The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

V orticulturt.

THE NEW YEAR.
" Gad of the ehangsfal yedu! amidst the glow
Of strength and beauty and transcendent gram,
Whic,. on the mountain height., or deep below,
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In sheltered vales, and teeth eiquestered Owe,
Thy forms of vegetable hie swum- ;
Whether thy pines, with giant areas diiplayed.
Brave the north or, wrapped in eastern gloom,

Tby trackless (omits swrep a world of sheds-,
Or whither, mewing • •slea .'s biasing breast,
Thy odoriferous Wee innueserobtr rise;
Or eider • .rious lighter forum impreet,
Of fruits aud doweri, by en ka delight our eyes ;
God of all life, whate'er tbs. forms may be,
0, may they all unite in praising Thee r ROBOO2.

The New Year he. Gone. Yee : the first of January
is paet. "Old January, wrapped well," se -veneer aye,

" le many weeds to keep the sold away ;
Yet lie did goalie end liaises like to quell,
And biome his eayles to menu them if be may,"
bee toe& his appeareece.

Nos, I have beard people quote Ilist song of Shak-
spenre's descriptive of whiter, is "Love's lAbour
Lost"—

" When isirles bang by the wall,
And Disk the shepherd blows hi • nails,"

NI
smoothing " wonderfully true ;" yet it strikes me
15peasor, in his " illiephearde's Calendar, bed pet the
sea trait= in Terse before the immortal bard ever
meta a play. sinus iipen.wr published hi. " Oalender."
dodiwted to Philip Sydney, in 1579, and ilitakspesre
did not seek his 7.4 unit as an actor, or play-writer, in
London, before 1587. Rot, hold I must not Tinton,
to discuss nab peseta Have I not already boss alter-
nately Materna and complimented on what one pollee
man ow. " pitching to" to Quinn klisabeth in • 1•to
gossip? 80 I moat beware of high 'rodeos is this
.attar. Not but that I con truthfully affirm of
filukspeare, to the words of Bea Johnson, "I do hottoor
. - . .

Harking book to Queen Berg, I understand there are
some rather anmeing allmilom to her Majesty In the
Honourable Grentlov Berkeley's feetheonring book,
"A oisorlotaa of the Upper Tee Thouesail, lbw Limeade,
and their 11101111." It is, perhaps, mareely fair to quote,
(I suppose by some It would be called sliming), as
author • kites before they ere to the polka, so I
meat keep my pro edible due bounds; but, a "little
bird" tells Me, that the Vilma Quees's visit to Herb's,
Oriatle accompanied try her favourite Irleester, will be
arrowirt one of Hsi most inierodul chapters in that
watt.

Jeauarg is &jolly uhusth for long walks sod walking
rorto; one 0104,1 OM sold frosty air wake. this
idea 11
cirenlate, and • inan vibe wild.," ii pos.what
akin to • snail, not by the by, that =sus 01111 f walk in
the winter, they fa...ten up the doors of their house.
with glue, and go to sle..p. Hap. y are oar Rhein',
members of the faintly Ilelieidss —tboee of 'be edible
1104-4b.t we have neither taken it into or beads to
follow Roman fashions, nor imbibed • Psriciaa torte for
snob delicate alarmist, no they can slisinber pew:wittily
down mot% the deed leaves kt them be nnul spring.
I like to see the trees after • mow storm in J•uaing
etiverod with 'trysts', but then there muct he frost as
wen to bring shout this state of things— frost miter snow.
"Behold the groves that shine with silver frost,
Their blowfly withered, iind their verdure look"
tiers Pore. "Beatify withered I" I cannot
with mob en authority even as Pope in the hull" .4;
Ibis espreadoth Now, do sot, Oti dear feeder., set me
down no somethiog t&.eiy Gotidoli fee voiltairiiti to
MK from the MA treguiil.t of firmer *Mani. •

Mood al my elbow tells me I have made • miserable
mistake. The Richt Honourable the Earl of Ete.be bee,
s.ys, "eat oat" Pope. Well, te nee one of my friend's
Pot .Itl,,tatte.a. "Putman car 'serail feral." I cannot
Mee an op nioa about Homer, bet I do see beauty in
trees shining wait ".ilv.r frost." Yee, and beauty in
the snow-envered bills; beauty in the marble terraces
that &Tante oar fields ; beauty In the wild open does
that looks like the is. aftat • storm, white with loam;
haatry. in fact. avorywhort, In all plants where the snow.
Ink, s have fallen ; Lod then when the snow has melted
•way, how the dowers es'.n to have sprung into life
end., Ito pret,ting ge•ntl*. We shall have the
eelandlne her. In a few weeks. We ha.. lb. ,eitoo
Kona now, with Ile butter-dy like bloom how PP. I It
is! I think tbe usell of the blossom &flakes, and yet
one rarely hears that it has any went. Very few of our
botanical writers hare noticed this quoit), In it. The
daisy is another January pm "lb. eonstellated lower
that neva, wet,"
. . .

The • pearl of any continental languages, 64d
Mallon's •• eye of ths dale,"now expands its petals to the
light in eheltered plaits& This "modeet erinison-tippeel
flowyr," wine by the poeta, pommues. other claims to our
notice besides beauty it has valuable medical vine*.
H•ve you ever ob.erved the digereee me... in
January? How beautiful the 'prowess look. on the
stomps of nit doesyi.ig treet, and the ("Uhl...moss
(Hypnosis pale/Wino) trailieg down the regard banks,
teething thein with green wrap'. I am particularly
devoted to oar native mos.*, an 4 bare, at verb..
times, collected • ennitiderable number of them ; they
look well in a Werdian ease ; bat proper ateettion
should be mil to the peters! !ishits of there salyeted,
so that shsde and moisture may he duly regulated.
There are eplyadid massy. of tiolounng to be root with
at this season amongst women—rich red, dark velvet-
like gr.'s°, Yilver grey, brown, and creep are all repro-
eented in oar w ode by them. "Fairy trees" a little
friend of mins ea le yews of the moss tribe; ilk, the
ielm, but it hash'', embodied in the following 'OM

ibis tbe result of the earth mithod ft nay he
••••, by asqua• wbo Norse. to see ill at Hallos ; sad
IS 'bloomer. 4 aramishisi fot the lisriroal 01
hat r 4 mere mods for tb• siestadag of *owes :21.tiv;
purifylos of riven mom offestasny (boa say prosaism*
I straggly aro. yea to gig* this mothind • fob. 4r44
talon you *spend any lame wer• of moon, in 0001"
tnt in dnoinrinn Int UN Of tr esta
II blish • sPlata
irriestioo.

I ar; the 'doldrums. of • Lowe oolitic ittimporly. led
'afloat, therefore. be prolutiord again.* Its latish
hut I oust not Tornio from saying that my erpillt•mo
Weirs the belief that It is • •1001 sitra..pai aad
1.444•1 money to employ, and eels obleb. in consiwcalf
used, ig wholly insdansitte to the estehiiibmisell oi
general health. Where the Irrigation '7* so is followed
I. Inland towns, the area to ehish It Is posaibla
apolr it, Own w.th the nit of shim powsr, nod be
oeivsearily of smelt limited 'shot as to soli -at the prse
motors of the scheme to many load onubinstiosse,
wbioh will coulee their operatic.. to • very narrow
compose, and curtail the prate 'bleb ought to wise
frown the sole of the sewage. doother method is Uri
Intervention of the sewage at • Iced point, nod PO
d•odoriantion by the noun of town sweeping sad

int Wm, Toe have pet Into the beet form either of
thews @pleats, what bee bees done? The latmitrtsolle
balm spent la.ge sums of many with wean boo. At to
themesives In redrevelog lb* grievsersee of the dwelkg
down stream . for the true eource of evil to the towns.
people hes ban left antosehed. T,ap it and deodorhe
It a• yes will, the enrent.nt m ivy win always ben I OA -
some place', and one of the most praline ennews of
&geese. Adopt the earth method, sad yen sin destroy
Lb. writ .1 it. seem. It ha. this grs al advantage OM
the sewage svet.rn, th•t altboagh the liqnid aid be
discharged at all times and seasons when the tanks are
the earth may have its fertlibieg reporty
increased to ahnost &ay est, at, and mar be 'toted dry
Ii tees. and transported to say pert of the smeary ag
oftwerity.ariees.

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There la, however. one greet obitaele to the reeerea of
the earth emithod movement mid I do got think it ma
be exaggerated. it Is the dillealty of ladaeing the
✓e 1.0 a..lealleVO that a system with* requires no ealesee
to &DPI? it. and Hut ...motto! to wink it, h..t which meal
ihe game time yield a very gonsiderable ;truth awl
confer lamatiese helmet ea earl altar.. can really be
worth trying; •ad a. I •tge the Doblemee and ir'enthe
men here present ti.-day to we it applied to the cottages
over which they have control Whilst the cottager'
will he grateful, the gaiety of the proprietor will be
ensured, for there is no knowing when the fever
generated Is the village may Mrike • deadly blow in the
mention of the net. To the dew I strongly mem*.
mend Its etlootioe le their aehoole it will berme the
mholare with Was of devilry and comfort, 'AIM they
will n 4 fail to apply i after life. I earneetly entrust
all elamm to milts in obtaiipor Its general adoption
throachoat the land. and I deliberetely assert my
hell-f, that whoever tries it honestly and fairly Ha
joie with an, in nmarcemendicir it to all hie Deighb-uln.
On. of our domerrtie maiming Mlliota as with aboieln.
atoms •hicli we have all expenetmed, but gi•• this
crafty creator free seams to diy earth, indoors or out.
and it set. mankind an maniple of thrift and eleanlinem
which it is atepid not to fidlow ; for when the finite of
the e.rth, after mite/ring the wattle of man, are reta•ood
I. do for it at • small get what Peruvian saute doe. at
vsst oa..eeee, w shell have the water enpnieonel and
foil of fl-h, with land for ingress. d ferellite. without
fever ; whitit tbe poblle will believe, as I 4-I.etio now,
that no movement no fratight with hem it to be rabbit
health has over bad place Moos the days of Jeans,.