356 5 THE GARDENERS’ 8 [JUNE 8 
obligations to the “ Rogues in go 0.“ And w a] boned profits returned, it stimulates to 
r take’ e e thee a policy | still more anor i a last te ground ain a 
con would be of more real public advantage thn idle | hotbed. The crops 1 than they 
; and if wi hustings speeches, or dreary par. ntary harangues, 1 growth i 
ten London a to have dealings to the same or even 2 abusing Sir Ronznr PEEL. —— ate af Taripa dha 3 pirine can 
ge 
exten don alone a a — ͤ ——.— no is th i 
million’s worth of adulteration disposed of annually.| THE 1 GARDENS ery et a eee but as I have grown Potatoes these ten years upon the 
to sam crop increases, I for 
In 
this extent by the frauds practised in the metro- Covers canes, the Dead nga ir megre metro- | one care little about rotation. 
pons alone. polis, has long been celebrated for the finest fruits e ket gardeners of London co i 
This sound like 1 but vi believe | vegetables, and flowers in the world, being different | early produce in much sooner by forming beds, the 
I nses, | now from the time when the poor German gardener | perpendicular 2 facing the 5 the bed sloping to 
uine guano with wh 
— show the magnitude of their sori t 
The importers not choosing to supply them directly | 
st ijn are ce gg 4 5 Howe hoy d 15 nev ry poison my land any more, by putting such E mad 
y stuff on it. The market 9 — round Lon- pro- 
France, are actually repurchased in the foreign ports | g n from time to time have been stimulated by re- long fruits and vegetables out of doors without any 
on English account, and reimported for the purposes | cei ing large prices for their articles, from living i in the loss, b bat what i is. most wanted is early fruits and 
of adulteration. In addition to this, all sorts of vicinity of such maven It heing the head-q rate, which can only be effected 
ces are employed to obtain guano here, ostensibly government of this mighty empire of a hundred | Some anap: pro has been recomm 
for one party but in reality for another. An ex- millions of ople, can it be doubted that the most — . 
ma 
more W i 
single load, and for waggons 5s. I have known man roperly, the 
1 omg peta 9 mt br snm — — in the 28 7 vill p artake of those most delicious vegetables which at 
cargo of guano for —— He aa so, fully ues So eee guar bani at Ny emg bee 2 ate road finan, c r 
hake the te de to Him to do true. the manure away. These men have long hours; but 
But . eee e bo obe between wages, which are from 158. to 20s. weekly, and FFC 
3ut the Lon ealers contrived to obtain posses- the buying of manure, their wages sometimes reach 30s. _. DISEASES OF PLANTS, 
sion of the order for the delivery of the guano, and per week. A country person will hardly believe me (Continued from p. 341.) 
would have smuggled it into one of their mixing | when I tell him that nine cart and n loads of} Genus I. Bucur [Nebbia] eir thus designate that 
places, had not an accident disclosed their intention | vegetables have been brought by one grower, the cele- | disease of L ts which shows itself by spots in the first 
and put an end to T scheme, after a good part of | brated Messrs. Fitch, of Fulham, off their 100 acres of ere aid, pale and dead colour, in ayes subse- 
on board their re- | land, and all sold in Covent-garden by Mr. Fitch by | quently reddish, or sometimes yellow or black, 
ceiving ship. Men would never es a game of this | 9 o’clock in the same morning. Those men once sent in of other colours, but generally dark. The 
sort if the N wens e not t high , e chances a four-horse waggon of 2 Many paks Stock, a cover the surface of the std but — E 
of winning all in their pulled up by the roots, and i bloom ; they w ttack the internal su 
One may wonder tine ein the face of such facts, | Sold by 7 o'clock in the morn ing, ee fetched 302 ; but appearance of the spots, there may be seen on 2 da 
the trade in adulteration win the much. But it is ft 5 ee 3 FEE ²˙ -» A . tnd 
to be remem t these — are not known! aff ppearances — eas saag se — 
, ‘e Sixty i have been obtained for an acre of affected. Thence we may distinguish several species. 
in the country, that the guano mixers are among the Cabbages, ? and upwards of 1007. for an acre of Rhu-| First species. pes TERNAL BLIGHT.—The external parts 
oremost in expressing their horror of such 0 barb, and more for Asparagus, 140/. for an acre of of plants, whether green or variously coloured, are 
tices, and that the small buyers are far more | white Cos Lettuce, 150/ for an acre of Strawberries, | liable to be suddenly covered with larger or smaller 
remarkable for akir y ity than for for quicksightedn Base. Xe. I have myself taken 30/. for 15 rods of ground of | spots, and in greater quantities under one aspect tha 
The simplicity of the class of small buyers is indeed | early Potatoes in the open ground, managed as I have on the other side, These spots first appear of a pallid 
yond belief. We could lay our hands upon a direeted in my pamphlet; 10s. for a Cucumber, and 20s. | hue if on a green surface, or of a whitish colour where 
e, not a thousand miles from Birmingham, for a Melon, 2s. an ounce for forced Strawberries, and the organs are variously tinted ; they then rapidly pass 
rming 3 > i 
ere gu ixed with 30 per cent. of plaster of | 256. for forced Grapes per pound. I have also taken to a darker shade, and, as I have observed, ditfering 
on 6s. a w the 
Pari, ac bir a5 for a b better oe a puie 3 S mAs d then it is of little conse- 
tlewoman who declared that she quite moet bas ‘elt = that — 100 5 = a: Sank si 55 He who is aware of the importance of leavesin the 
ibourhood of a dunghill— 8 t ay his i 
0 
: intained ; , preventing the 
be estimated by the niceness of its look was a dis- | immense has — ohne ii my tree trade 4 ae perfect on. It is well known that leaves thus 
covery reserved for our enlightened age. This is railroads have been introduced. spotted ar most inju urious if given to cattle as food. l 
bably one reason why the trade in guano-mixing | The change is fearful the old t ti so are spotted ; and Beans and 1 
* 5 wh 
d it. 
oam, and gas-lime, and plaster of Paris,| many fresh market gardens Se ae rag 8 ee gathering 
and ochre, than A its unadulterated condition. EP | directions, and along the lines of verano ie at 30s. their seeds. For the most part this dise: 
8 y this is a most serious state of Sore an aere instead of 10/., labour low, railway carriage | itself in spring ; at that season when, after a slight rain, 
Surely it is a matter of very grave nati concern cheap, and everything else in proportion, And again, | the sun bursts out at intervals, it strikes the plants 
that between on the on one hand, an d dup all 8 ae idly ome used s ee the London | with its ardent ae 2 spots appear. The samt 7 
on the other, the land of England sh gro éir en produce sent | thing happens w ae enner A 
to pro ea tha crops which fis Ace 6 be unable by miler “They little 15 iat that railways and | arises through w. which the sun bursts forth. On that 
For — we regard the guano question as one mgs Be ay eo ac T ae ggg 8 a 
the im f which i v r Sepis, 3 iei by the tens of thousands, | but, correcting what I have said in my essay on 
e importance of which is very insufficiently under- | to the fruits and vegetables of country . | Nosology, I have thought it better to designate it, wih 
r agriculturists, by igh 
nO 
Ta 
3 
5 e t . not However by i | 
is to them that cultivators look for advice, and } it may be for those near London who are high rented | On Mulberry trees it shows oe of purplish 
guidance, and aid, in a case like this. The limited | and most severely taxed, yet it is a great decided | spots, which, if given to silk ses their 
means of gardeners and farmers,—nay, we will add, change for the general benefit of mankind. Railroads The spots of the Elm and OF eevee el ott other ** are of 
in hundreds of cases their limited pereeptions—| have — AGUSA te the early spring to a rusty colour, whilst those of the are red. 
render — * to contend with so grea the L i i 
as. the. guano fra 
vil Hang. pa A os R idermis of a j . 
Tt Se: to: their lew — de favour, they send a great deal their vegetables north- | observed that pericarps or seeds which are white have 
wards—as e toes, Peas, F; Beans. i dish spots, and i general others have th or 
ne case may be ‘that they naturally veiy flowers, Rhubarb, Melons, Cucumbers, and other finer | brownish. Fruits are never equally covered with them, 
* — fruits and * IN The foreign articles. do but more on one side than on the other. In leaves 
2 ey are the = 1972 our markets in AN * W e Tines because being | their colour is darker on the upper than on the under 
= . 1 gre may r warmer ey co n long before | side. In some years the spots are but more 
sexes effectually. One thing we would suggest is we do; — by the are — sin Potatiins, Caulifiowers, numerous than in others. It appears to me that 
5 the e-men rench Beans in, the foreigners early amongst trees, those whose leaves are the most delicate : 
and js nen or at least it would not pay them to con- the cng t mje to them. In shady places 
e ships | tend against us, unless in Cucumbers, and they are bad. m some traces of this external 
rters de- As for Dutch Melons, no one of refined taste will eat blight. Among herbs, those in oe are the most 
sm: 30 or 40 tons. For thi 2 The foreign growers have hurt 83 | affected. f= 
would have only to notify to an immense degree such as Apples, Pears, Plums, Second NTERNAL = 
y i — is Cherries, Aprons, 167 pricots, &c. s Ae Grapes, they neither leaves of plants, the flowers, nor * 
1 beau t ternal parts visible 
Purchase it ef the importers | four ae ulate aba A kotod Lend nd fruits are peel will be cred en far 
can each receive their Gast tim ore than a aahi a seman pbc have. a Sr pun m yan which 
è mon; ll bearing. | © ots or of blackish or yellowi 
without ont any e to: t the first cost beyond the When a ‘pote is “sold 4 by ‘the ner at 6d., the | corrupt the whole pulp and saa og it insupportable to 
See x transit; and the middle-man’s trade weight of whi , the e grower the palate. The seeds, also, may be full of black dots in 
is gone. None but fools or lunatics would in such gets only 3d., and after Paying 44. for the potter and | their farinose substance. The same occurs in edible 
a case think of — — otherwise than from | 104 an acre, with all berry in gi 
he local een 
place it would „and in 
purity would be Lee end in h ner 
If this suggestion were but carried out th t te Er — 
in . 3 fall to pieces; or it sme 
carried o n for e sole benefit of the for 
