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vious season, produced 39 lb. of sound 

 potatoes, without a single diseased one 

 among them. 



Fourteen yards of a drill of the same 

 potatoes, kept in the same manner, planted 

 at the same time, and alongside of the 

 others mentioned, but in ground manured 

 at planting time, produced only 29 lb. of 

 potatoes, both sound and unsound, of 

 which latter there were several. 



The seed in both cases was the same, 

 and kept according to your instructions 

 n the excellent article on potatoe culture 

 jUst referred to, and the reason so small a 



length of drill was weighed was because 

 that was all that was planted with manure 

 at the time of setting in the same ground. 

 I had also red ash-leaved kidneys, a splen- 

 did crop, without a diseased one among 

 them, which I am now eating, and which 

 continue as sound as ever, while potatoes 

 planted on the other side of the hedge in 

 the usual way, but in much better, because 

 fresher soil, were one half diseased and far 

 lighter in crop. 



Alexander Bayle. 

 Upper Wayngrove, Nasheth. 



NEW PEAK. 



ZEPHIRIN GEEGOIEE. 



Me. Rivees has grown this pear ten years 

 and lias found it excellent on all occasions 

 except in 1858, when it was pasty and 

 worthless. M. de Jonghe, of Brussels, 

 speaks highly of it as a pear of first-rate 

 flavour and texture, which forms a very 

 handsome and prolific tree. The fruit is 

 pomiform, and humped near the stalk. 



When ripe, the skin is yellow-green, with 

 streaks of golden russet. Its season is the 

 end of January, and it requires a little 

 extra warmth to render it fit for table. 

 When well ripened, the flesh is delicionsly 

 sweet and vinous, perfectly melting, without 

 grittiness, and every way equal to "Brown 

 Beurre." Mr. Rivers says it succeeds 

 better on the pear than on the quince, and 

 that it forms a beautiful late pyramid. 



