whose advice, thongh roughly and rudely given, is, I am now convinced, real good and downright truth, and I dare say O. K. means all proper too, though I cannot quite understand all he says, and I am now sorry for my rather severe and sarcastic remarks on his letter.

Notwithstanding my losses, I have too much pluck to give up, and as I shall soon be in Bombay for a fresh batch of horses, I should feel grateful if any real sportsman (none of your jesuitical Jasper Gambados) would meet me at the stables and help me to pick out a few bits of blood. I am told there are about thirty-five brothers of Bundoola, and two of his sisters at Byramjee's, and that Daddy Suntook has seven first cousins to Emelina, and the aunt of Paul Pry. Perhaps the sporting gentleman you so much praised in your last Mercury might be induced to assist a beginner. I should not wait for the ceremony of a formal introduction; in fact, such nonsensical etiquette should be scouted from the turf. I am easily known, being rather lean and rather lanky, always dress in woollens, and wear a white hat.-My face is dimpled (the ladies tell me so), not pitted with the small pox, and I ride a bright bay business pony. Your obedient Servant,

NOVICE.

NOTE. We really cannot permit this infamous and flagitious attack upon our esteemed friend and correspondent GAMBADO to pass without a comment. Simply because Novice's adoption of that experienced Sportsman's suggestions has failed, he argues their absurdity and incapability!-nay, he goes further, and charges malice prepense and deception upon his counsellor, and taunts our sacred selves with aiding and abetting the imposture by the act of publication!

Really the ingratitude of this base

and dirty world is past all endurance ; and every fresh instance of it tempts us to cry out in the emphatic language of Paul Pry, "May we never do another good action in our lives again!"

Novice, green as he is, must surely know that in the treatment of a horse," as well as a man, doctors are apt to differ. The specific remedy which the experience of one man may lead him to think infallible, is cried down by another as hazardous or ineffectual. All are perhaps good enough in their way, and when they fail, the failure may not improbably arise from the clumsy applica tion of the prescription. Such, with all deference to our correspondent, we take to be the case with Novice's mode of applying the voluntary and well intentioned suggestions of Jasper Gambado. For example, the wire whip may have been too thick or too frequently applied; the stables never cleaned out (for though Jasper said " always keep the stables hot," common sense would have suggested a slight and obviously neces sary departure from the strict letter of the instruction); the mashed turnips were not tried on BOAZ for a sufficient length of time, and the water might have been brackish or otherwise bad. Under these impressions we should say to Novice-try again! Never give up! Take Gambado's advice as it is meant to be taken, allowing something for the constitution of your horses, and being careful that the materials you employ are of the right sort.

When Novice comes to Bombay we shall be most happy to sell him a couple of promising colts, from our own stable. Trust to a regular dealer and you'll be dealt with:-no, no-a private friend, say we, who's above dirty work and will see you well fitted.

We have only one word of advice to offer, in addition to what has been submitted by Gambado, in regard to the treatment of horses training for the turf. Immediately a horse has swilled a buck. et of water give him a kick in the guts. If an audible response succeeds to the application of the foot he has enough; if not, give him some more, drenching him should he object to take the water quietly.

Then again, when a horse copiously perspires from the heat of the stable, eover him with wet cloths and pour pails of water over them. If he gets a cold, he is a brute and not worth keeping and the sooner sold or shot the better.ED.

SIR, NOVICE, in the last number of your Sporting Magazine, addresses himself to me; he is most welcome to do so, but I cannot condescend to return the compliment at present for reasons best known to myself, though easy to be guessed by any one who is not a Novice. His remarkably clever and uncommonly entertaining letter shows clearly and plainly what a devilish apt young Tyro I have pitched upon, and I hope he will soon reap all the benefit from his newly-adopted system of training which so zealous a racing amateur and so knowing a personage de

serves.

Before I continue my hints and suggestions, it behoves me to thank him for the very Johnsonian-like way in which he catches at and corrects my mistakes (mistakes, Mr. Editor) with regard to the country of O'Kelly, and the countenance of O'Keefe.

No one, I will venture to say, except so intelligent a Zoilus as NOVICE, could have discovered in my words the meaning he has attached to them, and whilst I give him all the credit which has discernment so richly merits, I shall take especial care in future to express myself with more perspicuity and conciseness to a young gentleman of his discrimination and critical

acumen.

His Boaz Colt, who dislikes the mashed turnips (I am afraid he did not butter them), and whom he has been drenching with water, is, I have no doubt, by this time, ready for anything which so judicious a mode of treatment would

naturally render any horse fit for, and I fully anticipate his grateful thanks for my valuable veterinarial advice and prescriptions.

any

But as I did not see any of his Z horses running at of the race meetings of this season, I am sadly afraid something must have gone wrong with all his prettily named stud, and if so, I would now recommend him to follow a diametrically opposite system and try his luck that always gallop their guts out.

way;

he can

By-the-by, he has certainly selected a difficult letter to be the perpetual final of his horse's names; but that I suppose was done to prevent other people poaching on his manner, and I am at a loss how to assist him with others. Doz, the contraction for dozen, might do, though that looks Cousin shoppish, and Coz for

sounds too ominous. No, I am afraid since he has exhausted his Z vocabulary that he must submit to the name of Snob, and take another, or else let him boldly strike out a new nomenclature, and style his horses after the form of their make, or the fashion of their go. I should think the following would look well, and read Mr. well in the public prints. Novice's B. A. H. Bottle-belly, or Mr. Novice's Bony-back, or Tallowtail, which are quite as correct, and as Turfishly tasty as Ugly Mug, Little-rib, and Blackfoot; while a Trip-heavy, or Go-stupid would be quite as euphonious and very likely just as appropriate as Lightly-beats and Go-lightly.

I was greatly amused to see how wide awake he was to the humbug

nominations addressed to the Secretary, to be by him opened and declared at three o'clock.

4th. All English imported horses to be considered excluded from the Course after the meeting 1830, unless admitted by the conditions of any particular race, when they will carry 12lbs, extra.

5th. All horses bred on this side of India are qualified to run on equal terms with Arabs.

6th. Mares and geldings allowed 3lbs.

7th. One quarter of an inch allowed to horses measuring with shoes on.

8th. Horses to take their stations at the Starting Post, agreeably to tickets marked, No. 1 inside, No. 2 second, and so on, to be drawn for by their owners Ponies.

or

9th. No person to be allowed to start a horse for any race, who has not previously paid up all subscriptions and entrances.

10th. None but bonâ fide subscribers' horses can be entered for any Plate, Purse, Cup, Match or Sweepstakes, excepting for the

Government Plate, which is open to all.

11th. The different Sweepstakes of the Course are open to all stations until the day of closing notified in the prospectus, provided the wish of any subscriber to enter be intimated to the Secretary by letter dated and dispatched by the Post of that day.

12th. No person, or declared confederates, to run more than one horse in each race, and any horse once entered and drawn for the purpose of entering another, subscriptions and entrances to be paid for each agreeably to the terms of the race and usages of the Course.

13th. Stewards to be elected annually, some few days before the races commence, from amongst those subscribers who are not owners or declared confederates of running horses of the meeting. 14th. The decision of Stewards to be final.

DUNCAN W. SHAW,
Secretary.
Baroda, 11th March, 1829.

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The peach stones should be preserved till the beginning of June, when the kernels should be taken out and exposed to the air for a few days to render them dry and hard; they should then be placed in common seed beds and furnished with water sufficient to keep the ground constantly moist; when grown to about the height of twelve inches they should be transplanted. Young peach trees grow very rapidly, and are inclined to run into very irregular shapes if not attended to, and to become overloaded with leaves; from these

circumstances the young tree is checked in its growth. The leaves near the ground in the former case must be carefully and prudently removed with a knife, and in the latter the ball at the extremity must always be cut away, when the tree will throw out a new branch, which must be made the stem. Both in the said bed and afterwards the leaves and branches near the ground should gradually be taken away, but it must never be cut too severely at once, and then there must always be an interval of some days between each opera

tion. Young peach trees should be thus treated to grow to a single stem, which must be entirely free from branches to the height of three feet from the ground, and from that period they may be left to themselves and will require no other pruning than what the alder trees shall receive at that season. Grass roots will do great injury to these young plants by entangling with their roots, which they will even destroy if suffered to remain; it is advisable, therefore, that they should be removed by taking out a portion of the earth. The month of September, after the rains have closed, is perhaps the best time for this operation, and the addition of a little manure will give strength to the tree; this will be necessary the first year only, as thereafter they will require to be treated like the old trees. These trees will have fruits within the second year. Peach trees usually receive their annual supply of wood in the months of October, November, and December; as soon as this shall be completed the sap begins to descend, and the trees remain in that state until April or May, when the leaves fall and blossoms make their appearance. Whilst the fruit is setting, and some time afterwards, the wood buds throw out short shoots that are well covered with leaves for the defence of the fruit against the climate. When their branches have extended a very few inches only they remain remain stationary until the crop of fruit. is ready and entirely finished; they then lengthen and others appear all over the tree. former of these shoots make their appearance in the latter end of the year or whenever the peaches are forming, and the latter some time in the months mentioned, and all these branches will bear

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fruit in the ensuing season, both the wood that was thrown out for the protection of the fruit and the younger wood of the same branches that afterwards become elongated, as also of theirs, and which differ in age three or four months. Such trees as fail to give out new wood cannot yield fruit in the succeeding year, for the same branches do not bear peaches a second time, as it is the new wood only which furnishes fruit; the chief management of peach trees consists in preserving such a supply of branches as may be expected to give peaches in proportion to their strength and no more; for whenever these trees contain a superabundance of wood the fruit will always be small and generally bitter. I prefer this mode of management to that of thinning the peaches when too numerous, as the excess of wood is of itself sufficient to weaken the tree, whilst the removal of it invigorates and prolongs their existence or lives. Peach trees will thrive well in any good and light soil, but they are partial to a moist situation. The proper time for pruning peach trees is after the sap has descended, when they shall be quiescent, as then they support the operation much better than at any other time.

When these trees have been attended to from the time of their appearance above ground, much pruning can at no time be required; they will not under such treatment receive any shock or derangement, and instead of suffering from it they will be greatly improved by the operation; whereas, whenever much wood is removed at any one time, they are apt to be checked in their growth, and oftentimes will not recover from the injury in less than two or three months. I prefer pruning