Weekly News. — 1892-01-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

METHODICAL GARDENING.  During midwinter there is little to be done in the open garden, except trenching and preparing the ground for the crops of next season. This is the time to draw out, during the winter evenings, a careful plan of the garden, be it large or small, with the trees, paths, and borders clearly shewn, walls or other fences being added, and the aspect of these marked also. Having succeeded in making this careful and elaborate plan of the garden, it is easy to produce a duplicate, or more copies, all of which should be kept for future years. Fill up the first with the names of the crops which have been growing in it during the past year, just as in a map, and it will then he more easy to decide as to the crops for the ensuing season. These may be divided, roughly, into three heads—fruit, roots, and green crops, such as peas, cabbage, kc. Let it be borne in mind that these crops should be grown in rotation, never using the same ground for potatoes, onion, or any other green or root crop for two 3 ears in succession, and the great advantage of having the old plan at hand to consult will immediately become apparent. Fill in the new plan, fcr 1892, first in p-ecil, for it will probably need modification after it is completed, considering well the needs of each crop, as to aspect, open borders, or sheltered situations. &c. Ground which has grown early potatoes is said to be the best for a new strawberry bed; in fact, if well managed, much of the garlen can be arranged to bear double crops, so that space for two names must be left for each border. In this way,even a small garden may be made to produce good crops, and the time given to thorough consideration of this subject ana urawing out the plans will he well spent and profitable. If notes be appended, giving the state of the soil with regard to manuring, dates of the removal of the last crcp, and of thoicugh trenching, &c., the plans will be all the more valuablo,and they should be cai efully preserved year by year as useful guides to the construction of others, with a space for notes on the value of the crops ( ultivated, their quantity and quality, to be filled in curing the following season. Onions, if well grown (and sown in Februa y),will be found to ' e a most profi'able crop. Early peas, without sticks (American Wonder), small fruit-,asparagus, tomatoes, 'ettuces, and cress all pay net'er than tile more ordin-kr: crops, of which there is usually a glut in he nrrket ; and although these things may be for home ccnsumption. it shculd be the object of everycne to make the best use of the ground—Amateur Gardening.  The impossibility of the Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford, agreeing to the election of a successor to the late Master, Dr. Evans, has placed the appointment in the hands of the Chancellor of the University (the Marquis of Salisbury),Professor the Rev. Bartholomew Price, the Right Rev. John Mitchinson (formerly Bishop of Barbacioes), and the Rev. R. G. Livingstone, Senior Dean. The name of the lady murdered at Naples was not Brownirg, but, according to the British Consular passport obtained at Rio Janeiro in 1885, it was Hulda Wellesley. From some German documents, however, found among the deceased's papers, it appears that she was called Hulda Welzel, and was born at Berlin, where also about £2,000 had been deposited by her at the German Reichs Bank.  : t:  , v  :4; at ;11Egypt Ile returned in May last somewhat fr.. i.,r lo4is:g, her it was evik:ent to his friends that he had made little or no progress towards recovery. Last wea he was seized with influenza, which proved too much for an enfeebled constitution, aed he succumbed to the attack on Thursday. Mr. Sinclair %alas in Parliament was a strong supporter of Mr. Gladstone. He resigned his seat about two wars ago