The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-07-15 00:00:00

Agriculture.

lIA-erki WiTla TOI POT PIANTII.—The Edith tags.
of manure, %plated in a ague:4oUL% whereby nutriment is
at um* put. as it were, Withio raw% of the feeding riots
plants, .re wed known. But Its use is presumably rot
always carried so tar a• with advantage It might be.
The,. are few things that are not bsoafittead by it.
especiady when their root, are confined within the
limited epsce of • pot, where neues•arily they have no
chance of feeding for thetaaelves in the way open to them
when they can spread Out a, is their altar. One advan-
tage in applying manure in title way, rather than in •
giddier= intermixed with the soil at the time of potting.
II that in Me laiter war, lien mitt is given to sustain the
plan:s ea long ag the roil. fire to remain in the soil with-
in the pot, more roust bie wad than is well I.r them to
have access io all at ones. With such plants at require
liberal loading the deuble course iif mixing *um solth
manors with the potting soli, and of supplementing this
wit% manure-water la usually followed with
satisfactory resulta. Another of the advantages
of ileitis manure-water tow great an extant sa th• nature
of the kinds of plants to which it is ideate will bear, is
that much mailer pots will suftle than where depend.
ones vrholly of in a great Mugu,. is put on 'filth Manure.
as the nee -.eery sustenance can in this way be supplied
with iut an lee exteaded root-room. This is especially the
cwl° wijo wddcWo..lvd Pthnte, particularly such as are
grown op quickly fOr lowering in the autumn Or winter
froni Cuttings or med. put in the precedlos einthr or
spring. in all cases where manure water is to be given,
It. application should not be to long deterred as to allow
the soil to get too poor to keep up free growth, inn wont
of which is sure to toll in the want of also the plants will
show, with • corresponding inability to yield the fail
quantity of dowers they would were their went' better
attended to. Quick growing Pleats need more food to
build up their rapidly developed shoots and loaves. and
naturally exhaust the moisture in the .oil In pop ,rtiou-
Maly little time, requiring the application of water daily.
or all but daily, in dry summer ormiumor. the mutt of the
amoS which is that much of the to tourial eleineuts in
the soil se: walked away through the bottom of the pots,
leaving the roota with insufficient food unbar it is
supplied to them in the form of e orfacedrassing In •
OortAlatrateri feria, or by the application of Manure Water.
the lest of which, when given strong enough, but not t ii
wane, for the plants to bear, and at the right time, le
the most certain means of having quick growing thing.
In the best condition, and is iqually effective with such
es
us of • more enduring description.
HAIUTOR3I IN .11aUT. —The terrific downpour of
heilston.a, on • reoint Saturday evening, has dons
damage in Jersey Ii an incredible amount. Beide. the
eppalling destruction of glass. toe damage done to the
pear and apple crop must amount to thousands of pou ads.
the young fruit being quite spoiled by Lroises from the
hailstieuts, which were as large ea cob nuta. The injury
to plants and dowers, and nursery stook generally, is bad
mooch but to the fruit crop it I. far worse, affecting as
it does so many who oan ill afford tie bear toe lose; aad
It is to be hoped that something will be done by the
wealthy public for those on whom the damage will latheo
heavily. arid probably entail &dress. ft is, ...Ps the
Arose Agrelvisr' enough to 1111 oer minds with •ooder
and li.oiay to think of the amount of deluge done to
property in OW beMltifUl little island in tits Sp•O• of ton
minutes I

SnAwrzto as KAN elt —Toe appears to he one
of the worst applucittins of moment. Vestment ors
beginning to find out that t seldom Cintains law titan 90
per cent o' w•ter, of ten snoro, and that fur the acival
mahuritil value in it it may be very expinolvs if a Lag
cartoge I. required. F.,u too. of wat et lows, must
be carted for every ton el dry monure, and when dried
there I. much additionol expense, and it livery bulky.
The dry weed contains an averoge of tea per cont. uf
nitrogen. so that, am It is uml. it contains less than half
p-r cent. Tlio chemical value io very little, eLwpt frum
the p ,taelt cflattined ; but the in chanicid Yalu" mar he
greeter. ea in covering rout crops no a protection from
frost, or whore the sill is aimply eivid, nod it inn& It
tag-then Filworer. the cartage of w•ter, and thy mann•
facture of soil. ars outline,* aulus-ul it., sod v avoid
I. not much used where there it high (ammo. It
adapter, also, whore chntinually timed al me, to impoverish
the soil, it It like feeding • dog on hotter. Ti., raaidue
of • used mh, or kelp mist,— no ton of which is equal
to 41 tine of wet seaweed, arid c attains all the phreohate
—is quits unreliable for menus in this chu Orr It Foal
be romerkod, toe. that in the wet climates of the Wm%
of Irs,and and of Szotlsod, whir it is it ,sty tin
applicationt,mer. of water Is quite a ouperduous operation for
e