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33—1853.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 517 
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TAXUS BACCATA. surrounding the plantations, which was 2 ireland з пав been but too fully realised. for some ume 
necessary in 30 rs in succession, You r | past, indeed, the disease has been making 
калә» M Girth. Remarks. correspondent talks of such a property returning a in many places in the vicinity of Cork ; it was 
of 60,0002. E annum. If the foregoing is, or anything | distinetly rvable an 18-acre field at s 
9500 Above Wan, 143 Descent on north side | like, the truth, how is it possible ce an liance wn (famous for its magni t Cork tree), in the first 
from Pass above Wan | upon hi ations or statemen ll not discuss | week of June; in the week of July, the fol and 
—— Nundakinee | whether any rent ought to be obtained from this forest, | many of the tubers on 4 f the were 
ABIES SMITHIANA i do ibt the om cutting imber ake a|greatly injured, and on visiting this field a few days 
$000 203 7 pecuniary show, which I believe ought to be retained | since I found hole of the an 
to 2 18 ron, — for difficult times : but of this I am quite rom anit extent sufficient to put a stop to the further growth of 
500 5 18 if you h,inhisdescrip- | the tubers. kind is the pink and crop 
” — the last tion of the other crown forests, as he has done in this, having planted in February, and early in March, 
ABIES PINDROW his statements must be worse than usel the tubers ha tained, as nearly as I can estimate, 
" Re confess our a to discover any half the size they would have attained 
-8500 Byansee. 13 А у у у they 
^ | © 11 groun ere criticism of ou pondent. We the d nfortu y is half-erop a large 
PINUS LONGIFOLIA. have ‘ot “pretended P give A complete history | po third and a half are diseased. 
5000 Ghetee. 15) | Below Chiringa Pass | of р ings the New Forest. It is in | field, which i is now bearing the second erop of Potatoes, 
76500 10 — boat n that victi details are to be looked for. havi en up from an old i 
* = ot cessarily confined to results, and to 1852, and manured rather heavily each year, is ina 
ar EE 9 ы е sys mikes out of which they arise, and our correspond- | worse state any other in the 
" 52 8i ent's letter itself shows what the ' system m has been. He I regret to have to state that every field is more or less 
т 8 4 — affected, and that the decay of the foliage is 
нй БЫ 0 that is beyond dispute—but * says that commoners | with great — ое — so that the whole atmo- 
5000 have certain extensive m which is perfectly true, | sphere on c ibly 
QUERCUS КЕЛҮҮ, ч е deer a great sour pense, | the vicinity of the "Potato fields disgustingly о, wid with 
5000 | Hutcheena | 11 Kutyoor district. about which we do not entertain the smallest doubt ; | the liar effluviu 
Pass. we would ask why the commoners’ rights could | Potatoes in the markets have for the last fort- 
: QUERCUS INCANA. not have been long since ed by legal arrangements ! | night or three — qe — er they — at 
— Pos — why enormous plunder should have itted 1— this time of ee w selling for 
ass. why flagrant negligence should have been tolerated 1— | per stone e - «e dmi "Within à the last few days, — X 
7500 Near Wan. 18} and why the mischief caused by the deer has not been | dise: more 
” " 1 per fine trees. aba A l bill might -> n in the - which have reached 
8 n : in 1803 as well as in 3. A vigilant superintendence | me, I fear that the hope which I > time 
s D 14 — might have been consistent with prese Vlog the just | tained that aie po 
^" — rights of deen. е ж — was indeed x со — ratively highly — > the city, 
” indispensable because of the exercise of t| s li i n event 
MILITE e NEM ы I — — 
= — 164 — very lately obtained permission to i inclosu y to be hoped that our will abandon the 
-8000 and 16 very largely, the same permission might have been | extensive culture of this faithless erop. In the vicinity 
" Kankra 15 btained at any earlier i It may be true | of to early Potatoes very commonly 
* e — that the New d have been inca of | make a return of 30/. or more per acre, the chance of 
gurh (near), yielding a clear revenue of 60,0007, a year under any | success may worth ; every where else, 
QUERCUS SEMECARPIFOLIA. cireumstances ; di "n — ; | with such substitutes for our cattle as Sw edish Turnips, 
8000 to nsee. 16 66,000 acres of E mpshire Mangold Wurzel, and eee and for human 
8500 12 good Oak land, ‘may not уе capablo oh vielding a кке ood as Oatmeal and India to persevere in the 
m Man. — of 60,0007. a унф и under апу circumstan t the | culture of Potatoes is altogether "inexcusable, Edmund 
40 13 main fact would still remain untouched, tm Roe that hy, Queen's Coll , Count 
m E 12 } This size is common 66,000 acres have — — — — . e А аз үк уне. lt is useless planting 
S000 Near Do. — not pay our co — =. ` " — — . unless — ^ — A 
5 М su that -A a ew 4.5. wit r^ i cults am t open to s an admirable position 
— * but with i its acres, were to for t сь class of plants, If strong plants of 
"à е eritance, he odi be content to spend 520“. а — indien (Which is the for bedding out), are 
RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM. in maintaining it, or that he would be satisfied with nted in May they will fi g us 
“8500 yansee. 1 even 680/, as clear revenue; or that he would allow M scarlet flowers, which will continue in beauty till quite 
$000 Nest E E 12 timber to remain cult times," notwithstanding late in the autumn. After the plants have done b 
is its annual Ls tion. ECC which wil! happen about the end of September, 
8 " 11 е oney ( vil 469 and 486).—I do mot think the |them up, and keep them in a com ely dry state in 
25000 Near == 127 тыпам чус to the p;^ m7 arrive at the real solution a cool stove all the winter; be ready for 
121 . ystery. 22 oticed ved what is | planting again in the i A mod of the 
5000 Bins — termed virgin honey, s vizs l , hone » Tribe. 
$000 Near Kanka) 11 becomes solid when put away in NN e or bottles ; ; bat | placed a hand-gase over а plant of this Rose, to force i 
8i | с еа ot granulate, w which fact has often gur- for a show ; it has year, very semi-double, 
9 prised RET tomm. sri of the rose. roads d 
ALNUS NEPALENSIS. eeds E шы Salt.— find that 1 Ib. of salt saturates forced? Will it recover? Buds from the plant bloom 
6500 | пеаг — 2 quarts of hot water. 133 mtg “к, Vieni ofi ov i T pak Jut 
— © ears weeds, or how long ! | this to come semi- 
= — - Stoning ru Wall Fruit.—Permit me to direct your | later in the ed will Pht toe be found to be per- 
7000 Wan. 15 attention to this, viz., in — С — aa are four | fectly 3 — to have their true colow 
and one Peach Dried Pota — rom what I am — to to state 
OLEA сомтхатА ез аге a the back wall, putos the pond two, with the | the ise wil 1 app that the failure of the 
-4500 | Above eb [Near jun — mi aid Nectarine, are in front, lying backwa i-circle, | experiment at та | reen їп drying Potatoes on 
"epu. The front trees have their roots outside of the house in | Professor Bollman's plan has arisen from their чњ | 
ULMUS EROSA. a bed of bones, &c. Now, one of them (in front), а | roasted e season, 1. e., after vegetation 
po * = Noblesse, has always dropped its fruit before they ipe, | become ms that the Potatoes of M. Boll- 
Ty 1 t and upon opening them I have invariably found the | man and others have only been subjected to the dryin 
8600 fe a mi 7 stones to be split and the kernels rotten. It is the heat of an apartment in iem Pls M^ yd e 1 
healthiest tree in the hou All tbe other ripen | which heat, although greater than shed 
their fruit well. I would further ask your advice upon | rooms, does not approach to that of a a kiln. 2 As T wishe 
this : the gr of my Vines always blister when the | to try tl 
e wood begins to ripen. eir roots are without the | suffered most from disease, and as such were not now 
The New Forest. though he e truth, botes; far bed of bones, Kc. D. J. B. [In unfavourable | otherwise to be obtained, I went to а neglected piece of 
‘yet not the whole truth, must be highly blameable. І | springs, a portion of the blossoms is injured, but | ground, on which had been grown last 
аш led to this observation letter of not to an extent that prevent the formation of | year, chiefly of а kind here called Tolys, with some 
t in " Chronicle for July 30, the young fruit, the latter often holds on till the stone is | K з as I found у thee tops on the 13th, 23, 
relative to the New Forest. I will defy any one te read | formed, but then the kernel is without vitality. It is and 27th June, they ve been in an active state of 
ап t dist „that | observed to inclosing a dis- ion. I put 140 of the tubers of all sizes, some 
Any rights exist there, but those belonging to the Crown. | coloured fluid. If this dry up the fruit may ripen ; larger th les, —— — 
The real fact is, that most ex ve rights belong to the | in moist weather, there is a strong flow I hung in open, , kitchen the 
to which they have as much legal claim as | sap, the vitiated fluid increases ursts the stone, | 14th July 1 planted 138 5 whole seed, all with 
man has to br own estate. The Crown Instanees of this have common wi of from а quarter to 1} inch long; two I rejected, 
in the New Forest The manor | Peaches on the open wall this season, where the trees as showed no sufficient vegetation. Of these 138 
7 it; ‘he timber PAR ў - it had also that | are too vigo in proporti e number of fruit. | Potatoes, four only have above- 
may = Ap be. the Crown, ара to keep deer in all | You must endeavour, in future, to maintain a tempera- ve come up weakly, as might be expected f 
parts of ^ , up to e [ум 1850, could | ture favourable for setting the bl then take | the size of the P. and their te, 
never keep more 6000 acres of lan inelosed fi e growth tree be not affected by larger number have a very fine, almost a pee 
Plantation А vicissitudes of dryness а! moisture. If you can thus Of the fi — t come up, 
. any ru. Un obtai . the excessive flow of sap will, in —— I fou wing state, СОЙ 
freeholders or forest inhabitants to inclose a few acres consequence, be moderate d, and the evil now complained very soft and pulpy з Ве fourth o ne firm, sound, 
abutting upon their properties, ted by the of will most likely not oceur. reviously to tthe blister. and hard, with small P drmed, but ao Mak ОЙ 
commoners required an equal quantity from the | ing of your Vine leaves, the latter have drawn — — Potato erop — — some f instances of 
Bear peu, dne thrown open to the public. About | the moisture from the dry materials your border ;| mildewed leaves, but sca an instanee of {its 
ree years since, by act of Crown tity of water, | extending to the stem ; in the early Potatoes we our- 
obtained permission ie iode LONE acres, | if a house is v t to Al we | selves are digging, there is no sign of disease. In 
The the condition of destroying the deer. have had a € of rain, yet your border, like many | Potatoes on the 1 which mildewed spots 
dp me de it & most advantageous t. The | others, may be umsta as to throw o appeared a fortnight back, a strong and vigorous vegeta- 
were a continued source of ex , from the ы dio heavy falls} is pi ing, n two plots of Potatoes in whieh 
damage done to the trees, as also from excessive and| Potato Disease in Ireland.—Your PL seme Bom the stems had hed a month ago, the plants 
‘Constant eost ef keeping in repair i otato disease would probably soo Der i te vered, and the blot s of the 
