556 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
ess and moisture of a climate, as well as its 
e ee „ that he was unable to draw any just 
conclusions, but chat “an insular climate, anny (a 
ity 
ture, the freedom of atmospheric ra 
ich 1 motes evapo ration, as much as fro 
mere vicinity to sea. 
We 
shall pursue this pubic and endeavour to 
ta b min ie a climate 
great number of Sere who have no Bret 555 and 
h ve 
en sown with them; the 
m the re- 
0 Nane 
its E aion elsewher 
Tue universal rot among Potatoes in the south and 
west of England e ts special reports needless. 
are to peris Hith 
‘Scotland and the north of 8 appear, spop 
ins 
sal of a Ba of Irisa 
with the 
rfec 
5 art done to the Pot 
n 1845, and probably seed ta that ~ 1 
a doubt; as is even adm ed by 
that this hideous pestilence w gr be It is 
to fill space with even an abr ai 
The fo Hehe ata from | 
ons having every possible 
7. 
information, unhappily 1 5 the question 5 
t 
ae the ne ty Aa ak further i inquiry 
the last — vw daye th e disease ppi come sO 
decidedly manifest i = all parts of this and the 3 
0 e to 
rom 
ht since, are 
withered ; not only is ‘a leaf an 
the roots are rapidly ee 
the disease has decidedly ass 
the ag * or, as the people 
black P. Without presuming to anticipate 
3 be e the result, or to What period of the yon ear 
the crop may b the population, 
FI shall state the facts as the: This 
d 
e type as in 
Aug. 9.—1 ive daily, and y, letters on the 
subject, 1 to that the last letter alway 
contains statement than the former 
Dublin, Aug. 11. di is both general and fata 
and I tae 3 but a very small propor- 
tion of the will ever come to om y Within 
last 10 days ú the 1 blight has been fearfully rapid in its 
progress, and, with but — — exceptions the Potato- 
rostrate ; th es withered or 
every r 
Jom diseased i in every locality, and there is full reason 
2 that it the e blight will still continue to ex- 
te 
ax 
upon the people in con- 
the Potato bligh, an : 
orse every day, as might pro 
uesti is 
n hoping against a | experience 7 
more 
nt of the 
ota 
rapidly losin T confidence as to 0 
sou 
| pad 
t 
fiel 
501 it, u ‘the = of the 
3 reports, 
weather had been da 
di 
z 
n 
| unmistakeable symptoms of the presence of the disease 
aso 
und, and are therefore rus 
he ‘oot, U tye 3 in 
the appearance was r the 
in most anes only cath 3 aes | and Sligo 
f the features 
8 en i gn ric rich heavy so 
and sheltered fields ; the smell ze tou some of the 
av 
h less appearance of 
the eee} =e on my return from Sligo to Donegal to- 
that some of the fields I noticed as 
day, say t 
ear pail slighly eae on last Tuesday, presented a much 
y 
e to-da wever, happy to 
hey w 
—T 
ar Ten 2 8) 0 5 Pi blight is 
extending in Antrim and adjacent co Sjat t 
date of the letter was es d to have affec a 
| visibly one-tenth of t ro rry matters were 
In Der 
better (Coleraine, Aug. 5), there being little more than 
which were however on the increase; the 
rk a i 5 
e 
since the beginning of the week. d in Down, the 
ease among the ap o be increasing 
The stalks in some localities, and more partionlarly 5 
between Carrickmacross and Clones, were withering | a 
fast, but the Potato itself was reported sound, The 
Potatoes that were planted early in the season, and 
re sown in land, are those 
Rostrevor, August 7.— 
that are mostly affected ; gu 
From Gort, in Galway, seat July 29, the reports w 
a ty favourable, but recent er show that on the 
ug. a general failure of the crop was anticipated, 
wa fields were Poe but at that ‘inte it had not gene- 
rally destroyed the Potat 10th, however. 
ters were m worse, and opinions were enter- 
tained that it would be d ble to consume what Po- 
toes were sound while they remained so, “for the 
blight de 2 ng.“ in Leitrim: n 
r-ham the ote was Pori eae 29) to be 
Au 
had “ mad 
pe peavance a generally, and in 
; seat cases vai fateli, effec’ 
And so it is all throu — IreLanp, where 
0 
talks shadow of doubt now remains t that Gianini ill 
8 upon with reasonable confidence. 
LATE DUKE CHERRY. 
aid Synonyme Anglaise Tardive, 
* 50 cow to meme . a week, rench syn e of 8 variety seems to indi- 
“way E pass his Potato _ and that it eate an English origin. Such may have been the case; 
would aaa a 2 the state = the field. | but I am not f any trees of the kind being in 
12 RAA aad iS iy cow they had, urchase 2 is thie 3 at o pes of its introduction 
crop has now eyery ti of 
despair, There are 
being lost; they are in utter a 
1823, w 
ciety on M. Viloovin, of Paris, under the name of 
— Ali himse 
ny II 
i 88 to supply the defects of their own 
rapidi 1 
hu 
Anglaise Tardive. Cerise Anola — 
by the to ape term 
3 of which it forms the 0 
of Cerise de Holla oceasi Wise tha, -~ 
! have originated, it is certain that the Lan der it may 
presse nary bearer ; and . its ri Dake is an 
serves to be generally know pening so late, i 
The fruit is large roundiali; y 
insertion of the footstalk, wh | is i fon 10 at the 
Skin, rich shining red, 
— · 
= 
The leaves are 
ee — resemble those ra 
Duke, pe kaar 
jety is to he ren pommended for ita fadi most abun. 
„i 
2 the be — pi nea a 
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR AMATEURS 
AND SMALL ARI * ) 
PARING FOR NEXT YEAR’ 
— e ex 
etween these two difficulties, the Are of = 
and the fear of spending, your "garden ikl ee 
m t, and the most provident an d satiafadtoty MI 
to lay up a store for eee be: — of mine bas 
gar 
effort on their own 
they would rat 
‘upon wan 
than thus lay their burdens 
time to begin the course of independe 
lowed up will give you plants — and to spare 
next spring. 
First, let your attention be 3 to those 
which may be propagated in the open 
class t 
P 
22 
7 
n į 
3 3 
at a joint, as most pl 
be firmly fixed i in the a) that t 
close contact with it ; and a 3 derij a 
ept d 
Pelargoniums or Verbe 
pot; ri is one about 4 inches 
dia 
ngs may be easily propagated by en 
shoots springing from 
a portion root 
me 
Many thin 
that is, young s 
ground, and havi 
may be remo 
sonal heat is daily b becoming 
allow the salat light less infi 
