516 THE — E CHRONICLE. [Aus. 17, 
there is no disease at present where diseased sets ase made its appearance during | off havi flues cleaned till it 3 necessary to 
were Sapes selected for trial. The following the ee loudly weather at the beginning of June, use them; and then they ie fre. It has even been 
are ins as quite evident that during a temporary | known to ppe an im de ee, not pro- 
if Very . diseased sets of Ash- leaved voy 8 too aers riem had been supplied. en, | perly . the value y pro rastination, has 
neys were planted on the 18th March, in drills! however, the plants had been well thinned, and water | suddenly dismissed his gardener — no other 
5 inches deep ese were taken up sound and ripe entirely withheld, the decay was rapidly arrested, and | than beca crops i always sown too late. 
e 2d of August without disease. e oily peculiarity observed since has been the ex- | But — on horticultural varhata and the 
2. Very rotten late Potatoes were planted N ordinary rapidity with which the fruit ripened ; a | victims have the comfort and consolation of knowing 
1849, 65 inches deep, covered first by 2 inches of Melon of 23 Ibs. had been quite green and scentless in that they are sufferers in a grea 
earth, then by a layer of half decayed weeds, an e aria oe tag in the evening it was On the other hand, ek ‘the ‘aad antages of 
lastly omen taken up in the beginning.of August 
without d 
3. Very “bad sets planted in March, as befo ore ; 
taken up in the beginning of Augu st, without di isease. 
— this case each set produced about seven sound 
otatoes. 
mixed lot, were planted in Febru resus di as be 
* up in August, were found to be much di 
In all the neighbourhod the — has s 
ae except where the rotting sets were el. 
AnRAHAM Lewis, B 
having seen 
sets, published by Mr. Samira in the Readi 
Mercury, in rem? or August 1849, planted some land 
with Ash-leaved Kidne 
the ey — like dead Walnuts.” 
His crop was oF sagt on the 8th 
, but abundant 
oy s and £ 
oe 
4. Sound sets of Ash-leaved Kidneys and — other 
ould bear 
. | certain that — but the total — system 
€ so | diff 
of August, and proved | t 
extraordin 
evidently ripe, the day not being 5 warm, 
and the sun 3 obscured, with a heavy rain at 
It was ted that the Mae would 
noon. 
decay, but as no “change $ took place after 36 hours | it es 
it was examine proved ee aeey but 
poor in — of eon It is possible that in th 
e water va ivon t an such luxu- | chance 
riant — ase it is quite 
would A proved efficaci 
arieties are dochis 
than oien One kind alone, in 
Canteloupe, suffered to ag enaki in company with 
three others which were qually lu xuriant, ab in 
which possibly a gand ‘ay m on hean made the 
the leaves of n Cabu raging he 
spotted. pie W in his history, 
d Melon, resembling very much the 
wood, was cultivated in his day with great 
cme susceptible 
e | pec liay e of decay, which we have ob- 
eine from its decaying wherever it was touched 
men 
Cer tis that the stems of most Melons are 
ripe, an 
thinks that in the former ders there is an effort of 
Nature to — off the 
It is possible that the . matter which causes 
sappear in the 
to . estes a series of experim 
pote eased and sound — 
true value of "tie results 
d by our ree and now 
by Mr. Surrn 
A 51775 hon ma ep os at Hatfield was 
inserted in et ry the 10th of A respect- 
ing a 5 amongst Mero We had 
previously 1 0 my intimation of th be “same, ora 
similar om a quarter on which we could 
rely, and hav only delayed no e communi- 
cation from | of ol 
One plani 
affected, the ee tore it 55 and the affection 
at eee priek N vanished 
days ago, however, the 88 
ae in che Abus aad the 
| stalk, and to be aided in its 5 — hee — 
e 
of fungi , though we believe by no nating 
when the fiuids of s so D delicato and 
ve once become stagnant, nah is 
der i 
A few. ed cells, i in whi k a 
ance of — on has been dist 
Ti Bae m set up a 
served s rsally in sed Potato 
which ‘oe bec ean iié n man * other —.— as also 
in the spiral vessels of our correspondent's fruit. 
3 10 W A GARDEN. 
CHAPTE oble art of mismanagement is | 
851 demands skill and 
principles are not, howev 
dent; some skilful professors of the art conceal 
ur case, — old run wi 
s, and nail 
putting off; consider the 3 of time, the an 
of 9 the eee S letting things alon i 
p an has no 
escape from their — Thus the 
3 of putting Loc are by 
sour 
of enjoyment; if he allows his grounds to be pies 
e turn this is peculiarly 
— ak it is a visita- 
tion for which they — to be grateful. 
boast, that he had found 
an Aspa: - 
ust observed, the inesti- 
g | mable comfort of knowing that his “ man” was in 
perpetual ae g, and — no time to waste upon 
himself. So, in like manner, the descendants of 
Alexander Norge n, commonly called Slack Sandy, 
ms he saved the laird 
he could the 
let alone as long as 
‘and the’ 8, 3 the 
155 tying, and ae digging 
and ning, and ing ; re 8 
— u said — 5 “of — all that trouble for 
g ever have had any fruit, and we 
him 
fi ‘short the advantages of putting off are such 
as hardly — illustration by argument. It is 
evident that no mismanagement will be perfect 
without it; — that — —— 3 — those who. 
sire to so grea e every” 
H their method so admirably that it is only by the 
W. 
was told | the 
they strictly observe the precept of the first masters 
Jie . who declared that the height of art 
n sense, are not to be held 
* which 
a slou 
ot recalled “this appearance of 
p of diseas 0 
ed Potatoes. n ex- 
— — to gel contents. he 
Mala it should be e grown in pure 
loam 1 der aud and they } ae been all along 
very luxuriant.’ 
The Hatfield Melons were octane. in turfy loam 
in large round 
hes decayed suddenly, threa 
completo destruction of the bee 1 
decaying 
were covered on the under side with Trichotheci 
to 
water, because it is value 
cm place this 
me is valuable. 
t a thing is — which, be- 
wortlessns or tiene is ded 
When a man stoo enn 
from di a Mrz t 8 t pis Said to steal the 
— 0 
as free 
ished mismanager than 
of time ; teh has plenty of it, and to 
3 it is of sucl mportance that it A 
away before he has dintrvered that he posse: 
ort therefore procrastination cannot be truly sai 
115 
d 
8 — who yet have lived. It has 
time rm "this world, Mis ers, o 
ions, sometimes lose places oy — looking after 
- | them soon enough: some e, active fellow 
‘brown spots, whieh Stepping in befor curred of | ing 
situations being 
It may be assumed, wer that putting off is a car- 
dinal virtue in the life o mismanager ; „ it 
will have to be used as ths centre stone of — tri- 
-< arch which e p~ day 
memory of some worthy of the class, more calohaated 
es, to be sure; but there = no un 
ag 
in ton elà $ is now 16 
| case 
botan 
g | Matter for — amongst 
its inconve- N 
no small- —— 3 
opportunity of putting it nee in Practice, 
the more especially since it is one of those qualities 
which are sure to be universally appreciated. 
1 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE-. 
.MENT OF SCIENCE 
Twentieth Meeting, en at Edinburgh, August, 
an with 
y it has done 
ascertain how this is. It may bethat 
the botanists have not done their duty to to the . 
n the a in the Association 
have not s 8 cee the wants and * 
eir arrangements. We N of 25 
to | they are open to coma eka when ist is to be 
names upon 
found, We would also observe that some other wt 
e them. Cases have oc 
forfeited, because the e 
