. It was then thought as difficult to manage as Disa 
grandiflora has been these last twenty years ; but now, as we have 
learned the kind of places in which they grow—the margins of peaty 
bogs, where the leaves keep green all the year round—there is no sort of 
difficulty about them. You may turn your Valotta out-of-doors, give it 
plenty of water till the frost comes, and then keep it in a cold frame, 
with Ixias or Gladioli, till the middle of next May, never letting the soil 
get quite dry. When you plant out the Dahlias, next May, you may 
plant the Valotta out too; put it under a south wall, with a saucer of 
water under it, till it shows for bloom in July or August; then take it to 
the parlour, and when done flowering repeat the same mode of treat¬ 
ment. It will keep healthier by being out a few months in summer. 
Blood in a Cow’s Milk. — Greenhorn says—“ There is a degree of 
blood in my cow’s milk, leaving a pink appearance at the bottom of the 
pail after the rest of the milk has been poured off. Sometimes it is more 
apparent than at other times. I parted with a cow I had before for the 
same reason. My cow had the felon during the wet season. She looks 
well, but fell off in her milk after she had the felon.” Give her one 
pound of Epsom salts as a draught; foment the udder with warm water, 
and apply a little camphor ointment to the teats. 
Magnolia grandiflora not flowering {M. M) .—A plant, four¬ 
teen years’ old, and nearly twenty feet high, against a south wall, and 
never flowers, cannot be the real Exmoutli variety of Magnolia grandi¬ 
flora. Probably it is a seedling, or one of the kinds with the underside of 
the leaf pale green, and they are very shy indeed, and not worth grow¬ 
ing. The true flowering M. grandiflora is quite a rusty-brown colour on 
the underside of the leaf. If this fine specimen were our’s, we would 
give it a severe root-pruning about the end of September. We would 
measure off a yard all round the front of the stem, and dig out a trench 
on the outside of the mark, as deep as we could find roots, cutting off 
every morsel of a root that was more than a yard from the stem ; and we 
would fill the trench with poor, light, sandy earth. If that did not cause 
it to flower all over in two years, we would cut it down to near the ground, 
in April, and inarch three or four of the best shoots that issue from the 
stool with the true Exmouth M. grandiflora, and the strength of the old 
roots, with fresh soil put into the trench, would soon make as good a 
plant as the present. 
