452 
Tana pam sameeren th Gur correspondent, Mr. 
communication with correspondent, Mr. 
BERKELEY, on the pa eo of vegetable msaa 
croscope, encouraged 
and | persion of the paien ‘all = which ~ "however | 
rsed 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
Mr. WYKEHAM 
Martin, of Leeds wag i who in 
common with others invented machines 
e dis- 
and had an excellent mi - Eomp mns iR mont by > 
CKER in his researches. Under these now s 
Sanai Mr i Mr. vo an accurate emeen In thá, flowing year Dr. eke ae 
knowledge of the parasite, and as it was eye | gave a lecture at Lenh n the subject, and the 
closely ied to the mildew of the Peach for pree = no tied s joaels full over thousands of 
dry sublimed sulphur dusted on the affected he Vine mildew had not yet spread exten- 
was the approved remedy,* it was almost a qra sively å ni the more important Vine districts, but 
sary consequence t e should turn his attention sulphur and water was used b 
to sulphur in some shape or other, and after Discs in a Vineyard at Versailles wi 
various fail eous solutio com- | t e ss in gland. ‘The fol- 
a sulphur and 
sease was soon observe d in 
attended his suggestions in ns and 
the Rec bert Bee of the application of tae of 
hur lar share Mr. BERKELEY proposed 
ricts tiysa ‘Chron. AN 
under he auspic nd 
o a it is hs applied with the greatest benefit to 
the ee of some ion ands of tons. As in a 
case ops all sorts of objection s have been 
to ite use, but they have proved utterly ideals 
anc there i is every reason to believe that ea i the 
A), an 
and in t nty 
ot Sussex, attacking iidisctimihate ly the Vinds i in 
the open air and er glass. Upto the end of 
dte Pae A had 
subject, the in- 
was quit 
ERKELEY, W. 
first ngs ar = far as we able 
ascertai ort cddinginisation by Mr. 
Teoxen “desi self i ik "te “ Gardeners’ Journal, ” 
847, p. 212, not the Gardeners’ Chronicle as 
stated in some caer h reports. In July of that | (¢ 
ar Mr. BERKELEY examined the = ene r- 
ialt with Mr. TUCKER an N, the 
result of which is potd i in ardani? JE RETA 
lime was at the sa 
as suosessfl in the hands of Mr, TUCKE 
The disenso now 
ome 
1t was 
pasty in Baron ROTHSCHILD’S garden at Suresne, 
aris. Complaints in consequence were 
shaven during the year, and Mr. Joun KYLE, 
ii 
for A purpose once insti- | so’ 
tuted by Mr. ERSKINE, the alge agent of 
Gardeners 
of sulphur as me 
infant Erysi 
Mildew at 
P solution of re is 
n 
rin Now: 1847, and the | | 
more widely, ai 
ass about London, and was cability. It remain 
of jou 
he cultivator i in the field as in the Vine 
n this same year, however the official journal 
of the two etellies still re ends lime and water 
without an o 
“ Revue Horticole,” 1 851, Lá ÉVEILLÉ 
doubtful aan the efficac cy rf Pee a in the belie 
that as much is due to the liquid with pai it is 
mixed as to the mineral (Ga aan Chron., 1851 
|P- 628, 644). LÉVE , however, was stro 
ofi 
p 
a conse and dis a cau 
recommen 
name 0 
slightly from that o 
extensively emplo ad b Dr. 
of this will be found’ in 
p. 419. mih "the along okay o 
fication of Mr. s plan was proposed b 
. À. RICE, a nativo of Margate, which e 
sisted i in the application of a solution of penta- 
p of a he ch mine u 
whi 
E 
injurious, a 
of sulphurous ac cid from g bri rims stone. We 
are s 
and aye that Mr. greet ts nies 
m us in our good opini 
ns only to yaa that as far as 
we know Mr. BERKELEY first pointed out the 
rationale - the — of sulphur a ranit i in this 
rnal 1 
“Soe the mildew was at first slow i in its 
t soon infested the gr 
sg ab eset 
un y he native vines and their 
varieties but speared on i 
ge, ll We believes; 
ut 
only p orance and 
peas Ege have not paa aN its a ny ie pr 
disease ha za greatly modifie po 
amelioration were prevalent in 1855, but in 1856 
some Viya in Oporto ga 
produce, and the im aea an if real was only 
artial. In our own enay » has a irh in 
earlier fod: of the volume an aqueou 
mended, a 
recom 
p The Sie et 
sal 
PEt- t flowers ast be ae a Pokies old 
alludes to i in his terse wa} 
that the 
Mr. Joux Boys’ 
E ser mal ournal of | th 
ts 
k] Erp ete ni * Mainaie oo 
very 
tural Society of Lyons in 1839, eit 
eg gg tga same. 
eint 
advantage of the controversies meh o pane as to 
origi tato murrai 
| except that earann “eo 
pete rs ote re from 
to parasite and sects attendant com- 
plications, no effectual rem 
ed k d fiery which | ca 
nes 
par, and even in the 
É i failed n 
Jl: 
ongly 
| prej judiced against kiren eim ‘that the disease was re 
= all ra nen on =r mildew, eae he looked |in 
santa fhe by the rapid passage of a stream | fruit. 
burnin 
entally . con- | BY 
on of its Soren appli- a 
ted 
A ore severe wi 
“eater r part of France, Spain, | Y° 
. Italy, toa, onian sharen Saya. the iaid 
o 
ng objets, iso 
o 
scarce! 
p Suceess had n me too eg” 
e only a nominal | 2% 
eaped the | © 
be gogai: nature of | n; 
[June 27, 187. l 
found for that malady, the certain 
disease was due to a fan has Dt the te 
more — 2 apply the known -remed vaton 
Then upholders of th the 7 for su 
r | affectio fungal 
Seunaers were in the first instan, 
rmly 
e that th veal t 
at the e tivation of they? 
i ve been co 
hopeless s ered. ute 
WE are requested to state that 5 
meeting of the Horticult — Soci nt tho nat 
We beliey, thesis 
will be about two blanks to one prize, oe 
{ 
APRICOTS IN ORCHARD HOUSES, 
H the strictures of m 
rks fir ee ca) De are 
a kind- hearted garden- a perso: 
some attention from 
repeat, are, with 
was inclined to impute this gi z trees having become 
weak in constitution by the y crops of pang l 
years, but on looking over them iI T vam the young | 
vigorous trues which had bloo mos perfectly bal 
al lt toppe d their oe witht ol setting their fruit. 
could be the cause of this ?—why should the 
Aprients ea and as Pea ches an 
n th use 
s from bein: cold a 
bloomed later a m “old stock tree which from beng 
pl y nve entilated ergi | 
B 
ct 
© 
as 
si m, had n 
the Molat st eather vide eevee i spain 
actin WE arin s 
g 
mai ve had great 
in ‘the culture of Apricots in Efi git and hav oh 
the future; and I firmly believe that Ap" i 
under xtent ae which å 
borders 
on each side nothing co 
of this awe ies oe cdr old 
of an orchard hi two of them | 
present | can be and will be 
oan sulphurators appeared. many months before that of he 
