652 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Sepr, 30, 
b d ot from the cell-wall itself, kasi p grr re f 
rane does n me t — or sede eee 
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. is formed on the inside of the cell-wall as a distinct m they are rotting fast notwithstanding 
from 636.) rane, This process takes place quite independen — ot general. Wages very low; hard to say w 
Aug. 14.—In the section of ‘Natu ral History, Mr. the appearance of a Nen —Mr. Thwaites said that day's wages or a fair 9 45 vok hardest Whether 4 
G. H. K. Tuwarrzs read a paper on an apparently un- |a similar mode of development took place in the cells Bai inrobe Union, Sep empster 
ibed state of the Palmellee, with a few observa- | of Confervze. It was not the whole cell that contracted | people in Joyce’s Counteys (County € —.— ) will a 
tions on Gemmation in the lower tribes of plants.—The | to form two, but a membrane was formed on the inner | be very badly off for food. Crops backwar 4 
P. eæ are usually deseri as consisting of se cell, which at last embraced a half of the | crop altogether gone. Potas 
rate cells imbedded in a gelatine, each cell being sup- | nucleus, and formed with it an entire new cell; by Jastlebar Union, Sept. 17, C. pt. Farren 5 
to represent a singl C. E. Broome, | this means the Confervee grew.—Dr, Lankester stated crop 75.83 and 50 per cent. diseased i different 
eee has discovered tha early stage of Pal- that, in the a ag et of cells of the higher plants, | and ia others 89.75 and 90 per cent.—all early P. 
4 Late crop abandoned. Out of 15 » 100 Otatoes, 
mella botryoides of Greville, the plant consists of a he had not been a ible to confirm Mr. Henfrey’s view, e er g 
ched filaments without septa, containing tia © ey vote dane by the 8 of an |gentleman’s garden; required 32 stone weight of Pos 
Price Of Potatoes 
ving th ons i ind 
terminated by the ordinary cells of the Palmella. thoughtthe er Weges vide 383 of the deve- bar, 6d. tone 
Around h of these cells a quantity of gelatine is lopment of cells from a nucleus or cytoblast in the higher | Swineford Union, Sept. 16, Capt. Hoi Pos ’ 
developed ; they subsequently become detached from plants, whilst most of the filamentous Alge undoubtedly | crop : Disease rapidly progressing ; as as in 1846, f 
the filaments, and develope the mucous prolongations grew in the way described by Mr. Thwaites. In the Of 46 Irish perches, on workhouse e site, ee 
which, as Mr. Hassall has observed, are probably cha- animal 8 Hiu could be little doubt of the im- on * 
racteristic of most if not all the 8 of this tribe of tains ce of the cytoblast, in cell development, and it ALWAY County: lasie Enis » Sept 16, Moj 
r. Broome’s observations have bee en hyp ould be singular if an in correct observation in vege- | S/wart.— Weather eee n crops ad 
eee by the author in the walken ai uld hav base to so So ia ortant a dis- | better than was expected, Peas a 8 : : Many ME 
well as in Coecochloris 1 Brebisson ? ano 5 855 covery in the N 7. kingdom. — Mr. Henfrey said that which no sound Potatoes could be 9 
ies of the Palmelleæ. Mr. Thwaites considered he had rep cated Sohle iden’s observations on the cells of | Clifden i t Mr. 
aes ls from the filaments, and d was in no way able to confirm sat rapidly progressing ; ages that Ps pri. wi 
e fact of each of the cells oa wre an inde- with regard to the A re of the cell from the eytoblast, ceased, especially in san y soils, but Mr. Deane — 
pendent vitality, should be vie a gemmation | and he hat Schleiden was in error.— | not concur in this view 
i being rather a aivisina of the individual | Dr. ee ny — he was not prepared to admit oncrorp Cobxrr, Granard Union, Sept. 16, Cap, 
plant than a reproduction of the species ; and therefore i universal presence of the cytoblast in the cell forma- —The favourable weather of the last week has 
the subsequent fissi us division of these separate n of animals. He believed it was of less e hind a à g00 od effect on the standing corn, a consider. 
cells would be a continuation of the age process of un, had been supposed by Schleiden. It able quantity of which has been 1 and saved in 
gemma epee ae author ge: how to what times seen before and — ona e after the 3 of better condition than was expected. improvement 
extent n takes place in pag 79 tribes of a cell. The endochrome and the nucleus seemed iden- in the state of the Potato ero p, the is making 
plants, fstancing "he Mosses, in which it would appear tical _ The nucleus might be re 8 z a ee rapid progress, and few sound are brought to marker. 
even in the subdivision of the contents o he endochrome nucleus.— | Capt. Long does not sae inal that all which eas 
the spotatigitich 5 if the mass of sporules is to be con- Mr, meet stated that in N den poner oo ee o at a state fit for genan food w sustain 
sidered, as seems probable, the representative of one | all was s present. for one month, if the „ rate of — — i 
-embryo in the higher plant, the phytons produced (To be continued.) manny i 
e i ! „„ Union, Sept. 16, Mr. Downman,—Expects 
: — Longford 
another form pe gemmation in the Moss STATE OF THE IRISH POTATO CROP, | that one- iate of the Potato crop will be saved, 
d gemmation also in the perfect state “ot COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, sco aeei Carrare 7 fisa 17, Mr. 
the plant, in has gese androgynum and other or apes ‘In Cork County, Fermoy Union » Sept. 17, Major e : es unfit for human food, 
as 
5 
T 
Bolton. Potato crop : Symptom 
tendency to * gemmæ. If the opinion now Pri that they cannot be relied on for any length of time; | toes so eee only „ 8d. per “ee to feed pigs, 
i t. 16, Capt. Musters,— 
need with reference b a nfit for Rosc 
one, it follows that in some species of Mosses, such as use; realised on being sold 1 ih 9d. only; whereas change ‘for the nay "appears to iava: taken place in 
Eucalypta streptocarpa, and of Lichens, as Parmelia the value of the crop was rated $t 151. per acre pre- Potato disease he last week 3 the Potatoes 
Physodes, in which true reproduction by means of | viously to their being attacke brou ught, to 3 ‘being decidedly firmer and more 
spores seems scarcely ever to take place in some ee bbe bereen Tein, Sert, 16, Mr. 8 — Potato | healthy he general erop will, ho 
localities, an individual plant, by means of its gemmæ : Disease ow incre „ but in several soon be exha usted ; << t all the small plots which 
in the age of our largest trees, and paris a greater proportion o of 119 5 10 destroyed than Capt. Musters has seen — een dug and the pro- 
occupy as large a space in the economy of nature. The |in others. No doubt there w en a great deficiency, | duce consume e Oat crop is looking well through- 
tendency to produce gemmz in the lower tribes of | but what bas not been affected i is likely to remain good. | out the uni on; 3 but the . is a light crop and f 
plants seems to warrant our — that what} Kerry County, Listowel Union, Sept. 16, Capt. | damaged in some localitie I 
has been described by authors as a second form of | Spark.—Has nothing to add to his former reports. DoxxdAL County, milford Union, Sept. 16, Mr 
fructification in some of the Alge, should be rather re-| Tipperary County, Cashel Union, Sept. 16, Mr. | Horsley.—Potato rot i asing in 33 “ily 
ferred to gemmation ; for example, the geet of | Henry Robinson.—Disease-spreading rapidly. Competent judges re of i opini n that a very 
the Florideæ Opseospermata of Draparnaldia| Nenagh Union, Sept. 16, Ca apt. Darley.—The dis- | portion of the crop wil sini 1 at the de 
æ, the Opse 
and Chætophora, and what has been 98 by ease in the Potatoes advances; great quantities sent to | November. Men nb spay is is prevalen t, and encourage 
s the spore oF Vaucheria. The author took | market and sold at from 23d. to 3d. a stone ; they are | by farmers giving away the Potatoes which they have 
ilia i n o hope pre 
with which the bist el organ is furnished as an average, and of inferior quality. Oats not a cut, hy a the small number in the 
affording any proof of a higher character of organisa- but promise of an average. Turnips, only a small aad pions Sept. 18, Çani: "Herbert Polaloes 
tion than if no such cilia — hepa: he was inclined | quantity sown, but wherever they have been well tilted ae ae esult than stated in 
— believe ee these appendages merely a modifica- | they look well. last Nak 8 pose The dise se still oine to spread, 
of cell membrane, which latter i is epee judg- Ti actA pe ost ot 17, Capt.Haynes.—Potatoes:| Ballyshannon "Union, Sept. 17, Mr. Stale 
ing Paria its e properties, made up of a m There . in the union fit for human 3 on | of the Potato crop, so far as he 
of such delicate filaments as those forming the cilia. lst Jan te e now being dug in a of counties of Westmeath, Longford, and Roscommot, 
—Dr. Carpenter regarded . a very valuable fe 8 ; 8 ‘day adds yt lee 7 whethe through which he passed in his journey to Ballyshannon 
one, from the light it threw on some of the highest left in the earth or exposed to t 3 greater part from Dublin. From Kinnegad to Mulli and thene 
eralisations of the naturalist. In plants there were | eaten must be unwholesome, Aes will, "he fate en- a Rathowen, disease has appeared ne a 
duo modes of reproduction, one was the result, as Mr. | gender disease. to the present a large proportion 
“Thwaites had shown, in in the lowest plants, of conjuga- 1 ellen 2 ounTY, New Ross Union, pert 16, Mr. 5 to Edgeworth's-town the proportion of hood a 
tion, the other of this process of gemmation. Now | Bayley.—Dise e has rapidly inereased; the propo orton | Potatoes is less, particularly in the neighbo Lamon 
such a process took place in the animal kingdom; 4 aes affected considerably greater r than when he | Edgew most ase town. From onan to Cloned, of 
animals were produced sometimes by one proc last reported. Corn crops nearly all saved. 17 0 arry, and Strokestown, of less fatal atr pe 
h LARE County, Kilrush Union, Sept, 16, Capi. | disease ed and from thence through rtion 
” | Kennedy.— Potatoes rotting rapidly. Potatoes hoon poe anagar to French-park a considerable all was 
mes. were spotted a week ago are now rotten main sound, At French-park he was told alt 
a z 2 take a man a day tò dig sufficient bet; ; he examined a field which was 16 
sound Potatoes for a family. The Potato is gradually t as completely rotten ; a considerable pornot a 
appearing $i rom the local markets. Heavy rains ridge was dug in his presence, but not fay 0 
. | during the week have Potato was produced. In some fields in a09 
a N mirai not yet saved. Quantity and . French-park, where the — have dung a heart 
th | will be deficient ; anticipates a wretched harvest. pe r prs no dise K ina 
Scar if Onion, Se ept. 17, Capt, Hart.—Potatoes con- he tu uber. “From Freneh-par 
esting, and much hay saved. Not the most distant | abundant—as the corn erop did throt 
um i i a few heavy 
pa . 
Province or ConnauGut : Counties fet a ne had been damaged by the heavy a — 
om- | Mayo, Sept. 17, Mr. R. Bourke.—A lar, © proportion thinking the loss of the Potato e cin e 
of Potato crop still fit for use, j= doubtful whether as sorae suppose: I. Great Spay eae 
otat l wev e 
i 
som a van matu petoro ie 
begins to fear the loss will be as complete in these | tiem. he very, abundant, ofp. and the 
counties as in the south, where very little of the crop is X hich j judging from his own bee 
fit pen food, ess of the fogs to exaggeration, he 
Prov or Leinster: Dublin and adjoining te more will be sound. Instance given’ > 
Counties, Sept. 18, Capt. Hubands.—About one-fourth | of Vallyshannoo, 
nie e crop deficient, from disease, and from growth | week, only two e 
$ 3 a 
respectable. 
“aust Soe, Ballina Anion r. Sept, 16, Captain | this is 
8 , 6, Captai 
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