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n likely ever to form a large tree ; and le T: the night dews will be — and if (I think) * several of these dried Potatoes 
it be remembered that some of these older ure cold pit the lights may be drawn of at n night, ~~ planted make up a тегиз і of seed 
me the I — trees in the old orchards. milk when there is any indication of а storm. ones, and the m who planted them and dug them 
Having given the history of the Golden PPM м Stopping and regulating the shoots must also be attended м distinctly stated to me that their poss was 
Lemon Pippin, &c., in the orchard, the case w t | to, and most of the varieties require frequent stopping; free from disease. 45 the time I was otherwise em- 
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continued cultivation of the same kinds in the nursery. | nor until the roots have struck into the Sou, and | over your article, however, these facts are erar 
I have continued to t a very few from the scions | it is advisable to ma nage so e — may make to my remembrance, and the advice, “ever to plant 
obtained from the very large old Golden pe of — a moderate growth in autumn, —— the last stopping. Potatoes in dry coal ashes,” 4 her the seed up some 
а and on whatever stock they are placed The atmosphere — be cool and rather dry after the days before wanted, &c.,” seem to bear out the fact 
second year shows fo weakness, and the third, if — middle of September, and и" — en of the month the| recorded in your article, « iat thoroughly d dried Pota- 
earlier, canker se plants should’ be emm inter quarters, for | toes will always produce a crop free from disease.” My 
I have a do rade ‘of all planted at the same h purpose a front shelf in the greenhouse will | duty ба а 1 rer me pcs into conversation 
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| time, of 200 kinds ; this Golden Pippin is € one-eighth | be found the best. During water must be|with ers I feel assured that a little more 
| the circumference of some others of the like age. These | applied decre: and — А: ca iy "e in wi investigation a will prove your position 
| trees were planted for e 2 of obtaining grafts | excess at this season the о will be ruin the nature of the disease and the mode in which it 
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of fruit must have grown as vigorous y, or more so, | shift at once, and, as soon lants seem ave | stance which occ th ears ago with me, and 
than any other kinds ; 2d, that grafts taken from those | taken to the fresh pot, — en and regulate the | which (although I am rather sceptical in regard to these 
old trees, and treated simi y to newer varieties, do | shoots, In May, or as soon as mild warm weather has inquiries as eir permanent advantages) tends in 
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ormerly must have done, or as the | during the summer as recommended for last season — alluded to. I had a piece of ground which I intended 
newer sorts at present actually do ; — that it is not giving a second shift as early as it may be required, but for Potatoes under late Broccoli, which did not come 
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83 of the vai variety, can it be attribute " if they are considered large enough for blooming, they | recourse to drying the sets as well as I could naturally, 
Our markets were full of the favourite so ; our | should m allowed to remain in the greenhouse until the | This was done b exposing the the action of 
p were anxious to plant, and did — ie same | blossom expand: while in bloom they may be placed in the sun in the da time, and removing them into а 
vourite kinds, that had the run of the market; but | any der cool situation, and if screened from the mid- thoro Karel Gat oft at nih until life appeared to be 
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I Val of ; a үүн opinion then; but having now|be removed to the plant-ground in autu mn, but ta as the only way to ensure a sound, healthy crop, free 
the accumulated experience of 30 years, I revert to the | sheltered situation should be afforded began е еу from the all-prevailing pest. Others, again, advised 
theory of Knight as the onl ——. of the facts I һауе | must be removed to the greenhouse | maiden soil, by the breaking up of old pastures, &c., as 
acquired, But science is ing, and we have many | rains shall have set in, especially if they I Бе — ns el ing the m 1 grown on 
aids and appliances that our © forefithers knew nothing | potted during the season. soil ep very = site, having been pretty well drained 
of. Would not this subject be a good one for the miero-| Good rich turfy peat is the only suitable soil for of its more a same ti 
scopist to take up? Let & comparison be made of the genus, and as the best pieces only should be used, break | not — — with geo of "yd kind ; 
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endued with a higher power of reproduction, will be he ola balls, Alp eis M season, those were the most free whi 
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correct, is it not certain that the large old trees, that vated fors several years successively without any manure, 
once grew so vigorously, had at that time cells of equal Home Correspondence. ecom 
-— and magnitude to those sorts that now form large Woods and Fon ests.—I have read with great satisfac- posed leaves, It t appears to me thata good deal has yet 
tion ыд able pon that has been made in your|to be learned in reference to Potato culture in the present 
ait the enumeration of trials made, would it be fair | columns of the ismanagement of the royal woods. — unless Mr. Bollman has really got & the root of 
of me to recommend that plantations should be made of a formerly lived near Chester, and now residing | ће matter by artificial drying, so as to > us 
the favourite old kinds? and yet, if the men of science | not far from Dean, I know personally what is going on extend his experiments successfully to an unlimited 
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then, is a fair field for further inquiry ; and to this end, | enclosed packet of papers is sent esperes for ^n plan which circumstances com mo to —— three 
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them to commence this part of the subject de novo, and | upon it, a more rotten юнча, than what prevails in | excellent crops i orsa have been — for * 
J doubt not that in od end practice and science will | these royal i be found in the British 30 years past, without a single failure. This season 
here, as in other s, unite for Me Beg me of | dominions. In the йг оң аЙ of the em- | they have made good wood as well as set abundance of 
truth and the — of the human Wm. Masters, — it is openly asserted that the managers are so|fruit. They have, however, made no progress for three 
Exotic Nursery, Canterbury. ? supported by persons of influence, that they snap their ee. completely ye i still. The leaves are ali 
— s et auis ide 2 at mes iud Commissioners and Parliament ; and | mottled, арче up at the , and dead ; and the 
ink it t be so, otherwise what can the — i ey e are attacked in the same 
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«THE APHELEXIS, explanation of " the wore к that their 5 manner as 4 the old wood. The border is situated in a 
` Arr the varieties of this useful genus are rather free | management goes on unchecked from year ar, as | low — and it has a elay bottom. Would 
poeem, and, with moderate ca re, form compact hand. | is is pretty — shown by the ee of royal Oak bark, | excessive rains we had in autumn and winter produce 
specimens ; but, like the majority of hard-wooded | which still continues to be the w 'orst that comes into the mischief I have just i R. N. Q. G. Ш 
— бег are apt to suffer much fini improper treat- the market, and to fetch de lowest price! See Paper 8 state of the Vines is accurately described, it is pro- 
over-watering during winter—allowing | No. 7. Baccalaurius. ably owing to a wet cold нй, and to insufficient 
the soil to Ge me dry in hot = them, Potato em. eiie remarks in your leading article — * tion.] 
when in a soft state, to sudden —— changes on fe disease has recalled to my agnus some facts Rhubgy .— We have 9 t ag © ing the рее 
23 to become pot-boun cM which occurred to me when residing in Kent, in the duce of a new variety o we 
to remain several months in that — then years 1846, 184 75 &c.; but the rem s from which I | received from Mr. Robert Salt, ce F Longton, Stafford. 
giving them a large shift, and applying water water carelessly 4 d not sufficiently follow up. During those years my |shire. It is very early and beautifully 
'otatoes were very much diseased ; and passing through | red all through, and the Sivan —— delicious when 
Gating made of firm young wood root freely enough, | а farm one day, I observed, under a shattered cart | made into If you will give it a fair trial, we do 
0 also bits of ripe wood having several shoots. They | removed under a shed, a number of Potatoes appa-|not doubt that you will approve of it. Hurst and 
there, percussion cartridge fo 
— sooner, ers will save time, however, by | out before storing. It occurred to me that chance|in your Paper of “Saturday last. To answer your беда 4 
procuring young ^em from the nursery at once ; and if had thus offered me a means of staying the disease | natural question, I ean yi that there is no 
strong dwarf little ones are obtained, they are well worth in Potatoes stored up. І accordingly ever after the iron rammer being forced out either in — 
what they usually cost. Supposing young plants to be|stored my Potatoes in such a manner as to get them bore, or bore of any inclination, because the explosion 
Obtained now (although too late to get à good season's | thoroughly dried ; and the plan I adopted having been is so instantaneous that the rupture in the timber takes 
growth), let them be placed in a cold frame or pit, or | made known through the columns of the - Times, saved | place before the momentum of the blow from the fallen 
near the glass in the greenhouse will do, and be screened | m many tons to those. who followed the simple mode I|block ceases, and I prefer eri ao o powder for 
from the full force of the midday sun, and afforded a | recommended, I also caused very many sadly diseased | that reason, because its explosion is 
Moist growing atmosphere, If the pots are moderatel — scattered over the bottom of a fiat basket to be | common blasti ting powder, or елд other that I I know of 
filled with active roots, give a shift at once into pots one | put into an oven after the heat was drawn out, and kept I also prefer i it because it allows a small enient 
or two sizes larger, according to the health and vigour of | there till almost too hot to hold in the hand ; they were of a large one, being multum in . as 
the plants. Keep the atmosphere rather close, as then spread over the brick-flooring to get cold. These wall as less costly in consequence. There is no danger 
Moist as can conveniently be done, for a fortnight after | Potatoes, when peeled, cleaned, &c., were boiled in the | from the fragments of the timber, as the person holding 
shifting, and give lt to the soil sparingly until the | usual way, and when brought to table, I will not say de rope can choose his distance, and even stand 
Toots strike into the as they were better, but certainly were prefe to the sound | behind a tree, e in the e can be 
have fairly established m I they — ones, This I rep ly , and always with the | rather “ EM to the resistance ot 
a : to air, night and day, merely screen- | result; and having also been circulated through | the block to be blasted, ° 
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dday sun, and shutting them vj them up the Times, as before, I have reason to know was of tg the Ls er blook or “a t to strike the head 
evening after syringing them; adopted with good effect, During the spring of of the rammer, by sliding down an inclined plane, 
