33—1852. | TH 
or they would break 2 
that — valuable of winter salads, blanch 
ed Chicory | 
leaves. James Cuthill, Camberwell. 
ON ERGOT OF RYE. 
By M. L. R 2 : 
1 the time that bo 
table nature of the ergot of Grasses, — all 
‘fungus, while the a of the e red a mon- 
strosity of the ovule 8 Pn pathological — 
tion (Pheebus, } Mougeot, & c.), or a grain 
. FN ophy patent ate 3 * — as * 
pe and with respect 
„as I did 12 years -mo Aton 
one side a fungous * 
N 
te of | which rtion 
fe peal | mnie A gmt 
E GARDENERS’ 
mycelium, 8 py to that of 
clavu s, D. C., 
CHRONI 
Selerotium 
covered with | number- 
eoni idia, 
thecia, whose 
stated, that 
rasses, if submitted, like other plants, 
fe 5 conditi tions, is not, as 
supposed, incapable oi of propagation 
ede and accompany the development of the Selero- 
um, st which I have gy 
threads, lik 
from 
intimate ‘structure does not 
and 
y seed, since 
which | fi 
CLE. 517 
The double blue Hepatica er flowers. ae 4 —4 
lowing may be added to he we many “ sports” 
e, the rest of = flower may pass 
fae Hepatica, a flower that is often 
found, 8 anything be done 
> n blue in thea spring of 
A a 
good 
eh after va seldom 
rdyli 
probably the most perfect faculty of p 1 
is not matured o 
till towards the time of flowering of the Rye. L 
— ae 1 have made of the ergot a e 
Beeot hry s conidia, 
still there ae "the mark 
ha e Sphacelia “hoala. seem, — worthy to 
have claimed more at and ou 
the ene ob bem of the ergot was 
—— 
e 
circumstance 
e» 
= 
7 
e increase without —— losing the form 
whioh t they would have assumed if they 
ee er ct * 
unt) has d the 
and Pan —— by Lee, in the ergot, i 
ing more 
than 8 i 
& 
„© 
mycelium, of whic tegral part, and 
-of =r (sporidia of 1 which 8 from it; 
as these threads a or less 
— on all parts ot > ergot, 
Sphacelia is not an acrogen us prod 
imi and it would be wron noel assign to it precise 
mits, 
I 
tium, with the mycelium which has produ 
“conidia — upon 
pot rate 
uced it, and the 
e and 
Sele, Ley ye); stor; — to the 
itself troma, Fée), — do not yet constitute a | 
. — rae 4 the Sphacelidium, Fée), but are only, 
properly speaking, e — ol vegetati 
‘which is destined to grow from all this apparatus (that 
to which it must be referred as to its ultimate end) is 
an elegant Spheeria, ar and ine of G that which has re- 
lar | are justified 
‘the stall o of Nr 
as was ord 
ex 
is nothing in the ergot of Rye but a Sclero- 
or thinking, in 3 ec i gene- 
rasses, and 
quiring w 
in believing that either of the two is always | 
same nature, or whether it may not 
han one distinct production. Com 
Rodik. Dee. 3, 1851. 
Home Correspondence. 
ld Tan a 2 1 the 98 Disease. — Owing to 
the eee of d uced 
recommen in I ot sh 
best Par only fat I est yet eo with ; and, as a 
nearly 60 60 bushels on this 
e without were enti 
As a further proof of the excellence of this remedy I 
ad 
due they leave the groun they require * 
am b al 
we ng very ea ea 
be found, | v 
und 
rubbing, which assists mng keeping. E. Bennett t, gr. 
Sir Ofle 
. de la Malmaison in 
This plant was for the e described at the 
ing of the * ee TA Schumacher, who 
— it, as he says, o ted * — of cereals. It 
as 
orig 
G hai ‘to hate opened the eyes of botan 
e 
— — certain 
als of Cord 
growth, and followed ay å the de 
ter these explan 
tu 
should appeal, as a term arison 
to Cordyli 
typhina, Pries, whose neike 4 — 
a raer 
ser. N. 20, 
8 
Lironi — ist 
ian m * 
* n — Ae 
ites in tee doubtless 
are hob von T of aa 
, perna ps, ve 
ium 
which appeared in 
not ie a rue ik I did not trouble you — Bef recita 
n 
like summer 
Ju — rw in ater again, having been in that state 
out of n December last. The Nuphar lutea does | 
not do so w eal this year; the ee less 
than usual, seemingly. Horti 
Transmutation of — 
um 
conducting the experiment for effecting $ a — 
of Oats into other best 
of my recollection I continued the process e part 
of my crop for an addtional y year, but still paren but 
Oats e. their appearance ; as I understood that 
ast “ transmutation” was generally verre to 
in m 
ugust 2. 
—1 ‘Toiloweà the Saree 
years a 
l of 
enham, Ipswich. 
therefore were 72 ge" indit 
pinion tocks.— Havin 
f Messrs. that hai worked upon 
Manetti — die off after three or four years, it would 
an act kin ness if some of your co rrespon nden 
failure. 
[No doubt all other experiments —— failed, and — verage. 
E. 8 3 as 0 
N ae A * . Z. 
be: in very favourable places 
thy ‘bls plan 
ng, Up T * penados 
— o this 12 2 the Is 
of the Melons are ripe and 
the two i 
ve nam if nothing is 
provided to Br them before Asef look ripe enough to 
cut. Ji Newton : 1 . 
* 
ass is very useful for causing more speedy 
the quicker 1 of ¢ cuttings, 
t rough plate 
rposes 
rs do as well or better under it during 
i We prefer white light, 
has given us. 
following remarks 
nths of June and 
2 i „ 
ht which Providence 
ain in e and r 
relative to the rain that fell in 
rain was distributed in the 
markable ma anner: 
ollowing 
Inch. 
09 yg! thower at night, 
— e oau storm, with large hail, evening. 
Thunder . a very heavy rain, P.M, 
Heavy rain, 2—7 P. 
Thunder and rain, 1 
rains ceeds neverthel 
oun 
Sunday t unusual 
quantity of = peen — 15-twentieths. J. B. Whiting, 
The D. 
9 Drina The foll ** ee for ginger 
be found economical, and ready for use in six 
refore 
similar to 
mpage. 
it stated as the | of one e well beat, 4 Ibs. 1 e an 1 g 1 gallon of 
the | w 
well, and when it bo until clear ; 
or rede of the above. Subscriber 
Hartleys Rough Plate Glass.—My . plate 
hee Phillips r Co ), has proved itself invaluable. 
that of June, when the 
ing w when thermometer 
at 86° in the ats, I had no sort of pro’ —— and many 
and 
ost their — of Grapes, from having roofs 
Arthur * Walpole 
July 27. 
* 
on | Rectory, 
then tun, and let it remain in cask or 
bottle six weeks. It will k fetes years, and does 
not require t ar 
ee e ‘which Ta 
t Thus in — the Sycamores 
sedi ta ris sea os 
linear sporidia. 
3 ser. t. Xv. pp. 119, 120, 178. M, Léveitté pr 
