June 27.] 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER, 
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Mr. Epps exhibited three seedlitu ./ heaths of great promise, 
especially one named E. tricolor Eppsii, a variety with large 
inflated tubes, deep pink half way up from the base, and the 
rest pure white. 
COLLECTIONS OF HELICHRYSUMS, OR APHELEXISES. 
1st Prize to Mr. Green, for 
II. sesumoides; H. humilis; and H. sesatnoides purpurea,. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Young, for 
II. macrantha rosea; H. prolifera; H. macrantha purpurea; and 
H. humilis grandis. 
SPECIMEN PLANTS 
Were exhibited in considerable numbers, and were very 
creditable to the growers. 
1st Prize to Mr. May, gardener to E. Goodheart, Esq., 
for 
Aphelexis purpurea ; and Erica depressa. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Ivison, for a handsome plant of the 
charming Indigofera decora. 
NEW PLANTS. 
1st Prize to Mr. Ivison, for 
Bejoria Lindenana ; a fine pink flowered species, scarcely in bloom. 
2nd Prize to Messrs. Garraway and May, for 
Achimenes grandis; a deep purple variety of A. longifiora. 
(To he continued.) 
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S SHOW’. 
REGENT'S PARK, June 12. 
Such a number of happy faces seeking pure pleasure we 
never witnessed before. The exhibition was certainly the 
best we have seen, tailing it as a whole, and, combined with 
the plants in the American ground, together with a rich dis 
play of fruit, afforded such a treat to the visitors as will not 
be easily forgotten. The exhibitors must have had great 
pleasure in hearing then productions so justly praised by 
such a numerous and respectable company. The effect will 
be, we have no doubt, that not only will they strain every 
nerve to keep the remaining exhibitions of this year up to 
the mark, but the display of those beautiful productions of 
horticulture will in 1851 be greatly hi advance of all previous 
ones. * . 
As by far the greater number of the plants and fruits 
were the same as those exhibited at Chiswick the previous 
Saturday, our notices of each collection will be very brief. 
COLLECTIONS OF TWENTY-FIVE EXOTIC ORCHIDS. 
1st Prize to Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. 
In addition to the fine plants Mr. M. had at Chiswick we 
noted 
Aerides odoratum; a large plant with very many spikes of its lovely 
fragrant blossoms. This plant was 4 ft. high, and 3 ft. through. Anguloa 
Cloivesii, with three large flowers. Paphinia cristata; a rare and beau¬ 
tiful species ; several flowers. Aerides Sckroderii; a manifest improve¬ 
ment on A. odoratum , to which it is allied. Odontoglossum Lindleyana; 
well bloomed. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Blake, gardener to J. Schroder, Esq., 
Stratford. Nearly the same as were exhibited at Chiswick, 
yet in excellent order. 
COLLECTIONS OF FIFTEEN EXOTIC ORCHIDS. 
1st Prize to Messrs. Rollinson, Tooting. The following 
were not shown before :— 
Acineta Barkeri, with a long spike of golden yellow flowers. Coryan - 
thes macrantha ; a wonderful flower, almost impossible to describe. 
Bnrkeria spcctabilis; a respectable specimen. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Franklin, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence. 
Odontoglossum hastatum; a very desirable species. Epidendrum 
datum; very pretty and fragrant. 
COLLECTIONS OF TEN EXOTIC ORCHIDS. 
1st Prize to Mr. Carson, gardener to I. W. Farmer, 
Esq., Nonsuch Park. In addition to the fine plants exhi¬ 
bited on the 8th, a fine plant of the lovely Epidendrum 
phoeniceum. 
2nd Prize to Mr. W. Barnes, gardener to R. Hanbury, 
Esq., The Poles, near Ware. We were very glad to find 
this veteran once more exhibiting, and we trust he will con¬ 
tinue, for a better grower of plants does not exist. _ 5V e shall 
notice this collection more in detail, because this is the first 
time for three years that Mr. Barnes has exhibited. 
Cypripedium spcctabile . Seldom has the lover of orchids such a treat 
as tills plant afforded. It was in perfect health, was 1 $ ft. high, and 14 ft. 
through, and had 25 of its beautiful flowers fully expanded. Saccolabmm 
guttatum; a good plant, with four spikes. Oncidium phymatochilum ; 
a delicate flowered species, with numerous flowers. 0. altissvmum; a 
very long spike, neatly trained. Phulamopsis grandiflora; a strong 
plant, with four spikes, and many flowers. 
{To he continued.) 
DESCRIPTION OF THE DOVE-COT PIGEONS. 
SECOND RACE. 
(Continued from page 167.) 
Mixed Pigeon : Pigeon Mondavi; Columba admista. Vs 6 
shall not treat here of the innumerable varieties that this 
race of pigeons presents, because none but the first and thiid 
are constant, and reproduce individuals like themselves. 
The mixtures owe their origin to the confusion of all races 
abandoned to- thepjselves, crossed and mixed together by 
chance; in consequence of which one cannot assign to 
this group any strong and exclusive character. All that can 
be said of it is, that W must connect with this section all 
those which do not feeliong to a pure or, at least, de¬ 
termined race. They partake of every form and every 
size, and their plumage, varied or uniform, may have one or 
several of the colours common to. the pigeon. They some¬ 
times have a filament round the eyes, but more frequently 
they are without it; sometimes they are shod; that is to 
say, they have feathers on the tarsus,* as lar as the com¬ 
mencement of the claws, which are quite free from them, 
sometimes their feet are w&ked, or without feathers. Ihe 
plumage of these birds is not only without uniformity fiom 
individual to indivlduat of the same variety, hut it is not 
even regular on the same one; fta' example, we see some 
with one wing white and the other black, or even hall the 
covering shaded with one colour, whilst the other half is ol 
another. The females resemble the males. 
Although these pigeons are, in consequence of all these 
reasons, disdained by the amateurs, they are quite as preva¬ 
lent as the other kinds; and this is easily accounted for; ioi 
birds that are the most valuable and of the purest races, are 
placed in the hands of a negligent man ; they will soon mix, 
lose their purity, and produce nothing but mixtures, which will 
be so much the more worthless, as they may have been pro¬ 
duced by a greater number of crossed breeds; for they will 
have some characters belonging to most of these races, with¬ 
out haring any one in particular. In compensation for this, 
what they lose on the side of beauty and purity they gain 
with regard to fecundity ; for we know that the more the 
races are crossed, the more productive the mongrels are. 
Therefore, those who regard interest more than beauty, and 
above all the gourmand, esteems them highly, in consequence 
of the quantity of young pigeons they annually produce. 
If they are kept in small numbers in a dove-cot, where 
each pah’ can occupy in turns two or three baskets, they will 
hatch ahnost every month through the year ; that is to say, 
they will make eight or nine nests in the year, which is the 
most satisfying result one can expect from any species. 
The mixtures are not particular as to food or lodging. 
They subsist very well on every kind of grain with which 
poultry are generally fed, such as buckwheat, beans, maize, 
wheat or pollard, rye, and barley; still the better they are fed 
the more they produce; and 1 have often seen that the seed 
of cow-grass gives them a kind of diarrhcea, makes them 
cold, and causes them to lay soft eggs. They are equally 
content in a dove-house, a dove-cot, a stable, and a box or 
locker two feet square; they will even build in a simple cage. 
They easily become accustomed to noise, and even to the 
tumult of populous places, and fear less than others shade, 
bad air, and unwholesome smells. 
Wo shall only mention three varieties here, because they 
are constant. The first is, above all, remarkable for its 
figure, and also because it has been known and described by 
ancient authors. This first variety and the third are moie 
delicate than the others. 
4. Large Mixed Pigeon: Pigeon pros Mondain; Columba 
admista crassa (White-rumped pigeon). Latham.—A red 
filament round the eye. Very large and heavy, sometimes 
attaining, says Buffou, the size of a small fowl; hut if this 
bird has° notdegenerated since the time he wrote, this is a 
little exaggerated. Its plumage is varied, or uniform, of 
every colour. It produces very little, and is not much 
sought after, because it has the fault of breaking its eggs, 
which it crushes with its weight while sitting on them to 
hatch. 
* The tarsus among birds is that part of the foot generally covered with 
scales, which is commonly called the leg, and which commences at the 
end of the claws, and is articulated or joined to the heel, which is called 
the knee by as common an error. 
