PLATE III. NAPOLEON; A PRIZE STALLION. THE PROPERTY OF MR. JAMES ROBINSON, OF THE GROVE INN, BURY NEW ROAD, MANCHESTER. Napoleon, bred by Messrs. Barber and Worth-Warwick. Napoleon also won the first prize of ington, is by Great Britain, out of a cart mare for £15 at the Great Yorkshire Agricultural Show at which they gave 100 guineas when nine years old, Pontefract in 1860; the first prize of £10 and with a foal at her foot ten weeks old. Her dam, silver medal at the Royal North Lancashire Agribred by Mr. John Freeman, Wheatley Grange, cultural Show in 1860; and a cup value 20 gs. at Nottinghamshire, was out of a first-rate Lincoln Burnley, in 1860; the first prize of £5 and medal mare, by Abraham Newland, a horse which at Drighlington and Addwalton Agricultural Show, travelled 21 seasons on the same ground with great in 1860; the first prize at Rochdale of £10, in 1860; a prize of £20 at Burton-on-Trent, in 1860; the first prize of £30 and silver medal of the Staffordshire Agricultural Show at Wolverhampton, in 1861; and the first prize £10 and silver medal at the Royal North Lancashire Show, in 1862, the sixth time he has won that Society's first prize; the first prize of £10 at the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show, in 1862, the eighth time he has taken that Society's first prize. success. Great Britain, late Mr. Robinson's, was got by Bangup, the property of Mr. William Stich, of Stentone House, Derbyshire, a stallion that has served nineteen seasons in the same district, and is the sire of many valuable horses. Bangup was got by Sancho, the property of Sir George Crew, of Court Abbey; while Great Britain's dam was bought by Mr. W. Stich, at Lincoln, for the purpose of breeding first-class horses; and she threw to Bangup Great Britain and the Derbyshire Hero, who won the first prize at the Agricultural Show at Shrewsbury, and was sold in the yard for 200 guineas. Napoleon is a bright bay horse, standing 17 hands 1 inch high, with remarkably short back, capital middle, clean legs, good feet, and fine freedom of action. 1 Napoleon has won 98 prizes at the various agricultural shows, including the first prize at the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show, in 1859, beating a large field of first-class horses, including Mr. Benjamin Taylor's England's Glory, the first prize horse at the All England Show at Napoleon is a sure foal-getter, and there are a great many colts travelling by him. His stock have fetched extremely high prices, and won more prizes at agricultural shows than any other horse's stock. A three-year-old filly has won about 20 first prizes; and a two-year-old, out of the same mare, also by him, has won 21 first prizes. Lord Derby refused £200 for a colt by Napoleon before he was two years old, and for which his Lordship has since refused £300. Napoleon has been open for the last four years to show against any horse living for either £100 or £500, as well as to back and draw against any travelling stallion. Mr. Robinson, his owner, still stands to his challenge. PLATE IV. HOME FROM THE HILL. When grouse or blackcock shooting, the sportsman will now and then come across the delicate roebuck, who succumbs to a charge of shot, and goes to bag with other small game. If we shook this bag out, we might cull from it grouse, duck, plover, and snipe, all common enough on the Highland moor, with the roe and black game as the especial spoil of the woody districts. The Laird appears to have had a very good day of it; and little Jessie should bob him a curtsey, if only in due acknowledgment of his prowess. The roebuck is a very harmless animal, compared with the more majestic stag. He is famed for none of those forest jousts; is seldom in anything like good condition-in fact, is nearly always poor-and is consequently an object of no great or especial ambition of the stalker. THE LAND'S END AND THE LIZARD. BY CUTHBERT W. JOHNSON, ESQ., F.R.S. The soils of the district naturally vary in value with the nature of the rock on which they rest; those resting on Serpentine, like most of those into whose composition magnesia largely enters, are not fertile. A fair specimen of Serpentine Rock was found to contain Silica Magnesia As the tourist arrives at the good town of Penzance | interesting temple will not fail to attract the tourist's he perceives much that is novel and interesting. He notice. It is the place of worship of the most southerly will feel that the district is not without its reminiscences English parish. It is surrounded by two or three and instruction to the cultivators of lands not possess- farms, whose live stock bear evidence of care and coming so mild and genial a climate as the westernmost fort. The pastures here are good-the root-crops excelpeninsula of Cornwall. Neither will the agriculturist lent. The gateless passages into the capacious and forget that to Penzance he owes Davy, who may be well-cared-for churchyard, and thence into the rector's fairly regarded as the founder of agricultural chemistry. gardens-the open church-doors-all indicate the order Davy was born there in 1778, of very humble parents. and confidence reposed in each other by those who The inhabitants of the town show with a just pride the dwell around the Lizard. house in which he was born. Some of those who were schoolboys when Davy was a pupil of Mr. Borlase, a surgeon of Penzance, well remember that he used to astonish the boys with some of those brilliant displays of explosive mixtures which in after years he was used to exhibit in the course of his lectures before the members of the Royal Institution and the old Board of Agriculture. This was the board of which Sir John Sinclair was long the president, and the more celebrated Arthur Young the first secretary. It was at the Grammar School of Penzance that Davy received his education; and in his will he left to this school one hundred pounds, on condition that the boys should have an annual holiday on December the 17th, the anniversary of his birth. This town-the most westerly in England-also gave birth to Davy's great friend and brother-president of the Royal Society, Davies Gilbert, to the celebrated Admiral Lord Exmouth, to Borlase, the natural historian of Cornwall, and other distinguished men. The agriculturist, when he visits Penzance, will soon see much around him that is interesting. The noble Mount's Bay, the adjoining districts extending to the Land's End and the Lizard Lights, including both the most southerly and the most westerly parishes of England, are all fraught with interest. The kindness of manners, the intelligence, the independent bearing, and the good looks of the inhabitants will not escape his notice. Prot-oxide of iron 40.12 40.04 3:47 2. 13.36 98.99 The soils resting immediately on the Hornblende Clay-slate are the most fertile of any in the Penzance district. Now the analysis of an ordinary specimen of black Hornblende Rock will give the reader a good idea of the mineral composition of the Hornblende Slate soils. It was as follows: Silica Prot oxide of iron Fluoric acid. 45.69 13.85 18.79 7.32 12.18 1.50 The Granite soils are not so fertile as those of the Hornblende Slate. Their mineral portion is far more compound than those of the Hornblende. Granite, we must remember, is composed of three substances, viz., felspar, mica, and quartz. It is by the gradual disinte As soon as we leave the town of Penzance we find our-gration of these by the action of the atmosphere that selves on soils resting chiefly on the Clay-slate Rock; but, in our way to the Land's End, we soon leave these fertile lands, and reach the inferior, but productive, soils resting on the Granite. the Granite soils are formed. We may perhaps usefully refresh our memories by referring to the composition of the three chief constituents of Granite. It is as follows: If we proceed in a contrary direction, towards the Lizard, after leaving the Clay-slate soils, we cross those resting immediately on the Hornblende Slate; and then arrive at the Serpentine Rocks and their soils, which extend nearly to the Lizard. It is almost at the extremity of the peninsula-on whose southern cape those celebrated Lizard lighthouses are placed-that we find a small district composed of Mica Clay-slate, The immediate neighbourhood of Penzance is remany of whose soils are deep and fertile, especially markable for the excellence of certain vegetables, such those around the church of Landewednack. This little as early potatoes and cauliflowers; with which it Soda .... .... |