1 54 Sutton on the Destruction of the Turnip Fly. 



is not of proper age to receive the virtue which is directed to it ; 

 consequently it will make large at one end, and grow ugly." 

 (p. 12.) 



By the address to the gardeners of Suffolk, it appears that the 

 author is distinguished as a prize-cucumber grower ; and, by his 

 practical critique on Smith's Treatise (noticed IX. 692.), that he 

 is not on very friendly terms with one Suffolk gardener, at least. 

 We have no doubt, however, of the author's merits as a practical 

 man ; and, as a proof of his own confidence in his success in 

 growing cucumbers, we subjoin a challenge, which, he says, he 

 has made public : viz., that he " will grow six cucumbers against 

 any person in the county of Suffolk, none less than twenty 

 inches, for ten sovereigns." (p. 24.) 



Sutton, John, of Fisherton Anger, near Salisbury, Wilts : An 

 Important Discovery for the Destruction of the Turnip Fly ; 

 presenting a Certain Method to prevent the Ravages com- 

 mitted on the Turnip Plant by that Insect. 12mo, pp. 24. 

 105. to subscribers ; 1 2s. 6d. to non-subscribers. 



Mr. Sutton's plan is starvation. He states, that, as soon as 

 the land is turned up and prepared for the seed, the eggs which 

 had been deposited in the ground, and are thus brought to the 

 surface, are vivified by the warmth, and that the fly or beetle is 

 in full action by the time the first leaves appear, according to 

 the ordinary practice of sowing immediately after the land is 

 ready ; but that, if the sowing be delayed for a fortnight, and 

 every weed be destroyed as fast as it appears, the beetle will die 

 from starvation in a few days, and the seed may then be sown in 

 perfect safety. He farther alleges that he tried an experiment, 

 by sowing the same seed in earth under ordinary circumstances, 

 and in similar earth which had first been baked in an oven ; 

 and that, in the former case, the plants of turnips were destroyed 

 by the beetle, while, in the latter, no beetle appeared. Is it 

 not, as the writer in the British Farmer's Magazme, whom you 

 have quoted in p. 80., suggests, too much to concede that the 

 beetle can become hatched from the eggs, and in full exercise of 

 its organs of destructiveness, in the short period which inter- 

 venes between the sowing of turnip seeds and the rising of the 

 plants, as Mr. Sutton has advanced that it can and does ? — C. L. 



Purvis, M. A., De 1' Agriculture du Gatinais, dela Sologne, et du 

 Barry ; et des Moyens de l'ameliorer. 8vo, pp. 1 68. Paris, 



1833. 



The author, in company with M. Vilmorin, made an agricultu- 

 ral excursion from Paris through the districts mentioned, in what 

 year he does not state, but we presume it must have been in 

 1833. They passed the first day at Fromont, examining the 

 horticultural establishment of M. Soulange-Bodin, with which 



