were named in 1846 of Potatoes under trees gyre 
— tg pants forthe past acon the specimens hav- | escaped, while in the open ground aroun z pay, 
inereased beyond the assigned, he has as determined to they were tainte ere the trees carried off the of land, 
reduce, by py ifering them for sale in 10 isaga? — . fa b necessary to moisture of the soil and 0 Nee In is convert 
reduce their numbers, the —— — made, at 1847, the excessive d season effected a quarter 
the pr — oa E i selected atthe Nursery; or, upon | Universally what, in other — was oa ee l] 
— will be happy to write their names and | about by local causes, and the crop was save him 
Tt will be seen from these remarks that we, toa 
000 uh agree with the Rev. Caren WHITE- — been 
The Gardeners Chronicle. aoe n his views respecting the Potato (see page 
TURDAY, JULY 29, 1848. 
t endless cases 
481). The difference between us is Ban this, 
THE GARDENERS! CHRONICLE. 
uc.) at the bottom has perished, While the kante plait | stat 
state of an Iris 
of people — el bee en toe —— two 
and four acres, 
an 
3 he ascribes its virulence to mere wetness, be selected rom — cases — ty en 
ama lere r 9 while ma rew it to luxuriance, 3 duced by | previous habits for the heavy toil of agricul 
— 4—Botanieal ges 3 rim. wet o other cause whatsoever. It cannot in 2 as well as N of its — and, i in ad- 
Bonnar. = = W E E E TTET er ra. fact be — by mere — for the n ion, “The 
of Europe is as wet as Cornwall, and there the crops — which this Company guarantees to its 
Ak perseverance of those who re — have suffered little. If we are right the disease has members are — follow: the pe po of two shares, 
the Cause oF THE Poraro Buricut would be been unabl make progress in these n rn | or 21. 12s., les himself to ouse, two acres of 
mirable if it led to anything. N before was | countries ( ay, for example) notwithstanding land, and an erring of 15%, the of 
seen a collection of notions like that which the last | the wetness of the climate, because the tem ure three shares, or 3/. 18s., to a house [at some 
years om P sor LIEBIG is too low g 1 8 1 uriant growth. Mr. unknown distant riod}, three aeres of 
down to Mr. Smee, host of writers the . of King’s N irmingham, has land, and 227. 10s, ; the subscriber of four shares, or 
rd of whose arguments would fill volumes. us a new and pe ana erke, of the effect of 5“. 4s., to a house, — ete of land, and 301. 
‘The hypotheses of these gentlemen ar 3 panting Potatoes where vigorous vegetation is | annual rent-charge which will be made | fci the Com- 
men, venture 
pernicious consequences, it 
For 
ecomes necessary 
this reason, we feel 
e in 
sg Mercury, urges growe “try 
manures and dressings “2 correct the evil, Mi stimu- 
date „ as the 
rtion to the degree of Aii — e ee 
since pointed is out as as appearing able, an nais ex- 
peer er it accumulates, entirely 4 — the faet 
Be i the highest RON, 
Ar ab oon —.— e luxuriance is pro- 
duced ; the 
— is the yo Nobody can be * that 
fers from this 
on wet soils -g 
fin ; uch Ë gor 
into Wéiberant grow vith, verein s brittle, an 
tral susceptible of a any sa influence. 
such places are also warm, the evil is 
: witness the low damp groun 
if soil is deep and rich, e 
—.— — is the 
mage expe — in gar- 
Fan woos manure, such 
ntly pro cottagers from — 
is employed, ae of crop becomes 
is shown by the disastrous 8 
pah ois growing Potatoes in well-managed allot- 
ments. The notorious liability of plants. Treed in 
garden frames to take the disease is another illus- 
tration of the fact that luxuriant growth is most 
places. 
not 
specially 
and hence the 
— than in —— "felis 
. 
eque 
pigs, &c., is 
If we: look to the districts first and most ray: 
wth, 
spec the un fields in 1845, 
— chose of Lancashire in 1846, w 
e fresh- 
th 
obliged to make some in- 
a rac- 
much a 
ounds in * an 
e grower would have to conteut 
a 
impossible. 
„J remember,” he writes, —— heard that 
some — planted on the of a railway 
bank, close t Thorn hedge, were not subject to 
quiry of the 
inform * me 
rhe 
mo ; 
garden, on 2 oom side of 4 the N they N 
e | been — 
— 
The Pota —— in 
of the —— on the Bristol ‘and | Birmingham line 
at King’s Norton ; the ban £ 
— bax ia pings qem 
about 12 to l 
o | feet high, with hin usual slope; and as the railway |< 
- | divides 
s my premises J mean to watch the plants for 
my own SR ripe but no reason to 
the 3 of the grower, who is employed by “the 
railway company to j atte nd to a pair of gates at a 
crossing of the railr ‘bute — 
Such facts as these appear zt to Justify ned 
opinion that the best — 
Potato disease is to t it where it aer, ‘er 
we ur power, against 
such dangerous Ta as that of Mr. n., 
sa referre 
w is the sary time to 1 4 facts belongi 
to this saad question ; and if t should turn out that | m 
believing t that Potatoes of moderate 
would involve a great 3 in the 2 of 
cultivation, but there will be tim o con- 
sider what the change shoul if w io tank get 
at this fact. One result would probab i jar that the 
t himself with smaller 
dark as ever 
‘In en — any one — — returns of 
papers 
Tas ALLOTMENT system is one which has always 
been b with favour in these columns. We 
believe re when wisely and honestly conducted, to 
ti laity as 1 appear 
the 
mee continually pit ge as having 
in ý sp * 3 
ab tiie of the 
preceded 
best aids to a labourin man ; for it 
mere labour, wheneve 
2 the other hand, ** is in poor land, cold places, out of work or have leisure. It him with 
temperature situations, seasons s when, be the the s stron A ile to 1 his time at home, 
m spend it profitably, by gradually 
— — wu that in general Joost injury has acquiring, Tittle p Ra without other outlay than 
—— In 1845, the poor —— his labour, which costs 
has — ex empt ut it is only as an aid that hat the allotment system 
site wid: he we s of the Calf of M roduces advantageous results. man relies 
district Ringlands in ne it for hi entire v i 2 it 
open fie especially T 
rik In ilopita lds, again; 
s of 
they faced the 
the- luxuriant crop 
oubt | some 
vigour are comparatively safe, we then have o 
ome chance of contending successfully with thi 
dreadful scourge. The confirmation of our 
Pa 
fits 
have to be 
d — its — — 
he 
able 
e | public Arr 
When 
to 
thing out 
this C 
e be place 
| wealth, 2 and bigh character. 
ided ; — fn d, ae that its promoters are not alto- 
t 
get uspici 
Scannen, by birth an n Irishman, by profession 
rrister, by 
barris 
| accident. : ‘Member of on yor 
mons, 
appointed 
— 
—.— Trus 
an insolve 
squire, o 
rA on its allotted nom io 
regulate 
case, apes ent its 
trious and provident mem 
Com 
ures 
the llotees — = elective — 
take, Secretar miy 
out of little. 
ompany is very la 
ments to unpri 
ated by —— 
— — specially instrueted to 
to poor — the igious 
trusting their money to Mr. Feaneus O'CONNOR, 
while “ perambulating the country with 
c., * 
be least disposed to of 
perty of their own; — Mr. ERNEST 
or the 
neiple w which wil, in ev 
5 a burden to those who 
ar it. hae Company affords gre at facilities 
o become a wn of thoi dwell- 
m: 
— pm presents to ers Ton 
that it invests 
that 
amount subscribed 
mpany. 
2 bears of a scheme like this, so 
project for 
othing; or, if you 
The = mistn is to be coded te 
of 
uce- 
neipled men ey misapply it, and the 
e appearance of a gigantic 
is Mr. 3 
trade a land: jobber and anarchist, 55 
* se of Com- 
a 20 4 
to snes inte ‘the the feasibility and f 
Scheme. That Committee has 
his ished, with the sanction of Mr. Frarcus 0 Congas 
which have furnished us 
e. our information. 
of the vast sum actually accumu- 
uasion of this person, and of his 
with the 
nt people t us advantage 
place, Mr. 3 
whom we 
— ne the first 
nt barrister, now te in one of her Ma- 
jesty’s jails (1328); ; and pa ja i Joun Skw ETI. 
sür und 
rwise ir e 
pam veiling in New — Southwat k 
72 
London 
* 
which 8 b. F 
itors, perhaps the most important of all 
The Audi 
the machinery, are Mr. 9 ahs called in 
Mr. Washerw: d one 
thus nclos ed ` within b 
in the — of the — — comes of 
EARGUs O'Connor is a member, 
