HRON\CLE. 



i the furnace hoi 



ollow, I should gain a: 

 1 the fire. The furnac 

 one, supported on fi<u 



whose Potatoes are a!reti.!v forward enoi 



Polish the result, it would 

 - from correspondents residing 



, .'-^7ro e mX%Tev r a iIh ] g°e p 1 ° 

 .--..■• 

 "werT'em 'r nd d eX - amined ^ 16 ' 1846 " FiVe 

 ring substances':— 





[Feb'. 6, 



second opening.**^ 

 wing symptoms of disej! 

 16th ipst. theywere^Z 



i the 23d Nov. ; but 

 id. It will readily b 



Salt appears to promote rather than retard thedU^Z' 

 By a comparison of the 15th and ICth experimentfck 

 may be inferred that the cause of n 

 in the atmosphere, and not in « 

 soil. The cause of the disease being in the atmospLJ? 

 neutralises the effects of the ammonia better than am 

 of the substances used. That all strong, rank, ammo- 

 niacal manures must be avoided, a i 

 chosen for Potato crops, until this mysterious visitation 

 Swede Tops as Food.— On opening a pit of'Swedn 

 lately, I observed that the crowns had thrown out 



e unacquainted with so cheap and easy to be 

 .haps I may be doing good s 

 u '- -ublishing my discov 



Shepton- Mtitiett. 



The Potato Disease o/1847— "D. R." says, that of 

 his Ash-leaved Kidneys planted in March, 1846, such u 

 v. nv !i< ar the surface vegetated in October, 1346,andhe 

 has transplanted them into a Vinery, and they have not 



at it? Those which vegetated in October were 

 decidedly diseased plants. Their autumnal vegetation 

 is one of the most unequivocal symptoms of the distent. 

 per- - J 



one fire. The': 



- 





to the disease, when those which are produced at a 

 greater depth, escape it, or are but slightly injured, 

 Tic n, ; gain, the; were originally planted in March. 

 "D. R." merely details the ordinary and natural com- 



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i: not any bigger 



pletion of the decay of a collection of highly diseased 





plants on which he has wasted his labour, there being no 







coddling the sick plants in a Vinery. But, though I sin- 





cerely hope for the sake of humanity, and particularly 







d close to the edge of the stand, 



culture in Ireland may be reduced to one-tenth of what 







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as these that the culture of Potatoes is to be wholly 



abandoned. If « D. R." had planted sound Potatoes in 



^■'•.v,..'.;' 1 ;': :i:- :,"":;,.. 



September or October, [how was he to know them?] he 



feasting on Potatoes of exquisite goodness, of various 



Potatoes unsound, though some, the planting of which 



beginning of spring, were considerably diseased, I 

 have pursued the practice of autumnal planting fir 



! 



have never hitherto observed that I lost any sets by 

 ;rswell rooted, ui 



,u ia ,u2o^?netru» 

 of flowers, sends out from 20 to 30 distinct ones,« 

 large size, and finely elevated above the foliage J and* 

 being exposed to the light and air, set well, ripen, t» 





- 

 £ I beg to state that 





^only difference I foun 



t scrupled to depart 1 



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s^TravTTscribi 

 Iwwalk ; k'him « 



"of lawasrf 



