The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-20 00:00:00

BLANDPORD.

THE UsioN.—On Friday night the union house was
lighted with gas for the first time, theguardians having
accep•ed the contract of Mr. W. Pond, who made the
fittings. We understand there are between .50 and 60
buruers.
LANGTON Rsx.rronr.—The Rev. Frank Salmon
having been presented to the living of Langton Long
(void by the death of the late Rev. It Farquharson),
"iead himself in" on Sund.y morning last and in the
afternoon gave and explanation of some of the Thirty-
nine Articles to which he as the incumbent had
subscribed.
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ltasevom Horse, the Dorsetshire seat of Sir Talbot
Baker, nestling at the bottom of Hamilton Hill,
famous for its Homan camps and entrenchments, and
but • short drive from Blandford, is one of those
places which if not exactly modelha in style is none the
leos interesting because it is im tint. The pleasure
grounds, which are rather extensive for the size of the
place, and in strict harmony with the architectural
matures of the mansion, are very prettily laid out in a
manner that is at once pleasing to the eye, natural in
style, of easy flowing outline, and watered by a clear
running stream, which takes • winding course through
the grounds, and is spanned by two or more orna-
mental bridges. In the immixliate locality of the
house there is a giant Cedar of Lebanon, about 20 feet
in circumference, and a great ornament to the lawn
upon which it is growing. The tree, notwith-tanding
the low-lying situation, has escaped injury from the
extreme temperatures of the past three or four years,
and is in a flourishing condition, unlike many others
that have suffered in the same district. The whole
valley upon which the grounds arc laid out is bristling
with many fine trees, and even the slope of the great
hill is not without a sprinkling of single trees and
clumps, to say nothing of the deep ravine, so beautifully
clad with the commoner kinds of bushes and under-
wood. The flower garden is designed upon the
simplest principle but makes a fine show and neither
lacks variety of material, arrangement or colour. It
is indeed a pleasant little spot, having many cheerful
associations abut it of quiet repose, mingled with sun-
beam which ca-t their rich deep rays over the summit
of adjoining hills as the sun sinks in the distant west.
There is a shrubbery within the grounds I} mile in
length, which gives much variety and so ipe for
introducing many kinds of plants, The kitchen and
fruit gardens are in three divisions, separated by walls
which are profitably occupied with fruit-bearing trees
of apples, pears, plums, and morello cherries, in large
quantities. In tbe vineries nice clusters of black and
white grapes are either ripe or ripening, and the plant.
houses are gay with summer flowering plant.. If there
is anything special among the plants, it is in the New
Holland house, where a wce collection of these once
favourite plants are enjoying the utmost care at the
hands of Mr. Browning, the grrdener, who takes great
interest in the glass. In the posch-houses • variety of
pe .ch called oulhamstead is bearing a fine highly
coloured crop, as were cordons at the front of an
orchard-house, each plant bearing a full crop. Two
better samples of the extension and restriction forms
I of training could not be desired. Isith doing equally
well in their rejective plares.—Vistruit in Gankacri
Chronicle.