654 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Szpr. 30, 
prophet, but I fear those who rest upon the Potato as a 
mainstay will be —.— disappointe ted. It cannot be 
that the season alon n fau oy we have had eet 
derable N in our * summers since the 
he disease, Aae having weakened — 
The a n I mentioned of cutting 
the partially — — Potatoes into sets has only re- 
tarded the of the divided tubers, it will not 
v. the Disea 
Whitaker, states that he has 
ig 
so grown 
asliii -red ——4 with yello wish brows over 
metimes w bands or blotches in other 
as 
bu 
ge.. Your | m 
— insta 
I 
to the shameful way in which they impose and are im- 
osed upon. The pegs saa of RTA Pae paeo 
arent — catalogues of the : Order 
ica, e gia al 
ia 
ce] 
aach Cultivation of the Potato. Acting upo 
of Mo caii vA: method of growing ary 
o dan 
ins: principi 
ger ikoga fros ih 
Po 8, as soon 
placed ye om — Regents o ona shelf f warm r 
he e — and in ‘the 
to sa very for- | appeared above groun ined them, and was sur- 
tunate that they pro ced, as before, an | prised to find the tubers already forming. They were 
excellent crop, wit ry few ae ma ore aà 1 rar earlier kinds * in * 
heavy storm Se 31). T kare . Patan a 1 up, to usual way, a eing in 
show some friends, and it very o find a single | the Salers that 4 der — n of — produco: 
bad tuber ; I m "say thes . . dri zħt and clear : | all the others planted without this precaution were 
but since that storm a few became rotten—many of the | complete failure. Ms Cuthill’s pa for early Potatoes 
Potatoes weighing nearly 1 Ib., and several over 1 Ib. has been tried here with comple uccess. The frost 
each; yield, from 6 to 8 tons per acre, which, but for at the end of April — the to ps but fresh ones 
e disease the haulm, would certainly have been ne crop was only retarded. An 1 0 
e 
t u 
the “ Farmers’ Profit,” w 
soon grew, ea 
ment tenant of mine by this * sent Walnu 
leaved Kidne eys to Oxford at the end of May, and in — 
beginning of June, and after paying the carriage for 
= ~ iles 5 10 pee the salesman’s charge, received from 15s. 
ich there 
now 
. Wur eal "sig 
the sorts were planted within a day or two, and the n of R cre oe —After examining a 
e Farmers Profit” is as late be later than the Jersey | great number of Rhizomorphas, I find that they are 
Blue, and an excellent keeper. Had it been an early | only luminous at the e ‘of the newly formed shoot, | ° 
variety I should have been less sur —. as the disease and that the greater part of the new shoots were not 
ce fg! spares the earliest, i at measure. I | luminous kA e m. When growing in 
quite agree with your other Wee e Mr. the mines the f the new shoots have the appe 
Grey) that the disease almost universally commences in | ance of a a- transparent Jely, — * my between 
men 
the canker blotches on the roots. Perhaps even in the 
cases where they do not appear externally, the disease 
may * f ; F. J. Graham, Cranford, 
You hal Horticultural Society y. — May I ask fee 
advice under the following circumstances, There w: 
a Moredi marth exhibition held at Youghal on the Lach 
e also 
p to get the p 
classes. I fille d = being a a stranger I did. not 
know the nom 3 that I had 1 ule 
in each class, 
* (whi ch he — did in 
a hissing —— and 
ma 
ie same 
The Rhizomorphas |? 
e are 
r | are occasionally attacked by a white fungus; thes 
nd in a state of decay, but I cannot say 
menced avon to or after the 
in mines, and 
d | grow to a large size; they are suspended from E 5 
te as snow, and in s of great 
ace, Newent, Sept. 2 
s in the emcee she dig- 
panied fo or the Table.—Ev ver 
ise ; the m un- 
erop wi 
` e 
that are in the least — become tainted, and unfit 
e air i 
n with 
in habit i T- 
e had not fonnd £ ‘hat. Mr. E Abel 
— 1 gardener 
described 
3 lave 
2 5271 in * season, let me 
. gardeners and grow ane te 
reques aking 
five times the NE of 
Potatoes give, 
weight — weight they give 
pa pet substitn 
. — 
— ors 2 
e an effort, so that their 8 
heal ars ie eee sound and fit for food. 
answer 
early so, but —— they had res worse row 
ai exposed to the As there were severa 
left in SeT Bens e same gef on the same plot ‘of 
groun t it a 
the 1 ba Ses had 
the la We ernte. 
rneath ; e 
A. nearly = A and too far gone W * recover, 
d I feel assured that if those in a convalescent 
en u im hose 
ose 
eal themselves, but it 
at they should be ane he bu 
the tee * ; R. [Is not there h 
in the word disease? Is not the N ty a pad 
fie, 3 for the murrain ?] 
Near en the Potato Disease and Excessive Wet.— 
—— antie — ¢ = — former letter, will you . me 
ews. You 
dhcp frames S) 
sole cause 
—Ramondia | 
up ushel. They were produced — a bleak Pu a 
hgh ene plot of ground, upon w 
h a good crop of —. — Mangeld oth 
| fan 
oven, would — — — of pr bea the disease. 
inr ur rem excessi 
a 
ring | W. Daubuz 
the Silver ied J. Vivian, Esq. ; 
3d 
— 
| Cerri ti Allamanda cathartica, 
aurantiacum, 
to | Pi 
the Potato disease, the —— —.— 
E have been 
— ete e to  Undeceive yourself aa 
ar from being discovered 1 that ry e epidemic vi 
towa 
— 
aaa 
st of mae e 
withont difficulty that a ow team = sean sdei 
to be of g . The ea 
at Service 
the tre te 
f my own experiment may not a ear to 0 
the theory ; nevertheless if we b a 
what is laid down as to the effects of excessive 
sufficient 8 (which I have not I think 
if resorted to, cannot fail to ly m 
and render it less destructive, 
cri fF bru 
unfit for use, is, as 5 — as can be, — the 
e best return oF I can ky of in this neigi 
poor neighbour was tellin e Put yesterday, 
bushels Ry Si his Tand should ‘have produced, he 
3 bus 8 4 Com 
— eee 
— 
that out nt ari 
— the 
te. ex- 
= 
— ion, thou — . — eviden — were — ie 
tom — taken laa subsequent to storing, w 
theless effe pe as * ought, ffici 
d. (pitched) o 
miad TR mee — less n 
affirm is universally — — near me. 
the experiment w ried wer 
in to allow of that evaporation whi ed 
situations, ere which the theory manifestiy requires, 
e Tam more n "E convinced — — destructive agency 
superfluous moist n the soil i nection with atmo- 
1 8 ( i ia producing the pehar of — Er I 
had made extr m pe recent communicatio: 
ollow. 
bi ght leaps original 
malignity, after the very w 1848, Not only so, 
— is —— to commence its Powe me after violent 
u, or K epg pss mist—nay, — 
ral days 
the state OF the weather (as I believe), viz., to be station: 
relax = 725 2 prs days’ dry Majer see to start again wi ji 
8 on a return of w aes 
tell the cents s talo rom every part of he U d Kingdom, 
home and a d. If these facts, — be gee roman 
tained, one — t fail to see great hope of protecting, it not of 
wholly . the ae under similar P visitations for — 
future. Drainage is key to . 1 
Potato, at least Whilst subject to the 
115 
d with o 
— my ridge . 8 
ney that completely drying, or partially b 
eference t ive — 
in the second ed of — blight 1 was presen! 
of the ha am, ate an er, 2 poge growi 7 — 
tubers in the the . 
posted ere ited Toii — 4 reper 
Rectory, near Tenbury, Sept. 27 
Country Shows. 
— 
but — were a „ oiyeins od spec 
of the awards: Fruit. Krug en heap 
Fox, Esq.; 2d best, B 
Melon, green“ fleshed. — Rev. amg Fa Rogers f, 
Beechwoo 7 meg: Esq.; 3d best, ee PA 
Best bunch of 8 
8. C. 
Es ck Prince, Sir 6. Bart, M.P: nat 
dish of Grapes, Black Prinee, Black Hamburgh, Franken, 
Musea of Alexandria, Muscat of Esculata, and Can: 
vian, Esq, ; 2d best, Syrien, Mis ee A 
—— Me Taine —_— 3 — ack Vietris 
rin t Peaches, Dani Nen 
Best 6 Pears, 
Prise, 
ruge, Rev. Canon Rogers; 
W. M. Tweedy, Esq. Best 12 Apples, 
best, White . 
89 
725 
£ G 
est demi di, 
v. Canon Rogers; oe N 
ptm ox 
—— = . Bests 
A. Fox, Esq. ; t W. te Ischia, J . 
dish ad Morel . 7 Viton Esq. ; 
Rogers. Bes nie ish of Plums, Coe’s 60 
s — = gree ge, W. 
a and Wine, R 
ligna, W. Daubuz, Esq. ; 2d best, 
olygala latifolia, Anemone 
dendrum 
