features of Cotton culture in the United States. I as 
where the climate is both hotter aon moister, 
nd chiefly an al d, this divided b 
into beds, Which are slightly elevated in the middle 
and which are surrounded by iim, emptying t them- | 
selves into trenches. e the redund 
88 
tar re. It appears curious tha 
be . cultivated in Egypt, w 
able ing a ern ut mere — — is 
supplied artificially. t. Waenons some yea 
since described the ob et of the oan Cotton 
8 
seni snes situated either near 
canal near it, where 
It must be watered 
i eens to 
The crop is 
n ary. 
We have not anaes to sva gprs 5 attend ey 
Cotton N inds, and 
worms ;’ 
is d in è 
in our next article to consider 
have been made to introduc 
of American Cotton into other coun 
N obli iging 80 has W out an 
ur Journal of Octo 85 » page oes 
m, see occu 
: e 82° 
c.” As this 1 € 82° 8. is far within the 
very care that can be * 
o the passage 
of e n en the press. 
GERMINATION OF ANCIENT SEEDS. 
containing a ces i 
which very ancient seeds — genthinated. As diese 
well authenticated, do = appear 
ublished in the trans- 
pro soci aud moreover = re- 
e 3 is not published but merely printed for 
ti s it desirable i A 
to give them ad- 
— proprietor of 
- when deeply trench 
able tombs. 
rough stones, and in 
n 
were formed an 0 
them the head of the — was 
k an 
abbreviation of 3 or Lupereus, a white marble 
numental s the 
hrist, | meteorolo 
monogram 8 
e and several other Pia os as no 
pons. A careful examination of the t 
made by the Abbé Audierne, vi — 9 ux, 
pte antiquary, and they are 5 re- 
— — to the third or nh oe ntury of the 
Fé 
— 
One of, the brick tombs was serupulously (serupu- = 
ent tained untouched until M. Audierne’s 
b ds 
were in the tomb which he op The 
seeds appeared to be those o small number of 
and it was M. Audierne’s intention to have re- 
tained them until he had an opportunity of determining | s 
their names. However in about two days a considerab 
number of them commen g in the Roper 
in which te were wrapped, and were therefore im 
THE 
Si; 
the atte 
ce the ase g] uss k 
P 
tries a 
th 
within 41° of the 
two flower-pots, and a plot of ground n 
usseau, 
n 
t made with every precaution to establish un- 
e 
r does not seem, 
the from the b com 
| proved, “dans toute son iniégrité dans toute son authen- 
| tivité ;? fo udierne was induced to sow them be- 
ca th egun to grow within two days after 
-| they were taken from the tomb, and became expose 
the contact of a T ence of a sufficient quantity 
above is 2 a tract a mpanion 
the Botan ian a A cl ii., p- 208. 1 fae following 
is new to me :— emoir, * by M that 
time 1 of Mines e Sardin (áma: de la Soe. 
d' Agri. d vi, livr. vii., ‘Juill. 18 35) 
author states that 
some of the s fro were given to 
im and sown with | the greatest precautions to 0 ensure |o 
and cold, placed it in a flower- pot (vase 
sinit. Having thus 
e wind or otherw 
ated in about six sence * after 
oved 
lupul 
de 
r arden wh 
— of a building, an earthen ve 
earth — whic 
by st 
Poujouloux, on the slo 
villige. of Saint Lazare is situated. 
considered by antiquaries to belong to an age anterior 
anite ‘dried up, b 
urs they eta 
germinated, and proved to ey e ialis an 
Charles C. Babingt on. 
FUNGI THE CAUSE OF THE POTATO DISEASE. 
SEVERAL theories have been adduced to account for 
et ge death of the 
aphida 
ans in this bourho 
e troyed by a species of this genus. 
were een tly found on 7 Potato, more or an. abun- 
dantly, in bie when isease now in ques was 
not discoverable, and they are found in years of piaia 
r| on plants which nese it, and may sometimes be looked 
e perishing under 
for in s that ar 
fluence n, as I can myself attest. 
it has | been ibad to an abnormal variation 
portion between the intimate — constituents 
the tuber, which variasion is supposed to be due t 
ogical causes. But in the cells of Pes eae 
3 that are submitted to aualysis, the mieroscope 
veals the pres wa of granular 
ain on 
Again, 
of 
tainly foreign to structure, a is-must vitiate 
— ee cits the chemical 1 ; and to 
Il in 0 o assist our conceptions is at pre- 
nt only to conceal api from oursel 
Again, others have said that the plants be un- 
8 2 sad 34 from the tas nee of an undue — 
de seg 
crows and sca ers by removing the dead matt 
This again belongs to the domain of 3 for, be- 
sides the fact that the disease has eared in a 
prepared fr the purpose inthe gar den of M. Rousse: 
u n In the following month of 
Au visited the garden and examin 
m th 
fuund them to be Heliotropium eur i 
lupulina, Centaurea Cyanus ; but as all these are 
re of ae part of France es that 
doubt may jus y exist concerning their being reall the 
produce of t ere rnd ad that : 
is much to be regretted that so experiment 
— Chat 
CHRONICLE. 
La h 
eek about 20 E them 
gro 
the Potato disease, and a — of empirical reme- | t 
It | spots 
the in- the 
pro- 
db 
[Ocr. 21, 
many species of Pag attack dead and — 
bodies, consume them. But Jim; organic 
the funetions of life have Aap * in whieh 
of this family. Other species infest livin bod habitar 
naturalists kno The on th Wheat ler, aš alj 
enough the farmer, an 3 familiap 
dreaded, when not too abundant (whether fi than 
not), as the sign of a healthy crop Ooli-bly 
vented by steepin 
this 
the Oats, the Beans, and the © Grapes, og te 
oors. 
o grow upon 
“they a re found also us surfa 
is évidenk then he at dei 
complete or incipient is not a nece tion of the 
gi. 
the Bs 
destroy 
trytis row on any 
looking Potato plant, ag at jessa a will 
ast autumn, after the dis 
e dead. 
absor spe of moisture by the per 
bserved growing abundantly o on the t 
disease now exte ough th 
tuber, so it Aae 5 ae 
quescent ma 
The circumstances which se 
evel the fun 
us, 
he year, a moist atmosphere, deprivation 
the disease 
pi S 
“ate. from the sun, so that first app * ] 
oceeds most apidly in shady si rations 8 T1 
ep : 
| À proin to ti disease ; | flowere 
the 3 are —— a sees like carrion 
W. ve 
e, by no means in eggs dates 
origin o of the e 
of the 
seribed may afford 
evidence of 
any 
ss no F debility whatsoev™ 
The. facts above deta iled w. 
ill now be 
May it not be worth while, then, t0 
[ronas effort by plucking off 
