The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

Tits MATOI'II DINIIIII

The members of the council of the Bath and West
of England Society assembled at the White Hart, on
Monday whero they partook of an excellent
Manor ',melded by the Meyer. Colonel Luttrell pre-
sided and several of lb* Judges were present, including
Mr Corbett, of the Central Fanners' Ciub, Mr. Thurwalf,
of Royston, and Mr. Tepteueier. Tbo Mayor of the
City was al-o at the dinner. Mr. Tedetroeier pee •
very satbfactory report of the ssitibitios of pottier",
reps:king that there less • great proadosocy of thee
bird. newt suited to apioulteral panne.. It wee
decidedly tbe beat exhibition of poultry that had bens
held. Tb• society was especially anxious to esowirsee
tbe breeding of thole deers of poultry (bet
were useful for agricultural purposes and calculated
to provide food for the people. Mr. Corbett, vb., in
a tray good suthority on hone, rid that urgerith-
standing Het the entries of horses were not very
numerous, tier society ought sot to be discouraged, and
in one at two eaves nem cry superior mine& were
shows. Colonel Luttrell. on behalf of tie. 'coley,
expressed his eatesdaseloo at the reapplies that had been
Ores thee by NM *km, who. be mid. had dcu.tfl
that the obasall of lito toeioty " Weed bits to do."

THB StID DCPARTMIIIIT.

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At Messrs. Sutton and Son's, of Reading, • insignia
&mit range, inched, without eseeption, the most lei
sphitident io the yard, nd wive, he. for many liars
seer, got up under tier. soperinterdence fMr. Mn.. nitel.
w ez•io tied 150 hit. of ,s-sea, all growing in pots
(misprinted it our initial notice "grapes"). including a
eery handmrne pecillito of the Swine' Sehraileiii, •
new grass, which rilmots tilt several feet ill height, with
in enos moos fl•g•like leaf, but which we fear insy be
found rat!), r coarse for fodder; and likewise the Glycerla
Aquatic*, another profuee grower, adapted, a. in, name
importa, to wet situation. Ti, the use of hostioultoriiits
Merarii. Sutton hav• introduced very nice materials in
rivalry of the Rmaian brionniat ; theie are the Cuba
bast, and also the China San, a cry tine niatetial for
use of ladies in gent. nine, hot of cola, not a
bourn, hut a Wooly fibre product limn a tree. Meas.,.
Sutton's purple Kohl Raid etract, el very mu n tit tentiot ,
the large and nitaseive nait• beim; very acceptable to
slireP ; rot also did the great thick fusiform Belgian
carrots. They exhibited like • lee the holi on macelintaturni
ea, mach in rove • few years back. And in tar.
ticular, • vast variety of turnip seeds, 11 which
their grey stone or mottled globe turnip is the
reigning favourite. Of their maugela some nods
were prodigious, the long red Elvethain w, iehing
401ba. even now, and when treat) pulled, perlispi, &Abs.
We were moan pleased with the very curious iiitinplea
produced of almost every variety of American Maize, in
every gradation of colour, yellow, buff, blood red.
varitgated white anti red, and every peculiarity of
rolour. Of grassmi. they exhiliited not only 150 grow-
ing specimen., affording an imen. DM, advantage io
tusking • selection, hut 200 sorts in • di ied state,
named, labelled, and beautitell• &num d. There were
60 bags of grave veils ealiibited in bulk, and 300 bags
of reeds altogetlor b, rides at enormous d cam
of reeds under glass, hut ret upright, ci reprising. tse
think, upward. of 1,1:00 kinds of seeds. Than. in din
base row were 100 orta of seeds used in agriculture or
on the farm, the tent two rows cimitirised garden reeds,
herbs as no II es vegetaltli n; the next the grasses, the
neat. tree seed+, and the upp, r four were entirely of
flower reeds, of wlrch we do not believe such &classified
inblAge could anywhere else be men. When we 6,1,1
that this vest collection, was in every instance, distin-
.gu al by the hot •nteal and English ...rye", the
amoni,• of care and labour bestowel on its completion
may i.e weil surmised. A very pretty map is published
by ail extensi•e house, indicating all the poirds over
the face of the kingdom at which they undertake to
deliver seed• to order. We ought to mention that they
exhibit amongst other objects, eight sorts of beans, but
have given especial attention to peas, and of these alien
a very fine collection of no fewer than 60 kinds. Our
attention was cap cially directed to their roots, mangel
partioubi•ly, of which the yellow globe and the 13.-11 r•
shire prise mansel. V e colour of whose flesh is white,
the yellow intertmdiate, and the .elected yellow globe,
retro the most conimendable, and some of thew we
*ere informed had been raised last year to the extent
lof 75 tons per acre. _ _ .

Messm. James Carter and Company, of London, with
great ellcieLce end per.picuity of Arrangement, set
forth their long range of shedding, adjoioing Messrs.
Sutton's, upon a dark blue ground, and if mare.
Button's 6.414 red relieved with white, we have thus
preanminating in this partmular quarter, "the red.
white, and blue." Both stands w to shown off to the
utmost advantage, and perhaps lost nothing from the
force nf contrast. Messrs. Csrter and Co., exhibited
everything in the seed line, useful for the garden and
the (arm, end very much that Ii ornamental. ti etc will.
known gorgeous fir.) illustrations which appear
publicly, being adopted for the adornment of mod
seed w•re houses in the king low. Their seed they grow
thembelyes, being celebrated as seed growers, and Buhl-
eating central need-forms in Essex and elsewhere, for
the exclusive purposed of their trade, not to much Deed
corn indeed, but the grasses they are well up in ; and
they produce all sorts of vegetable seeds; 56 distinct
variet•es of pees, including MeLean's "Little Gem," a
kind which is very early, very dewily, and very pro-
lific_ We were exceedingly well pleased from a
handsomely arranged group of Ballett's pedigree
wheels, he , to find that the owner of Brighton Manor,
has at length gone in sucocasfully for the selection
principle in Hunter's and other favourite whiten, i.e
wel as in po'igree barley. To enumerate Cm vege-
table wed display at this intensive range of shedding,
would be impossible ; the most noticeable being
perhaps, lettuce, endive, end sekry, of which they ire
large seed growers, •nel prodnee fully 15 varieties.
A monpt other gardening and table facilities which they
exhibited, the expanding cover for flower pots struck
us as being at once elegant and useful.