THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, March 23, 1858. 
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which now falls to your lot, and begin again with an early 
swarm in the season.] 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Petunias «and Chrysanthemums (Kate). —Four good Petunias to 
1 train on trellis, are Countess Ellesmere; Magna coccinea, the large 
[ one at Crystal Palace ; CharlesTurner ; and Prince Albert. Seven good 
Petunias tor mixed border :— Little Nell; Shruhland Rose ; Mrs. Cat- 
bush, a fine variegated with white flowers ; Purpurea alba { Turner’s) ; 
Major Domo (Turner’s); Brilliant; and La Peine. Mixed border 
Petunias, being fancy flowers, a lady should be no more influenced about 
them than about the choice of a husband, at the hand of a public or 
private friend. Kate will, therefore, please to try these kinds for better 
or worse. Of Chrysanthemums for a trellis, Queen of England makes 
a fine wall plant, and so do Auguste Mie ; Lucidum, Plutus, IS Emir, 
and Ilermione; Dupont de l’Eure, Themis, Pilot, Nonpareil, Vesta, 
and manv more. Buy them now, and plant them out about the beginning 
of May. . . 
Yellow Calceolaria Edging (A. B.). — Calceolaria mtegrifoha 
! is the dwarfest yellow kind they use at the Crystal Palace. Last autumn 
or early spring cuttings, of this kind, still make the best edging plant 
we have in this breed. 
Various (A Constant Subscriber). — The half hardy bulb called 
Childanthus fragrans, flowers best in the open ground in a light 
j sandy border, without peat; but it must be taken up for the winter, 
and treated exactly like Tigridias, that is, all the roots to be taken up 
with the bulbs, and both roots and bulbs to be kept in damp mould till 
next March, allowing the leaves to die of themselves. About the end of 
! March, give Tigridia culture, that is, clear the bulbs of their old roots 
! and suckers, and pot them, or not, according to convenience—those 
j potted and brought forward gently, will flower sooner than those 
planted out for good, about the end of April. The only trouble with 
| Chlidanthus fragrans is to keep down offset bulbs, which retard, or 
I keep the old bulb from flowering about July. It might be*named the 
Peruvian Yellow Narcissus, as Ismcne Aniancces is often called Pe- 
( ruvian Daffodil; such names give a good idea to strangers, of what the 
flowers are like. The treatment for the Bauera, Ilypocalyptus, and 
Lcptospermum is, as nearly as possible, the same as for a good healthy 
plant of the broad-leaved Myrtle. There are about 500 of such plants 
which should never be treated otherwise than like this kind of Myrtle. 
"VFe do not know the Tropceolum coccineum, and Calandriniaumbcllata, 
though very beautiful, will not do for a bed or edging, nor will thrive 
in a bed with such bedfellow's as you name. It is a patch plant on a 
nice sunny border, and will not pay any other way that we know of, 
Leptosiphon aureus, we do not know. Is it not a trick name ? L. Intern 
is another of the delicate patch plants ; but “ time, skill, and patience ” 
j make beds and edgings of it. Time, skill, and patience, however, can 
1 no more be taught by books than the art of shooting on the w'ing. The 
J little Nemesia makes a nice edging, or small bed. Give up all idea of 
bedding these new Tropaeolums till we are better acquainted with them, 
and can put you on the right track—there are plenty of ways of using 
them without beds, depend upon it; all Tropaeolums require a great deal 
more time and care than most people can give them. 
Mowing Machines (A Friend). — They all do their work well. 
Write to any of the advertisers in our columns. Try the Stewarton Hives. 
We have them and like them. Buy our “ Bee-keeping for the Many.” 
Marine Aquariums (A Fisherman) .—Y'ou will see in our columns 
to-day, directions such as you ask for. 
Araucaria imbricata Seed. — A Subscriber wishes to know' where 
| he can obtain some. ' 
Heating by Uvs (Enquirer). —A copper or iron tube is carefully 
bent into the shape of an unpointed cone, the upper row closing 
against the effluvium-pipe, and passing off through the external iron 
cylinder, right or left as the case may be. Should you find difficulty 
in stopping the crevices between the rings of the coil, it will he better 
to envelope it in a metal extinguisher, or foul air will enter the apart¬ 
ment. The temperature is regulated by the heiglith of the jets, the 
ring being connected with a tap. Not knowing the character of w r alls 
or ceiling of your building, or the size of the ring perforations, I am 
unable to answer your last query. Probably 55° Fahr.—E. A. Copland. 
Names of Plants (L. M. N .).—Your Fern is the Asplenium ebeneum, 
a beautiful greenhouse Fern, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
Mexico, andNorth America. (IF. Forbes ).—1. Is Asplenium adiantum- 
nigrum. 3. Probably Buniuni fiexuosum, but this and the other 
specimens are too small for us to recognise them w T ith certainty. 5. Is 
a leaf of Geranium Pobertianum. It takes far more time than we can 
spare to examine such imperfect specimens. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
April 7th and 8th. Newcastle and Northumberland. Sec., Mr. 
W. Trotter, South Acomb, near Newcastle. 
June 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Bath and West of England. See., Mr. 
John Kingsbury, Hammet Street, Taunton, 
i Junk 28th, 29th, and 30th, and July 1. Sheffield. Sec., Wm. Henry 
Daw r son, Sheffield. 
August 30th and 31st, and September 1st. North Hants. Sec., Mr. 
T. Moore, Fareliam, Hants. 
POULTRY AND THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
On! Mr. Editor, what has poultry done, that it should be 
excluded from the Royal Agricultural prize-list, after this 
i year ? Will it be forgiven ? I am afraid not; for it is Locke, 
I think, who says, “ Before you do a man a service, take off 
your hat, and humbly beg his pardon; there is no offence so 
deadly as an obligation.” We had heard of difficulties with 
the implement makers and Judges; they were openly men¬ 
tioned at vSalisbury ; but the poor poultry, what has it done P 
Is it a scapegoat ? Is it the old question of a parcel of cocks 
and hens ? Is it because poultry was not shown in the early 
days of the Society ? Was it pooh pooh’d ? 
Do you recollect the Spanish king, who, when wanting a 
signal blessing, had a variety of plans, such as walking with 
peas in his shoes, wearing a hair shirt, &c., proposed, but 
declined all. Sometliing, however, must be done, and it was 
proposed to burn a Jew, as a propitatory sacrifice. 
“ Says the King—‘ That ’ll do. 
Booh ! Pooh ! Burn a Jew ! 
Burn half a score Jews—burn a dozen—burn two! 
Your Grace, it’s a match ; 
Burn all you can catch— 
Men, women, and children. Pooh ! Pooh ! great and small; 
Old clothes, slippers, sealing-wax ! Pooh! burn them all! ’ ” 
Out with them! Out with them! birds, baskets, exhibitors 
and all. Hurrah, no more poultry ! The good old times 
are coming back, and our Show-yard will be quiet, and less 
crowded. ’Tis settled. 
“ Hurrah ! That ’ll do ; 
And Sec., Sir, do you 
Write, of well-worded letters, a dozen—write two, 
To tell folks that we, 
The It. A. S. E., 
To all our subscribers, wish health and send greeting ; 
But say, we Avo’n’t have cocks and hens at our Meeting. ” 
—R. R. 
WORRALL HEWITT. 
I see, from last week’s Cottage Gardener, that Mr. j 
W. C. Worrall, in a reply to “Golden Mooney,” makes a ! 
statement, by which he evidently hoped to mislead your I 
general readers ; no doubt flattering himself it would, at the 
same time, prove equally conducive to the furtherance of his 
own purposes. Such disreputable practices, however, are ill- 
calculated to add either to his own personal repute and re¬ 
spectability, or to that of those gentlemen on whose behalf he 
thus throws down the gauntlet of general contention. Neither 
Mr. Worrall, nor any other individual, acts honestly, who ! 
purposely conceals the most important part of an incident, to 
the end that such portions only as he chooses to reveal may be 
necessarily misunderstood. On the subject of superiority of 
individual specimens of Golden Hamburghs I will say nothing, 
but leave the matter entirely to those amateurs who are more i 
intimately conversant than myself with their peculiarities and 
general requirements. But Mr. Worrall, after expressing the j 
“ lively interest ” he takes in the Preston Poultry Show, 
directly attempts to blast its reputation, by saying “it has 
not been of late properly judged; that the Committee, how¬ 
ever, are not to blame, as they made the most urgent entreaties 
to the Rev. R. Pulleine and Mr. Baily to officiate for them, 
but engagements prevented their compliance.” 
Now, at the time named, Mr. Worrall was himself made 
personally acquainted with the fact, that long before any ap¬ 
plication was made to either the Rev. Mr. Pulleine or Mr. 
Baily, the Preston Committee had, by a “ unanimous resolu¬ 
tion,” solicited the services of Mr. Hewitt as one of the 
Judges, and had also actually appointed that gentleman. 
This plain development proves how singularly slight a regard 
Mr. Worrall has to personal verity, even if considered alto¬ 
gether irrespective of the conviction substantiated against him 
last year; whilst undoubtedly the Preston Show is but very 
slightly indebted for the lively interest he takes in its welfare, 
or the yet more questionable efforts he makes to increase its 
success. I will not stoop to follow' Mr. Worrall in the un¬ 
seemly remarks he makes as to the comparative efficiency of 
the Poultry Judges : all are well known, and amateurs indi¬ 
vidually must, and will, in all such cases, form their own 
opinions ; but truth should be adhered to by Mr. Worrall, as 
by any other individual who makes even the profession of 
common respectability.— Prestonion. 
GOLDEN MOONIES. 
Having been from home for some time, I did not see Mr. 
W. C. Worrall’s production, till too late for immediate reply. 
