The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

If orticulture.

FROM Erfurt we learn that the Exhibition of flowers
and bait held in dist town from the 9th to the 17th
September was on a large scale, but piesented little
rvelty.

IT wag the opinion of Knight that in the melon, the
cucumber, and smiler plants, • high temperature
favoured, the production of male flowers, a low degree
that of female flower..

BEM have made sad havoc with my peaches and
nectarines in aim neighbourhood, and everal gardens
within • radius of four or five miles have also suffered
from their depredations.—T. P'. Raily, Hall Place,
Tunbridge.- -Gardener.' CAroaicle.
A VlBl.lBB ia ti,e Mail. Lonnie appears to be mused
by insects which have punctured the bkin when it was
in • very young elate. Remove the soil round the
stem and suberatate fresh soiL This simple operation
has frequently been, practised very benetioially in the
case of insect* which prove injurious to pear trees.

LARGE Money, gardener to C. Buxton,
seq., EOl Warren, Cobham, Surrey, recently
gathered from • tree very heavily laden with fine fruit,
a peach measuring Ili inches in cireumferenee, and
weighing 10 oz. The mots of the tree in question have
been continually chopped by digging the border in the
regular otder of cropping, a circumstance which places
it on quite a different footing from that at Lewiston
Castle, which is growing in • turfod border, and Irmo
which Mr. Sterol:vs:in gathered a large peach.

CHISTNOT FLOWERING.—There is now within a few
yard of the Cheater Road, in the broad walk avenue,
Regent's Park, • eneetnut tree in flower and young leaf.
This tree is in the habit of appearing in full leaf a
week or two before any of the other trees, and the old
leaves are now (Sept. 15) clean gone off before the others
are half stripped. It is but partially in flower and leaf,
but buds are opening; and lithe present remarkably
warm and fine weather continues for a week or so more,
it will doubtless aeon have somewhat of its May aspect.
B.—Oardearrs' Chronicle.

Wrrif respect to English secular names, now so
plentifully given to new French roses, they are not, as
they once were, an honour. Any English florist giving
an order to a French rose raiser to the amount of 500
francs may have • rose dedicated to him, i.e., named
after him : it is thus we have so many French roses
with English names attached to them. There is one
ompfort, they are ',rely seen after the second or third
year of their introduction. §ome of these should.be
Enwlish names are Odd. lames Veitch is "James
Weitch." When we come to" Souvenirs" and " Deuila,"
the combination with English is curious. I fear I
thought mischief when I advised a French rose grower
to name one rose Souvenir de John Doe, and another
Deuil de Richard Roe. Rosa Anglica. —Gardeners'
Chronicle.

FRUITING OF STANDARD PEACHES A/CD NECTARINE
THUR.—Some of your readers way remember that last
year I gave an accouut of a standard nectarine that had
produced fruit out in the open air, perfectly free from
walls or trellis of any kind. This same tree has this
year exceeded itself, for it has been literally laden with
Ind% It has riiened more than twelve dozen of
nectarines, and some of a flavour beyond what the
same kind wittily attains, either in pots or on • wall.
I have peaches also; but that is to me no novelty, for I
have frequently had them under similar eirotunatanoes
during the last five years, hut nectarines never till the
last two seaman,. The variety of the nectarine is the
well-kno an Newington, and those that began to shrivel
before they were eaten were perfection in point of
flavour. We often plant almonds as ornamental trees.
The character of this nectarine as an oinamental tree
surpasses in beauty the almond in all but blossom, for
the habit of the branches is far more elegant, and the
arrangement and colour of the leaves far exceed those
of the almond. Why should we not introduce occasion-
ally on our lawns peaches and nectarines, as we do
mulberries? William Masters, Exotic Narsery, Caw.
to-bury—Gardeners' Chronicle.
BEIB AND FRUIT.—A correspondent of the Gardeners'
Chronicle 'complains of the unusual attack on the fruit
which bees are carrying on this Beaten. He drew attention
to the fact of bees feasting Ott the raspberries, early in
August. It is seldom that wasps are numerous at
that data; we must look for some other cause than the
scarcity of wasps. The real fact is, that there has been
little or no secretion of honey since the latter part of
Julie, and the bees have been compelled to resort to
unusual sources far the supply of food for their own
wants and that of the brood. Owing to the remarkally
fine sod warm weather which hal prevailed so long,
breeding has been continued on a rather extensive scale;
the bees have naturally a reluctance to break in on their
sealed stores; and finding but little honey in the flowers,
the source of their usual supply, they have resorted to
other fountains; first raspberries, then wallfruit, and
now fallen pears, have been the objects of Midi- at-
traction. These signs teem to foretel a somewhat
disastrous winter for bees. He would advise all
apiarians to carefully exauline'or weigh their stocks
daring this month, and if found to be at all deficient in
weight, supply them liberally with artificial food, giving
as many pounds as each hive seem to require in as short
a time as possible. This is the only way to prevent an
excessive mortality among bees.—Aptator.

SPORT IN THI GLOXINIA.—The Gardeners' Ckronicie
says :—From time to time during the past two years we
have seen more or leas perfect spec'mens of a curious
sport in the Gloxinia, in which one or sometimes five
wedge-like petals have been placed on the outside of the
corolla, between it and the calyx. Specimens of this
kind were exhibited at one of the recent meetings of the
Floral Committee. The most complete account of these
&inviter flowers that we rave seen is contained in a
paper of Prof. F., Morretea, in the 19th volume of the
second series of the "Bulletin de l'Amidemie Royale de
Belgique." From this account, it appears that the
supplementary pieoes just alluded to are really members
of a second imperfect flower, placed outside the original
one, and partially adherent to it. Now, the outermost
corolla, "catacorolla" as M. Morren terms it, alternates
In position with the true one ; and whereas in the
original blossom it is the inner surface that is brightly
coloured, in the supplementary one, on the contrary,
the inner side is of a pale colour, while the exterior is
tinted with bright carmine. These "moss" have been
obtained by removing all the ordinarily shaped flowers,
I and insuring the due fertilisation of those whi I pre-
sented the deviations above mentioned, till at length
In the fourth generation the rudimentary outlying
petals have been combined into one simple-looking.
though really complex catacorolla. This is trully one of
the most extraordinary result, of the art of the cultiva-
tor that hai been put on record.

meta! Nexiss.
IT is asserted that yellow fever has made ite appear.
Ince at Swansea, and that Government have sent a
medical oommissioner to inquire into the matter.
DIRECT intelligence from New Zealand confirms the
report that General Cameron h.s resigned the command
of the troops in that colony. William Thompson, whose
surrender was reported a mail or two ago, has petitioned
, the Queen to send out • commission of inquiry.
THE discussion as to the part which young Count
Eulenburg took in the attack on poor Ott had been
revived at Manchester in the form of • letter to the
hzaminer an I Times, from a gentlemen who witnessed
the affray. He defends the Count, and ins sts that it
was impossible to tell by whom the fatal blow was
stzuck.

A MONTH ago a man named O'Shaughnessy cut his
wife's throat in Regent-street, Woutminater, and after-
wards out his own throat. He has been in hospital
over since. his wife having recovered from her wounds
some time ago. O'Shaughneesy Was so nearly convales-
cent on Friday that he was brought up at the police-
oonrt on • charge of attempting to murder his wife.
He was committed for trial.
A STRANGE story of Prussian police government in
Posen is published. A little boy of nine was formally
charged with having spoken slander of the Police Pre-
sident, and was arrested, brought before • police magis-
trate, threatened with incarceration and the stick if he
did not confess., and treated general) as a mature cul-
prit might be by a Turkish Cadi. The child's father has
addressed • memorial on the subject to the Prussian
Minister of the Interior.

THE Nzvr LONDON SHERTTIM—On Thursday Mr.
Alderman Gibbons and Kr. James Iriggins, a member
of the Common Commit, who were recently elected
sheriffs of London, were publicly sworn in at Guild-
hall, preparatory to their assumieg the duties of the
office. Tbe sheriffs are always sworn in on the eve of
Michaelmas day, upon which the liverymen meet at
Guildhall to elect the Lord Mayor for the ensuing year,
and their first duty is to take part in that ceremony.
A SHIP milled the A corington was on fire on Wednes-
slay in the Theme,. She had been hauled out of the
teat India Docks, and was prepared to set nail for
Gilcutta. Part of her cargo consisted of railway
Sleepers dressed with ore sore. It is soil that the
vapour from these ignited at a candle taken into the
hold by • seaman. At any rate, early in the morning
the cargo was found to be on fire, and it was only with
great difficulty the flames were subdued. The damage
Is great.
Tag PORTSMOUTH GUARDIANS AND THE POOR LAW
BOARD.—The disagreement between the guardians of
the poor of Porters Island Union and the Poor Law
Board respecting the surcharge for the coat of the tea
supplied to the former has been settled by what is
equivalent to • victory on the part of the Poor raw
Board. A private meeting of the guardians was held '
on Monday evening, at which Mr. Hawley, the Poor
Law Inspector, was present. A warm discus•don took
place, but as the guardians were plainly told that they
bad no power to resign, that they were responsible for
any serious oonsequences which might moult f,om their
refusal to act, and that the Poor Law Board had no
power to sanction an illegal payment, which this charge
for refreshment undoubtedly was, they. "caved in," and
consoled themselves with passing • resolution to the
effect, that, although in their opinion the Poor Law
Board had not behaved with fairness towards them,
they would consent to resume their duties, in order that
the poor might not suffer front their non-attendance.
It is said that each guardian will be called upon to pay
about. 12s. In sottdement of the account for tea up to the
preterit tdana.,4note • . - to
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