Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-31


danger In the cultivation OF this vine is the use
hand, poverty stricken soil will yield neither
early nor handsome fruit; and on the other
hand, much stimulating manure is almost sure
TO burn them up. Il compost of sand and lime
will do this II there Is not particle of animal
manure III 1t. 1t will not answer to nix large
masS--say three Or four shovefulS-in the hills,
however ulccly you reduce it and Incorporate it
with the soil. II should be applied the year
before 1t Is wanted, or at least six months be-
furchand
BroadcaSting or cow-penning is much safer
than manurlDg in the hill Ii will seem to LII any
that to broadcast for such crop as watermel-
Gus, that may be planted 10 hills ten or twelve
lcet apart each Way, is q great waste But if
II IS, the waste Is not 50 great as when applied
III the hill, and the whole is lost thereby.
Besides, the waste IS not So great as it seems
When We broadcast; the feeding roots run far
and wide, and 1t Is TOR the health of the plant
that 1t huds its suStenauce abroad aud by de-
grces.
Animal manures and lime must be used very
sparugy any way, but leaf mold and ineIv-
decouposed muck may be abuudantly employ
cd. Dccayed vegetation, especially old crab
grass turned uoder, will greatly promote that
mechanical condition of the soil which water
melons require. A heavy rain is very liable to
ruin the crop, especially in its later stages.
We hear good deal Of ''scaldiug," but the
thing which certainly happens with great
rain Is the compactiug Of the soil. The melon
vine Is very sensitive to this. 1t is because
new lands are SO porous that watermelons sue
coed so admirably on them.
A Court One THUsAND YEARS OLD
CLOSES IT'S Doors FoREvER--Ou July 9th
an august and aucient tribunaI. the most So of
any save the High Court of Parliament" vir-
tually ceased to exist. On that day the Court
ol Queens Bench, which represents tribunal
held before the kiug at least one thousand
years ago, sat for the last time, and will prob
ably never sit again. 1t is curious circum-
|auce that reckoning from the accession of
Aaircd in S7l-the earliest date at which such
jurisdiction can be shown to have been exer.
clsed-to the year 1870, when the original OF
the Judlcature act which abolished it was in
troduced, just one thousand years should have
elapsed. 10 Sit Alexander Cockburu, certain
ly III many respects not the least distinguished
OF the series, belongs the melancholy distinc
ton Of being the last Lord Chief Justice of
England. The jurisdiction Of the court, it is
true, is preserved by the Judicature act, and is
vested IN division of the High Court Of Ju-
dicature. And its peculiar jurisdiction is vest.
cd IN that division exclusively. But as that
great court, which has existed ever since the
Conquest as distinct aud separate tribunal,
with that high and lofty Jurisdiction
which could originally ouy be exercised
by the Klug 10 person, and was 50 ex-
,rclscd ever since the time of Alfred, as
ahat great court of the King, inferior
only to Parliament 10 greatness and 10 dignity,
'ts history has closed. 1t has, however, a his
tory ot ten centuries duration, closely connect.
ed with the constitution of the country through
IL long succession Of ages, and associated with a
series OF great names and historic, often tragic,
eVents.--London TIMES.