The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-15 00:00:00

Jtirticulture.

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TRW caterpillar of the Death's Head Moth is common
it tbiatime on Potatoes.
, ALOE flowers may be preserved in spirits, or in dilute
Aortic acid, in a closed glass vessel.

BASPBILIIIIIXB are beat propagated by suckers trans.
planted during the autumn months.

Tar dowering Currant is apt to die suddenly if Ds
lower branches are removed and the season happens to
be dry.

Clean arietintim welldtnown under the name of
Gram; generally our emes are not warm enough for
its successful cultivation, but it is occasionally seen in
botanic gardens.

Bala have Lately attacked the Raspberries to a great
eittent; u many as three being frequtntly discovered
buried in one specimen of the fruit; conAcquently
making it a matter of considerable danger to persons
gathering it.

SZEDLING Pelargonium seeds should be sown as soon
as they are ripe, or, if not yet done, without any
farther delsy ; pot the seedlings singly, and keep them
close to the grass In a well.regulated greenhouse, where
they msy move on gradnally through the winter like
other Pelargoniums. Shift them in spring. It is not
advisable to force them, but all Pelargoniums require a
moderately genial temperature.

. ' Ytroc.t Gromroan."—One of these very rare plants
is now In full bloom in the garden of Me. Henry Rymer,
Bo'ness It has been in his poiseseion for eighteen
years, and was only seven years old when it was net in
this gentleman's garden. This is the first season it has
bloomed It is 7a feet in height. The flowers, which
are round and almost cream coloured, are several hun-
dreds in number, and very close together. The upper
past of the stem is 4 fei t and 3.a feet in circumference,
the lower part about thirteen inches, from which shoot
upward. the long green broad sharp-pointed leaves
which grow round shout In regular order for about three
feet up the stem. The leaves are et least two feet in
length and three inches broad in the °entre, • but gat
narrower towards the end. There ATP two young plants
shooting out from the root; Great praise is due to
Tames Seth, gardener to Mr. Rimer, for the interest he
takes in describing its various features. Many tfundreds
are flocking to see and edmire so rare * plant—Edin-
burgh Courant.
AN ATIABIAN LAUGHING PLANT.—For the fiTAt time
I met with • narcotic plant very eoinmon further south, '
and gifted with curious qualities. Its seeds, in which '
the deleterious principle aeerus chiefly to reside, when
,pounded rind admioistereel in a small dose,. preface I
'effects much like those ascribed to Sir Huniphrey
Davy's laughing gas; the patient dances, sing, and.
performs a thoussnd extravagances, till after an hour of
, gteot eicitement,to hi,nself sod amusement is dm ba, '
stead-re' lid falfcalleen, and on awaking has lost' all '
- inemoryof whit he did or said while under the influence
of the drug,. ,Treilimt a pinch of this powder into the
. coffee of some.u,prinapecting individual is i bot noconi-
mon jokeormou I hear that it was ever followrd by
latticing censeqtrencea, though an 'over quiet* might'
peliffieps be dangerous. I myself tried it on two indivi-•
iltirip, but in ptuportions, it not absolutely hoincormathic,
ill sufficiently minute to keep on the safe side of risk,
ithEtritotareed its operation, laughable' imbues, bet very
'hankies.. The
,plant Dist bears them berries' hardly
at • lef Itaseein the height of. air taeheeve • abo tbe
blkt- ili binitg I have leen bushes of it tirres'Oe
Jest id glotelkand widespreading. The items are
woods, sadist * yenow tinge when barked; the leaf of
laplark green colour, and pinnated. with about twenty
tiers on either aid.; the stalks smooth and shining;
the '
t flowers are yellow, and grow ira 'Mite, she *others
inmerous; the fruit lea capsule, Atuffai with • greenish
'padding, to which lie embedded two or three - block•
eetidit, in aim .a alhape much like French beans; their
taste•wweetish, but with • peculiar cdata flavour • the
smell heavy, and almost sickly . ve's Ceittrat
and Jlestarn Ara Na.
fliktkWllMlNL—The failure of lltitrawberry crope
this year, and the dillteulty which 'been generally
complained of for the last two years of obtaining early
musts for fresh beds, induee me to state my own sys-
temi, which, although I dare gay no novelty to my friend
ithe RAY. W. F. Radclyffe, and other real amateurs,
may nevertheless prove useful to others. I take every
runner as soon as formed, and long before it Is rooted,
gathezing them with two inches of the striae attached,
by ones and twos as they appear, and peg them upon
the tops of garden pots filled with earth premed herd ;
I then pot them into a cold frame, well,haded, and
treat them like any other ratting' to be struck. By
this treatment I have plants well rooted in about a
fortnight, and this year my main arop of %eons' Seed-
ling was from runners of 1884, and so good, that I de-
stroyed before fruiting a two-year-old bed of the same,
as I was unable to net both. In my treatment and pre-
paration of the beds for new plantation; I follow the
directions of Mr. Cuthill's (of Camberwell) shilling
pamphlet—" On the Cultivation of, the Strawberry,"
except that as space Is not so valuable to me as to him,
I take rather more room, but no lover of the strawberry
need desire • better or a plainer guide. I have also
found his Prince of Wales invaluable these two last
yearn; it is a wonderful bearer, large in size, very
handsome, and of fair flavour, if allowed to ripen before
plucking—a permission not so often conceded by straw-
berry eaters as it should be. I have found bone-dust
' suit my pang plants well; and from the time of tae
flower truss appearing, it to the terries hemming
tinged, I water as plentifully as I can with both guano
and manure-water, and also with plain. I believe the
hardier kinds of etrawberry will succeed fairly in any
sal, in that they have but moderate care bestowed open
them; hht if the strawberry beds, and remberry,
roe/Merry, and torrent trees of the many be hke those
to many gardens which I have visited this year, the
fault does not lie exclusively in *Lyme/ay Want of
eire before fruiting ; neglect of rearewingeditplautations
labarthes ; total neglect, in Ilse oemeet the straw-
, of the beds after dropping; to sayselthime of the
• rot*. endow of mowing off leamesied all about''
Ibis time, which I
,have ado/illy seiSilodillatio altrillbr
chief causes of ' poor crops in favoina end•eimilde
failure in difilcult seasons.—G. E. aismAil4 ThorPS.,
Malzotityptiiii C " .

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A views inquired at oile of' the railroad stations
what time the f.4lFtrair: would start, and was told at •
quarter to eight "West:me !" be exclaimed," you are
always changing the time on this line."
IN a somewhat remote churchyard may be seen the
following curious epitaph :
"Him ba was haa gone from we;
wo 11 ilkeea lobe."
ON the sands at Celloreoate, near Tyne:mouth, aboard
has been flied on which is ioacribed the following notice:—
"Any person passing beyond this point wall be drowned
by order of the Magistrates."
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