The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-21 00:00:00

Itarticulturt.

FOacigo Liu= or rag Vimltv.—Few flowers are in
are aim Amused during Um winter and early spring thaa
[lire of Pig valley. The difficulty, however, of starting
them into (meth in the early port of the rise., say Nov.
aed Doraonber. has often proved a disappvintment to
many. S .me co:Ureter' are loud in their Frames of the
imported Gunn* for early forcing. while others as
earnestly assert that homa-gio•n plants are equally good
if Dot better tor tee pa, pose. lay experience is decidedly
In favour of the former. sad I doubt sot that overwhelm-
ing testimony could be furnished in favour of imported
As • rule, titivate growers are badly equipped fee
forcing. and coarequently have to resort to • good goal of
sch •ining and makeshif tins to keep on terms of equality
with Move who have special means provided for forcing.
Nunetymen who make any pretence to foram stab roots
in quality have • knack of going about Mir Miasma
diffe.ently from the n.sjarity of gardeners, and seldom
force clomps, but pick the Anent individual crowns and
arrange them as thickly together as they will stick in a
strong hottom-beet, which is usually supplied from hol-
e/ow pipets, with stmvoisg-troughs, so that the teasAnrsa-
ture can b. kept up to any figure that is desired.
clomps are forced all the crowns do not start sway at
the same Linke, even under the favourable conditions
of forcing I have mentioned. It will, therefore, be evident
that selecting the single crowns la the moat eocosornical
plan to adopt. But in rase a ram or put requires to be
fillvd, how Pen There are two ways of accomplishing
the object—either by forcing • few clumps aied selecting
one or two of the brat and filling in the bUnk places with
single crown,, or by using all single crowns when they
have pushed fully into fl iwar and leaf and it is seen which
crowns are to produce the beet flowers Of course,
after potting, he Manta should enjoy a warm temperature
for some Uwe, end eltwewards be gradually burdened of.
Saveral years ago I bad a batch of Imported clumps which
I failed to sta. t into give th alter having tried them In
every forcing house on the place. I was naturally both
annoyed and disappointed at the result, and as • final
,ffort I bad • frame raised on • tied of strong fermenting
dung and leaves, and into this I plunged Me pots. I then
put some male over Um gleu to protect it, and put from
one foot to 18 inches thick of the fermenting materials
over the glass—just enough to draw up the beat. I hod •
peep in the (mum nearly every day, and from the density
of the volutlloll of pent-up steam that met me upon each
occasion I had little hope but that the roots of the plank
would he injured. I believe (writhing from memory) that
the bolt= heat extuadad 100', bull had dowers alter all,
and such a show as I have never had before or since.
Ivory crown seemed to yield • flower, and Mere were also
plenty of leaves along with thetn.—W. HOMO, Canford
Manor.

At Oxford, on Thursday, a man seated Koreas:l, who
was locked up at the policerstation for an act of vegraocy,
was dire:overact dead in tbe cell, he having sesspeeded
self with two leather straps from the wire ventilation. Az
inquest has be.. bald, and a verdict of suicide whil• of
unsound tniod misread.
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Afteralii-te.r7er of boar years, foot and mouth disease
has again appeared In the neighbourhood of Lewes, and it
Is feared that the outbreak wul assume large propordons
At Nanteich, on Saturday, Ann Smith, farm servant,
eat ormunitted fey trial for the murder of her child, 15
months old. The primmer had confessed to the drowning
of the infant, saying that "eome funny thoughts came
over her. and she dropped It in."
11A1.01 OF fiOUTHMITTON AND FOOTBALL RULES. —A
correspondent sands urns eopy of the placard issued by the
Mayor of Southampton with regard to football playing in
that tows. It runs as folio..:—' The Mayor, in cones-
quince of the many serious accidents, and the recent
deplorable desth in Southampton, resulting from the
dangerous practice of playing football, request, the heads
of I emilese, the principals of the scholastic esteblishmente
In the town, and the members of club, ti take such stops
aa may be necessary for preventing the game bolsi played
In future according to the 'Rugby 'The Assecia-
Lion, arid other rules ~f a denivrous character. The
11.iyor ...insiders it his duty to use evi_rp MOWS in his
power: for pr•BlbiUrg the game as hitherto played being
contiuued either in the porter', meadow field ;or upon
any other part of the public lands in Southampton."