31848] i THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
35 
“NEW A AND “GENUINE SEEDS 
OF FINE GROWING QUALITY. 
Weare E. RENDLE anp CO., — — are 
In a 
+ 
$41, 4h £, 
© 
Selected, p! BELGIAN CARROT 
TE ED ALTRINGHAM DO, 
oe Be = 
LONG L PARSNIP 
GUERNSEY CATTLE 2 x 
varte SILESIAN BEET i 
RUMHEAD CA amnion * 
TARGE DR WURZEL—LONG RED is 
ROD & YELLOW GLOBE? 
+ 
D 
a 
a Al other Seeds equally moderate 
Early p — are 3 as prices may probably 
adranée, the same as last 
Sample packages — 4 an ounce of each of 
the above kinds, to prove their quality, — be sent 
postage free on resp a 36 pia pee he amps. 
W K N GARDE 
— — —— dy all the best 
We have this season 
varieties of KITCHEN. GARDEN EEDS, all — which have 
— aids gece selected stocks with scrupulous care and at- 
— hich we ca n supply c on oar ae 6 
Peas as, and all other — 4 in 3 for 
one year’s supply gs 4 4 
—Complete collection in smaller quantities os 
381 — — °° i 0 0 
— * . 
— OF — ‘SORTS AND QUANTITIES 1 
FOR A No. 1. COLLECTION CAN BE OBT 
% Upwards of a thousand purchasers are 53 
supplied from this es Every kind of seed 
is proved before sent o 
% Orders above £5 oo: = aar Yantar 8 . carriage 
free) to London, B Bristol, Exeter, Barn outh, or to 
ST genera on the Great Western Railwa we 
— ue of Agricultural, Kitchen Garden, and 
an be had GRATIS on application. Cash pay- 
— in in London * 8 from unknown corre- 
DLE & Co., Plymouth. 
ESTABLISHED 1786. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
TURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1848, 
OR bi 1y ro FELLOWES WARES. 
j „ iki hes oni ceca vay 
— Jan. 184 Tune 
— Royal Botanic i osise assas 4P. m. 
1 — 4- 1 foal (Anniversary), 2 r og 
Waoxzspay = 26—Microscopicaůllll 
Daz. os: yey on the Potato DISEASF, 
W 
together with tho 
"GASPARD LE 
oe "There was one ease in particular sa $ 
ping to the samghoro, on the north-east co 
— of which was blighted in a ate) and 
shermen who were lyin ei off the coast that night 
‘declared that the surface of the field seemed 5 
reset ions, 
r enna 
repeatedly, the Potatoes t 
ee were found connected with above 50 per 
to Per public of any of the remedies hitherto pro- 
of disease. he ollowing tables, abridged 
a Mr. Thoursox's report, will make this still! These facts surely point more strongly than any 
d| clearer. ; ae, p the impolicy of enc er ng the culti- 
tion e Potato, ex xcept as an to human 
Sübttä nein Wifi Pai subsistence; n w w other and m * ardy varie- 
á iseased. soffood. Its roduetiveness w inpas healt 
P y. 
1 Aihe di pra C — leads to ‘dhe most awful s calamities 
- De. re PMR d ma in the event of failure; and if the . of the 
0. * .. oe oe oe 2 
Average of the above three rows es 17.38 plant i 15 persevered i m eiae can'expect no respite 
———— ß ] once m visitations: which we are 
5 n e men Hoe way able well informed author of the 
6 Do. vot Big Aur le ee a 
Average fee above. three rows ss. „ Ske Irish Crisis” in the Edinburgh Review,” has pro- 
t 31 lime, as charcoal se — duced no fewer than seven partial or 3 
9 Do. do. i cite 1 1 .. 13.77 famines in Ireland 1 26 years, viz., in 1822, 
9 4 fue bove th 1 et 50 1835-6-7-9, and 1 845-6, or one in ev three or 
5 0 i ; 
P Ash! leat wes, yang aber ow) ag four years. If the fichéat country i in 1 world 
12 1 1837 planted } . would sink under 1 a series of disasters, what 
13 Noth ng. — 5 bide r lines . 17.3 must be the inevitable e of the poorest ? 
— with we e r e a mae We repeat, then, that the cultivation of the 
16 8 oth ing | 1 ee E — tato, by the poor, for their main subsistence, inhoud 
alt, potas .. . i a 
8 id, dilate ` lee own EGRA 519 be diseouraged i possible ways; and that, o 
19 Pow dered charcoal (ha as 7.73 od other hand, the encouragement of other articles 
0 2 8.86 of food should be the first and most serious object 
* 3.70 J 
— Lale sa sprinkled over the sets i: II] 665 Of all humane persons throughout the United King- 
23 Chali, Eri ‘and charcoal! 355 dom; for there is not the slightest security that the 
24 ti 6. 18 
We ofthe above two row A 5.67 Present disease, when it shall have disappeared, 
25 | Sulphate of soda and nitrate of soda ..| 1464 | will not be succeeded by one quite as formidable. 
26 Salt successively — sy 6.44 
27 Do. ae 7.50 
e e e d e e T 6.97 Few events have yielded so much of true satis- 
28 | Sulphur .. K 5 4 6.03 faction to the enlightened observer as the recent 
— e pe i of magnesia — we po opening of the Museum at Ipswich. Certainly, if 
i he above two rows : 8.7 there be such a passion as Innocent Envy, we 
31 Moberly’s suite ofmagnesia .. ..'| 12.26 | should feel it as we contem plate this singularly suc- 
02: 1| Sete-dippdd'in timo .. 27 | cessful effort on behalf f the working el 
33 | Sets — with quick-lime „ 0 ol the working classes, made 
34 3 16.1 J hy Mr. G. so mem ciety of 
4 Oil-cake Gat row . — —— Friends, and one „ distinguished for the 
C (hai row), 1243 fexereise of their quiet yet zealo lence. 
38 Notting (half row), : *** he history of the whole proceeding is very in- 
ets pe in 01 in wa er. oe oo oo 2 . 
4 eens s dippe * iins me and dung water” ** 11.90 | Structive. Mr. Raxs and hi relations employ 
41 ay 15.02 about 1000 men in the manufacture of agricultural 
42 ee oe 8. 1 i 1 
43 Planted alternately with Beans wa a 11.90 imple t This is a vast n persons con n- 
4 | Crushed oil-seed (half row) ve a 10.51 gregated together for good or for evil; and it 
45 | Nothing (half r e sù = manifest that it must depend very much on th 
CC ara . 830 | Spirit of the employers which should be the result 
48 | Shaded by Indian corn oot Ma tin in: fr i ideration 
Nothing a rows to —.— 18.11 -enri rg gentlemen were led to form the Ipswich 
49 | Potash, salt, fat, and water . | 53.03 Mr. Arren Ransome speaks simple 
50 do. „„ truth i in n simple words: 4 Much as speakers had 
Sulphuric — VVV work. 
Sulphate of magnesia... +» 0 to} 4.19 ing Slee I ma erde venture to express the 
Chloride of lime.. _. + e. 0,70 to J 42 great rejoicing which I feel that among the en 
In some cases where sulphuric acid was used the leges = he hich atifications »whie 
hissine 3 but the crop was nearly ene) in the highest degree, we pa 
. bringing those pleasures s 
e most a oie AD result was that of the | the reach of those who have much fe 
application of a soap jelly, a mixture of potash, fat, 
salt and water, an Ae remedy mentioned in 
our —— for 1847, p. 267. When applied to 
et whole in nills, layered, and eart u 
reated 
wer than 
“ih It has been my lot for a long period 0 
life ve 
Working by their side at the 
life, and having had the man 
Peculia ospheric conditio eleterious 8 — f 
nature 1 e in some eases free from disease, but in other eelings, I know ‘their faults, and I know the course 
- e aco and more force, as ns — 560 ‘Gis per centage of taintell tibéis amounted to Which we may take S amend them. "thi ng the 
contrary become we 3 said: Ts e eculiar as muc ch as 24°44, an en they were not earthed |™ pe popisni 1 the healthful ga of — 
affection of the Tomato in 1846, whi h, 127 ‘up to even 53˙03, or an average of 21-32 in min : r. G. RAN SOME onest exul- 
ä i It is 2 a question sa tion: 
Saw, ‘was confined t 
‘posed to vi 05 
ö in 
view, a Pete ea to direct atm 
is bih that unless this 
removed by 83 it is not likel 
ae skill of man has been ee . 
et merely = its removal, but even to i 
i If it proved to be last less destru 
De and 1846, the change can hardly bá 
any human cause. Time has n 
3 eri 
‘the side of the fruit 8 a the advantage which in some cases appe 
ms to ve as the views of hha 
Berg 
ap 
belong to — soap jelly w ma not in reality atte. | 
eo 
ble to the mode of tr 
eedlings, — —.— much obviously 
unfounded ex etitertained, 3 no 
on was 
more exempt from disease than old and long culti- 
vated varieties, as is shown in the following Table. 
r- 
= of t —— which have 
m — oposed in different coun- 
an a result is chat al, without a single ex- 
m 
we 
ust, ‘trary, a a perfectly rm of the root, fresh from. 
dealing with an | its nati ave “ 8 
cks that a result ob- the e N blotches in a worse d 
: —.— any other sort in the =< Tn shorty the conclu- 
being no appre- | sion which has ee arrived at from ortieul 
‘situation — —. 8 Society's experiments is “that is n 
of diseased Potatoes preventive of the disease; that neither re- 
‘used in the soil was newal by seed, nor introduction from foreign coun 
And although tries, nor treatment in the earth, afford any guaran- | 
“i lise ooo what- | tee against i — 5 and that its a cannot, 
taken t state of our knowledge, be resisted | t 
. 1 
Diseased. 
1 Germ and. from Baden, sown in ene e 
heat J April 3; geyser’ out 7 8 5 30 9°64 
2 | Ditto 15°84 
3 | Seed from ‘Mussooree, ‘sown in thie open 
8 18 25.00 
4 | Seed from Mussooree, ‘sown in in gentle heat 
pe planted out i ae 18.42 
5 | Seed from Poland, gee in gentle heat 
‘May 24; planted out Jun 13.94 
6 Seed from Poland, 3 
round May 2 at ie ne 47.36 
3 sė 6 oo „ ee 72.82 
8 vanes seg 47.01 
9 See from M on, si sown in the 4 
ground March 18 sex, open 29.44 
Neither did the wild Potato escape ; on the con- 
the project, we should have bad 
pi to — each other on the establish- 
ment of an institution which 1 — believe to be, 
perhaps, one of the first ever established in this 
kingdom for the eleva ation of the character of the 
working classes.” 
It would have been difficult to express so con- 
eisely bitter condemnation of the past, and ey 
prospects for the peste to our national an 
msg as well as 
al 
gi trial 
e they emerge into — or more 
mental cultivation when they have reached Ghat 
eutral 
m of their future lives ; and so uch v 
numbers are eoncerned—the healthfulness = lhe 
whole social system. The delusion has worked 
fearfully indeed. The low state of manta expan- 
sion everywhere prevailing among those classes— 
their r consequent — to degrading amuse- 
5 in the p 
y 8 dhe ver very same eppi {with such so pitt as to justify the — arial 
their ane minds— 
silenced. 
to > the working classes in their proper place- es 
TO KEEP THEM IN 
UTTER 
on cover BUT THAT OF THEIR O 
"PARTICULAR. 
