854 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
LE. 
perhaps as large as Walnuts, as hard and as bitter. | ie. 
I though 
the Potat 
eer 27, 1856. 
th } ease ae 
Jn one season 
was at a loss to account for all this. 
must be at fau Nalin bred 
them som 
Ford efore every tree ea 
g in 
eat ia 
d not “only an Aaii supply 1 fr my 
to furnish 
then saw that my at respectable pee h 
f+ 
ti aap had been deceiving 
ters turning out not quite saticfnetorily, M e was ‘tie 
pines 3 but not befcre I had ge t from himself, and 
he 
can 
as we were when it rd ‘in 1845. “Before. the days of | m 
Potato distemper it was customary here, and I dare say 
art: 
s of England, particularly with tl 
se id cure | 
vary | from tpg to year. y other 
å } nia 
J 
t dd hat vear 
Ei } hidat that y 1 ha 
by the red spider. He sical and i ina few d f , and the | own Hr: but I was able 
fallibl fe nting the | tc hbours when tl 
they were yr readily 
fe consequence of this I recom- 
_the papers that gn 
w Kemps, as free fı 
b 
eig 
stainable eng 
Khani s gro 
e the Potatoes intended for seed 
on ra sur a ot et bed where th grown for a 
partly from others, that he “ wai ry no other p 
manage Pea ees in pots ;” ethod was not to | early varieties, to expos 
thee them iter till they asked for it,” ” that is till 
leaves ne a land withered, ; the 
5) 
Yn 
and 
uch a plaything. I Jast winter en- 
vpi yrr bos atadni, and above all tract- 
that he had ne 
Coes 
upon t 
enable em to resist the frost 
better, and made the sacededing crop earlier b a week 
} th 
since then the ‘Kemp h has 
ar 
ie as liable to the disease as any other 
ce 
a à arid ihe bai 
if 1 remember sight, a testimonial RY 
or ten days than i 
ducing a beneficial effect. I fancy the plan is still re- 
s by but the effec g been TA 
68 th 
ry iy os said ver cultivated 
trees, bie that if directions were 
give ri he would follow them; accord 
ingly when my friend paid his visit in the 
ing, my trees, now but wrecks of what they 
m, were pruned, fresh compost added, and 
as my loam was light and sandy the compost w 
ramme: with a wooden pestle. I had not much 
blossom on my trees, b ir crop of f pro- | i 
as | whom give 
e 1845 frou what it that 
a H alu ab le 
the Pota n the neighbou: id of M ch 
or th rs ago, for ‘i great benefit he 
had conferred fen the public by making its merits 
known. is year even the Fluke has not 
escaped, „an T it my own garden, | which is a new 
feed Pe nav of e Lemon Kidney, the whole of whieh 
when pit were dug out t yesterday,*a and I hear and see 
were destroyed by this method 
I had n some of these iye mS or ti tated syen 
same complaint of them not only in my own 
neighbourhood but in the Gar deners "Chronicle, and i in 
‘om an ibe ld 
hl } 
hkr 
S l 
of the sed hat = vegetate at all when 
1 41 that 
hey all peice: After this there reba 
in the Gardener? on ig a ae an ip (I thin k by a 
Professo r Bottin me,) half roasting 
Potatoes I | [have known, Tale have a tendency to 
wear out. 
as ignorant of pardening a as I am ret in a tke manner 
bam this was tried ri one of my neighbours without 
g 3 
they had in the first years of their existence ; but if 
this be th iti h to be regretted, for they are of 
they pro- 
nd 
Delete houi” Ai. se Sere 
British Oal:.—I } 
ikh 
“history of my 
fab 
1 Ti 5 
hie: 
ny beneficial results. In thinking on this pl 
it “oceurred to me that if any benefit was derived 
from it, it might be owing to. the fact that _ the 
spor ( 
shat new varieties should be nie from so > good a stock. 
pig pede A Jre rade 
ore te 
timber of our 
the disease i is attributed might be destroyed by a tem- 
scme of nen: seem to ae 
ar i 
f the 
cies of native Oak, Ca uercus sessiliflora 
: pedan inculata,” at Wentworth. As I have paid some | 
cly their 
+ 4 
the vegetative power “of the Potato itself, fi for 
pene a Eao some bis I believe, although | I “don't grow 
my e 
perience enables me to offer i is ti plant cal but Sheed 
tion to the growth of Oaks for the last 25 years | 
years ly, I 
appears to bea 
pai my father before me fo r 20 previo ously, 
Wi 
L 
h 
EROS hnt that if the f 
2 
vigour of vitality jn the earlier ail of the Tife of the 
ve there is essenti „an 
5 
pla whi ch enables it to resist the attacks of the 
ae Pasty ah 7 
To 
were. ; 
sow aan, n their produce when transplanted to a 
situation and soil every way similar will prove to be 
one of the same tree, or which is by far 
toughest. 
made entworth do not I think 
Fiche avimals much less “ the weight and nt.” 
noc rop. So with the miasma of the vaen aneb virus 
of cow pock, &c. Dr. Hen nry proved that a hi gh tem- 
| at the 
of the tubers, if the weather is favourable for the e sprea 
[among (I don’t remember 
read 
shee a top and tuber are liable to suffer. 
3 hay ned in some seasons that | while „the 
revent all chance of contagi ong whether this will be 
fétiadtrn e of the Bikini dis- 
earlier 
continued catzely free, and a favourable bery 
— 
know, but it 
d, and with the e hid 
the 
weather oo far 
advanced to maturity they escaped with little inary, 
The e importan ce of the s subject must be my exeu 
My friend havi agin supplied m 
spring ‘of last year witha few more of his cals 3 
when 
n dug "Ps instead of hav ee them spread on the 
garden bed as before, they were taken and spread on 
the upper floor of an an se, e Ss o 
th 
I 
1, +h soy Pron Te 
same defiecti 
to experiment on the e 5 mae have done as ers 
as I expected. T. G, S 
: ‘the consequence was, tat with | inform us that roots do not penetrate h ces, 
f two or three = t were tainted when | but that they search out crevices and there insert 
they went ede every Potato i eile end and | themselves. This is not a satisfactory answer, when 
ay as 
they were “planted En spring, 
eontinued 
ent trees, 
Sore in Waa e to the stais point would os nd 
considerably. I believe the two sorts ‘British | 
Oak io ena, and any peculiarity in either to be |i 
we see plainly that the t tap root of the Oak will 1 go 
til 
and the erop that they ‘produced had n 
The whol bee 
paver x ‘oot as it comes from 
wae in n the d 
t th 
ban manner, and nas Pace time 
he pie a sport of nature, 
or lity of the 
depends on age, soil, and situation. | 
i aea heiss studied | boi 
i 
The e poi 
tae acorn sn soft, not tipped with, iron, as might be 
rom 
re dug in July) there may Set 
one in them; the same plan was also ‘tried last year 
san some Red Kidneys, Saray 
what it effects ; and how is it that a 
soft y batant is oy to through ad 
T can 
h in and tuber, and exception of two 
can 
trary, ogers, Ni 
Gardener, Southampte on. 
ndou 
ao ago in 2 Hampshire as real Durmast pro 
nothing mo: . pedun naue, ey that w 
ipi fault of the wan haa collected th the a ns, ] 
Tronchuda,—If « 
wie Cake sold | y 
pe |t 
top with tbe 
ree that appeared to have si diseased before 
m 
spring, | n 
were attacked by the distemper, 
dug 
other cause besi aus. ‘he one 
t on ren subject, which appear to me 
feasible, and, reasoning fro EPIA p first one i 
not unlike what Nature oniki shee 
that there exudes from the point tof the 
hy. I 
were imme ediatel 
e 
ma tter r with either acid or alkaline properties 
another 
‘obably 
ot, so far 
s I kno 
one among them. Encouraged byla 
sults ave now tried the plan with s 
4 e 
me here oat that this substance converts the soil into : s 
bstitate for that delicious ] 
e choy ete AA up in August in 
two 
the wet wea ther, 
matter 
creep on, and possibly the fluid part of the pap may be 
in hy one kind, which were quite ripe, ot T four 
| Pota oes have been found tainted in 120 Ibs. ee mit a 
of the plant. Nature geo effects two ends, and 
tne 
tes.—The following method — 
oe of ie same lot “ T Potatoes, at the same time, Toet 
60 per of thei: E Potatoes were not r 
i the soil like the worm, or as the fly eats sugar, 
moisten the soil first and again suck in the fluid when 
ge? 
nn 
the lightest to ch). 
eet | the big! mp 
epidermis peeling off vith 
n they had be 
Again, can it be that the root follows the course of 
ole: a know that ee into drains and 
earth is full of wo worms, as 
The 
may be seen by pouring a weak solution of corrosive 
n in 
bal 
a few minutes it will be 
t 
: 
3 
kep 
from pte ne young z vackers to which they | 
oe (e ie ace pi xt the 
paling (4 feet), pose de an room for ma‘ 
‘manure, gathering 
Disease. 
1H 
inst. that in Scotland tl 
hie, ci any left sound a 
e ec. 14, “The Potato,” peike 
so import an esculent, the distemper t to whieh i it 
has uch 
i: 
years 
to keep very w which were quite ripe keep 
p | thas 
‘firm, and the eee of ae Potato a aegis: It | 
may be objected that even ippa = to suc- | for informatio 
ed ba 
not many engine-hou: via a tempe- | 
eg 
hat efie 
I cannot ban thinking that the 
re are y engi 
f 90° applicable to the ding of Pot 3| 
there are malt kilns, Oat kilns, Hop |p 
alled i in; eee 
P 
n 
and brick a in very many localities 
carried out, if it be | 
estroy their vegetative peer; and 
e or four “days. seems to check the —— ; how 
HW ho: 
w much 
higher a temperature the Potatoes win bear with 
impunity. “The shal plan is rey ees rather to 
don 
fall 1 pauls Sigma 
zH pes are not _ of hearing about Roses, 
y week. First, I wish mim 
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i 
Maria de Blois, Moss; Du 
Jaequeminot, Gloire de France, 
eral 
Lord Raglan, Madame Bea ae n Madame Knorr, 
wer, 
one who roe an: pem suggest what may be done than as the best mode of aon Place, Souvenir , Triom de 
the disease even in Phe doing it, and it is offered with aih diffidence, seeing \’Exposition, all new Hybrid a Pe rpetuals ; and cies 
le is entitled to be heard, and provided he how many attempts have beem m and how little Noiete and Tea Roses, What I want m to 
only with facis and does not dogmatise and su has been achieved. The subject is attended eliminate all which do not equal many w 
; ie will soon learn to appre- | with rev) no one ld- pe ex who bad bined high price for them as new 
k r the follow i gave 
ou 
ention to the subject. 
the was more 
In 1846 the 
Kemp exempt from 
only to hich I doaght their custom 
12 w] 
a list of 
apparo on ; I dià not 
b a or, = "ynm = 
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