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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 14, 1860. 
Hawthorn are a very unusual kind of gall, or rather series of very minute 
contiguous galls, formed by a kind of Midge ( Cccidomyia sp. ?). They 
are new to entomologists, and very interesting ; and we should he very 
glad if you could supply more specimens to J. 0. Westwood, Esq., Taylor 
Institute, Oxford. 
Names of Plants ( John Wilson). —Your plant is the Serissa fostidn, 
called, also, Lycium Japonicum. The Cottage Gardener's Dictionary calls 
the flore plena of Loudon multiplex. This double-flowered variety has a 
kind of hose-in-hose flower, and called double. (A Novice).— Your flowers 
are :—1. Spiraea ulmaria. Meadow Sweet. 2. Yicia cracca, Tufted Vetch. 
3. Centaurca nigra, Black Knapweed. 4. Sanguisorba officinalis, the 
Great Burnet. The botanical name of the Forget-me-not is Myosotis 
palustris. (W. X. W .).— Your flower is Eryngium amcthystinmn. 
(E. W.). —No. 1, appears to be a fragment taken from Phlebodium aureum. 
2. Lycopodium Wildcnowii. 3. Davallia Canaricnse. 4. Cyrtophlebium 
angustifolmm. (C. M. Major ).—Your Lily is Lilium Japonicum. [W.But- 
toille). —-We believe the Fern is Lastrma rigida. ( Two-years Reader, 
Dewsbury ).—We think the leaf is from Draccena ferrea. {A. H., Colcs- 
bourne). —Your flower is from the Juanulloa parasitica. 
POULTRY AND BEE-KEEPER’S CHRONICLE. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
Avgust 15th. Omskiek and Soutbpokt. See., Mr. James Spencer, 
Ormskirk. Entries close July 31st. 
August 23rd. Settle (Yorkshire). Sec., Rev. J. Robinson, Settle, 
Entries close August 18th, 
August 25th, 27th, 28th, and 20th. Crystal Palace. Summer Show of 
Poultry, Pigeons, and Rabbits. Sec., Mr. William Houghton. Entries 
close July 28th. 
September 3rd. Heckmondwike. See., Mr. Frederick Brearley. Entries 
close August 24. 
September 5th. Mirfield. Sec., Mr. H. Rushforth, Escholt Place, 
Mirfleld. Entries close August 27th. 
September 5th. Keighley Agricultural Show. Sec., R. Fawcett. 
Entries close August 29th. 
September 19th, 20th, and 21st. Portsmouth. Won. Sec., Mr. E. Clarke, 
26, Wish Street, Southsea, Hants. Entries close August 11 
September 25th. Bridgnorth. Sec., Mr. Richard Taylor, Bridgnorth. 
October 9th, 10th, and 11th. Worcester. Won. Sec., Mr. G. Griffiths. 
December 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th. Birmingham. Sec., Mr. John B. Lythall, 
Offices, Unity Buildings, Temple Street, Birmingham, Entries close 
November 1. 
PORTSEA ISLAND POULTRY PRIZE LIST. 
Ceetain shows are like certain people—they are so well 
known it is unnecessary to do more than mention their names. 
Their characters are so well understood that every one knows 
what their behaviour would be under any circumstances. Doubt¬ 
less others would deserve the same confidence, but they want the 
start. Lords Lyndhurst, Eldon, Brougham, and others, were 
once entrusted with their first briefs. Brodies, Chambers, and 
Eergussons, must have their first patients. Reynolds, Lawrence, 
Etty, Constable, Gainsborough, and Landseer, all painted a first 
picture. The start of all things is a trial, a doubt, and a mis¬ 
giving. No brief was ever studied like the first. Chances, pro¬ 
babilities, even possibilities, all weighed, considered, and guarded 
against. How the first patient is watched and attended to! how 
every symptom is scanned, and preparation made for even the 
most unlikely event! How anxiously the young artist watches 
the countenance of the man whose verdict will make or unmak'e 
him ! A first success is not, however, all, and after that there are 
misgivings among those who are disposed to patronise in con¬ 
sequence of it. Explanations and assurances are wanted, and 
these are seldom present to those who are most concerned in 
them. More frequently they are thought of by some friend to 
whom failure is recounted, and who then brings forth the reasons 
and arguments that should have been urged to prevent it. 
But the wisdom of our present day has somewhat diminished 
the number of failures. We hardly know how to explain what we 
think, but we know what we mean. Diffused wisdom is the parent 
of mediocrity. In every department we have fewer planets, but 
more stars. It is a grand thing in the history of human nature, 
that those who have talent have at last learned that talent is not 
a marketable commodity unless it supplies that of which the com¬ 
munity stands in need. When misery and starvation became 
associated with painters, it was because fixing their eyes on a few 
of the princes of the art, viewing their chefs d’oeuvres as alone 
worth imitation, they forgot those domestic Snipes and Wood¬ 
cocks—the baker, the butcher, the milkman, and the tax-gatherer. 
They spurned the tradesman who wanted his wife painted, and 
to whom she was as dear as the Chapeau de paille was to 
Rubens; and after striving against poverty for twelve months, 
the grand conception, the picture that was to go down to pos¬ 
terity, is seized for a butcher’s bill, and finished by a -well-to-do 
rubicund fellow, who had just time to “ knock it off” between 
the “Marquis of Granby,” in Store Street, and the “Robin 
Hood,” in the Market. “Look here,” he says, “ I have painted 
nothing but signs all my life, I live in my own house, and don’t 
owe a farthing, and I finished the ‘Damon and Pythias’ that 
has brought a family to poverty.” 
But all this sack to a pennyworth of bread. What is it going 
to end in ? May it please our readers, a Show is projected at 
Pori sea, and the terms propounded appear to us so fair and 
laudable, we have endeavoured to usher it into the world with all 
the eclat our utmost endeavours could give to it. 
The prize list is on a scale of great liberality. Spanish, Dork¬ 
ing, and Cochin, have three prizes each, of £3, £3, and £1. All 
other breeds and divisions of breeds have £2 and £1. The 
same for Geese, Ducks, and Turkeys. There is a silver cup, 
value seven guineas, for the exhibitor who obtains the greatest 
number of points in poultry ; and another, worth three guineas, 
for the most successful Pigeon exhibitor. Then there is the 
popular class for Single Game Cocks, a sweepstake of 10s. 6 d. 
each. Numerous Pigeon prizes. The rules are excellent; but 
with the exception of No. 23, present nothing new. It is as 
follows :—“ The Council will hold themselves responsible for the 
payment of the prizes, should the necessary entries be obtained— 
viz., 300 pens of poultry, and 200 pens of Pigeons. Should 
sufficient money not be obtained by local subscriptions and 
entrance fees to meet the prize list, the Coimcil will place them¬ 
selves in communication with the parties who have entered pens, 
and either return the entrance money or reduce the prize list, 
according to the wish of the exhibitors.” 
This is such a common-sense and such an open way of setting 
about a Show, that we think it deserves every support, and we 
hope it will meet with it. It will still be time to make entries 
when this paper is in the hands of our readers. Just as George 
Robins is supposed to have said, “ Chatsworth and Blenheim are 
not for sale, but I offer you a six-roomed house with the usual 
conveniences, and a copper newly set in the back kitchen,” so 
we invite all to the Portsea Show. It lias not the old fame and 
stability of the Birmingham (may its shadow never be less), or 
the Crystal Palace (that garden of delights), or the Liverpool 
(the incomparable) ; but it promises a nice Show, and a view of 
all the ships that shall be within sight at the time. 
POULTRY AT NEWMILLERDAM 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
(From a Correspondent.') 
This annual Meeting, near Wakefield, took place on Tuesday, 
July 31st, and was held in a field in the occupation of Mr. Ibbet- 
son, and which, from its large size, afforded every facility for the 
display of various flowers, poultry, and animals brought forward 
for competition. 
It was unfortunate, perhaps, for the promoters that the Show 
should have fallen, as it did this year, in the same week that 
the Yorkshire Agricultural and the Pontefract and West Riding 
Horticultural Societies held their well-known exhibitions at 
Pontefract, and where the larger number and greater value of 
prizes formed a powerful attraction so far as Newmillerdam was 
concerned, and materially detracted both from the number of 
exhibitors as well as visitors. The anxiety felt also by many of 
the surrounding farmers to secure the hay-harvest deterred many, 
1 no doubt, from patronising the Show by their presence, a3 well 
as prevented them from participating therein as exhibitors. 
Nevertheless, the weather having proved favourable, a much 
better display took place than, considering these influences, might 
have been expected. By ten o’clock in the forenoon exhibitors 
had their various articles on the ground, and shortly afterwards 
they were placed in the places allotted to them, and the Judges 
proceeded to make their inspection and give their awards. 
The poultry classes were above the average, and comprised a 
number of very fine birds. Mr. H. Hemsworth’s barking 
chickens were remarkably good, as were the Game chickens. 
Mr. William Cannan carried off five first-prizes with splendid 
birds — seldom, we think, equalled. The Golden-spangled 
chickens formed a very good class. The “variety class” con¬ 
tained Silver Polands and Malays. Bantams were a splendid lot. 
A Silver Cup, offered “ for the best pen of Bantams,” was ob¬ 
tained by Mr. John Crosland, jun.; also the first-prize Game 
Bantam Coclc. The Geese and Dudes wore very fine. The fol¬ 
lowing is the list of awards :— 
Game (Black Reds).—First, J. Crosland, jun., Wakefield. (Second 
withheld.) 
Game (any variety) .—First, F. Hardy. (Second withheld.) Chickens,— 
