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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
| Supreyg 
chief existed in the soil and oe The low state = Ten 
in the in its susi spa is 
of the p 
fungi, 
of facts ely ds 
neiples enunciate 
by m phle Pota 
I have can Rain to enclose), , 
Dai Fara mitigation, and in man 
ce of the 
ied nto the > belief ss bons conditions of soil 
ing t ineyards of Po 
wing commu 
make such pablis use as may be 
edient. 
ears have now elapsed since I fore 
the ben ofits of oy carboniferous manures 
the ager ion of V The oidium in 
sease. 
will not take Leare bac cer = a state of 
“ee 
made to 
that all the alkalies co ta in 
and Beet, and found in “the j juices, united with herbi 
ot present for 
gists 
ts.’ 
must be ene a for the for- 
lants. We hav 
all 
Seniors are supplied by antiseptic manures, amongs 
which I consi ider wood ashes and 
it may gradually deco 
5 absorbed by the rootlets. 
and its fertilisi ro 
manure, are but imperfectly — to 
orti 
calculated 
vel ceo pr the patreseent, po 
al and vegetable 
te Sia uu DA favour 1 ee attacks of fungi 
and eggs y aiie. of 
nitrogen Pm actos acid to 
roots of shasta, ‘wit the other product, gas eS 
ey valuable as an a iacal 
cereal crops, 
ae, emerga I evident, boat the 
aluable as an antiseptic ca carbonifero 
nous manure 
fe E baaveditive to the ng 
that the arar proporties of volatile hydro-carbons 
of coal tar hav: neces, not only 
vented the ravages of t the Vine and Potato diseas 
freeing the former in Vineries from red spider, but hates 
lera. 
to the value of these 
refer er your Ponto to the “ Year- 
‘or 1855 and Lag sin sort e 2a 
M.: 
ines, the wood of whieh | 
t 
sar those views, aà I se nyu brush. 
prea e 
ve 
us ease 
| in the ae e kingdom ? Tti is a well-known fact that 
e Vin e more prevalent, and u 
em ma ei over with coal tar. M. Sandette pro- 
very successful o h 
per ieee even “aichoagh ‘tie were in the midst o 
par ate nes.’ 
In he eae Se Chronicle, of May 16th, 1857, at 
follows :-— 
wo eal pie wit 
arms pints of o 
in the atmos phere, at oertain perio 
oms. 
aan at Haw: arden n, 
ximum of ozone correspond with - 
scaditions which giv e maximum 
ozone, then, in = warn 8 moist atmosphere charge with 
it, has such isease in the 
need we w 
animal kingdo 
the quant 
The Engish “soon encamped ot = 
ed 
e elevated ground at 
ra until a violent 
Forrester, i 
tha t, b the aa of J dy, another visible 
e Alto-Douro; the 
ils became stained with a va riety ‘of grater -like 
spots of various = while the healthy colour of the 
mone a in | ing 
Every observer m 
- | without eae a 
e So most prom 
ese 
the expan nded. 
bers, | ha 
leaves ee 
The Pota a: aia after a Seca storm, has, in 
er of cases, first manifested itself; and I believe 
n admitted fact that, wherever oleta has raged 
priten pi tg been found that the air was| Van 
nerd 328 with s 
I belie 
e all 'antisepties 5 be — in neutralis- 
rgd effi of a ss of ; the flowers 
sulphur, on “this principe, put dgh in arresti ing the 
es of the oidium, owing the anti me roe 
e sulphurous ff b 
re 
roots, I 
— to be burned, and the ashes dug into the 
Ta conclusion, I aerae a the duty of all ioe culti- 
vators to endea na o get at the root of the 
nol ascertain wink ae aii ng cause of th e ong 
ease in the Vine, as no external application can effect 
-| ually afford a cure. I should again recommend, then 
that wort mar E manures should be dug into the soil, 
ch as wood ashes (which ae potash), gas tar, also 
&e.; and the a ofa all putres- 
and natural producti iradoki 
anaesema 
ON THE BEARING OF FRUIT TREES IN 1857. 
ust have remarked that fruit trees, 
ted at the topini of March 
mperature o 
e extern: 
aes buds and to their maturation. 
arch, the time when the flowering of certai 
and 
se iting. Throughout, this 
inds, n a flies nor real 
wers, and fert 
ave been effected without the boxer of th 
The seed of 1857 will coe be ed o 
peer which will m e present year an epoch in 
raising seedlings rieties which have bee 
quently renewed. y once more sta 
varieties, though Maem by t 
a tendency to ik when propagated 
abe seed, 
seeds from the e flow 
wer, hcp ma been ar 
tall by bees an and mia 
forth by Vi and I believe prer 
ut | tained Liy experi femen iehieti T ino adido in sowing the 
seeds of certain sorts of Strawberries and Cherries, the 
f and which i is s light, dee 
yl 
ut also the advantages we 
as 
SaaS man 
of 
T 
atter, | These should be 
bandoned, =e t 
fr 
results of which will be — 
occasi be fully detailed 
retur m EE our subject 
, and 
sults as P „Somewhat m 
mate there is certainl 
va Rew in producti eness a a 
from = ston 
-a 
(e. 
yea 
hoped that for t the ee quarter of a ay mes a 
ve such climateric vanes 
ed since 1852. 
Revue des 
eal = into cultivation Te sat 
. Dec 
ing after all th of has been said an 
50 years and m ill be of no 
the cultivator. 
po owth of the tree, 
studied in 
me of 
“alt 
13 or 14 years aa: 
planted in a ee ioe c by . 
inm el s 
not perfectly 50; 
i a 
It is 
when worked eit 
