THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, February 14, I860. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Plants for the West Indies (Epsilon).— Cuttings -will not answer; 
but if you will send rooted plants by steamer, any of the nurserymen who 
advertise in our columns will pack them in such a way as will insure their 
safety. 
Various Correspondents. —The list of seeds of plants from “Rose” 
will be attended to next week. Inquiries from “Wis” will also be at¬ 
tended to. We do not recollect the bulb. The best plan to secure the 
right name would be to send a flower and bulb to our office. 
Canna Culture (An Amateur). —The information you require, you will 
find in our last number in answer to another correspondent. 
House Sewage (N. R.).— -It will do very well for potted plants, but 
requires to be very much diluted. It answers admirably tor Vines, and 
for them need not be diluted. It may be also given undiluted to Peach 
trees after the fruit is set. Our answers must be made of use to all our 
readers, so we cannot reply by mere references to figures. 
Manuals, &c. (Morville). —Thanks for your commendations. All the 
subjects you mention will be similarly treated. Pigeons are so already, 
but the volume is dearer on account of the many illustrations. 
Pampas Grass ( TP. R. E.). —We eannot tell whether your Pampas Grass 
is a male plant. The male as well as the female plants have spikes of flowers. 
Too Many Queries (A Subscriber). —You compel us to be very brief. 
No Verbena exactly like Cardinal Wiseman in tint. The Lawton Black¬ 
berry has not been proved here yet. Madame Antonelli is only one of the 
best dark Heliotropes. The dwarf red Cockscomb gives the largest combs; 
soil the strongest loam, and the richest dung half and half. The Rock 
Melon is the hardiest. Castor oil comes from the fruit of the Ricinus. 
You may plant the Ranunculuses any day this month. 
West Indian Yams and Eddoes (An Amateur). —They arc not grown 
in this country for sale, as far as we know; but you might get them at 
Kew or some other Botanic Garden. 
Ribbon Planting (A. W. Wills).—Yon mistake the meaningof planting 
ribbon-like borders. A garden ribbon must be one yard long at the least, 
for every quarter of an inch in a lady’s ribbon for her bonnet; a circle in 
the same comparison amounts to a patch only. All ordinary circular-beds 
ought to have but two kinds of plants ; but in a case like yours, a circle in 
a grass-plot, and a Deodara in the middle, four kinds arc admissible; and 
if you look over the last autumn reports of how the circles were planted 
in Kew and at the Crystal Palace, you will see all the best and all the 
cheapest ways, and you can choose for yourself. It has been lately said, 
that bedding is not done better in these extolled places than it is in private 
gardens, which is true to the letter ; but the bother is, that the public are 
not admitted in droves into private gardens ; and until a better school 
than the best at present turns up, let us make use of what we have, and 
be thankful. See what Mr. Beaton has said to-day in answer to another 
correspondent. 
Rondeletia anomale (T. T .).—You must be labouring under a mistake. 
Mr. Appleby says that he never stated that Rondeletia anomale is a good 
plant to make a specimen. It is of a too straggling habit for that pur¬ 
pose, and, besides that, though it produces numerous flowers in suc¬ 
cession, yet it never has a sufficient number open at one time to render it 
a specimen plant. It, however, does produce very pretty crimson flowers, 
and pretty in shape, though rather small. Your second year’s treatment 
was right to produce flowers, but the plants require a more liberal treat¬ 
ment in early spring. In March, thin out the shoots, and cut those that 
are left well in ; then give a repotting in loam, peat, and dung, in equal 
parts, freely mixed with silver sand. Place in a moderately-heated stove, 
but do not plunge it in a bark-bed. As soon as the pot is filled with roots, 
repot again in two sizes larger, and now stop the ends of every shoot, and 
grow the plant on. It will soon fill the pots with roots, and that will check 
luxuriant growth and induce a flowering state about August and Septem¬ 
ber. Too great heat and too much moisture in the air will spoil the plant, 
by causing weak-drawn flowerless shoots. It is very possible, that at that 
late season it might come in for a large collection of stove and greenhouse 
plants at an exhibition, because then few plants are in bloom, but it cannot 
be depended on without the care of a very experienced hand. Do your 
best and let us know the result. 
Aquarium Leaking. —If “ Elizabeth,” who inquires in your Number 
of January 31st, concerning the aquaria, will send me her address, I shall 
be most happy to send her a receipt how to make a cement to stop the 
leakage complained of.—\V. Henry Chaffey, 45, Sylvester Street, Hull. 
Cyclamens (El. N. E .).—The round-leaved specimen is the true coxnn. 
The longish-leaf with the light mark is of the Atkinsii breed, a cross be¬ 
tween coum and Persicum, to which there seems no end in the difference 
of the leaves and of their markings. We have the two you sent, and five 
more kinds from courn equally distinct, in bloom just now under glass. 
Sowing Solanum capsicastrum (H. B .).—You may either sow on bottom 
heat, or in a warm greenhouse. The variegated Veronica speciosa we do 
not consider so hardy or so free-growing as the green. 
Waltonian Case (J. IE. IF.).—The Case has been advertised ir> our 
columns from the beginning, during the propagating season. We brought 
it out and established its reputation, but we do not know the price. Write 
to the maker, “ Mr. West, Surbiton, near London, S.W.” 
Pelargoniums (M. P.).— Your selection of Lord Clyde, King of Purples, 
Peacock, Ariel, Prince of Wales, Princess Royal,- Acme, Mrs. Turner, 
and Spotted Queen, is unexceptionable; but without knowing “ your old 
stock,” no one could say how far these selected ones will improve your col¬ 
lection. 
Foreign Seeds (A. C. S.). —The best twenty-four are Acacia taxifolia, 
A. floribunda; Bauera humilis; Boronia pinnata, B. ledifolia ; Conosper- 
mum taxifolium ; Callistachys ovata ; Crowea saligna; Dillwynia ericifolia; 
Epacris grandiflora, E. paludosa, E. macrophylla ; Eriostemon buxifolium, 
E. lanceolatum ; Grevillea buxifolia ; Gompholobium grandiflorum, G. la- 
tifolium ; Kennedya rubicunda; Mirbelia reticulata ; Oxylobium cordi- 
folium; Podocarpiis spinulosa ; Ponceletia sprengelioides; and Pulteiuea 
villosa. 
Name of Plant (At. L. C .).— Your plant belongs to the natural order 
Asclepiadacete, and is called Gomphocarpus fruticosus, or the Willow-leaved 
Gomphocarpus. It is a common greenhouse plant, native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, and comes from seeds readily if they are sown in spring and 
placed in a gentle hotbed. It is also propagated from cuttings of the young 
shoots. It is figured in the “ Botanical Magazine ” for 1813. 
POULTRY AND BEE-KEEPER’S CHRONICLE. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
February 29th, and March 1st, 1860. Ulverstone. See., Mr. T. Robson, 
Entries close February 11th. 
March 15th, 16th, and 17th. Cumberland and Westmoreland. lion. 
Secs., Mr. J. J. Lonsdale, and Mr. W. D. Hastwell. 
May 23d and 24th. Beverley and East Riding of Yorkshire. Sec,, 
Mr. Eras. Calvert, Surgeon, &c. Entries close May 17th. 
July 18th and 19th. Merthyr Tydvil. Sec., Mr. W. II. Harris. 142, 
High Street, Merthyr. 
N.B .—Secretaries will oblige us by sending early copies of their lists. 
CRYSTAL PALACE POULTRY SHOW. 
February 11th—15th. 
Of this very superior exhibition, which is still open, but closes 
to-morrow, we can only give the prize-list to-day. 
N.B.— The addresses of the Prize-takers and Commended 
Exhibitors are given alphabetically at the end of the prize-list. 
Spanish. —First, J. Garlick. Second, Mrs. J. C. Hall. Third, P. H. 
Jones. Fourth, R. Wright. Highly Commended, H. Dawson, Mrs. J. C 
Hall, Miss M. L. Rake, T. Sheen. Chickens.— First and Second, Miss M. L. 
Rake. Third, It. Teebay. Fourth, P. H. Jones. Highly Commended, 
C. Atkins, W. R. Bull, J. H. Craigie, J. K. Fowler, Mrs. E. Lear, W. Moore. 
Commended, Lady Louisa Thynne, C. Branwhite, J. Dixon, H. Lane, T. 
Wright. Hens and Pullets— First, H. Dawson. Second, J. K. Fowler. 
Highly Commended, Miss M. L. Rake, W. J. Woodhouse. Commended, 
R. Cole, J. Garlick, C. F. Nelson, H. Whittington. Cock.— First, R. Teebay. 
Second, T. Robinson. Third, Miss M. L. Rake. Highly Commended, 
G. Botham, W. It. Bull, S. Burn, W. Moore, MissM. L. Rake. Commended, 
Miss M. L. Rake. 
Dorking (Coloured).—First, Captain W. Hornby, R.N. Second, S. 
Burn. Third, J. Frost. Fourth, J. Drewry. Highly Commended, H. W. B. 
Berwick, R. Boys. Commended, Dr. J. D. Hewson. Hens. —Captain W. 
Hornby, R.N. Second, W. G. K. Beavington. Highly Commended, H. VV. B. 
Berwick, J. K. Fowler, J. Tester. Commended, It. Boys, H. Lingwood. 
Chickens.— First, Lady L. Thynne. Second, llev. J. Boys. Third, Hon. 
W. Vernon. Fourth, C. H. Wakefield. Highly Commended, Lady L. 
Thynne, Rev. J. G. A. Baker, H. W. B. Berwick, G. Botham, G. Griggs, 
J. Lewry. Commended, Capt. W. Hornby, lt.N., S. Lewry, J. Nightingale, 
J. Simmons, W. Tester. Pullets.— First, G. Chadwin. Second, it. Boys. 
Highly Commended, Lady L. Thynne, H. W. B. Berwick. Commended, 
H. Beal, R. Cole, H. Lingwood. 
Dorking (White).—First, Capt. J. Beardmore, H.A. Second, H. Ling¬ 
wood. Chickens. — First, R. James. Second, N. Autill. Commended, Capt. 
J. Beardmore, H.A., Rev. C. Gilbert, J. Keable. 
Dorking Cocks (Coloured and White).—First, J. Frost. Second, Capt. 
W. W. Hornby, R.N. Third, G. Botham. Highly Commended, Lady L. 
Thynne, R. Boys, VV. G. K. Beav ington, H. Ranson. Commended, SirJ. 
Paxton, M.P., itev. M. Amphlett. 
Cochin-China (Cinnamon and Buff).—First, T. Stretch. Second, \V. 
Dawson (Hopton). Third, G. Blythe. Highly Commended, R. W. Fryer, 
W. Harvey. Chickens.— First, H. Tomlinson. Second, Mrs. Id. Foofees. 
Third, T. Stretch. Highly Commended, Rev. G. Gdbert, H. Tomlinson. 
Commended, Rev. G. Gilbert, J. K. Fowler, Mrs. A. Horsnaill. 
Cochin-China (Brown and Partridge-feathered). — First, T. Stretch. 
Second, C. Felton. Third, P. Cartwright. Highly Commended, P. Cart¬ 
wright. Commended, J. Cattell. Chickens.— First, Miss V. W. Musgrove. 
Second, J. Cattell. Third, T. Stretch. Highly Commended, P. Cartwright. 
Coci in-China (White).—First, W. Copple. Second, G. Lamb. Chick¬ 
ens .—First, A. Peters. Second, G. Lamb. 
Cochin-China Cocks (Coloured and White).—First, W. Copple.^ Se¬ 
cond, H. ltansome. Highly Commended, R. Chase, VV. Copple, H. Tom¬ 
linson. Commended, H. Fookes, E. Herbert, H. James. 
Brahma Pootra.— First, R. Teebay, Second, G. Botham. Highly 
Commended, G. Botham, J. K. Fowler, It. Teebay. Chickens.— First, K. 
Andrews. Second, R. Teebay. Highly Commended, G. Botham, J. H. 
Craigie, VV. Harvey. Commended, C. H. Adames, J. K. Fowler. 
Brahma Pootra Cocks.— First, J. H. Craigie. Second, W. G. K. 
Breavington. Highly Commended, VV. Harvey. Commended, G. Botham. 
Game (White and Piles).—First, Rev. G. S. Cruwys. Second, G. Robin¬ 
son. Third, J. Monsey. Highly Commended, Haigh & Hartley, S. Ridley, 
K, Tate. Chickens. —First, S. Matthew. Second, J. Monsey. Third, H. 
Corbett. Highly Commended, M. Bateson, W. Newsome. Commended, 
Messrs. Bullock Kapson, J. Camm. 
Game (Black-breasted and other Reds).—First, lion. W. VV. Vernon. 
Second, E. Uanbury. Third, G. VV. Moss. Highly Commended, Captain 
Hornby, lt.N., VV. Ballard, G.W. Moss, B. Vaughan. Commended, lion. 
J. M. H. Major, Rev. G. S. Cruwys, T. T. Burman, G. W. Moss, VV. Rogers, 
R, Tate. Chickens. —First and Second, E. Archer. Third, R. R. Sewell, M.B. 
Highly Commended, W. Ballard, S. Beilby, J. Bradwell, G. Cargey,^ W. 
Dunning, E. Hanbury, G. Lingard, jun., G. VV. Moss, Mrs. H. Sewell, S. T. 
Smith, It. VV. Wilson. Commended, S. T. Smith. 
Game (Blacks and Brassy-W'inged, except Greys).—First, G. Hellewell. 
Second, W. Ballard, Third, VV. Dawson (Sellyoak). Commended. VV. 
Dunning. Chickens.— First, VV. Dawson (Sellyoak). Second, W. Ballard. 
Third, Messrs. Bullock & Kapson. 
Game (Duckwings and other Greys and Blues).—First, Hon. VV’. VV. 
Vernon. Second, H. E. Porter. Third, J. Wright. Highly Commended, 
S. Matthew. Commended, W, Ballard, W. Dawson (Sellyoak). Chickens. 
