The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-02-23 00:00:00

DOSOMISTIIII.

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Tng Menne Oonenr•trat Durum—At the
Polieemoart an Holiday Mr. T. foot applied Mr an
ecomional license to .ell at the Corn Ex&enge front
waren to 11 &dock on the led proximo.
Team's* or Laconia —On Monday the limner of
the Union Arms, Fordington, was temporarily trans-
ferred from the executors of the late Mrs. Pit&ld to
Joseph Bubb, of the Depa Deceit Regiment
Tootsatt..—A match was played on Saturday
between Dorabriar Gnuaraar Sorel (without
masters) and fad XL Weymouth Cams. The
Grammar School boys had by far the best of the play,
and won by three gads to ail.
Foam:mow Planta VIIOSTAII4 SNOW. The
mooed meeting of the working men of the parish wit
held a the Club-moon of the Coles Tamen on Thurs.
day emaing lam. Then was • very good attendance.
The Rm. A. A. Leonard took she chair, and read
over the rules, which had bees drawn up by Use own-
Were appointed at • former meeting, lasi* after •
smart duanesion, were
Awes= Vacuum a=7l;l.
.—AS the Borough
Police-court on Monday, Joseph Vo, builder, wee
charged with messilting Frederick William Seward,
baker—Mr. Hettabls asked fer an adjournment fur
three weeks, on account et the serious illness of be
alien. —4l r Burnett, not objeetiug, the Bench
granted the applicesism. (Yr. &weld wit not pre
mated from attending 107 mom of the sonsult,
&Mewl' be hae been badly cut about the fees, but
I. at preeset sullerin&fv= rheumatic levee.)
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for Anthem, Rice SIN University College ; Litany,
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Dominates. bust week, to protem against the annual
hiring fair (says the Sa:Olney Journal). ibe custom '
is a very old one, and in many places is of great con• I
names to both guid i stein and two. That t involves '
anything degrading is absurd. The statement of the
chairman that Ines are brought to these fairs "to be
hired 1111 shattela and bought a• besets and cattle at •
cafe" is preposterous. We have no patience with
men like Kr. Murafords and those associate-I with
him, who are either actuated by false pride and genii.
sent, or are meetly intent on playing the part of the
skilful agitator. is • matter of fact, as is well
known, very little hiring of fans servants is now done
at the annual Dorchester fair. The fair has gradually
' bee Me one rd *mere, and affords rural labourers
and their families an excuse for an holiday which many
el than would not williagly give up. Daisy di/creel'.
lul scones take place they are only those which
characterise nearly every fair' and we the outcome
of elearive indulgence. But this is not the point.
If • hiring fair in an iniquitous institution, • thing
" unjustifiable in the age" in which we live, and a
ditterrie to • "Christian land," the same may be
said of registry races and all similar institutions
establiabed for bringing masters and men, mistresees
and servants, and all other kinds of employers and
employee together. The hiring fair was nothing wire
or kas than • primitive registry ones, with this
advantage—that neither party bad any fees to payi
Mr. Mitehell, who is popularly known by the sesta.
tional title of "On. friim the plough," and those who
sided bun in his demonstration on fisturdity, were
really concerned, not with the hints, fair and use
alleged evils, but with political agitation. Any stick,
runs the provivh, is good enough to beat • dog with;
and any excuse is goad enough for Mr. Mitchell and
his friend, to call a meeting and inveigh against the
existing order of things. With the political opinions
rtnevesed by ths siers at Dorchester im Saturday
we are not conornied ; but it is a faros to supple-
that the demonstration had anything to do with the
annual fair _

Onetime AT IlLsiatiTON Hocet, Pt riouteowis.—l
was at this pretty place —where Mr. Itrysier'a *Alm •
win of orchid* is well grown by his energetic ger.
dense, Mr. P.iwell—im the 6th inst. A note on certain
of his plants is w.wth *ending in hie publication, see.
ing that some rather discouraging notices of certain
plants have been made of late. Vaud& ovules here
iii hung up high in the cattley&luiiase in buketo with
little only of organic matter around them. The hest
plant has bomber. fourteen year*, awl sow bears as-
tern witless leaves and the mots are like cigars on •
lame scale. I think this plow as well as th...there
that bear it company afford evidence of goo I culture,
and should satiety even Mr. James Andersixes query
of a little while apro:aa to its culture of seven or eight
years ago (if I remember right.) Cattleya dominism
also was beside it in high air, on tree fern blocks in
baskets, eight years old and doing like a weed—
another evidence of the rii&t. way to 'grow it.
Awneeem koala on the stens ludoor, with new InaYeo
and rants, was pushing's% Yaglish spike in perfection.
The Whoa variety of vends tricolor was repro.
Dented by • Ilse plant with two grand thick sterns.
Labs enema dawsosi lust opening; L temps, the
sew white variety, established on tree feces, has made
growths nearly equal to the old ma, it has not yet
though doing well. Camara lowrencesna
is just pushing its spikes, and has grown like • weed,
os • tree fern, in • basket or pot—all alike; every
plant but one tiny amp has • sheath on every lead;
roots and growth are fine, and the large piece on a
tree fere is hisaistiful. It istanejet • splendid grower,
and Mr. &yams studs a chance of being the
first to bloom it, as be did sanderians, to which I
SSW refet. His large pleat of this species ham 72
leaves end "Heads, and health to the tom of hardly
• leslees bulb—s magsdieent plant, the only one of
it. size, I betievii, now in *lissom.; it is also • rosy
Ise variety. His other plants of this pmeminent
eattleya are well grown and in splendid health, down
to the smallest, They are roaring on the south side
of an east and west cattleyadionee ad in conditions
of temperature similar to my own, as described on p.
96 of the ffisisfee, January 3001, 1606. It is to be
hoped more imports et this will arrive this year. Now
as to two nee era in cattier& Beres:rims and belie
marls, tali& man& is here to be sees as, I pre-
sume.. it is nowhere elae, Mr. &peer having bought
the large SUM when it was sold some time since as
eutleya Rothachildima ; he has four or five pieces
taken oil it now in bed. They bloom twice a year
with bins, and the large plant has about 30 leads or
muse. If any one wants this (and the real thing), and
can persuade the owner and tto separate, here is
the place to come to. C. Brymenana, another
original piece, is here ton, and also some piesse taken
off it; and thee* are all doing splendidly. I have
seen plants sold in and out of bloom as C. Bryener.
ism, but that in bloom was as much like the real
thing as • good braid C. intennedia, of which here
is • has large specimen plant. There are two speci.
mem of C. skinneri here, worth a long Journey to see
when in blooni—the one which took the Veitch
Memorial Prise at the Botanic Show in Inel, and
another half a. large again (about three feet square),
with nearly 40 sheaths now on it. C. easkelliona anti
C. 'Friona, and all the general run, are here doing
well. One of th• latter ha. two spikes of four bade
each, bet there were very few C. Trims) in bloom.
Of these, I hope to write Isere on. Oat late friend's
name is well commemorated in C. Percivalliana, there
not beim • thin, bad variety present out of eight or
ten in bloom; the lips were bluing in the sun. (Here I
let nee say I purpose mending yea an analysis of the
greed collet-tem farmed 17 him, to record his efforts I
foe orchid culture, as • little encouragement to any
one who is now commencing, and has the will and
means to carry it to the extent he did, and may they
berewarded with such mecum ea he was!) The
dinner at the sale of his collection must have a
sad one—it would have bees to me. ILalie purports
is well represented by Gee planta,and standing
among them is one of the very old imported 1.,
which is this bsibiterf and
_yellowish in its . but
is of the grand type the old importations contained.
Set to resume. In the cool houses, which are lean-to
ma fa north wall, an odontoglasum alixandra is
lusurating, though we at Hosefield persinally like a
shaded southern side to the house, and shaded by
something thinner than • wall. Mr. Bernier has been
singularly fortunate in blooming 0. anderunissum
and (I. ruckerianuis ; out of his imported plants of
0. Jalenandr.e he ham quite a number. ll•ulevallia
WOOS auperba Ikeidaert's var.) was in bloom, with
immense highly coloured Sower" and • fine plant of
M. deviaii will he • sight in time-10 or 10 hails on
it. Lyraate altinneri has hail It bode on one bulb,
ita I counted them; they grow well. I omitted ti
notice helcia senguinolenta in the cattleyobouse, just
opening. Ur. Brymer and his gardener are to IS
ooloratidated about the health of the collectii et The
only leeretable thing is there are no mom oollections
hereabouts, De 11. egAwAllat, in (Jo rdeuer'a
CM noiietr.
A I) At.the Borough Petty tioseions, no
Thursday. belies the Mayor, Joseph Chambers and
Jame. Fituimmorie were charged with having
deserted from the 1102yal Scou Fusiliers, stationed at
Portlinnti. —Richard Bennett, labourer, stated between
seven and eight o'clock on the previous Ilvollini he
saw prisoners at the Union Anna, and they asked
him if he •odif toll them where they could all • lair
of boots. Wiensss said he did not know, but would
find out. They said they wanted 9.. fid, for them.
He went with them to the Noah's Ark, and showed
the boots to the landlord. who IS one* new they were
ammunition bunt., and marked "S. Y." He reported
the matter to the police.—P.S. Mitchell proved appre•
heeding the men, who admitted having deserted from
the Fusilien.—Priaooers were remanded.