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22 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [IN. 8, 
causes. 
which would account — it. i then began to suspect i 
that the l 
electri 
this “hy a 0 lock, v. u.), lightning in broad and 
“ade ahr from every a ae of the heavens, | f 
it continued for hours, .attend re 
of day by awful and frequent peals of thunder, and by 
heavy rain. D ese ho 
ereased in intensity, but was more powerful without 
than within d 
“On the morning of the 4th the Potatoes in my 
n, and in the fields around it, presented 
e haulm 
ost ves 
speckled with black spots, effects which increased à daily 
in intensity, until in a short sah the haulm became en- 
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smell was a observable. It was not the Potato 
‘omato plant was similarly affected, and in two 
the Vine. Some of the Tomato fruit turned black 
= pes 
and Apples on the two trees affected „appeared as if they 
had been frost-bitten. The ie ight ' in these two latter 0 
cases 
“ With regard to the ig ofl 1646, is effects on the 
Potato tuber diffe 5 in some respeets from those of the 
in the latter year was wet, 
tof asset eae mrp te — hy Bin m- 
municated immediate] 
y to the tubers, causing 
them ern 
rot, and many of them were afterw. ards s found to be filled 
with nests of small Saree But in the year 1846, 
which was a dry season, se? a gine result produced by 
a cessation in the | dee 
rd 
blight in this neighbourhood w 
rowth of the tubers, which wete few in pepini and, e 
gh small, ee sound and good, and this, too, „ 
in the 3 which were most severely affects ted. 
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is he assure aly ne not a © elevate | flowers of an exotic but well known member of its und 
concei t is ubescens. 
ved om req 
the sister isles. 15 a ee an land), neither le 
any I have spoken have met another instance. 
would also feel obliged De. — explanation of thy 
s | curious fact. Tell me *“ et eris mihi magnus Apollo,” hoy 
it is that plants of the pre “in rane tit all 
growing side by side in ame soil, the same a 
ERF 
3 be * by e as ch most delightful . 
afford a 
, | planation of this phenomenon, which appears to meh 
raight w ular beds ecta 
ar pieces of water, should Sei utterly banishe 7 from our 
9 s- as A no e 
Efa 
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the single ro rod and close spur system of pruning Ving 
1 | is the best, but doubts if this ell a of pruning will pre 
vent shankin ng. He then goes on to give reasons fo 
his 
his 4 e cut 
rath is that by king o one ae ect on a ts e | down some Vines which made good single rods, pale 
ag year the fruit er he cut from them was spoil 
3 “ that . erica g is no remedy for the evi 
Has 
— ‘his Vines, that he has not had time to do į 
Ifh h the 
which came under my observation, the Apple-tree pee ne 5 eat cane found $ it t hard eet 
and 
pe 
2 calculated to mislead proprietors ak are pla 
e- 
Now the object of this communi 
information on u this, to me, Strange fag 
tid speci 
any clue (as it was the only difference) to the 
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doubts ; they are, ‘‘that last year, in spring, 
y shanking as before; I am, therefore, convince 
rred to this writer that he has not yet clog 
‘| the manage ement of plantations. 1 article I ae 
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young eset Mae a at var with all practical ex 
tee and every forester da wy 1 with whom 
ha 
Jam aware Mr. Young’s pode of pinitas bi i | 
th regard to thei insect 5 2 vastator) supposed | © 
. to originate the Potato blight, I observe d, in 
present year, that it inhabited v very healthy sts, 
which did not appear to me to thrive the worse for its 
— for, on their coming to maturity, I Pa the 
otatoes to be as fine and abundant as th uall 
in favourable seasons. ate ey 
; Yam, Sir, 
pe Very Rev. ue: Bailan 
c St. John's, 5 Oct. 18, 184 
1 
Fu On the 9th ult. (October), a strong wind kk 88 
the north east, bearing with it a heavy Aloua, 
charged apparent! 5 i i rapid | eie 
ined of its character, and the ible 
have been but too truly verified ; for tie Sine results 
to Mr. Rober 
mak 
yearly 20 Ibs. of Grapes, My plan is not to allow 
a Vine to bear more than 20 — G 
swell finely, and we might travel a | E 
aa Fin ant dravel long er erone 
with Vines 
this year obtained 11 prizes for Grapes at three shows, 
t year seven prizes at two shows. In I 
have received 64 = for a 
Yorkshir 8 
pes 
ad e. and I 
tially differ in the iis aa of the A I 
with the maxims laid down in his book, ek on ; 
dots cane yiz. „ e carrion. For a border I like fresh | yet t 
i oads | 
es for Mushroom 
mixed up together, and also applied as top 
š s in a flourishing 
d for new 
rders, for aboye 30 | lan 
success.— George 
Hall, Dec. spi 
pe Gardening,—1 have watched the progress | growing 1 an 
of Your contributore A on this subj ect with much 
am my: 
ar 
with eneouragement from those who take 
as 
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* ‘obedient ser va : 
e WALTER . ga 
to 
. Fo rester.” Wit gouke pomar rks on the 
tation of trees to soil ana climate I can find little fa 
tan 
n then 
it is in the distance plant paa at onsi 
r ung’s great error ad of er 
from 2 to 4 feet apart, the usual distance, 
„plants at from 6 to 8 feet, i i 
for permanent trees, he plants them at least 28 feet dis 
tant fr „And fi ce, oF 
coteh Firs, according to soil and situation, for nu 
till all stand at from 6 to 8 f at 
use of so much pers? aul 28 8. í 
ic 
ountry, i 
D Le Marcuast,”’| scat 
sE SE 
is | object in view, filling in Firs so that the 
e stand 33 feet plant from Mant And for his i 
Home ndenc 
Eshton walt Pineal last week’s — yon allude i 8 pla nting thus thick, see page 135: “ In 
uccess in Hall | pri 
third of the height of the trees generally. „When oF the 
ve 
r. Young’s experienco with that detailed in 1 
ir trees are raised timber as well as 
in them out will be found to be about one- 
‘ height, they become tall »Slender, and weakly, and if grown q 
at a distance from one another gi eater than that men- f 
n 
the plantation, they gradually die and 
e 
they grow bra: 1 5 and serubby, and when they 
flows ceive shelter from each other they ha 
é : 
nots when cut up, that it will lose 
845 able 25 In my opinion, a plantation planted as ME 
Bro n recommends, will, 
ed, and a want of due air 9 * the body of 
in the least injuring the quality of the tim 
“a : 
at the eud of 130r 20 : 
