XXX. Proceedings of the Society. 



I just proportion of these conditions for each species of vege- 



> table.* 



> A remarkable circumstance too is •. that the more or less 

 intense alteration wbith plants and particularly sugar 

 canes suffered at Mauritius, was experienced in several pans of 

 the globe where the stale of cultivation is highly advanced, and 

 That the efforts to slop it did not prove satisfactory even ia 

 those European countries in which Agricultural Scienceflourishes 

 in its splendour. 



» The advice of those who occupy a high station in the pro- 

 fession of that science, was to abandon for a certain lime, the 

 cultivation of the diseased plants, and to substitute in their 

 stead other alimentary vegetables. This advice was followed in 

 England but no regard svas paid to it in Ireland. 



» Allow me, gemltmen, to cite on the subject a few extracts 

 from nThe AgricuUutal Gazettet of the month of June last. 



« From the potato have flowed tlie larger portion of those 



> evils which are now desolating Ireland, The same evils would 

 » have resulted in England from the adoption of the potato as 

 I the sole food of the labouring classes, a state of things to 

 » which we were rapidly tending. In England,, the evil has 

 « been arrested before ii had reached its height, by that mys« 



> terious visitation which baOles the shill and eludes the science 

 7 of man, and by which a wise and good Providence is working 

 » out bis designs — in Ireland the change, though good will 

 » ultimately arise from it, is attended with intense present 

 ) suffering, aggravated and prolonged by the desperate fidelity 



> with which the populatioB of all classes cling to that treache* 

 9 rous root. 



» We have before usa Letter from a correspondent on whom 

 » we can rely, who says, in Donegal, every available acre is 



> planted with potatoes. A daily co^niemporary has stated, on 

 » the authority of Lord Clarendon's Agriculture! Instructors, 

 1 that in other districts the small farmers are pledging ibeir last 

 a resources to pl^ttt ae large a breadtb as possible wiib poiatets ^ 



