The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

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31? orticulture.

VIZ Gardsvene Chronic/. dor s not recommend cutting
the leaves off the Strawberry plants indiscriminately
after the fruit has been taken.

Flikne the Memorial de Vatielose it appears that there
were 65,000 dozen of melons offered for sale at the last
merket of Cavailion. They wets all sold at an average
of 154. the dozen.
Tax Hollyhock Ise shortlived perennial, soon exhaust.
log the ground and wearing itself out, but excepting
the Chinese hollyhock it is perennial. The foxglove is a
biennial; sown one year it blossonis the next, and then
dies. _ _ _

THE subject of soldiers' gardens is receiving official
attention. A. War Office return shows that in the
military districts of Great Britain and Ireland 48 acres
of garden ground have been allotted to troops, and 61
acres to individual son-eommisaioned officers and others.
Titn price of OnMOM grapes in the French provincial
markets is set down at from ld. to lid.. the pound
weight, and black grapes axe cheaper. Very fine
pears may be purchased from one halfpenny each;
almonds, 24d. to 3d. the hundred; and plums from 4d.
to sd.
A VERY minute fungus often attacks peaches and
neoteripes, for which no one can find a remedy. It is
very foilsmen on the early orange nectarine. [The Rev.
W. F. Eadclyffe informed us at Blandford, on Friday,
that the present had been a particularly bad season for
fungoid daseases.]
EIGHT thousand baskets of mushrooms were offered
for sale at the lad market at Perigueux. Calculating
each basket at only Esi. the basket, those who brought
them to
.market received above £l6O. There were ,
buyers from Bordeaux and other towns in the neighbour.
hood, and the mushrooms were all sold before three in
the afternoon.
TER vineyard peaches in the neighbourhood of Lyons
have arrived at maturity, but the fruit is dear at the
Lyons market. It may be purchased, however, on
reasonable terms from the growers at Vaugneray,
Arbresle, and Limonest, where all the vineyards are
planted with peach trees, of which the produce is more
than nshally abundant this year. and where choice
peaches may be had at from is. to la. 6d. the hundred.
• CC/TRILL'S STRAWBERRY FL/LI/TEA—My Cathill, Alessi
annual announcement will be found in another column., ,
writes that he is in the midst of the bustle attending
the sending out of these famed croppers. "We have
lifted and sent off," he says, "4,000.' This was a week
ago, and Mr. Macfarlane, an eminent grower, had
pint sent in for 500 more with the highest encomiums
on Black Prince, Prince of Wales and Richard II.;
indeed the whole of Cuthill's breed, Highland Mary
excepted, which did not PROM to have ..ticceeded with
Mr. Macfarlane, whose opinions, however, we shall state
more particularly in our next.
EASY IF Ernteriva.—A French newspaper gives the
following mode of destroying ants in gardens, "without
having recourse to the apothecary of the town, or the
sorcerer of the village." It consists in turning down
empty flower pots, one or more, as may be necessary, in
the places frequented by the ants; these being attracted
by the shelter, make their hills beneath the post, and one
has but to remove each pot and pour boiling water on the
mass to destroy them. The pot or pots may be shifted
from plane to plave as Meg as the pressure of the little
intruders Is manifest, and the process of destruction
repeated.
RiWBERBY FORCING.—Shift the plants into fruiting
exposed
at once, and place them on cold whes fully exsed
to the sun, supplying them liberally with water. Early
In October pimp the pots to the rims in frames or pita.
Give them full exposure in mild weather, but proteot
both from heavy rains and severe frosts. The beginning of
January is as early as you can start forcing with safety.
A few weeks previous prepare a qnantity of materials
composed principally of tree leaves and stablelitter, sod
with them make a bed either in a pit or to be covered
with • frame, and when it has cooled down plunge a
portion of the pots therein, with the plants close to the
, glum; let them have abundance of air, and put on an
'iskillcient covering at night. The temperature should not
be lower than fifty deg., nor higher than sixty deg.,
except by sun heat. When the fruit is set, remove them
to the stove or vinery to finish off, and plunge another
lot for succession. Liberal watering and free ventilation
are principal features in the management.—Gardeners'
Chronicle.
THE Gardeners' Chronicle states that there exists an
intention to hold in London next year an International
Horticultural Exhibition, which will give English culti-
vators an opportunity of appearing in friendly rivalry
with such of the Continental growers as feel dispoeed to
enter into the competition, and which will give the
scientific horticulturists and botanists of the Continent
, opportunity of experiencing the hearty welcome with
,iich the horticulturists of Great Britain have deter-
lied to receive them. The noovemest, we are glad to
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!villify is making very satisfactory progress amongst us;
1,! as the meeting of the general eotiimittee, held on
' rday last, may be taken te have elifrthed the
features of the scheme, we may briefly state th _
1 he information of those who have not yet given the
bli
; b eot their attention and support. It has been
d ed, is the first place, that there shall take plate,
We ably some time in May, 1866, and most likely in the
falling between Boom and Ascot races a Ilorti
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titral Exhibition Oil a mush more extended ;eels than '
' ' r witnessed in this country. It will extend over
' r days in place of one. The prises, on a liberal scale, ,
will exceed £l,OOO in value. The leadit.g botanists and
•hortieulturiste of Europe will join Is awerding the
prises ; and there will be a banquet at which %reign..
visitors will be entertainedand ladies briritfil4pAbote.

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