would probably be interested in latter will appear to be beautifully vigorous and healthy | confirm, or otherwise, the o inion expressed oa È ef 
33 the gs ‘Eee the la dy-bird (coccinella), | until the a gs nearly or 8 . destroyed; the | first publication of this Mon p . 2 on th 
as well as the insect in its pes et state, is the cause; | stalks and leaves or haulm then ve all die are able to speak of this not only from general 
ey are at|away in two or three days, or even e day. G. sions, but from the testimony of one who impres.. 
y not only n ag the his lanigera | Witkins, Wix. [We pak “this at the “ete of aas with great diligence, for many years, our Studied 
but all l the paias s of aphides—consequently, not only | writer, who thinks he ought to b be heard: but w tor a great part of the time with the Mon 
has the hor W bat also the Hop grower, reason add that we differ from him in every faet, as he ae in his hand, and the identical bees from = 
to rejoice. Im to prognosticate that any|them, upon which his assumptions are founded. A Mr. Kirby s descriptions were 22 daily before him. 
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attributed to the fly or Ho <i blight, as it is termed. | use to him.]——As disease has made its appearance fifteen years of observation in the study and in the | 
Joshua Major, Knosthorpe, near Leeds. this gel again, no time should be lost in pulling up the | field, published the result of his investigations in | 
Potato Disease.—I trust e pings of the Mark Lane | haulm ** in preventative. I have tried it for | ‘Zoologist, (vol. v. p. 1 He there drew a table, 
Express will not be disappointed in his hope that the two ye aid } e not had so many bad tubers as mace the number of genera and species w ich had 
disease in the Potato is feat wearing out. In our neigh- | w would ‘fll: my hat, es reas many in this neighbourhood | bee d from 1 since the publication of 
pr gg it is vastly more virulent than at any former | who left the haulm searcely had any sound. J. Rust, | Mr. Kir chy s work, and also the number of Species which 
; those crops sony were most luxuriant being, as | Ær e ld. had been described by Mr. Kirby as distinct, but which 
Sanik most t affected 4 tuber, the a sh-leaf cay A Tobacco Paper.—I believe I was be first eas 88 opia — er ages were proved to be different sexe: 
being in low damp situations and rich gardens all but | mended ag ra Bogen ion for destroying mealy bug. of the s It was a singular coincidence that when 
annihilated. I = ave seen n threo bushels ihe without boing ‘Allo ow me now to bear testimony to his wen r aoe this 1 “= 2 in 1847, the new species ds. 
able to disco und Potato; while the later paper for fasten ting ; i is not half the price of tobacco, | covered, and ‘which were — out, exaetly f 
varieties 3 api yet Rome — tubers, and, conse- and it is equally effective. J. Rust, Enfield. | Trara 3 he charm has ver, since been 
quently, are a lost erop.. Parties here are offering to broken, as, by Mr. Sm fare Catalogu, abd i 
speculate, by getting the dhe gis promise Potatoes peN rustees of the British Museum in 1851, 
107. per ton * spring, om 3 will take the bait. Sorteties. 3 species; and since the publication of 1 
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be ne. to get "half 2 0 for his whos crop. Many who Rorat HOoRTICOLTURAL or CORNWALL, July 6.—At this 9 by him, has been discovered as Briti 
10 day ago fanci eir crops w now | Second show for the year the oT vide ppa were awarded :— “The Table e to shows that aut two 
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Finest Pine- apple, Queen, Mr. est Grapes, White 
(if anything can be fortunate belonging to it), that it has | Friend. Best bunch, Mr. Vivian. Best Melon, Green Flesh, | discover 
exhibited itself much earlier * e wee * in former 6 Fas est pou nd of Seas tod May 122 X With respect to Mr. Kirby’s enumeration of species, 
ears, as there a yet time to crop the ground with Best quart of White Currants, White Dutch, ditto. Best à considerable oi ag ee, in the genera 
urnips, Cabbage, &e., thereby lng — loss quart of Black, Black Tapih, ditto. Best quart of Rasp- | Andrena, Nom and as taken place 
out a little. It wonld be fficult to enumerate all — mae Aniv ur a or T. enai AO quart a Mr. Kirby had elt — ‘his feat hat in two of 
plants that are diseased and A se by spots, not — Pl in n nen, bobine, ‘Mr. pental his subdivisions of genuine Apes (Nomada a 
1 > ant, in flower, Dipladenia nobilis, Mr. _ Williams, „ 
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l * folinge e Potato.. Many Beechitrees aj Best 12 Stove and a Greenhouse Pianta, Zå prizo, \ Clero- act a 8 so successful in uniting Seana 
ortnicht bac 5 squa usticia carnea, Ardisia erenu- r families; and it is precisely in hat 
15 are a ning to come of ae wees | — Tetratheca arte n Cyrto- — A p z y * . 
spå gien come ceras Ach iflora, „ Mr. Friend. 
l e y had been watered with boiling- Best 1. N qua — a P aah erassinoda, | after quoting sage referred to, says, ‘ 
; the ry is a touched, Thorns very much; > Holik paaa ed 8 viridiflora, &c., Mr. Friend, | indeed are we indebted to that — author for th 
Oak s and M aple the same ; as so Currants and Best specimen ate. „„ aan binnen. state of comparative perfection to which he reduced the 
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the same sort of fungus as the Potato; it, too, | Calanthe verairifolia, Vanda teres, Sobralia macrantha, | to do, excepting as far as their observations may enable 
extends to the root, In fact, I think it would be | Renaather inea, Rer. T. Phillpotts. Best specimen of | them to give to some individuals their legitimate 
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more or less affected; but whether from planetory | & . longiflor * longiflora major, A. venusta, A. pic and to correct such errors as were committed solely 
influence or imported disease, I think, is not yet | § Gioxinia Victor. Mr. Friend. Best 6 Pelargoniums : Belle on from the want of such information as time and subse 
ascertained ; in it is, that heat and moisture, | $ 3 n 88 quent discoveries now enable us to rectify.’ (Zoologist,. 
50 375 * excess of el city, are exceedingly Vilage Elegans, Beck’s Nonsuch, Mr. Friend, Bestspecimen ; vol. ii 4l. 
fayourable to its rapid development ; and with regard | Cen M. H. Williams. Best Gullection: of Cut Mr. Kirby, it must be iapa. in mind, described some 
to the Potato disease, I have certainly found nothing x Sowers elbe Bride, Emily, 3 k ee F bak beg of his bees — 1 specimens which were sent 
et that has a greater chance of success than the advice | Crusader, Mr. Jenn ennings. Best 6 Fu — ast him by his friends, or from hes bees taken at a 
gave some years in the Royal Agricultural | Scarlet Turban, Prince Arthur, Gem of the Weer Gem ‘of the distance from the eir h omes whereas Mr. = 
a Society’s Journal, viz., ko pa high and dry, with 8388 = 3 Mr. Friend. Best Bulbous Plants: them 
aoe Rad th h toe s come early to tium odoratum, Mr. Frien gene — 8 Panera- | nests in a mass, and not cn W lg ie 
5 ose who have followed this rule will have | Batailles, Bourbon Queen, Caroline de Jersey, Roi de Belges, ny e Pog such means tha 
this year ; those who have s ag n very | Louis ea A William Jesse, Mr, Friend. Best 6 Pinks: ene 
ground, late in the py gt * close in the rows, Hob. about, arriet, — — . e “ th ere =e some bees named me past 7 7 
: e will lowe King of Purples, Mies Susan, Jenny Li al Fores as new species, with to a MS. Som 
in collecting their crop, while many W. M. Tweedy. Cornwall Gazette. ö enter, Mr. Mr. Smith, es Bajm . seen the MS. itself, has 
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i 3 iat this neighbourhood 1 * — nE ini — Nev. 8 Kirby. By John Freeman. | instead of leaving them as * 8 
ery general: in my parish I observe it more ongmans, Pp. 5065; with à portrait and one| The descriptions of the ees themselves are so 
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; it does not ascend to the haulm until hundred of nothing to ‘i accurate commentator, this branch of the 
the roots are nearly or quite destroyed, and I have par- — ‘hove whole "life = 5 ph ae been advanced to its present state of perfection. , 4 
Sa Wares i fae e A five or six years, It positive facts, until failing ig strength and enfeebled intel. The publication of the Monographia Ap < 
i van useless to mow off or pull up the haulm, lect closed the way against further progress! Well the circumstances arising out of it, n 
tubers are stopped > philosopher exclaim, “Save me from my | Undoubtedly the most important feature of this 
diseased in of Mr, Kirby’s life, di 
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ee man like Kirby should have had no biography, thought and attention; “so neither do they fn 
ond what would have satisfied the columns of — themselves as the only matters worthy of vc 
eneyclopsedia, He hada father and a mother; he went | taking a retrospective view of the manner in 
= a mbridge, where, having no tasto for mathematios, | capacious mind jiis ed itself.” 
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f the Le ype of charac y ; distinguished himself for HonricurxuxaL Socrery’s GARDEN, TURNHA held on 
piety as well as science, * That was his life. —In our report of the last féte in the Par ane df Mi 
less. ee ve been m — it might have been much the 10th i ioned that the esti 
- t is therefore painful to find him made the subject | Ewing’s patent glass walls, so long * 
of doctrinal disquisitions, and mixed u up with Calvinism, and was put up, th it was then ina very 
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