The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

flys w the is ha and wet,
Be Pure the farmer will sulk and fret;
Ti e weather is dry and line.
Bother him not In harvest time.

NOVEL PLAN You PROTECTING FRUIT FROM HEINS
STOLEN.—A worthy inhabitant of the village of Tyuning-
ham, whose jargonelle pears have been more than once
stolen, has this year succeeded in securing his crop by
adopting the following ingenious plan .—He hung • bell
within the window of hie sleeping apartment, and
attached certain wires or strings in connection with the
bell in such a way to the branches that parties in the
dark, unaware of the arrangement, were likely to set the
bell in motion. A few nights after this detective appa-
ratus was prepared the bell sounded the alarm the
owner of the pears rushed to the door, bat the would-be
thief had fled. Again, on the same night, • second
alarm was sounded by the faithful monitor with the
same results. This was the last attempt made, and the I
full crop has been gathered by the rightful owner.
Edinburgh Courant.
RICHLT•COLOTJBED FOLIAGE—We acknowledge, with
gratitude, the effects which have been produced upon
our garden and park scenery by the introduction of
many trees and shrubs of foreign origin. Need we name
as examples the Indian Deodarl til)e Araacaria of South
America, the Pines of California and Southern Europe.
the Glyoine of China, and a thousand other things which
are now naturalised in England. There is, however, one
°lass of trees which have been hitherto much neglected,
but which we are glad to see are now attracting the
attention of landscape gardeners and planters—we allude
to those which have deeply•ooloured foliage. Upon this
class of trees a little of the enthusiasm to which we have
alluded would be well spent. To all who have grown
weary of such things as pines or ferns or orchids, as well
as to those who are proving molten., to their first love,
we say, "here is a subject for your enthusiasm ; it will
amply repay any exertions bestowed upon it, by enabling
you to leave • beautiful and permanent mark upon our
landocapes."—Gardenere Chronicle.

Crfornt's RTSTEW OF PROPITNG. —ln the beaotiful
garden overlooking the valley of the Aire my attention
was chiefly drawn to the standard trees,which were under
cultivation on the 'intern introduced by Chopin, of anuoir
Or win. It is to draw the boughs continually upward, to
confine them there with ligatures, as se do by lettuces,
and to lop the branches when grown to the length of
eight test, so as to permit them to be trained towards
the top of the stem, and cause the tree to resemble a
poplar, rather than a pear or an spple tree. This.train-
ing is effected by stroog aorde' which are not loosed till
the young and tender wood hse manifestly adopted the
perpendicular worth. The sap courses freely through-
out the tree, which is pruned moot scientifically ; the
gardener's care being to check superfluous wood, and to
make every single bough bear fine fruit. I saw
nectarines (a rare fruit in France), peaches (the com-
monest in that ()Gantry), pears and apples., Orleans and
gaga plums, growing in this mariner, and more delicious
of their kind I sever ate. This ii the very reverie of
Hoolbrasek's new notion, as illustrated in M. Jacque-
son's pluda, which all kaweilers ouillit to visit lo
eepkeimber, at MUSK In the