CHRONICLE 
726 THE GARDENERS’ 
[OCTOBER 24, sr 
about the beginning o getting worse eve ery - 
neem — ry day. J. Stoke 
er b ae. ellow star-like flowers, bat sy bt id ah ena its seed seed, nor ease pr rigs this district (North Li 7 
Pee ormed a kind | have I heard of an oceasion thal a in} tending from Grimsby to the river ; 
ei anpe aiara ie of the names} England. On account of the long continued isk? and | some Potato growing districts of ry y icun 
aa qualities of various vegetables, but the Potato was | dry weather the gai was large and of first-rate sue me has manifested itself to a greater extent dn 
omitted. late years the dise as drawn attention | amounting to a ack per rod. But as there was as mm any year since its commencement in 1845, z 
to this valuable product of the field and garden, and | difficulty in Aaaa of them, and the price Sed sorts of land are nearly equally affected, from the = 
new and valuable kinds have been raised from seed. | not amounting to but half — of Potatoes, viz., 7s., a peat to the strong clayey loam, and the ri aon 
Your journal. and other similar publications have been | while Potatoes were 14s. pe sack, the e experiment and on the banks of the Trent, In many laine 
the means of making many known to the public, but-| was not repeated. The soil was a seit light loam, the | are completely rotten, unfit to boil for pigs, ae 
still this has been only partially done. A catalogue of | locality near Bury St. Edmunds. R. W., October 19. | quently will not pay the expense of digging. Fike hen, 
the best kinds would be a boon to all Potato growers. | | We have other letters on this subject which we think | been fou und as yet more sound than any other, H, p 
shoul daa 
nvr erreur et eae OPS ECT ae ee ETNA 
been produced near Exeter. Is it not the largest that has 
gland? E. Pers 
j rena a Gis e ANE e oa tated in aeres; it is th 
; 4, shape ; 5, flavour ; 6, mealy or waxy ; 7, early | Cuthill was a needless on is plant does not flower | persons are stated in acres ; it is the practice in thi 
cere aon a be whole or cut; 3, p sg chore ;lin — because ~ sum ers are generally too short | generally to adopt what is called the Ch this part 
s E! are 
was 4 rhich is near two statute acr tha are, 
f ting the rot. Perhaps some one resid- | and too enever, or wherever it is otherwise, | w es, so that the 
ran -prani ‘might undertake to ale such a list. | the es exec ers aes e grown by each may be set down at nearly doable ite 
Amateurs and other Potato growers would, I | Fruit Judging —As my motive for commenting upon | Statute acre is meant. Speke and Hale are : 
presume, ~~ Se gn to send, carriage paid, | Mr, M‘Ewen’s answer to “An Occasional Exhibitor” | lying on the bank of the a about 
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peck of an ety not generally a a ma a de | was not to praise or condemn any ean 'y sort = Pear ey from Liverpool :—John J. Blac urn, Esg, Hale 
on, aid. its a trath might: be t a anting | or Apple,” vp to advoeate a principle, = will per- ‘ ne; Californias 
then i in a field of average soil By some su naa sary ch send t me to make m te aning x0 e clearly un- | late var., a few diseased. Mr. Thomas Bramall, Speke, 
much knowledge might be gain ned, and arna notions | 5 aa a te than I seem to have yt ee in the: remarks you 7 acres, Kemps | half gone; Protestan ants, late, 2 bushels 
corrected. In my own neighbou anan two di farent published at p. 709. The apreni left upon my mind | im 20 gon - Atherton, jun., Speke, 12 acres, 
Potatoes are called Farmers’ Glory, one red and ses | tar eadin ng Mr. M‘Ewen’s answer to Aang pec. Kemps, half rom ‘Seedlings, late, almost free from 
and the other white = rather mealy, et which I can | den ts inquiries was, that ‘ee ad laid d disease. Mr. John J. enkinson, Speke, 7 acres, Kemps, 
not distinguish from the Bread-fruit. I may, perhaps, | a law for the guidance of the judges, Bri tig ‘that | half gone; late sorts a little diseased. Mp, 
be allowed t give a hint to the peme of new kinds, bulk was to be ears the chief mo of merit in | Boyes, Speke, 3 acres, emps, more than two-thirds 
not to give them names from their qualities or appear- the case of — ay sa and flavo orrasan of | gone; no late sorts. Mrs. Jenkinson, Speke, 10 acres, 
ance. White Blossoms, Long Reds, Pink me and such bulk, in the case of desser $ Peis poe T at tempted to emen 3 more than half gone; later sort, only a little 
names are applied to totally different kinds. P. T. 8. show th at jadi es ought to pror Paia view, not Mrs, Edw: 
Arundinaria ie aah: Becton i, - your Paper some founding their decision upon o r two points only, basil one. It 
account of this hardy Bamboo having reached the but upon the preponderance of general good qualities i in Kemps or early kinds have suffered prema 
height of 20 feet in "Devonshire, I beg to inform you a y ariety or a collection. Possibly my ¢ ae ee ote n | growing and later varieties, such as 4 
that I have two of th my garden, ‘rived from Apple, by way of illustration, may hav Seedlings, Protestants, hae: are only partially 
seed sent home by Major Madden, some 10 or 12 years — roe I still venture to = that 8 as both | affected. Early kinds grown i insome cams 
ago, that have never had the slightest protection, and kinds are usually grown, Dumelow’ s Seedling is - | more than half,the quantity planted. a 
are now 14 or 15 feet high, and full 10 feet in circum- inferior t to tlie Alexander in aizd “and: showiniess a0 iti neestheties. very curious se hiss T3 
ference ; some of the shoots this year are 15 feet, and superior in real merit; however, I am by no means fa wakat of the 15th century —s the Book of om m 
there are al a dozen on = plant. Ihave seen judiced against the Emperor, whose good looks will | lacions was lately quoted by Mr. : i 
them in hot days grow much as 4 inches. always make him tes Most men have their |the Bath and Bristol Branch fi meeting of the 
Hy. Wooler, = Tulse Hill, 1 Brit xton. favourites in Apples d ‘Pears, as well as in other | Medical Association, with a view to show. that “four 
Horse Chesnuts.—I observe in your Pa te = the things. I must confess t this weakness myself, although | hundred years ago there were experiments and efforts 
17th inst. an tier from a correspondent a the I am neither fascinated by the Beurré Diel nor over | made to destroy the pain of surgical operations.” Mr, 
amount of nutriment contained in the Aiad ana head and ears in ae with the Duchess. Mr. M‘Ewen’s | Prichard has kindly sent the title of this book, which is 
I cannot state the exact oueees as this consi necessarily fancy is et a the plump, — ai ei d Seckel, |a treatise on Botany and Materia Medica, with the 
vary, but it is considerable, and I was informed by a and yet there are some who say that Seckel is no | quaintest woodcuts in illustration of the subjects; such 
late eminent physician who renitod at Denies that wlith better than it = uld be; so, as even ‘the Seckel does |as a man dying among tombs to illustrate the Pulvis 
ground into powder the bitter principle was easily ex- ody (on account of its strong muskiness) Momie or mummy powder formerly used in medicine, 
tracted by repeated washings in cold water, after throw- i nnot be ee perfect These fans neies often | At the end of the volume is a work on Surgery, also 
ing away which a wholesome and nutritious starch re- piiraa bias one’s larisa “both in the matter of — illustrated. The anatomical woodeuts are very 
mained, which he had frequently given to his patien ents, fruit and of plants, and possibly to this cause may be | Curious, especially one giving the situations of the — 
and had found that it had all the good qualities of attributed in some degree the too frequent disagreement ae of the mer according to eee J 
arro Oswald Mosley, Rolleston ae Sikiedte the censor and the exhibitor, each party having | logy. Something similar is give “he 
Birds.—The wisest course to pursue in regard to his own particular fancy for some different kind of ~~ book Rarities of ‘iss University oe F Cnn, 
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these is to scare them from the garden daring the fruit or plant. As regards fruit, I think that a remedy might | a uthor is 8 espe = k 
season, or from those portions of it in which they can do be found by devi vising some scheme of judging by points, | thorus or splinters, and write as follows: The di i 
damage in spring, Anag the buds are open to their after this manner in the case of Pears :— manner is that ye shall imiti. the wounde wyder i 
attacks; and afterw: when fruit is ripening, a boy thivocs Points payre of puse or with sheres thereto belingga i 
might be employed to drive them away. In order to- Datema gc ce: Biante, here is fygured, but that is dredfull to the woundjyt — 
eep | from Gooseberries and Currants interlace the Colour } y pogran. Points person for to beholde is my counsell ie 
thickly with worsted, and to keep them from aii si occopy the fornaymd tentes. Bi P 
, from the soil, a simis ne sista eee eas, and that ie dise ersone 
just above the addin any amir rtp that might be thou sa a feer abyde the cutting, Than m 
a as ets where available desirable. Then, that sort or that collection which gain e, and i 
Paidi. o i me but more espe- the he greatest hoem pei points on be the best beyond in slepe.and fele nother cuttynge nor payne; 
cially by —s uring certain seasons, any one may all cavil. This is merely a crude mplification of the | must ye make it. 
s at a very trifling expense, O at Lean en to whid li atvertaal at he. beginning of these | and semen jusquami, 
the same enti some ing himself of the se the arks; but if the idea ~ considered worth notice it | sede and black popy sede, opium th D 
most sharp-sighted oe all insect killers. The ost de- might easly 1 os worked out in a more practical form. | croci orientalis, corticis man 
structive birds which make no returns for their depre- J. B ati momi, castorum 
a dragm 
n o are the goldfinch, yellow hammer, the reed Pot bDi se —Our loss this year is Neat than | make a course powder, 
bunting, the skylark, the woodlark, the that of isa or any subsequent year. The disease made | mas ane sethe it with m: 
Hinai, th the chaffinch, the bullfinch, the house and tree its first bc See ig among very fo rward plats: the first | droght. And ge 
sparrows. The following are fruit-eating birds, which week in June (its Sil k appearance having been not er premise i ie nc A 
also feed on insects—the black cap, ais oh garden warbler, earlier than the second week in Faly), spread rapidly, whan thou wylt have hym wakend agayne, ™ 
the white throat, the missel and the song thrush, the and reduced the crop to pers Se qan afe wh Au a pece in nose t 
blackbird. Mark A Hill e t in i 
y better enable you 
paletan my denton or iÈ, Is it worth figuring ? seemed to 
Viscount Boyne, Bu 
m ew years ago. I 
fair d of both (while Regents and g 
the e plot have been ve 
' crop. A. B, of ex! 
rows 3 feet apart. The | The Potatoes in this coun a oaee ield about 14 per cent. 
feet in height, and indeed—half and in ee p st) w, ery ja Aprea t T 
