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SON ow supply 
TL ASTABLISHED | PLA ANTS of — 
ties of GERANIUMS, which they ca 
ll 
VEITCH a 
pe per plant.—This is allowed 
of the best Geraniums in ex- 
ern 8.1 — ms abe 3 
he flower is bright 
fave 155 distinet flame of or 
d thro K 
21 bit liage are very good, 
and co y 
1847 ‘Ist Class Certifieate—these are 
aly 10° 3 for Seedlings of ne: cope year. 
8, ize fon? 2. ik old Seed- 
al Society, June, Pri 
deni 6d. Gusta = Beck) - 10s. 6d. 
Pr “aig ee i) 
Ro cited (Be ach) F 10 6 
Rebecca (T ng) a 6 
Salamanda (Gaines). 6 
Zelin 6 
of 12 for 50. 5 
set of 12 a 51. 5s. will have a plant 
' Sa Semt ratis on the lot. 
g's Briliant and ——— are figured in the 
for August las 
et Pe a bad on prepaid application. 
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1848. 
MEETING: R THE FOLLOWING WEEK. 
— wetness, Sept. 20; Norwood Floricultural, Bebing- 
taa orticoltura. 
C RESPOND! ENT, who = under aps name of 
eS Da > has touch of the most deli- 
| a ‘ae table Phy aes "Whether 
| 22 ee fungi Wege they 
te out 1 3 they are thrown out 
They i however, of the highest 
practical consequence, and deserve to be studied 
byt desire to rise above the 
ient r 
e 
the Rev. Mr. — than whom there is no 
en authority, advocates the opinion that 
. 
. BERKELEY, 
Tt i is not — habit of the 
this 
not. The plant then becomes un- 
of mould, 
and prevents the elaboration 
ucts. the ad- 
ir: The 
te cause of 
of the extensive tri 
el health by the attacks o fungi, are questions a 
which, in the ising — 5 of know edge, it is 
aps so to answer as to satisfy all 
naturalists. 
is opinion cent 
yas be Sapias — po ular of th 
L | neous Abet 
mould, and u 
t | th 
say, but it is- a fact 
of | has 
notorious that this is other parts of the 
3 eee amongst in —— peculiar species “ 
which sometim such an extent as to ba 
ages would equally 
these Fee contemptible 
n, that the pleased some- 
m —— 
essian fly, will readily occur of the immense dis- 
ee between A= mean he ar 
T 
=a theory is well known to our readers. Hereafter 
F 
2 
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z 
Q 
e difficulties of the question may n 
be i p the introduction of supposed facts 
which are not oniy nee rted by evidence, but 
directly ms oe ed to 
* ANTI- FUNGUS ts that fungi grow only on 
dead ve i atter, aa oi Fries and Lr Re 
in support of this statemen 
; aster in investigating 
csi re facts than in 1 5 previous alf cen- 
f “ Anvi-runeus” will look at his window 
at "this time of year, he will probably find a fi 
sticking to the glass and covered with mouldiness ; 
the day before the fly w 
Sod 2 and yet a time, and ays 
befor e spawn of 98 mould was insidiously de- 
trois ing y vitality by Prey Moo% its soft internal 
a t ft 
: otorious that 
the 2 végétantes of the 1 Indies fly about 
with the long fungus which eventually destroys 
them hap Re down like an e from between 
ro 
t their fore-legs ; ; we learn that this fact hes been re- 
o has him 
But i er to show 
that this question, is not now open to rir we 
have yee to refer to Ropins’ work on the plants 
w on man and living animals“ an 8vo of 
a 
eie eee with certain cuta- 
with the singular hair disease 
called Plica polonica, with affections of the mucous 
they could have uo weight in t the 
- | abundant pratat — the contrary. 
ems, by his remarks — Eu- 
eon — the ak worm, not to ware that 
what we cal 
plant but only its reproductive portion. 
study the subject he will find that all these parasites 
on the outs ide i in order to ant of atten- 
or spawn, W 
the fos — mischief 2 by fungal . is 
effected. 
hat we see difficulties i in the way of adopting 
Y | 221° and 248° Fahr., 
gee active and apparently in | , 
that 
to m 
Il I put in 
whole —— pe — Farmers’ 
apart, 9 inches 
grow in the inside of live 8 and only appear | goo 
s well known that bread is often rendered 
worthless owth in it of a reddis 
p o 
Payen, whos ul pe 
omptes Rendus de 4 cadémie des Sciences, 
July Lae. and may be stated th 
2 
> 
our the 
oaf in * aaa of which the 
Oidium mot tena develo ed; 
N then proceeded to N — 
highest temperatere which — 87. hoi bear, 
and m retain their vital ene 
bath, 
of a t of 689; these 
sporules 1 their 2 1 vegeta- 
tion, whilst slices of the same | which the 
por 
sporules were not applied exhibited —— the 
common white, brown, or greenish moulds. When 
© | heated to 284 Fahr., the sporules of Oidium lost 
of 
their reddish colour, and acquired a decided valu 
tin sot Shee 157 were then found to be incapable of, re- 
produ 
It Sie appears, that at temperatures between 
the vegetating POOF A of the 
Oidium aurantiacum is not desi troyed, even in moist 
; and it m 
n some ee where the 
h 
| temperature Shenae reaches 212° in 
the loaves. Of co 
i 900 or more, the 
sporules would be completely destro oyed. 
consideration of these facts will ip found essen- 
tial in any enquiry concerning tion of para- 
sitical fungi; and they prob ably re more light 
than would at first be 3 upon the Aror of 
the diseases connected with them. But to this w 
must address ourselves on a future ee 
Tux fate of the Por ar 
with 
of E 
pr me Gone, we this w penr confine ee 
ing certain processes which our corre- 
were hae found useful, either in pr os enting 
the attack of the e or in preserving the tainted 
roduce. 
5 Planting in hillocks has been inquired about. 
Not having 2 ed the experiment ourselves in pe 
way as nabie us to an answer, 
t 
begged for. e and the result is the follow. 
ing pee. 
0 tubers of the Irish Lumper on 
hilloek of 8 turf, the produce of which was th 6 Ib 
searcely one diseased ; H. B. Mason, B 
hillocks, on the IIth of F 
Glory), a yard and a Tair 
deep, on a little stable manure. s 
e |a hedge, and on the west by some erusalem 
and a * open to the east and south. 3 
* 
3 dreams, we cannot add to the} . by the pub- 
began ear them up, and continued to do so un 
the end of June. They were sereened on the north by 
a hedge ; 
rich, and clayey, bea three 
began to show blotches, 
By a spre misprint Mr. BERKELEY was-made A p] ee ek Soler th a 
-|to say, in a recent communication, that diseased „ come aug — è 
plants of corn may be produced by dusting the toes was 184 lbs., many of the Potatoes weighin IIb. 
" | grain, from which they are raised, with burnt fungus. | and a little more. Not one diseased, A 
For this dunt-fungus shou! He referred to Potatoes have been very bad, and 
the conclusive experiments of Francis BAUER, Glories, planted in the usual way, 
ch leave no doub paoa will be iu 75 * 
: ies) if it is placed u and, Vicarag 
Se apf _ phat AxA soil. The n adle ‘tee 1 AA N in e 
farming process of ares or sonjin grain is for | are told how a person has found. in a dre 
2 am, 
disease; — * the = has 
already been edified by a man 
