The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-13 00:00:00

A TTIMPTED SUICIDE.

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frees Sebastopol ; and as I gess ultost these Fin missies'
gees Of death imaged on two sides and in frost of the
km. their positics rends& me of the memorable lines by
Teeny's& leaving ridermes to a memoralge event during
the of Sebselepol
Olen& to right of them,
Mesas to left of them,
Osamu Is frost of these
Volley'd and thusdeed.
Winding round to the let, the eye Is met by several
fine seedless' of the tulip tree (Litiodendron Tolil4llll
and • small roam in wirework surrounded be b•dlit
gladialL There I. also the realisation of the ides ma-
solved by the lata Mr. Mart, of having climbing rums
and koneywaskin planted among horned and box bushes,
and • very natured and pretty effect they have. The
mutt object if special importance Is a specimen of Pima
Fit SW)* }negated by the editor of the Daily Talryrapi to
Colossi Napier Stmt, which, although a fine true,
• Mee arboreal infant compared with the &meadow of
• row of tall Ikon firs upon one side and • row of cedars
of Lebasopon the other aide of • gram walk, whirl is
also by choice emitters and stutthe of tress
beautifully clad with Ivy, roams, and other climbers. some
O 1
which are My and fithishing at most seasons of the
year.
A Midi:: yellow-berried bollim now indicates that you
km th are e orminental to enter • more useful divert.
meet of garden; and • Practical realleation 01 this
sumroceition is soon attested as you some in full view of •
mugs of forcing houses at the farther end of • semi-
ormenested plot hewing some useful quarters for standing
aide, mdi emu nursery of enneusentel shrubs. pertly
bidden from view by lines of sweet peas and two medial
flowsr-berden Before describing the centents of the
glades structures, I must state that they are • good deal
mattered, the plant-hosess being mostly in detached
blocks of from two to three 000Ipartetenta In each block"
There are two kitchen gardens, bides • " fidd garden.
and the keying houses are pretty equally divided be both
gardens. The department consists of five vineries
sad two early betides_ a Peathroese over 79
yards in length, be width SP end cherries are thso grows
in quasitities on the lath well'. The vineries are stocked
with the usual smemelos d seek and late grapes, sad in
the serly peach-leouse are semi grand sintieles trot"'
growing. The long possitheem affords • soon of
fruit until the season is far advised, wed it is dm used
for foreleg French beans wed strawberries, large ematides
of which are required during the season. Mi. Beck has
the old Fulmars forcing been. •• true to name." and tiers
to • striking difference between it and the wretched
counterfeit§ th et are frequently ',hi under its name. It
is along, handsome bean. and • prolific bearer.
The plant-house sthe principal meek at least—are modern
structures, erected by Kr. Gray. of Codas'. The first is
• lofty open-roofed gresehous 71 feet keg and feet
wide. It is substantially fitted up, end architecturally
plain, as sock houses gaseralle are with practice' men
like Mr. Beek and Mr. Grey at the wheel. It has a broad
tiled path an round, with centre and side stmem wed is
eilkiestly heated. It le well furnished with filawaring
pisnte• gni several "sod specimens of tree (erne The
finest plant in the bosses Is an extraordinary wimple of
antborime wherserlanme, with flowerropathes flinches by
inches. It is quite • picture for eight months in the
year. and is kept in • greenhouse temperature la summer.
The plant was purchased from the Moen. Fetich. of
Oimisse. sad, I believe, is the same variety iWordill
exhibited by that wen-lthown firm at the great show at
South Menningtou in Kay, 1873.
I also noticed • good Pant of brogrnensk arbors& elle,
and lapperies Waked in cup and umbrella shape of the
two varieties alba and roma. Fueled em pelargoelamss,
Mimeos, oaken& and • variety of other Pante, are elf eai
deify trouped on the side-stages, and =
with lines of !IN dotted at interval" with
variegatom sad swamies ; and by the way I observed
• band, about two feet in width, of adeeidl• krausima
planted ander the centre and aids stages, the deep green
of which, minim in contact with the Mem shining tiles
of different tenons, has a wet pleasing effect. 1501110
slants of seders deposes are so thickly covered with
as to hide the embossed surface of green beneath
them, and an singularly attractive.
oe my way to dirt stove I had • peep into several
heated pits 000 with good crops of melon. sadossumbers, and hundreds of planta for supplying cut
flowers next winter. The plant stove is a moderaterothed
homes of unequal span, having • pit in the centre and a
sunk pith in front, which renders the work of lumping
up • sulkiest') moist atmosphere for tropical subjects •
ithonr of °minorities woe The specimen plants are
thistly comma, one of which measured 6 feet by 4 feet.
Allemmedd sad bougainvillea, are also trained, and
there are many relics still left of the days when Mr.
Beck's same was to be found amongst the list of com-
petitors at horticultural exhibitions. There is a small
collection of useful orchids, such as &Mimes. den irobetuns,
and Weenies, end numerous small ferns grown specially
for the purpose of house furnishing.
I am next directed into a well-quipped range of spur
roofed plant.houses, three in number. The path is In the
centre of the house, and I notice the ampere an trained
only over the path, where they will not obstruct the light
from the plants on the aide stages, and where they can be
kept clean by syringing. The first is fillet with dramas*,
caladium', and glowering begonias. end has a healthy
plant of the old ip mama horstsllil trained over the path.
No II contains one of the healthiest oollectins of feras
that I have seen for many a day —sot specimen plaids as
seen at flower shows, but useful kinds for private pur-
poses, each as alma= coneatum, A. eqpillius veneria,
A. veitabil„ sad A. uoncinnum latum. The Australian
bird's-nest fern (thanueopteris nidus) is also well repro-
Maud, as an loaned's. bteens, and other useful kinds.
The third compartment is an intermediate house, cos.
Wittig • miscellaneous collection of plants, and having •
taceoola van voixend trained over the path
Passing into the frame-yard I observe several pits filled
with hard-wooded plants, and • little further on, in a cosy
comer, is the "violet-yard,' where the Princess of Wales
with her own hands gathered violets as large as forth
Papa Violet growing is one of Kr. Beck's specialities,
the pits being fitted iato • lama:sound, facing the south
and mat—the two aspects in turn • supply of
violet" which are famous for aim and the quantities
'Atha plants produced.
Mr Beck Ism • comfortably appointed cottage is the
garden, and, as I admire • honeysuckle trained over an
arch at the front door, I noticed • row of detached, neat
trellised cottages covered with creepers, at the base of a
kill known as "Mill Hill," a skint distance from the
genes. It is a hemline' peen dope dotted with trees in
nature's own way, and, selfish creature that I am, I authot
help thinking that the sweet rural scenery and simple
&mere of the cottage garden bear • greater resemblance
to the "lost garden" we read of in • book *Mar than
Beramen himself. than the artificial grandeur produced
by modern landscape artists in situations where &Mare
Is eumnisded by dummy art Mr. Beek has been for over
fourteen years the directing head of this well-managed
garden, and long na} he be spared to adorn, both in pre-
cept and precthn. the profession to which he belongs.
Flamm in Gerdereen Cheveide.
BRILIPOMT.

fora to their land. They were threatened, the natives
to be thrown over • precipice and the others to be
killed, sod the °Ninny people wanted to obtain gun-
powder and nude, St4umult around ; but the word
cheered them—' that we for us are stronger
than they who are us." Soceethom they were
shoat of food and sometimes of water but 0•04 they
were relieved through the donkeys gill. land 08 to •
pool of °leer water. Own, inrrmasea by a great
crowd of savages, they were led at right tangles to the
Path- tbe wagtail beaten against trees, and ererYthing
outside the waggon was taken away. fa • dark
night they had to remain in • dense lomat, end next
morning great crowds surrounded the waggon, demand-
lug to be paid,lar,as they said, cutting • Path tbraalb
the (west.- threats were gomg on a greet
thunderstorm came on and the natives were dispersed,
so, though many things were lost, their lives were
saved. Penetrating on they came by sad by. to
classical ground, where Livingstone had been before,
and had engraved his name on the lasses of the psopin
During their short stay on the Zambesi they were able
to sing three hymns in the name of Jesus, and the
people would learn them sad go away singing the
MOM no natives are very free in wingeistesing
poison among themselves and to enemies and s=
but the name of Livingstone was the best intro
and when they were found oreacblig the same Gospel
ma Livingstone the door of the country wee opened,
and they were well received. These people believe in
the immortality of the soul, there is much to work
upon, and they have given a call to missionaries to
come into their land. The people are vitry ferocions,
when they have • war it is one of extwWnatioo, and
from the Lbnpopo river to the Nyasaa lake or to
Thlryiks, there is not a man to raise his voice for
The Edith is to go somewhere between the
Zambesi river and the region of the lakes and establish
• minion there, and for this is wanted £5,000. Of
Africans he would ask—" Are they not men and
brethren?' and in c molusion he made an appeal for
pirmi and money. —Bishop Moule thank. idboloz
for help received in China from his
which did him (Bishop Mottle) pod like • medicine.
The meeting was eked in the usual way.

A man named William Hoary Hirkr, en able bodied
seaman on board the Lizzie Trenbrith, at anchor in
the Portland Roads, was charged at the Shirehall, on
Saturday last, before Colonel Bingham, with attempt-
ing to mama suicide the previous day by cutting his
throat. —William Wood said the Lizzie Trenbrith
arrived in the Portland Roads on Thursday evening
and the pawner was an able-bodied seaman on board
her. He and the prisoner slept together, and on Friday
morning about Eve o'clock the prisoner turned out of
his hammock, and on witness looking round he saw
him with • knife, which he took of his locker, in his
hand. He jumped out of his bed and took the knife
from him, but not before he had opened the blade and
drawn it across his throat, making it bleed. (The
knife, • rusty old thing, was produced by Sergeant
Feltham and sworn to by the witness as the instru-
ment with which tin prisoner attempted the rash act.)
Where at once went to the captain, and they both
deemed the prisoner 's wound. e risoner bad not
Overload to commit suicide, and witness did not
anticipate that he thought of doing so.--Colossal
W: Did he say anything when you took the
el him ? —Witness: No, sir; he never spoke.
I }reed the ship about two months ago, and I have
known him that time He was a steady man.—Th e
Magistrates Deputy Clerk: Do you know if be had
been thigh* .—Prisonee : Ym dr.—Witness : Yee,
at Poole.--Colonel Bingham : Alt, that accounts for
it.—Witeees : We &mimetic& Poole last Sunday week,
Bed ressained there marl • week, and during most
of the time the prisoner was drinking.—Colonel
Bigelsaas : What number at man have you on board?
—Mars Five, all tokl, dr.—Primmer said he bad
not nay question to ask the witness, and Supt. Batty
stated that he did not purpose to c ill any further
erldersoe, and asked for a remand until Monday—The
who appeared weak and had to be helped
ComCworeet, was then remanded.—The captain stated
that the prisoner joined his ship in Cornwall in
January last.
Rids was brought up on Monday morning before
Corer Brehm, when Sergeant Faiths= and Dr.
McLean gave evidence, the latter stating the wound
wee an lack and • half long, and in close proximity to
the main artery of the neck. Tilt had been • quarter
of an Inch deeper, it would have killed him. Primer's
appearance was that of • man mitering from the com-
mandog symptoms of Miriam tranms.—Committed
to the Aarze for trial.

THe " Canoe CENTIMIAIT.—A week following
the Nonconformist came the Church celebration of the
Rakes centenary ; but the weather on Thursday last
was the memo of favourable. The Nonconformist
brethren certainly had the bed of it, for although
their red-letter day began with homy storms, it
clewed up with genial sunshine, and "the mid aerial
sky" was as clear as an Italian lake. Bat the Church
scholars were doomed to disappointment throughout,
end this fact all must regret, .specially as the members
of various schools came bout a distancel end the
Beidport churchgoers spared no pains, and laboured
muly bard to make the affair successful. and
tin of atmospherical drawbacks, the demo
was well sustained and creditably organised. Canon
Bradley always remembers "poverty's children"
when osoadon offers, and a more and six juveniles
from the Bridort Union helped to swell the monster
procession. The members of the various schools
sainred the town between one and two p.m., either
oe foot or conveyed in vehicles, and made for the
National Schools In Gundry-laae, where the order of
pemendon was arranged. Finally the
moved from the front of the Grill Hell as on:,."0-
~
Bawd of the 11t D.ILV., teachers and scholars of
Church Sunday Schools with the Rev.
tern. L. B. Henelowe Omar:Land Rev. J.
Chanter (ouret6)l and teachers
with the Rev. B. Artnak (vicar); Beadpole
parish schools and St. Andrews with Canon A. Broaaley
and Rev. F. G. Christmas (curate) ; children of
the workhouse, accompanied by the school inietrees ;
Botbenhautptee schools, with nee Rev. K. J. Towne
Loden scholars, ha, with the Rev. W. P. Leedom
M) ; Whitchurob Canonioorum, with the rector,
. E. Allen, and Rev. 3. T. Osrmicheek_ourate ;
Olddeook, with the Rev. T. Worthington. The rem
was brought up by nineteen vehicle, kindly lent for
the mouton. The majority of these WWI gaily
deposited many of them being covered by florid arches,
intertalulgied with greenery, which impeded a
fresh beautiful apusarance. The "infants," who
were closely packed Into these conveyances, looked
the picture of delight and content. Many of them
wore garlands of flowers monad their necks, and
carried tastily arranged bouquets. Thome who walked
In the procession also carried some beautiful bouquets
and chaste designs, and never, perhaps, in the hider,
of the town was there suck a varied show of Floes's
beauties aeon Thursday last. Commemoration medals
regiron the breast of every identified with
citis, the name of each school being declared by
an te banner. The scholars marching in
double file as may beimagined, stretched
an 111001111b0011
the order, so generally admired, wm preserved. This
festive train proceeded, vis St. Michael.-lane, first to
Wed thee to North Alington, returning it posed up
Wise to lifest.etreet, end lankly to the church in Smith.
Wed, the edition being entered by =maatory.
Here Divine service was held, the
coodusted by the rector of Bridport. Severalta=
hytnna wermung. The Rev. D. B ow.Evorabot.d vend
from the pulpit • simple but practical address to the
scholars and teachers. The general coagmorsidon left
the church fiat, the scholars singing • " remesionar
hymn as they left the building. The pommies then
marched to the play.groued of the schools for tea,
which was served by lb. Frank Long, and • large
staff of rosistanta It is superfluous to say that the
Witat an hings were enjoyed d done full Joao, to. The
nroh scholars did not remain to tea, but after
the burial returned home, where a tea was awaiting
them. Between five and six the company repaired to
a field near the Harbour-road, kindly led by Mr.
John Hounsell, and her, various sports and pastime
were indulged In, In spite of the heavy showers which
came down at intervais. Each @Mod WM under the
care of It. own clergyman and Mita ;rho appeared
to be driving to their utmost to t three under
their charge. The showers were but welcome.,
and their effect upon the pleasuraseekers could not
but rase a smile. A few pattering drops were the
harbingers of a regular pour, every person
made a rush for the merest hedge and • twinkling
up went a thousand umbrellas lookinial? an army of
rlo2mwhrionlinlor • time obtanredt 21.1"Srouel
away and pleasure was again resumed, only to be
again interrupted by mother shower. However, it
was OWNS to repine and all endeavoured to make the
best of it under the cirountstsnoes. Jost before nine
o'clock the band led the way homewards as far as the
church, where each deported their several ways, after
cheers luid been given for the rector and hie wife. Mr.
Leonard, and other friends. The Rev, A. A. Leonard,
view of Fortnights, late curate of Bridport, was
present on the omadm, and received • hearty welcome
somefrom panuardiatrieriapeaps
t,belliioithe church mat out
RECEPTION OF THE DORSET VOLUN-
TEERS.
It is generally known that the Dorset Volunteers
are to enownp this year at Burton on the
old camp mmuad a-Im
, about three and ilf from
BrldPurk The INA amp at this plod was held in
July, lin, wives throughout • perfect snoods. The
adjutant at that time expressed himself y eatiefied
et tits style in width the men *maim,
In the bikTunet Marnish drirmilhing, and other chola
his mud have been momeraging to tie ream
omd, front the riper= freers an carters,
thereareahundast remark MMdmete avast
meat. It is sarpsoded that us lon Shea 700 masa will
b.psseent, lad II i 7 boPad upt te. Imam will peeve

lIIRSIONS IN CENTRAL SOUTH AFRICA.
• more than nasally large audience gathered at
Aliagtou Hall on Friday night, to hear the Rev. F.
Oolliard and Maim Melee speak respecting the work
of Christian Missions in South Central Akio', Rev.
Bs/Wald fimilk presid_s_di supported by Bishop Geme
of chairman wee disphisigkertarge map of
Equatorial and South Afrioa.—Rev. Ileginald Smith
remarkied that Christians must be ever interested in
that dark continent, so long the habitation of cruelty.
—Major Maks had felt for =ay years • debtor to
Dorchester to speak a word for Christ bare. Twenty-
five years ago he received • welcome here when he
cams back from the Crimean War • but than he was
not • Christian, ha thought of nothing but military
WThe earns lady who ministered to him when he
i; wounded officer at the hotel yonder, w" the
same to whom he wee indebted for his visit here .
He introduced • brother in arms, who had °Zen
22years engaged in the interior of Africa • but who
couldnot tell the fullbistoe7 of what our Lord Jesus
Christ is doing and has done for years past there
or they would, like the Israelites of old, fall on their
faces, and cry—" The Lord, He is the God." He
has never failed any man who has gone out with
faith to work for HIZO. About 50 years ago
the Trench Protestant Church sent out misdates to
Africa, and they met with tfoehesh, chief of the
Boat° tribe, a man of character so remarkable that
be was above the man who died at St. Helena. By
the Fria& Protestant missionaries the tribe of
Mosbesb, the Barintos, bad been made what it is • and
these Africans DOW support 123 native evaugelia6 in
their own league" and have contributed £4BO to
&odds funds, but since the Basutoe could not under.
take the expense of a mission to the interior of Africa,
Mr. Coillard had been seat over to engage the interest
el the Protestants of France, England, ko.,
Is behalf of these mimicas.—The Rey. F. CoMard,who
spoke with foreign sweat, apologised, 1111 he did
not speak in his mother tongue. Re had
fogad the promise true that "Whoeoever shall
leave father and mother for Chalet's sake and the
shall receive manifold more in this present
The mai and women who had been converted
Is BesaMhad—timse were his "brother,and sisteroad
meether." When Josue Christ called • man to work
iorhim ia Basutoland, He called him to work for him
for life and far death. Two natives had been seat
from Basutoland into the 'Transvaal, the President
=Wthem at Pretty* and soot the, to
ar • mock trial, esat %Wu book to grit
Mad with a bill of £l7 to pay which
:radthought • great deal for fo. Ammo of
meslies, as which they had boa, fad.
hr. Collard then west on to tell of his mime" with
In the reastry sortie of the -
71,isZi—w-o- years and four mouths, the whop. for
mode in waggons. Ooe=t7 went Snit%
to Pretoria. where the boot itcz=
but WINN now they were received with
fratrewelf:+l pitel
tibu.X:ll4 te:ett l
ik
e
d
,
vest prti the
Insliml thaw vgry wag their d
waggons Nue
raparsl Ix mooing. wbm ha iss=4they
wen taloa Feboaan by tbe MMeid, sod
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RSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1880

favourable, and entice a number of visitors. On the
review day in 1875 there IMO no lees than 15,800
parsons present from all parte of the county. A rase seal-ST.
public meeting was couvemed In the (condi chamber Tha removal at the mail tan causes us to look upon onr
of the Town-hall on Friday evsaing last, by requisition barley (wile bursting lato ear) with heightened lot." it
of the -.....34°Y°r' to tli°°°_. ____nr.the imliel of the Public It WOWS' freely in the air, an emancipated creature. Wbat
must toe manner cs receavtag the volunteers into the ~.wihi it,. .....0..... to to, . farmers', First.
town. The attesdanos was limited, Hie worship we behave It will set as a siiroulne to private brew.
and there ISOM Usuoint--CAptolD Wilwasin. Mg. f3goondly. it will probably eatve a tare. r quanti Y
gassolord:),.._:B. Whethern. 0-. Ainriter, T. H. Osborne of bullar be mated for stool. Fit our own part, we
• do not Wye that the conversion a barley into malt is •
3. tso.ll7i.___,..__W. Bbran7. ac., Be. After the chair- very advan'ageous chart,. Th. most eroinest chemit a
zu" had nin".`,. 6,,,zPiniaid the re" en of csilinif aren t sated as to the .up rionty of sugar (nor 'Mica as
the meeting. MY. t.,. eusker pointed ou: tli-t the first a for/ Many practical men, hoverer. think differtutlY.
thing they had to do wee to collect money. The and we have no doubt that an endeavour will he m ide to
volunteers had WYSS COON Without being vre:eamed, substitute malt for barley in feeding cattle, aod plrhapa
and he ooseidered the, should be welcomed when they especially in feeding milch c we and lambs. Thirdly, we
'text °lilta al* It Was thought n-t ecrth while to may loh for a greater demand for thows CiSSIOi of
spend the collected is &poor:I'll/Di as on former barleys from which in dtaters have lv ea wont to
occasions,
what was
time in provisiins, and ..ver and Loa jkw,:yr.tictltast=ll..A dutyord tie. a
'lO for
above what WM =needed in provisinss should a penny. in for Pa pound, 1 Tared& sayiolegy. lierly
be offered In prizes. If people liked to appropriate to barley baying. Better give Mi. for prime
&west* their hone's, lc., so moch the bettor. The barley than 45e. for middling, bemuse the tax
ammeigno was co listed last taw,. .1 1,, slava, pro. raised the inferior Prim to 73 ~ while the high-priced bar.
1,004 that a sub.mssmits„ be forme,' to collect the Icy only stood at 834. The tax WM levied upon quantity
and not
tupon i value, sinsd.thheicrehf.erme the
fonds. The committee was accordingly f mine i into
dintrloteread to them entrusted the work of o Ilsotion. ChasPes etetsietdwutoair:iase" the
Mr. F. W. Hallett was ted hon. sec of OJUI. at of good. and lower the price of inferior barley.
Ve shall probably find in deters leo keen of bwinit
mitt's with 1103tuastion.air was d oiled that upon , the best barley at extravagant rets, and incite ready to
entering the town the OM should be regaled with • ; treat with farmers for moderate quell:lm Barter will
bread and cheese luncheon, with beer or I.mouade, ' become a leas risky emit to row, as its value will not be
and a similar twist when isaviog the town. This would ' found to suffer on account if a Flight stain, and this we
think will mate it eves. more pannier crop Wan it is at
undoubted/7 plisse the corps better than the eight, j
aihoult IS elirwl•ble one, of the towit being decorated, I Pre4"L
whit* _ properly carried out woul.l cat a large sum
ma • deal rd . Captain Whetbsul proposed •
vote of thaiske to his Worship for presiding; he had
always showed his interest in the corps, and expressed ,
the hope they would not discredit the county when
=ooze. The Mayor suitably responded, and the
terminated.

Agriculture,

SYDLING.
Nnw GOODS STSSIOX.—Tbe tradesmen and red.
dents eingeen:lisiesalise Yale between here and Grim-
will be to hem that no the prospect of
having a station at the latter place rests on •
satidaotory foundation, and we trust speedi y to have
to announce the oommeatentent of the works, whioh
when completed cannot but tend to the convenienoe
and accommodation of the locality.

WARIBEIdK.

FLOWED OARD6I4.
Those t‘ hi have any rose bidding to do tike
edventaes of the present vi ry favourable condition of
the stocks to get the work The up is running now
very freely, and an urly uttiou of bud and stock will be
the result of budding at Vii, stage. To VI. (omits"
rosaries, the season of thworleg is • ptr:od of unusual
pleasure and interest and one of tome anxiety, too. if he
be an exhibitor of the queen of ft men. The rose season
has already commenced in the West, and by the time
these bees are in print, the blooms will be opening freely
In other localities ; but we doubt if they will be g, floridly
Do good in quality as they usually are.
ONIONS.
With regard to onions and worms destroying them, a
gardener was showing me his onion bed the other der on
rich soil ; he said the worms were destroying hie crop bY
truffles the plants into the ground. He used smuts
between a few ranks at night, than by daylight in the
morning he had sprinkled some fresh slacked lima op the
same rank.; the result was that the following day You
could count toe dead worms by hundreds. Is there •
better means of saving as onion crop I—Mid.
11kILDT MOTT AID VIOSTADLI °MIDDX.
Strawberries are now ripening fast, and, thanks to the
recent heavy rains, are of very fine quality, se well as
abundant in quantity. Raspberries and black currents
are also coming In, and jam-making will boon be the order
of the dal. All hinds of vegetables have made a Ilse growth
during the last ten days, and while the weather remains
so favourable for planting, every advantage should be taken
of it. The planting of the main crop of celery should
especially be pushed on.
oaggCNOUSII, FRS, AND MAME&
If it is intended to give chrysanthemums another shift,
it should be done at once; and the plants should also
have their growths stopped now for the last time. Stand
the plants on • good bed of coal sakes, well exposed to the
sun, but be uireul not to neglect them in the matter of
watering. Seedling plants of primulas and cineraries
must be potted on in a tolerably light, rich compost, and
have plenty of sir when they have established themselves
in the fresh soil Watch the latter for insects, and either
fumigate the frame or dip the plants in tobaoco water as
soon as any are discovered. Show pelargoniums that have
done flowering should he placed in • sunny position in the
open air, to ripen their wood previous to cutting them
down. Cuttings of theme will strike freely now in the open
air.

SUNDAY Somme Ozarnsanr.—The centenary was
celebrated Lem on Thunder. At half-past two
*Work the children and leaohirre to the number of
between 700 and aoo, all wearing the Sunday school
union oominemontion medal, paraded the principal
streets of the town to the cricket field, kindly lent for
the ecionsion. Mr. Montague Guest, M.P.. and the
Bove. P. Stokes (rector), J. Judson, and Dotahem
delivered abort and appropriate addresses, after which
the =Edna were regaled with • plentiful supply of
tea and cake at the expense of the esteemed and
worthy member. After the tea wee over various
kinds of amusement were provided for the children,
and it is superfluous to any with fine weather they all
sojoyed themselves to their hearts' content. Messrs.
Bennett and Soo, who contracted for the tea, gave
entire satisfaction, and the magnificent playing of the
Wool braes band was much appreciated. The ringing
of the hymns with so much Frontal= by nich a large
number of children testified to the pshl way
this, not the least important part of the proosedinge,
was carried out by W. Edgar Smith.