The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-06-28 00:00:00

Virfitulture.

HARDY FRUIT GARDEN.

It is of the greatest Impmtanos to keep fruit treel
trained to walls or otherw free from inmate. which.
during a dry cold season each as the present. has hitherto
not been an easy task. To facilitate the operation the
foresight and other unnecessary shoots on trained tress I
should be cut back so as to form spun or he removed
&honel er as may be oonsidered expel:tent In most
instances the spray will be more in Anted with aphides
than the older leaves at the bees of the shoots, therefore,
by removing those parts much is effected toward.
the destruction of the teasels if the shoots are at once
collected and burned, whilst lightand air are admitted for
the early formation and 'saturation of fruitful spun. The
removal 4 the shoots %Ito better admits of the application
of an ins • cticide, advantage bstrafttsben of is calm after-
noon to promply apply it where necessary. One thorough
&NA c Won is worth many partial dressiege; and for destroys
in some insects, particeliarly the black aphis Infesting
cherries, the brims infesting peach trees, and the blue
&phis that attacks plums, it is necessary to thoroughly
reach the pests, for unless the insects are in some way
disiurhed, the liquid nsasee•from them without baring
any effect whatever. Ensconced as the insects are under
' the young leaves, it is a good plan to rub the foliage with
the fingers wetted repeatedly in the insecticide, 'Wowing
immediately with a heavy application (rem the garde.
engine. This should be followed in a day or two with •
thorough cleansing with water, repeating as necessary;
for frequent syrineings in dry weather not only have a
demising effect, but are beneficial to the foliage and
advancing fruit.
Atten-1 to nailing or tying-in the leading shoots. and
nails and other obstructions likely to interfere with the
development of the growing fruit should be removed.
The fruit, especially final
apricots, should have a thinning
if necessary. The , .ong•continned dry weather has been
favourable to the leaf-rolling caterpillars on fruit treea,
and for this careful band-picking is the mast eflectual
remedy. Pyramid, bush, and sepalise apples, peen, pines,,
may be stopped and nave superfluous growths removed
where necessary, not ssopplux closer than to three or four
bade, at, II cut-in tic herd, the trees will probably start
in.o second growth without farming fruit buds Or spun.
Where the fruit is thick lose no time in judiciously
thinning the crop; a too heavy crop C 40144 interiority of
the present fruit, and inevitably results in a future
faint!.

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Bush fruit'. each es gooseberries, with red and white
currant", should also have the shoots stopped when the
crowth is over abundant, but the crops ere generally so
heavy that less growth than usual has token place this
yea,. In order to secure fine fruit for dessert the crop
should be thinned, so that when ripe the fruits bang clear
of esch other. There is no comparison between the ripe
fruit from trees carrying • too heavy crop and those with •
mvlerate one in point of quality. Strawberry plants
should have been mulched wine tims since, and will now
require to LA carefully netted to protect the ripening
fruit from bird,. Mulching will have been found
valuable where it has been resorted to. for fruit tress of
all kinds, sod especially raspberries, which are suffering
from lack of moisture. as 'aware fruit tree. in restricted
borderv, which should when necepeary be well watered.

limn to Wednesday sight about £14,000 had been
received by the Lord Mayor u the remit of the collections
on Hospital Bauder.
The Duke of Cambridge, accomoanied by Sir Garnet
nise'ey cal others of the If vasi Guards ataff, toads his
annual loop-ction of the troops at Aldershot on Thursday.
The troops numbered altogether about 10.000 men.
We regret to announce that Mr. Charles Dillon, the
actor, and for some time lessee and manager of the
Lyceum Theatre, Strand, suddenly dropped deed in the
High-ttreet of Hawn* on Friday morning, in which
burgh he wu fulalling an engagement. Mr. Dillon was
In hie Bind year.
The cake:dation' of the census are said to be rapidly
approaching rompletiou. A London contemporary easerte
that the entire population of the United Kingdom will be
thown to be over thirty•five millions, the melee being a
little over seventeen million., and the females very nearly
egi.teen m.lhous. The incases In the tea year. is more
th An folr mi'liona.

At Bumenehem, on Wednesday, Alfred Lowe, • trump,
war charged w'th a murlcroua assault upon Mrs. Heap.
wife of a rr-?emer of music, at Elthastoa. The prisoner
,t'emtee I to rh IL.. Heap of her puree, but she made •
drt-rmined resiatance. The risomr thereupon stabbed
hr. was subs•quently arrested for being drunk, and
was Mr utlile I while in custody. He was remanded.
A p, rivor of the charge of the Light Brined* at
It. ak'ava he 95th of o,tober 1851, was on Tuesday
chaeged at the klbeesion H-u-e. with having attempted to
enoAnit so;ei le, The man dated that after serving 12
e•aeg in th- army, he bad been discharged without a
Destine, and was now des'itute and nearly blind. He was
r-l-aa..t from coatody with a special recommendation from
the magistrate to the workhouse authorities.
Mr I S. Brewster, a chemist's traveller. sited Frank oak', in auctioneer's elerk, M the Countr.court at
Bir:ningham, on Wednesday, to wove, the rum of 1:011 fir loot rf wises and permits' injuries sustained by
being kwhked die; bv a bicycle, On October ffith the
'domain eel arming Wood-street, when the defendant
was peraing along at 6 great speed. Hibbs ung hie bell
but the plaintiff. who did not hear it, wen 'moored down, sod received such swims injuries that he was
incanaritated for flfte-n weeks. The judge gave a verdict
for the plaintiff for £46.
A memorial was recently presented to the Prime
mittiater reigned be 853 membrow of Parliament, Cmser-
retire ant le!berra., asking his assistance, in bringing the
qu -.Von .t marriaee with a deceased wife's sister before : flu II Mee of Commons Subsequently Sir Thomas
Chambers wrote to the right hon, gentleman on the
subject. Mr. Glad•tme replied as follows :—'Th.
interest and the emtexrasementa connected as to time
with the Irish Land Bill are too rout at Dreamt to allow
me to 'peva**, on the possibility of our being able to
give any aid to your bill, though I sincerely hope it may
be in our power to do on. There will, undoubtedly be a
great demand for the Bankruptcy Bill, and I am by on
means without the fear of some oth.r pressing demands
which we mud hardly put a•ide."
A good deal of g.weip has been omesioned in Dublin by
• well.nigh unprecedented snub which Lord esti a., In hie
capacity of Chancellor of the University of Dublin, has
just received at the hands of the Senate of that Univer-
sity. His lordehm, it seems, nominated some gentlemen
for degree.. among them being the Earl of Belmont and
the 1t,,. Neville Sherbrooke' but the S•nate on Weds...
day placed a veto On the two gentlemen named. The
reasons for this untwist proceeding have not tranenired,
I The Archbishop of Canterbury Presided on Wednesday
at the annual meeting in la 'radon of the National Society
for pr Aims the education of the poor Is the prmciplea
of „he Rotobijibed chetech. Ile mentioned that the
are-are attendauce at the society', echo be was .C 1.471,000 whilst at board schools it was only 769.000. He desired
to work cordially with the school boards, and hope/ they would embrace every °poi:pausal left to them of giving
religious education where it was emended. The Marquis
of Salisbury said ten years ago, when the B ligation Act
was passed, It was no doubt a great crisis, and a reeele.
tion in our It
system was apprehends . it wail
marvellous that with all their cursive power, school
bowels were only educating half the number of children
the society was.
There is now living and In red health a lady-41A,.
Margaret Bailey—who completed her 110th year on the
Bth of January last. She resides in the toutland of
Ballygilbert, parish of Cairnesetle, sitnata on the cult of
the county of Antrim, between the towns of Larne and
Oleoarm. It is a picturesque neighbourhood, well known
t, tourists by the coast rod from Larne to the Giant's
Causeway. In addition to her own uniform tateoent
and the concurrent belief of her relatives and neig h
the age of this remarkable woman Is attested by the Irv:
Clarson Porter, of Ballyeally Castle, In the earns parish,
eho has in lits possession the original family record,
giving apt only the date of Ill4s Relley's birth, but also
that of her brother and sisters.
There has been a good deal of quiet grumbling at the
Reeteeo Welton. but hitherto Archdeacon Denison. who
grumbles at everything, has stood almost alone
In
Idenouncing it in public. The excellent Archdeacon h
at last found a worthy cornyeer in the person M tts
e
redoubtable Mr. Talmage. who ham taken a solemn oath,
I amidst the enthusiastic within.* of a crowded amperes-
! lion, never to use the Revised Version either In his Pulpit
or in family worship. Kr. Talmage compared the revisers
tithe irreverent limb, and, to judge from the mood' of
his sermon, he would gladly see them share Ussah's fate.
" Ninety-nine out of every hundred of those who think •
and read will pronounce the revision • desecration and an
outrage." The revision, he declared, makes the Episcopal
liturgy untrue, and the inscriptinwe on the tombstones
share the fate of the liturgy. "In a word it upsets qua
whole system." It is a literary botch." "a mechamical
tailor.," and • work at moat amoolog tsilvill/RY."—As4l
uat..

BIRTHS.
June IS, at Hastings House, Bournemouth, the Ira. ef
Kr. Hubert Honey, of a daughter.

MARRIAOL4—.
Jane 14. at All Campine', Wilts, by Hs. Rirr. S-
nowlend, rector of Tarrant Keynston, Dorset, assisted by
the Rev. J. Hart Burrea, D D., rector of Dosiaes„ th end e Roy. A. Page, D. H. A. Way'en, only eon el George
Waylen, Eno , of Longcmft. Devises to Anne Eli" eldest daughter of the iota Henry Hitchcock, IrAq., of All
°zonings.
June 15, at St. John's Church, Weymouti. by the Bev'
H. L. Rands% Thonem Pryer, third son of the late Mrs.
Thomas Pryer, of Stocklend. Neon, to Ana ellornma"
Briddo Cook. daughter of Mr. W. Cook, of Weymouth.
June 15, at ths parish church, Milton Abbe'. by the
Rev. 3. Bernard-Lowman, °Ore. oo,y son of Mr. John
Watts, kiloton/or, hc., Biandfor 1 to Jogai., eldest
daughter of Mr. E. Georg., hillitor,Milt Al,bee.
June RI, at the parish chtsroh, Wingit.l4. Wily, by the
llev ft. Lamellae, re.-tor of Newton Si. Lott, near Bl!th. ...Aided by the 11. Y. Prebendary Meade, meter et Wigs'
field, Vimeent Henry Panalver Ceillard, IMui. Her!!
%Mew, O&M son of C. F. Caill.tmt Winter • Tyre, Vglii to Mile Hanham, datigitt•r of the WO
tain John of Dean's (bark Donutune It, at Rt. Jelm's Church, Pertiaad, by the T. A. (Utley, 8.D., Mr. E. C. Hibbs, Plirkhu 1d•
Wight, to Anhie, eldest daughter id Mr. S. W.
jeweller, Portland,
June IS, at St learn's Fbrdingtoss. by the Her. A. A-
'Amax& FlonlT Youngest son of the late Mr. Jan
WWI+ tx. tunnels. youngest daughter otMr. U. Franklin.
both of Dorchester.

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DRAWLS.
Anne 9 at Hartfoot4aue, was. Dorchester, Ells. Mica
of the late Tom Bioassay, Nod 67.
June la, at Trinity-road, Weymouth. Carona*. whicw
of the lateW. B. Hancock, of Weymouth. aged 811. June 14. at Weymouth. An Habana, daughter of the late Mr. John Holum. aged. 74.
June 17, at the Kiag's Arms Hotel. Dorchester, after •
long and_painfol Illness, George Frost, aged 62.
June 17, atWeYeaoutli, the widow of the late George Holland, Neal&
June 12, at Que.& George Skid* ibpd
lean.
JUIN 21), Mr. Samuel Lay, forma* Porter at the Pooh
station of the London aad South Western Railrfal.
Much respected.

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