36—1852. 
Tea 
PRR PRINCE OF WALES PA BLACK 
TS RINCE STRAWBERRY PLA 
was raised in in 1840; it 
e have in this country—was in bearing 
THE PRINCE OF WA 
test 
th 
. The have our is — ot 
bout of a — thro 
and, like i 
a 
a scarlet “ene shaped 
ws its bloom we 
s royal relative eer Blok 
If pti ce fo a northern as per 
an en er. 
it will * = to September. Oe 11. 2 100, or 10s. 
few plants extra allowed to the Trade). 
O Aieothecelebrated | BL LACK PRINGE,shecakiied in England 
this y the the open gron ad mt Sar peib, by 
me, See also Mr, edith’s acċount of its forci aalities at 
tbe Duke of Sutherland's. Are now 3 g out. 
Cornttr's Pamphlet on the Potato, A 
Rhubarb, Strawbe * Cucumber, & o 
23. 4d. Also his “Market 6 ardening round London,” Is. 14. 
or by — Is. 8d. The true Lapstone Kidney 8s, per bushe L 
Post-cffice orders on Camb: twèl — 
Jau 
rr ‚ ‚ ‚ — ——————— 
* — — SEEDLING LILIUM LANCIFOLIUM 
ow coming into flower, grow with ae 
heads similar to dwarf trees, and have from 20 to 60 bloom 
. They vary in colour from L. rubrum to L. 
ny aaa wiil be a 2 ls upon the older 
v 
agas, Seakale, 
2s., or by pos 
8 
Geraniums that he wi 
3 in add Sit ae phy teed Ing those of Thos, Vein 
Es q., and — er, E. Trimmers” 2 e 
wilh be printed te — and may be the Nursery, 
Zur ttn — attersen.— 
LOCKHART, — 84, Fleét-street, London 
— Lit’ ‘of BULBS and sundry 
— free He to inform those who may fay 
Tim with th "orders that t * cultivation of bulbous roots — 
deen the — ; an acquire that — 22 — 
pone — atenat Haarlem, — which period h 
— in this ‘pase pursuit, 
e 80 leet_street, 
C 
STR: AWBERRY aca 8 — The under-mentioned | of 
first-rate varieties, which have all been thoroughly proved 
THE GARDENERS’ 
and te certainly have 
7 —— 
CHRONI 
33 dry land, and a 7 tinuance of rank 
anure, and to mo odify mil rg 2 
Of all the erases: 3 ve been suggested, con- 
stitutional debility seems best to agree with the facts 
— with this question. It was 
insisted upon at a very early —— of the inquiry, 
met al 
— had not the suggesti 
hysiology, unsound ‘reasoning, 
dis. It ‘was by no 
means inconsistent with the theory that the imme- 
; | diate cause was either meteoric or “fangoid, or both; 
and it derived great probability from wd SHEPHER RD'S 
practice, above alluded to, That 
with s 
We observe thatia a ber in the Cork Constitution 
revived this view of the cause. Heis of opinion 
“that the Potato — is iot produced by electiic 
or atmospheric ike oaks that it is not “blight” at 
all, but is simp! . tural and 8 berg of 
pr 
CEE. 563 
Á 
reverse of what 8 it, keeping the plant 7 2 s 
in the groun en all its functions of life 
without interruption and ty better 
cultivation, 
vital ‘ene rey is thus restora then the 
Potato wi ‘ll we'd e to resist meteoric action or 
parasitical attacks, as formerly. 
These propositions are, we take it, a true expres- 
sion of the theory in question — they deserve 
the most serious consideration. They s 
the Botrytis now commits its ravages, 1 it 
had no such effect in former . T n fact 
to the remote cause of ‘the Ases, Siih $ s far 
more important than the dame als cause. They 
even show how it 
insects. Upon this subject 
wet m9 some felicitous illustrations, wich which 
we co 
a The Vin edi isease will no doubt follow the fate 
of the Potato disease and the cholera; volumes h 
been written on these, wi 
solution. 
exhaustion, * ong years of most ba 
—— N ol — total . of al the well 
wn rules rved in the care o cas SIE, 
he adds, “this theory be pr and t 
look for the- blight’ next year; — the nex 
n remedy— 
which I e to think may be ready applied ; 
to the satisfaction of their growers, are now ready for aa ae e eee pes, Test the germs 
nei NOMS VICTORIA.—This is one of the finest Stra — A 5 e 2 of pra! ita Jo 1825 oi reese ar the Bordelais grym 
— ia r e usual m p eng shoul infest the Vineyards of th elais ? Im 
A — — it ar 3 it is my opinion that if the — fally onvinced that myria Fihn and 
others for its superb quality, and, as an early forcer, is not ridge a round every ** in the land w ogous germs cironisto almost continually i in ihe 
kuba PERPETUAL on a, ‘BEARING ear ly wit th whole seed, to be left at rest tin the | air, that we breathe them, we low them at 
STRAW BERRY ; Ui. per hundred oven, 5er 100. tound all winter and until digging ro ee follow 5 every instant, and * they fall aye here ; 7 aN 
¿MYATT RISE, extra ie je ing summer, or, what wou ti tter, until they remain inert an reept tible, —— ess under 
BLASK PRINOS, Names nx iri 25 s o 0 setting time, then dug and re-set, we shoul n conditions favourable for their nation and 
eaoin, very fine and earl * 9 ο yy at 2d. per Ib. (weight?) again. | grow ow, these conditions are — death. 
* EANOR, the best and ; If, then, any persons pa feel inclined to try an „We must therefore go othe -canses 
rry, many of the fruit growing to 24 oz., ; ; 4 
very firm, and fi vellin in ae experiment so easy and simple, I warn them that it disease in the plant these exist either in the 
— — QUEE bit 8 ” is indispensable to a fair trial — it, that the dykes meteorological otid — of the — or in the soil, 
STIRLING rte "Srnawaiimn? (fine) 5 0 i inclosing — field should be ned out and dug and somet F IPPOCRA TES having dein 
ELIZ i „ to a depth of at least 3 feet (uplands in cluded) an — on — — — n iret epidemic, made 
‘Grove — s 4 ” ys ange still, it the subsoil at that depth i is not found o reply, but ‘mere! —— eee the 
“GOLIATH” p W 6 on ein Gir att rectly a If ba r well — — sky, siting that it be evil ma" — Yo 
e above are strong we plants, and such eld will be thoroughly drained, and not one drop o “ The e, whilst making ladri growth: hi 
—— Ue in pepe o EONA 2 o foreign can by any —— pass through be affected . deadly element, which may diskurs 
ie Dan ee z it—the frequent —— or Deanst tem' not- = internal functions, and yet this initial atiac 
aga . e fr m7 regard to system, in no way perceptible to the 2 intelligent 
„INE A TIRWAINUMS, all ene sapiani spotted and whil m aut ready to amt that it has a acute Vine ge ator, After 
Er ns will. m. feen piiiiently,* ray, pre. gm — s successful, I lation of the s ecomes languid, ithe colour 
Bent spring Se per le 48 superb varieties, 3s. por nevertheless consider it to be bas fal hypo- changes, and likewise the nature of the tissues, the 
“SEEDLING — — vata Biss tr a the the Itogether too soen re ever 8 5 — increases, death is partially introduced 
9 ˙²˙¹9A tie < of general application in this o among the tissues, and the parts that are soft or 
superb Hollyhooks were planted out in a bed last autumn, and return. There i one other m T 22 is ind is- pulpy undergo ¢ — ng — T 
—— re daved rom). ß of this experiment. It 4 We she sees, her 9 gar en 
A remittance must aceompany the order, either by penny 
-postage stamps or a post-office order, on receipt of which me 
“whole or any quantity of the above will be sent hamper a 
e free. 
“package 
- -Epwarp Titer, Nurseryman, Seedsman, and Florist, 14, 
Abbey Churchyard, Bath, Somerset, 
ment 
that in sitting the seed each Potato as be allowed | 
as much ground as is usually a to half a 
à dozen, or more, sets, If these two —— 
requisites toa fair — of this experiment be strictly 
— ‘I dare to promise most satisfactory 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1852. 
MEETINGS = R THE bap —9.V— ‘WEEK, 5 
Roe — “Hoya Souta eee e 
c 
Hern ere, Tae. Sept. 9 : Kirkealdy, — and Roy a 
ort cultural of I elend. 
— ae 
Tun sad account given by our —ů me returns 
“of last week leaves no doubt about the g 
“reappearance of the Pora ro — It is clear that 
a large part of this crop is again Amg all. over — 
stern isles 
ting 
iaa in Potato husbandty, we venture to 0 
- Ting the great interests at stake, it is not a 
‘tittle: le- surprising t that the attempt s which have — 
Va UNS Visitati 5 — 
ve been quite insignifie 
HEPHI — 26 of “cultivation, “as 1 
‘the Calf of Man, and e (1846, pp. 179 and 
), shown by us to Ye. ail the em ents of 
rationality about ee has wey’ had 5 ee 
Autumn planti m the ing T ended 
Ad Grey, of Bilston, has scarce] . a thought, 
p 
40 arrest, at, 
+) 
— 
1 statement, 
We the more gladly give inereased publicity to this 
because the * vide gA kno 
nothing óf what others hav. and 
tells us that his opinion is the * u result 2 anxious | 
S 
0d 
gent in nad 
| — 3 causes occur, 
n 
a large | — vitality of more! anc 
¢e | will continue to be so until — ther et energy 
the first W of this grievous visitation to the 
se ” 
— — a although it is mi 
speculative views which we have not t thought 10 
ry to quote at len 
necessa the 
Assuming this view to de a just one, 3 case of 
thus 
— Potato might be suecinetly stated 
of 
. The Potato, like all other ast things, has a 
is feen vitality or vital force, by 
f which, 
unimpaired, it is capable of — — and 
of saru the sth fe of parasites. 
2. ity decreases, then the Potato 
L liable to disease and su suffers from parasites 
3. The eserving the Potato i in 
heaps, or expose — air for long periods of time, 
ha 
s the effect of lowering vitality, and, — „ti 
Mr. | of predisposing it t 
o disease ring it ee | 
ree of braving the attacks of 
is supposed tetett of vital ges does a 
sie place pies but comes on slowly after years 
of mismanagen 
therefare entitled to rect mon but just e 
5. The vital fare of the Potato having ou thas | ‘ 
nusually unfavourable seas 
lowered, if an y eee, or 
Pota 
— — aud 
whole districts are su 
hen this affecti 
f the plant is 
eviden 
‘best | is repai 
is very early | 
ired. 
7. Vital energy may be restored by means the! 
— hts been once experienced |o 
f the Oidium 
they find the most favourable conditions for germi- 
y | nating and ating themselves an infinite 
extent. Insects of various kinds, obedient to their 
mission by Providence for hastening the destruction 
nows bre g bodies, crowd from all pa parts and consign 
— dead vegetable habitations the germs of life 
of their own progeny. It is in this state of ineurable 
disease, of universal gan og that the 3238 
furnished — his eye-g , pardon t 
xpression, — seein ng ig his note, 
h | proclaims loudly that the causes of the disease are 
the inoffe e igen worms, a 
h a mense worm you 
ence — that the Sareupliagn, ‘Silpha, Necro- 
phorus, Staphylinus, De s, which these worms 
„have en igenderéd; are the cause of theanimal’s death! 
Certainly not; on the et 
murde 
eeanse t the fortunate entomologi vers in the 
of this dend tree’ ‘a California of — Which 
ave 
Bostrie us, “Scol A 1 — 
tis, Elater, a thousand of 3 g deem atypus, 
