The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

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K ITCHIN G•ILDIN OTUATIOnn. —An 110011 as the
earliest Peas are cleared off, the ground should be
meowed and prepared for Savoys or Brussels Sprouts.
These, if now planted out at about 20 inches apart each
way, will come into um in autumn and early winter.
The new Ds'many Sproute is • variety well worth grow.
inc. being hardy and productive. Of Savoys, the
Green Globe is to be preferred where a large-ezed bead
Is required, but for quick growth and fine quality the
Dwarf Ulm is onsurmissed. This is the beet sort foe
mull gardens, sa it can be planted thickly, and soon
some, to maturity. A few more Cauliflower, may now
be planted for a succession reap, also Ruch Pees as
Vetch's Perfection or British Queen. Peas sown at
this time should be fire soaked in water for • few hours
to hasten growth. Beth up Scarlet Runners and train
to stakes. This crop is much benefited by oopious
waterings deritig it. earlier growth. Cucumbers and
Vegetable Marrows, when fairly started into growth,
should also be well soaked, periodically, with soap-suds,
or weak liquid manure. Protect beds of Beet-root from
birda (which are often troublesome when tits young
plane are just above ground) by straining lines of white
wonted icommliately over cash row.
How To FILL • ',WWII GAIDEn. —While very
large beds may be broken up in planting into a series of
temporary designs, each portion of which should have
Its own special and distinct colour, and ordinary-sized
beds have here an edging of • complementary or con-
tra.ting colour, all beds that do not closed 5 feet in
diameter will look beet as unities, that is, pleated
wholly with one colour. The only exception I would
to ei,j. rule j. in smell ggrthins,„ where the number
of beds does not mussed six. Beneath than number two
solemn in small beds might be admitted, for the sake
of more rarely ; beyond six beds, each hod would be
best ailed cite one colour. I advocate this chiefly on
the ground that it requires • certain amount of any
*Dime to 611, and thus mealy, the e7e. Simplicity of
form is, next to distinctness and 111141li•0011.11 of colour-
ing, the most iinportent point to be attended to for
making a satisfactory display. You have only three
beds cell then, 611 them thus :—L Lobelia' 2.
Calesolaris surantia multilices ; 1. Crimson Kiss
Verbena, or any other pleats of the sante colour—
erimein, yellow, and blue are always serefsetory nee
to each other. Sot SS you have only three beds you
wish to edge them : well, for oostrastiag edgings, Aeon,
for lb. [choke—G.3mile' spleodeas, or Senviteli• pro-
cambium; for theCalimolaria—Perilla, Immo.. orcgteg.•
for the crimson Verbena, white die—Lady Plymouth
Pelargonium or small gold-leaved Geranium. To edge
In harmony with them ooloars, choose, for the Lobelia
speedos., Lobelia Pastoni, or • creamy white Verbose;
for the Calesolaria, a rcos-oolonred Pelargonium between
Christine and Trentham Noma or Measles' variegated •
for the Vorbena, roes-coloured variety such as St:
Margaret's. You have sin bed.: then plant No. 1
with !resins Fletbstii ; No. 2, with Centaures ; No. 3,
with Purple King Verbena ; No. 4, with yellow Cal.
eselanst; Ne. 5, with Perin., or Coleus, or Scarlet
Pella ium ' • sod No. 6 ,with Iteli• Units. A dos..,dos..,bed. oould hi planted as follows, each with one kind of
plant If less than 6 feet woes, or each to have • broad
band of a oontrasting or harmonising colour if double
or treble that stets Met Pollock Peletgonium ; 2.
Dwarf Ageratum ; & Gasanis; 4. flower of Spring
Pe largonium ; 5. Cybister ditto; 6. Madame Vaucher
or Virgin Mary; 6. Stns Pelargo•ium ; 7. Whits
Lodz Ditto; & Yellow Calceolerie ;9. Inane or
Coleus; 10. Lobelia apeeioss ; IL Lady Cullum
Pelargoaism ; 12. White Verbena or Centering'. A
very nice arnineemeot 01 12 or 20 beds eould be filled
wholly with Pelargoniums, =ingot:us for the best flower-
ing variety and one for the finest foliage alternately.
The most brillant colours could be placed in the centre,
and toned down to the ends, or this order Gould be
' riveted by plaster the coolest colours in the centre,
But it Ls needless to multiply examples, for the com-
binations are endless, and three are only riven of'
band, not as the best that could be made, but simply
as exunples of simplieity. and as colours that would
Mond or contrast pretty effeeively together. Of
worse, where the garden consists wholly of • few very
large bets, several varieties will have to be Introduced
into one bed. But thee, are eases of neeemity and not
of choice, and may the simplest figurer, snob se circles
or elitism% and those of • regular outline, should be
employed, where several distinct plants muet ocean,
the mine bed. And in eases where the space is consider-
able, the fact is identical with that produced by furnish-
ing each generate, bed with its own distinct colour.
For instance, suppose a largo 'ire', I. to be planted. a
bold mass of white, markt, or blue, may occupy "4
entre ;it may then be divided by nentrel lines of pleats
Into four quarters, and each of teem may be Planted
with sontresting eolotes, such ris white and scarlet,
orange and blue, and the whole edged with • broad band
of the Same 'clout., or a contrasting colour to the centre.
in one word, I do not sondem:l pieta-pleating w hers space
permits of distinct masses lane 'sough to all and satisfy
the eye, but of the (fineries away of breedth and
grandeur sed repose by an exeessivo admintere of odour
ea limbed wise.

Mowing in the Age week,. a fall of Eld. in wheel;
fall of 31. 4d. in barley ; nod a rime of h. 7d. in oats.