612 
THE GARDENERS’ 
BRR Bae: 
were ager re re d and barren; the ri 
swarmed w At wn, the first| w 
attle. day 
the pla ce lay the carcases of c 
the tra vellers to al attempt | i 
for th 
river Jordan an ape Wahs 
atch ‘agers against 
which it ri 3 : 
af 
They found it unlike 
it may be described as a 
e passage of a desert for 40 miles. They 
6 o'clock in the evening of Aug. 15, rey by 6 in 
Great ite of 
abounded. vegetation consisted of Ge ge 
he great desert was at hand. | st 
but on foot, 
e cattle, a his nose farag 
asts, and being “almost 
Suc 
eee to the last degree. pril 
ith fever ; and to add to his s discomior 
d I and 
y the 
n from the mountains and 
weary mile our travellers followed 
r many 
the coarse of ibe SES a river that runs along | 
| 
of the murder of a Ca 
ian tribe i 
e cro inev erably | 
he | wee 
e | made 
ace. 
gus 
m| Ir ll yea I firs 
atiention to “his srinarable “diein ase, ae notwith- 
has b 
streets are 40 yards sere teva run north a 
t and west. They are watered b 
a 13, ts, 
Dar 
actual hg sey rss, ig 
ee June 18.—Th 
wet, but 
sease ere Comin ng as it aid 20 early in the 
began to oe it perfectly useless to 
5 | cultivating the 3 a indifferent and mueh 
diigo’ the Potato, other plants such ag 
Helio tro ropes. Cucumbers, and Melons i in eng 
bers ean Vegetasi pis Marrow on eh 
Jerusale 
e beginning o 
elbi fi 
The dia 
h the "exception of the palace J the Governor 
the sills ar constructed of wood and plaster, 
tree 
priest. 
differe: 
as wi 
mb dren is un- 
all that the "travellers could learn ia a 
j qui peal 
disease. 
1850, July 19.—Weather very fine both before and 
after the disease was seen, The crop indifferent, but 
the roots tolerably sound and app tly improved in 
li 
1851, July 13.—The disease just appearing. Weather 
l iis to this ix a fine and seven a after- 
ards and w _ The crop not so much injured 
the haulm 
kno 
interesting er a that nine were 
w ey we © fora, a and that preparation W 
m having been 
for the oasis tal of 30 sultanas in his 
ane and esculen 
s|No. 3, Quai Malaguaie, 
days, viz :— 
ve and 25 September. 
ee 25 October. 
eld at” ‘their Ke 
Paika on the following 
ve ber. 
ae objects re exhibition are to be n: 
such as have not received prize 
exhibitions ; ; they a i 
| named, before 9 elak in in o be 
removed the den day in t the morning. Exhibitors, 
visitors, and members of the Society are to h 
ras 
new 
we 
new seedlings, $ 
V10us | a: 
at pre 
carefully k 
2- Weather” during June sunless and 
. On a sudd 
cha 
dis app 
rapidly preat fabs were entertained peop bad crop; 
the latter, however, r than 
usual, 
855, Jul 
0.—The ag eet. of piers pe A wet, 
Ww so 
will be resumed, the disease having ru 
nd 
lost much of the destructive character it had on its 
o | admission on each day from 10 in the morning to 
the afternoon. 
Now to whatever cause this singular malady may be 
owing, 4 think it will be evi we ay preceding 
remarks that the state of the w uch to do 
todet 
THE POTATO DISEASE. 
directed 
the 
2. Seema the same fate, he and mpanio 
perseve: in their t journey; travelling only by night 
for a viele pe in order e the Indians, 
who were on their tr some 
arrows after them. 
well csi says ba with 
“as a preventative or arrest its progress, I 
biian A plan and mode of treatment that Tiasa or 
attended w ay 
we jne or 
rev erse, accompanied b, y a rise or "ll in the e tempera 
ture such as usually follow the thunderstorms that 
occur rea Midsummer, being almost a certain fore- 
e disease ; avrg a sultry, humid atmo- 
sphere is found to be 
ment and dheedsiontion ‘the moment it comes into 
berenin 
On these points we have yet much to learn, and 
although we e have failed i in eee bien mpts to discover a 
t not be discoura; 
science could suggest om kee una 
satisfactory result, and w: at the 
present m 
not o1 ga omens a edy A against the inroad which 
remedy for 
| from continuing our ingu iries. 
| time looked upon by | gardeners as a similar pest ; but 
the mildew was at one 
Rémy’ staid was 
s, and to this this myster isitor rowan makes on our Pot ato ded disc ha 
e the little eT undoubtedly ow: ý int at ‘a ADUNA es oa Lp note 
their lives. “At last they reac a Mormon pos its attacks, and which shes: to be 
the year, than we were at the time gh eh it rod made its both i Simplo a må À easy o of application. ng the 
who to his other peculiarities ee ere PATE ober os hate RINGAN abe other: of a le to ecting 
in the transmigration together o ener 
id ist in ti btain some die 
chief was 
guard the “travellers as far as | 
nee one have oe its origin to, the effects of soil, — 
rin 
time ol 
into the nature ‘scourge whic 
the Salt Lake. Th l ans ; 
therr plain the Potato i itself ; whilst no t 
was indicated only by the compass. A little", snow a ote itl bab ii I thin y Bataa eon 7 hack al oes 
they fou } vd nie 
of this 
years past so ig ag se her the Potato erop; : oT) 
e s0, may probably oera a R 
} 
fell, and one night after a heavy rain 
themselves frozen in their blankets. The peken sal 
now changed. Pines and Junipers appeared in| 
sbaddiince; but of no ace oe of these kanri 
18 feet hi gh, and about a fo n the diam of its | 
ld ‘ak 
that are partons ‘taking fey producing a certain 
condition in the air unfavourable to the health of the 
plant, and Lenina) dei ag check to its growth as to 
bring on disease and has nits decay. In so far y 
Pore TETTIE 
hali 
the netance Of ili 
above mentioned. B. 
_VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No, CXXXVII. 
565. a Stemph: lium., Mi orium, Spori- 
iu DMa) The two firet of these 
within 90 iles of the Salt Lake, S i ideo 
came 
region, wholly desert, wit tho out a trace 
the atmospherical theo: o is the right one, 
ee unds for this conclusion ders be found in lige ‘tie 
randa of the r both 
the 
e light reflected from the se daar salted 
e 5% two day bee passed through this frightful 
solitu 
h 
body will not sink ir in them. Its edges, especially 
on the north, are ote tirely of a deep bed o: 
the most beautiful sal 
= 
rather be tter 
| sim 
n e sunn; 
|appearance of the leaves induced m suppo: 
was the effects of eai AEs E dold rearely w 
oned b; 
memo: 
befo ‘ore and after pak iien ise 
the west of England during a of years from 
1845 to 1853, which may probably nines some aig the 
the a ? Chronicle who have made 
n | and yell 
educed to one; the 
absence of 
dark 
nera may perhaps be safely ri 
genera is Aaen by the series total 
sporophores, while the tor has in general very 
developed fertil ds ap 
enna ona but no o ‘vertical att 
are normal in the two first, and are not alien 4 
aitsi In the Pine sent notice I shall corsi cre 
cipally those species which decidedly belong to 
a ee reag otice 
y and warm. he bri aene and sih 
bring ay opt to beli eve 
early in the In o 
with great alder, stems, leaves, and rooi 
very much aN ay ee the drat many of them 
first, 
tion with Cladosporium. 
566. It is only of seperti that — has been 
powers: EA 
themselves y tissues. 
ever shown e Bary oon pun of perena pad 
attac ked b; a little Stanak ium, W _ 
ia —— ioei the se plants te 
mon the 
way a Mormonland by wa: 
Cali foihin ; from the Eastern states the Jingi 
we belie eve are greater and the road longer, If a 
misis, July 4.—Symptoms of feroa beginning to 
just succeeded in reaching it at the peril of thei eir 
w ges oc signe ri old farna kerup 
dry sticks. This has : 
TA of the Horti y of Prussia, 
ens have been ee Sooty, by Raben- 
appear. The latter part of Jun y, 
in 
warm and dry. 
portions soon became affected |with disease, and 
bad as in 1845 
Much ra 10th, between whieh day and 
= 17th a was very close and s with occasional 
ense fog Disease very general, but considered not 
e injured | 
the 
r Coie — prer of Stem 
under w i bp ine 
ow 
y hibition in different om the ch: peri 
tioillium and Dactylium, before it assumes 1 its 
form. : 
tly two papers have appeared in te 
1856, Siusteative ors " 
| caused in R seed and Carrot by ly fe 
J 
is situated between the 
848, ai 1.—Throughout the month of June the 
raoga Seed; 
* From gregęuhov pressed olives; pangen iong 8 oo Ae 
184 
weather wet and unseasonable, with little sunshine. 
groga seed and decues a chain; Amis a worm an! 
saanane- By 
