. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. January 13. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 289 exliibited at the annual exhibition of the " New England Society," for the improvement of domestic poultry, held on the 11th, I'-ith, 1:1th, and 14th days of November, 1801, spealdng of the Brahma Pootra fowls, say :—" Some mani- luoth items of this variety were sliown by Dr. Bennett, S. O. Hatch, and J. Parkinson, eacli possessing great merit. Mr. Hatcli's lot was entered under the head of Gray Chitta- gongs, but were really pure Brahma Pootras, and decidedly better fowls than any Chittagongs m
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. January 13. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 289 exliibited at the annual exhibition of the " New England Society," for the improvement of domestic poultry, held on the 11th, I'-ith, 1:1th, and 14th days of November, 1801, spealdng of the Brahma Pootra fowls, say :—" Some mani- luoth items of this variety were sliown by Dr. Bennett, S. O. Hatch, and J. Parkinson, eacli possessing great merit. Mr. Hatcli's lot was entered under the head of Gray Chitta- gongs, but were really pure Brahma Pootras, and decidedly better fowls than any Chittagongs m America. They are better layers, hijhter in colour, have shorter legs, more compact forms, lai-ger ear-lobes, and smaller combs and wattles, and in eveiy respect are vastly superior to the Chittagongs. As the judges desire that every variety of fowl should be called by its right name, they cannot sanction the application of the title Chittagong to this excellent stock, when in reality they are perfect Brahma ; The novelty of these details, and the interest with which they will be regarded by many of your readers, must be my apology for troubling you with so long a com- munication.—W. C. G. FLOWER-GARDEN PLANS —No. 3. Heue is the first fruit of the criticism on tlie Plan No. 1. I am so unOTlhng to let it pass for another month, that I am under the necessity of sending it to the engraver by " retmni of post," so the planting must be deferred for the present. In another month or two we may have a third plan out of the same original ideas as are evinced in the first; at any rate I shall not shrink from the promise to plant No. 1; and this in due time for next summer. How is it that none of our young readers, who under- stand so well the planning of a piece of ground, will undertake to show the planting of the beds ? Sm-ely it cannot arise from a dread that I should criticise them too severely. I do not know another branch of our calling so emi
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