The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-06 00:00:00

ROI HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.

The Burton Hounds met at 1.4 a Hall the other day,
and proceeded to Warren Wood,. on the estate of Sir
IL 11. Bacon, Bart., in the parish of Gainsborough.
In and within a short distance of this wood abundant
sport was found throughout the day, during which no
km than 19 different foxee were eighted, five being dug
out of one hole in Wanes Wood. Two were "bagged,"
and one, after a short but good run, M 0.% killed in the
Army Dam Plantation, on the Lea estate. Such an
abundant supply of foxes has vellum, if ever, been
found in so small an area.
The gardeners and the agriculturists sometimes
became together great elements of natural prosperity.
Take, for instance, the cultivation of tea. In the
early dap in which this beverage was known to the
Western world, in the dap when they were told
Queen Anne ...onetimeo took counsel and sometimes
Lok tea, it was taken as a curiodty and sometimes as
a liqueur, and the cultivation was exclusively a
monopoly of China. By the aid of the gardener and
agriculturist, however, it has now become a large
cultivation in India, and formed a considerable base
to the country's prosperity. Another plant of a more
medical character, the CinAnna, or Peruvian bark,
which is such a great necessity to the world generally,
is also being largely cultivated in India and with great
anecees. These are plants which it was said could
not be naturalised in another country, and would not
have been if the science of the gardener had not been
supported by the large labour sit the agri ,ulturiet. At
the present time, in the fertile lands of Sicily there is
in cultivation a tree calle I the Eucalyptes, which pro-
vides a moat valuable timber, and has most wonderful
properties of absorbing by its leaves the malaria and
had humour of the volcanic NAL lam ale° reminded
.4 the late Lord Palmerston, who took an interest in
venous sports, and would ride down to the Derby, or
go elsewhere, and finish up the day by joining in a
debate in the House of Commons. He was

tlis-tTa:goisi-t-ed by bringin, frjtot -SOITte-diatant--a-tart.;.;
strong grass, which be had sown on the sandhills of
Ilk Sligo estates, and which pre ent•sl the sand being
driven by the win.l over the good portions f the land,
awl tints swain,' it.. In tins case the science of the
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g-aniener w.'as wi:led to the cul'ivation of the fanner.
A gardener most he a chemist and a geologbit, he
most know s 1111 l et king of the soil and how it affects the
growth of his flowers. Such a plant an the Ilydrangea
in }:ngland .neluces a heautiful pink, while in Ireland
it gives a blue flower, sip ,wing that the absence of lime
in the soil affects the colour. lie must he an engineer
to be able to regulate the heating I d the hothouses ; lie
innst al,o be an architect, awl have a taste for the
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toi,turempie if he is to till the modern garden with tasteind de,ight. What is the most difficult of all he must ,
have good taste, for here in a rich country, where inen's I
fortunes rapidly accumulate, there must be a certain
nuiriber of persoms whose purses increase more quickly
than their taste, but because of this the gardener most
not desert the lines of beauty, or be captivated by
senseless profusion and extravagance. In all these
things the gardener of the present day participates in
the general progress of science. Mr. Bright at
Manchester the other day, spoke of the advantages
which had been derived from the mechanical art as
applied to railroads by the aid of steam. In gardens
a similar iniproveinent has taken pace, mechanical
art being brought into use to improve the various
processes by which houses are heated. The gardener
of the present day has greater advantages than those
of the beginning of the present century; the old-
fashioned stone flue has been supplanted by steam and
hot water, which have now been adopted in most cons
servatories.

When I spoke of the influence which gardening has
over the imaginatim of man, awl particularly of poet°,
I could not bring an instance where it is more strongly
shown than by quoting Itlilton. He was a Republican
in isditics, and in religion he belonged to the stern
school of Puritans, at the time when religious strife
made that school amain° itfl sternest character. Yet
he records, with a feeling of delight, old stories con-
nected with gardening, and with the old poets ex.
presses the duty .4 the gar lener in a way which any pro-
fessor of horticulture at the present day might approve
of and give to his pupils. He says .