July 10. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
250 
high ; is a large trusser, and a profuse bloomer; very beau- I 
tiful. 
I. mutabilis; while, changing to pink, with crimson 
centre. 
I. ochroleuca; lemon-colour, with dark centre ; large star- 
like Howers; a dwarf grower, and a free bloomer. 
I. purpurea campanulata; beautiful, large, purple cam- 
pauulate flowers ; very showy ; grows eighteen inches high ; 
a free and early bloomer. 
T. purpurea capilala ; purple, capitate, and free bloomer; 
is later than the last. 
I. racemusa; lilac, with dark centre ; a late bloomer. 
I. rosea; pretty delicate rose-colour; grows twenty inches 
high. 
I. rosea maculata; rose - colour, with dark centre; grows 
the same height as the last, and is light and pretty in its 
style of growth. 
/. sanguinca ; bright golden - yellow, with blood-coloured 
centre ; dwarf and stiff in its habit of growth ; late flowering, 
and very showy. 
I. stellata; tall-growing; purple. A star-like flower. 
J. sulphurca maeukda; bright yellow, with very dark 
centre ; a large flower, but dwarf and loose in its habit. 
/. tricolor capitala; a pretty combination of rosy-white, 
yellow, and black; grows but twelve inches high, and is very 
showy. 
I. viridcsceus; a tall growing variety; of a pale green 
colour. 
I. viridi/lora; beautiful sea-green flower, with black 
centre; tall and erect in its habit; late in its season of 
blooming, but very showy and attractive. 
I. viridi/lora grandijlora; larger flower, and deeper in 
colour than the last. 
I would not venture to vouch for the botanical correct¬ 
ness of all these names, but as they arc local, and more or 
less descriptive of some marked peculiarity in the variety 
named, I take for granted they are sufficiently correct for 
publication. There are several amateurs in the Channel 
Islands who amuse themselves by cultivating these pretty 
tribes of bulbs, and each one arrogates to himself the right 
of calling his seedlings by whatever names he pleases, until 
some eminent botanist takes the matter up, and sets us 
right as to their nomenclature. Until then, wo must rest 
satisfied to employ them as they are.—C. 13. S., Jersey. 
WINDSOR POULTRY EXHIBITION. 
The above took place on the 27th, 28th, and the 29th of 
June, under patronage that lias rarely been equalled; and 
the entries were more than COO pens, selected from the 
yards of most of the reputed breeders in the kingdom. 
Among the competitors were many hitherto unknown in the 
poultry-world, and we can truly say of the collection gene¬ 
rally, that though, as the natural consequence of fast- 
approaching moult, some of the leading pens of adult 
poultry were scarcely in the feather and condition that an 
experienced amateur could desire, the close rivalry that pre¬ 
vailed in the principal classes has never been excelled, aud 
the honours of the winning pens, in not a few instances, were 
only with considerable difficulty secured; indeed, the very 
close competition that generally prevailed throughout was 
the theme of universal congratulation. This may be with 
confidence attributed, not only to the very liberal prize-list, 
but also to the high standing of the promoters of this 
meeting. 
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was not only the 
Patron, but also sent several pens for exhibition; and, we 
may add, the Committee had used great exertions to ensure 
the welfare of the valuable description of stock entrusted to 
them. 
Among the plans here adopted was one, the utility of 
which is beyond all doubt; more especially as regards pens 
of fowls that have hitherto enjoyed perfect and unrestricted 
liberty around their native homesteads. Such fowls in¬ 
variably suffer the most acutely, and immediately, from close 
confinement; their indisposition arising from the twofold 
causes of want of exercise (combined with over-excitement), 
and the absence of their accustomed supply of green food 
in a growing state. 
At Windsor, a turf of grass was daily placed in each pen ; 
and during the whole exhibition it was pleasing to see how 
busily the inmates were employed, not only in consuming 
the whole of the blades of grass, but in carefully culling 
any insectile matter that the soil itself might contain. The 
poultry, therefore, as a whole, appeared actively employed ; 
j-there was not that abject moping character that but too 
frequently much saddens the interest of spectators, and 
which oft-times tells with fearful prejudice on the future con- 
I stitution of the birds themselves. The expense, in most 
| localities, will not add very materially to the outgoings of 
the Committee ; and such green food is most especially 
needed during the extreme heat of Midsummer, whilst the 
confidence of the exhibitors themselves is much secured by 
the adoption of this really simple but effective arrangement. 
Though Her Majesty’s Levee being held on the day of 
opening might tend, as the managers supposed, to their 
prejudice as regards numbers, many of the aristocracy were 
in attendance, from very diverse and distant localities, and 
the present (though the first) will most assuredly not be 
the last similar meeting that will take place in this neigh¬ 
bourhood. 
The birds were exhibited in a very commodious tent, 
purposely erected, on some waste ground in Sheet Street, 
formerly the site of “ The Old Mews.” In the classes for 
Spanish and Dorkings, the first and second prizes, for each 
variety, fell to the lot of four very superior pens from the 
stock of Id. D. Davies, Esq., of Hounslow. These were 
descended from the celebrated poultry of Captain Hornby, 
of Knowsley, and fully supported the fame of their pre¬ 
decessors. . 
We were much pleased with the appearance of the 
Dorkings, in particular, that took the first premium ; for, 
independently of their marvellously-gigantic size, these 
fowls did not betray the slightest disposition whatever to 
coarseness. In rosy-combed Dorkings (which these were) 
this is not frequently the case, and is, therefore (whenever 
present), a very objectionable feature—the Dorkings being 
altogether a fowl for the purposes of consumption. Here, 
on very minute inspection, the same delicacy of character 
was very marked that existed in the single-combed second- 
prize fowls from the same exhibitor. The rosy-combed 
birds were very light in colour, but perfect in character; 
the second-prize fowls were much darker, and lacked weight 
and bone, compared with their successful rivals. In the 
Chicken we noticed particularly a pen of “ commended ” 
fowls, belonging to Mr. Wm. Bromley, of Birmingham. 
Two of these chicken were, most undoubtedly, the best, 
whether for size or colour, in the whole class; but their 
success in prize-taking was entirely thrown away by the 
introduction of a very truly-bred, but much smaller, Bullet, 
that was evidently several months younger than her more 
matured companions. In the class for White Dorkings, the 
first-prize birds were far larger than usual, and the whole 
class were very creditable specimens. These breeds seem to 
be fast improving. The Cochins, generally, were a good deal 
out of condition, and not a few of the hen's had evidently 
been but just removed from their broods; still, among these 
w r ere some very excellent poultry, more especially in the 
classes for white and for partridge-coloured ones. The so- 
called Brahma Pootra class was well filled as' to numbers, 
and the two principal pens w r ere unusually good ones; but 
the remainder revelled in all that inconsistency of character, 
whether of comb, feathering, or colour, for which it is of 
late become so proverbial. In Game Fowls, exhibitors cau- i 
not possibly bo too careful that their pens are rightly 
entered. We allude to this more particularly, from the 
circumstance that a very superior pen of Reds (No. 230) 
were disqualified, simply because competing in the ranks of 1 
I “ whites or piles.” Had these fowls been in their proper 
position, the result would have been most certainly in their 
i favour. Another very liigbly-reputable pen lost position 
from the want of similarity in the colour of the legs of all 
the occupants in the trio; whilst not a few were placed hors 
de combat from strange hens being located together for the 
first time for the purposes of the Windsor exhibition. The 
whole of the Game were unusually good. Perhaps we have 
not on any former occasion had to record so complete a 
j distribution of prizes, throughout the whole kingdom, as in 
the Hamburgh classes ; for although, for many years, Lan- 
