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some English Commission has spent 300,000fr. () 
the issue of which was a r 
THE GARDENERS’ 
clusion that the Potato canno ot "s frost if too 
that it can do 
recommendation to hs 5 
effect. Since the disease destroys a quar so if planted deep enough, n ath because the 
third, „ or even more of a crop, — frost is less severe there, and perhaps because it acts 
twice, three times, or four times as many should be slowly both in coming and go ing; which is pre- 
grown as were ever grown before, so that after cisely what we have so often asserted ie being 
giving the monster all he wants, you may still have | able to convince everybody that it is 
cop a for yourselves.” His n of t e sho e to know how our 0 find 
mil rather misty; and while he their autumn planted Potatoes after this ne and 
credit Now is the 
r gives his countrymen c 
things w 
particular, such credit as bel o the recom 
ation of autumn g, and especially of that 
admirable cultivation in the f Man, of which 
we happen to have n full particulars about two 
before M. fe "hex commenced the four 
years” oo — which has ended in the 
present pamphlet 
We can smile at these little weaknesses without 
undervaluin t there is of 3 and useful i 
the treatise alk, = must n 
them from saying that the adv antage 
planting receives N illustration in it. 
deal of apparently trustworthy evidence is collected 
in addition to that which is personal to the writer, 
in which we find so much trut d fairness 
itic. 
says E Roy, se 
Seel ent my great rise my 
Potatoes proved sound, whether planted in April 
or November. t this seemin ceptional 
result seems to be, after all, the natural result, and 
such as should have been expected. In the first 
Place, my land eceived no manure for two 
years ; it of nothing but sand 
consist 
and chalk ; thirdly, it received very little water ; 
and finally, which was the impo 
e seed had bee 
cessive autumn plantings. 
stances, especially the last, had restored its original 
vig our to t e plant, and neutralised the evil conse- 
fences of late planting.” And he goes on to quote 
numerous instances in which, without exception, 
autumn planting, F per in, has effected a 
re pei most l influence upon the con- 
on of the Potato. He e even finds, what was 
ve as good 
or even better. 
ae direct proportion to the mer of time it Pe 
nd, and vice 
movi th the most sensible growers of Potatoe 
this 3 — planting has been for vaca a 
settled — on; 5 oy teaches us nothing 
ra ec i 
8 
which many entertain, that autu 
— sets will rot in the ground. 
re micr 
ec 
owing, he planted eld oth 
_ Potatoes, at the os of 8, 11, mi 14 3 
that is to say, m shallowe 
with 
deep, another — 88 2 third a On the 12th of 
February he examined h oes, and he found 
Meg bond had all e the frost Of — three 
r e, thw spro fas suits 
tres long, 105 small roots; * 3 was 
i on one side, but w with a 
et the elder, in 
for some very cold, though not severe winter. 
holly English, he pockets for himself in | time to examine them 
mend- 
c 
ce establi shed the fact, that the inn 
TR 
f our readers must have observed in 
m 
over pieces 
stances more or less shaded from the s 
bodies consist of a cup 
are slightly spread out, a 
fluted lid which exactly fits it, and, on removing 
n | lid, of an oblong bag filled with red 1 and 
little fluid. Tope 3 them w gen 
of fungi, which was taken up by Paii 1 with 
some — as to their real nature, and pub- A 
nder the name which Top had e 
the eggs of 
bidium lapidum (Rhaphignathus lapidum, Does 
and a ver, of the eggs of another 
es 
He there describes th 
the little mite (Rhaphignathus r 
out backward from the egg, liftin 
falls down again, soas to leave the egg apparently i in 
the same condition in which it was before it was 
hatched. 
A paper has, however, been eee! ra s 
the Bristol ry og 8 with 
to a, oN bodies 
assigned t T Tope, on ground that 
the red bodies which they contain are connected 
manner which 
m 
soon appeared in the question. It was suggested by 
Dr. . Herapats that it should be submitted to 
chemical i investigati 
w e e 
arp of a and | sulphuric acid lowered. one- 
fourth with wate 
CHRONICLE. 
ae place originally | : 
ee, an ny very curious matter 
$ indeed, ei 
e befor 
not, how 
t 
further investigation. 
be observed, was confined to y 
brane — the egg, the bright red et. 
every observation ali 
J. B. x: 
in it 
pflmittre ars 
NEARL 
„ Tuurer 
Protococcus placa as certain] 
n 
ining in 
M. 
HE ACHIMENES. 
LY all hoy varieties p this lovel 
h the most ut 
is which ou 
ee and 
st due rg in great 
all the Achimen 
their scaly tubers, artificial 
ng up the lid, which | necessary, pt i 
ar oon Oe 
tings of the young wood, 
r 
abundance for m 
increase rapidly 
he 
in 
ital a y 1 — — 
eee ~~ of rome a 
suc- 
y means of 
Propagation i — 
it i 
g al, therefore, merely nae that cut. 
ted in 
dra 
2 ane * the top 
thiekly an 
with mould he 
as the pan wi 
uld be 
es grow i is Rene P t pi 755 time, plunge the 
p s in a gentle bottom heat. 
Are irae Pe 
bonate of Time, while thei innér sac assumed the most 
o point out that there san zali some N for 
in | the opinion that had been brought forward as to 
its vegetable nature. In this state of the question, s 
some of the a were submitted to us by near the 
O. Srrp happened for- n an pa 
tunately to „ n our herba sampl 
| and non-calcareous stone, we were enabled fe 
rae not using su 
aati urther exa 
n wood which? had Wen N 
while in 
; 3 d 
chemical condition Fn . 
tween dextrine, cellulose, säd 11 but in 
instance, et 
ve motion, assume a deep blue 
tented. with iodine and sulphuric acid. It must 
remembered, however, tha 
” į semble the of 
„ en 
and we 
—— air 
0 
rved ma years, 
exhibited the same = tint and difflaent st 5 — 
t these de cls 
certain A m 
10-inch 
e si 
water 
regularly water my Achimenes 
2 time they are 
been from 
wering pots 
ment, 
uarters 
| ciously ted earful fy lowering the on 
will allow 
—_ aah 8 as = = pies — 5 
d gradual 
tended to remove 
> 
to the 
and r regularly upon the surface, and covered 
he depth of an inch, or as much 
pm ter shoal be e sparingly. app on yu i 
When the 
fully li 
th weak 
wi 
well established in f 
1 the blooming season 1S his tr 
think that the pants are grea 
the soil and pane in a pots, , 2 or more 
specimens 
them in a close 
N 
