The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-03 00:00:00

EXTRACTED FROM " strTrosN AMATEURS'
GUIDE IN HORTICULTURE."
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In a considerable measure the crops will now take care
of themselves, and we may consider the chief anxieties
and activities of the season over. Our notes. therefore,
will now be more brief. But we do not counsel the
cultivator to "rest and he thankful." for it is better for
him to work, but he must he thankful all the same if he
would be happy in his healthy and entertaining employ-
ment. Watenng and weeding are the principal labours of
this month, and both must he pursued with diligence
Where systematic irrigation with sewage can Ise carried
on, the most wonderful remits may he expected, but
onlinary watering, where every drop has to be dipped
and carried, is often injurious rather than beneficial, for
the simple reasoa that it is only half done. In such
cases we should advise the cultivator to abstain from
giving water as long as possible, and then to give it in
abundance, watering only a small plot every day, in
order to saturate the ground, and taking a week or more
to go over • piece which would be done in • day by mere
surface dribblinga
ASI'ARACUS should not be cut after the 2nUi.
Manure water will do great things for asparagus now,
and a dressing of salt may be given with advantage.
BEANS may vet be sown, but as they are not much in
request in the latter part of the season, • small sowing
will probably suffice.
Blt01;01.I to be planted out at every opportunity. In
the first week sow tor cutting next April and May.
CAIIIIAGK —Towards the end of the month sow •
good breadth of small cabbages and coleworts. They
will he immensely valuable to plant out as the summer
crisps are cleared any.
CAULIFLOWERS to be sown now where they are
to remain, and of course to be thinned to a proper dis-
tance in due time. Any that are planted out now from
scud-bets must have water, and be shelled during mid-
day for a week_

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CKLEKYt he plantwi out without loss of time, in
showery weather if powtiblo, but if the weather is hot and
dry, shade and give water. Pea-sticks laid acmes the
trenches will Kiva shade enough with very little trouble
CUCUMBERS FOR PICKLING may be sown on
ridgmg
KIDNEY BEANS. Dwarfs and Runners should
still be sown for late use.

LETTUCE to be :07at and planted at every oppor-
tunity. A few rows M large NO varieties should be sown
in trenches prepared as for celery. and there he thinned
and allowed to stand. They will form line hearts, and be
valued at • time when lettuce, are semis,
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's.;lidin—g.—Forward beds of
large wile to be thinned in good time. The heat onions
for keeping are these of moderate Rise, perfectly ripened •
therefore severe thinning of such 110114 as Improved 1t...
ding. James's Blood Red, and Danveni' should he avoided.
PEAS may still he sown. The second early sorts will
pay if the mum is favourable, but the first earliest
will be MORI sure, SS One or two showers will carry them
through to maturity. See note on pea, in calendar fur
last month.

itrii3iTs may he sown in variety and in quantity
sitar midsummer-day. It is & good plan to .ow on
well.prepiued ground, and to put a sprinkle of a:title:al
manors in the drills with the mot liy hastening the
early growth of the plant the tir is kept in check ; in fact,
it is as a rule only the plantation starred by drought or
on an ill-prePared soil that the fly is likely to destroy
outright

FOOD ADOgrzaiinOW.—Dr. Tripe, public analyst
of the Hackney district. reports, "that all the sampler
b• examined, except one, were sold as mixtures of
cocoa, ofvowr ,ot, and sugar, the egoeption being
Cadbury's Cocoa Eseenoe, which was genuine. The
quantity of starch in the other samples varied between
67 and 80 per cent., so that allowing for sugar, there
was not in some of them more than 18 per cent, of
cocoa. An article like this was comparatively value.
less as • food."
Cyr ?thwarts. As a rule, the fewer colours
might even nay the lees colour—a flower vase has, the
better it answers its purpose iothina is more beautiful
for this purpose than clear transparent glaas, of some
simple form, without any Port of pattern or decoration
whatever. Common drinking tumblers, especially if
rather deep, answer admirably for most flowers, and are
always at hand. One of the loveliest arrangements I
ever saw, the recollection of which has haunted me ever
since, was s simple bowl of Clear glass, standing upon a
round piece of looking glow, and filled with pure white
amleas with abundance of their own deep-green leaves.
The great white bloesoms seemed to be suspended In •
kind of mysterious atmosphere of their own, all sparkling
and radiant, and separating them from eve A else
In the room white harmonising with all use of
looking-glass in this way is yery important, and not so
frequently practised as it might be. Wherever flowers
are it Is. gain to he able to multiply them, and present
different views of them, showing the underside of the
leaves, and the profiles of the lovely stems and blossoms ;
and besides this, the light reflected by them piers among
the petals and sets them off in unexpected ways. I
would advise every lover of flowers to have a few pieces
of looking-glass, of different sizes, and with either glees
or the most invisible of metal rams for frames, upon
which to place their glasses of cut BOWSTS. They not
only multiply beauty, but preserve our tables without
the abomination of fluffy math—Ls:nos Hoar.

Tne Scouvrvaz or Tue Mcrae Flamm—When we
would range works of sculpture proper according to order
of dignity, assuredly full-length figures in etetutnpoy.,7
habiliment@ are very deep down towards the lower limite
of the male, while works that worthily treat the nude
figure yetm over upwards towards the height of poetry,'
and who Ma ray " chart the mblinte proglemioi ends i
&tautere has the advantage over every other art in its
power to render the perfections of the human figure, the
noblest visible work of God, and to forgo the attempt is
init.,' for it to make a oven rifisto. Modern eculpture
has been thought to be embarramiserl by twofold diMcultias,
in lopondontly of voluble failure of snecific genius. We
moderns, it is said, no longer have the advantage that
rse afordool by the paliestra to. the Greeks, of habitually
Studying the nude figure in liveliest open-air activity ;
anti then the politic, of which the predilections and
mummifies have to be cotisidered.—will make them-
selvw considered,—is believed to bean shy of interpreja
poetic conceptions preseuted in marble, as of being.
upon to hold conversation in a language unfamiliar, if
not unknown. As regards the first objection, we may
point to what has been done. The secret of auch success,
obtained indepsuileutly of what was doubtless a most
Important aid, may be traced Perhaps to modern facilities
for anatomical study:: eertaia arUg• aptitudes bang
given, it is quite impaling§ to coy how fag the
et'lortitiiittee marl DOi mond in nonipanionani for
ober illandyaninton—baadfr•

FREEING TILE BRIDGFA

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The Prince and Princess of Wake, who were
accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, on
Batunky afternoon formally opened to the public five of
the metropolitan bridges constructed by private capital,
1 viz., Lambeth, Vauxhall, Chelsea, the Albert, and
Battersea !triages. The ceremony commenced at Lambeth,
where their Royal Highnesses were met by the members
of the Metropolitan Board of Works, by whom an addle=
was presented. The tire bridgea were acquired by the
Metropolitan Board of Works at • total cost of upwards
of £700,000.