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eglected to d which were covered -n 3 
foliage, produced 4 Sanan oo fro 
ide 
isease. Ih 
, seen a few exceptions, some Vines planted high 
mey in poor soil have shown disease ; but eee ch instances 
are rare, whereas it is quite the reverse as regards those 
that are Vigorous, * by far the greater oat of them are 
At —— 3 where I e a little more time for 
observation, I recognised the disease in the Vines, 
although the bunches exhibited no trace of: the Oidium. 
ir year-old wood, an 
gi a 
dots, like on 33 f little pag indicating a 
diseased s ving studied and fi 
makane ‘elle 
the e At beg the specks, I soon perceiv m that 
these several days he 2 agree es 
rapes. I pointed o ax fis ts t 
ts, and Bi some erg h Sainte Tulle 
e also repea observatio: 
sorts ‘of “Vin nes, a 1 could foretell the 
Wh ts 
nnounce, to aalen 
e great 
the eir Vines would Caper in 
few 
another which is this :—T 
affec 
d 
iagi padan daily observed = 
w days. 1 To pee characteristic of specks pt hen, dicots 2 _ ata ajor 
ed e shoots | mens of e e showing the gradual transition of A. 
inn Aed more brittle than those ol l ovata in 
Was no 
7 side w 
9 a healthy pig. mpy free from m 
The roots were not in 
the Society's pore is ae ie 
the Naas of tr The roots of thoes Apricots ac 
have cause ew. 
branches were nailed against the same wall Ap acess 
Aig frat at, Cer wer „ exactly under t 
ihe fore, but the roots were 
differently. Kad better ee than W Welw 
erefore, conclude Pia the mildew was owing lise 
this condition 
y, ther 
to the ‘so yo of the roots ; for when 
was chan e mildew disappeared, although all 
other arra e were the same. ||] 
BaS OF p sme 
Ws, gow pe | ees 
Munro bee ed to the section a series o 
f speci- 
q | decide as 
he | ing out or flowering i in pots 
by the disease. 
A disti istinguished | oo 
ogist, M. Lefébure de 3 
an old nava ow retired 
at Toulon, h 
arara seat at Mon- 
ent Vines ià his garden. He 
and brown specks o 
shoots, their arrangement in Pere e lines, 
constan a cidence with the attack of the Oidium on 
the bun 
From 
— severi ity 
ts, ad S might be called 
roc from an excess of vi ity ? 
If it is really so, and if these hints should = paneer 
S 
2 
instead of patiently waiting till it naturally 
case with all epidemics, A 
endeavouring to re- 
iy py 
Some very curious an rtant f: 
adduced in support of this. i idon. 
‘ine, recommended by a Pied 
stopping the pro gress of the 
period from that in whic! 
period w 
already 
blee eeding of ad 
* rs eulti vator, 
pla ant, 
root-pruning ; all these pro- 
"Be called debilitants, accord wit th e 
xcess of vi 
the of ity. i 
A letter, by Count Borromée’s gardener having been | and 
and the good effects which 
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orm a subject of serious 
Gai 
of an sae rimen 
ca oer ia M. 
— of which it was evident that he had 
family, 
f the Vine. enjoyed 
Piia ea panties 
e that he could discover no -= 
— 2 had recently detailed the 88 
extendin r 
several years, and 
Fabre, from the 
d succeeded in 
ully Esprit 
x 
rom Ægilops bingy 
tht this fact indie 2 
e 
n be chang 
to Rye, and it Would be as well that the 
Grasses, convin 
sible, without the aid "of powerful s, to * with 
very slight 
examination the greater ee of 
wie 
een T 
gilo pia 3 ther efore 
e late oe of the Vine appears t o me to merit | 
great atten I have been 
ie. erer named 
— rary 
wonderfully, the — red 
e the long bearded variety, ien cultivated for its very | 
2 als 
he change 8 mentioned, 0 $ 
the laws of gen Wheat i itse 
ind being externally unlike 
arts. 
thor also state 
crop in former to try an expats ent, 
and determined not to oe one part of his Vine till 
an to swell, which was five weeks after he 
e other er part. This lost in conse- 
w its ee 
werelalmost completel 
a T wass e at es tase, gaunt bi 
ought to be stated i in support of the idea 
s : M. Castera infi peace that 
he has obtained e results from 
roots of his Vines to the depth of pliers inches, and 
cutting off all the . fibres, leaving the roots 
uncovered for some weeks. 
Another teen of the advantages of late pruning in 
preventing disease was announced b 
a consider- 
: in ia a nexion with the a remarks on the 
0 
a 
an eastern aspect, 
with mildew, not- 
great produce in many par 
e au 
as guide in coming to ‘conclusions on the su bject, 
m 
tacked by the 
it, and, indeed, all the 0 
n. sta 
a 
that, i 
mg 
ed res k 
ntl y the L 
Oer. a 
3 and s Cu 
cll n Mareh, ‘and properly at attended ty tings go $ 
asily be made into — 
sation wh the season, 
the tempes 
and water cautiously sa) 
HIN S 
o plants in in 6-inch pots in the e 
thriving. i is a 
preferre 
1 
il rip 
wood, and prepare it for furnishing i in . 
ood, a 
a liberal display of blos 
is wished to have ¢ the plants i in flower 
temperature, and at to afford them a be — 
the spe 1 swill flow 
— 
The soil m 
sodden anà wit 
in 
injury, 
tine had come ory: his observation, on at least 30 
ifferent genera rasses, the universal te 
the spikelet was to ere gate its ax 
ber of flow 
ts, 
umber, were not yet e vinced sg 
actual e ibn of Ægilops ovata into rit icu 
ne 
— STE PHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA. 
himself among th 
the 
25 
Eyi are natives of warm 
is properly pE it may be 
tem mis very lit tle 
er pla 
app by persons 
avg 
you 
half ri ripe state, 
a bell-glas: 
85°, in whic 
le in a 
planted in sandy peaty soil, eee 
h the: 
ey will emit roots free 
only for their guide the climate of its native of 
nay. equa 
It 4 be propagated by short. jointed 3 = the 
0 
ass, and plunged in a brisk bottom heat of about | a 
be ready for potting singly in small pots in the course | blossom 
of a s from the time ip which th y 
were put in. They must be returned to bottom-heat 
after potting singly, and kept close and moist during the 
