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daring aio in the pr ta ns I heard 
fom Tes: al forester that in a remote valley he | 
had seen years since a 
Bimba 27 are an 
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average 1 wis milli- 
cies the tree havin ng a radius 
Jearsare undoubtedly smaller, 
the age of the trees aah is 
Ri more than 1000 yea 
b stand near the hut of the 
” in the Zillergrund, 
fen, a about 6300 feet 
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By 
| of progress 
(as 
destroys its 
applying the lime too 
eg vie 
| or cru 
-| throwing the : lime hghuy on we “staws~ waen the 
first appears. In ‘France frees have got a 
machine made for the 
disease 
ung like a pair 
of bellows—when applying the winks to the Vine. 
As prevention is far better than c ire, I should strongly 
recommend that a bei yh “lime, “yo and salt,” 
should be used. But w I am inc ined t advise is, 
that in each set or hols sho ig Beret pe 
a few grains of igh »sphori should be in- 
serted. This acid (one of the chemical properties of the 
oot) is a highly desiccating body, having the strongest 
attraction water of any know tance. Humi- 
th 
known substance. mi 
dity helping to produce the disease in the Potato, no 
doubt it would be highly saig in snow what 
e fro Pot hat 
places are fre m the Potato disease, er t 
he soil may be analysed! T follow! ing is s the ‘Sona 
for making it :—Dry Phosphoric acid. On ia t plate 
place a large g glass b ell 
‘T introduce into the latter a piece of Be os- 
rior ar ed with blotting-paper, and set it on fire by 
hea ire. L et the beil- glass be raised on one side 
peera is consumed, introduce successive pieces, 
takin care tha at the glass does not become too hot. 
of acid is s considerable, knock it on 
n iron spoon, put it into stoppered 
Several glasses may "be used at once. Perhaps 
ar ixtu h 
| the plate with a 
| bottles. 
e Disease. She Apua pA 
matic “ol of Henban 
re ame, 
deserves a tr rial. Oil of creosote, 
containing carbolic acid, is like- 
wise fatal to insect lif the 
Vines were well us over 
with it, it would not be a bad 
plan. J. Bruce Neil, [But the 
Vine disease is 1 g to 
insects. 
How Pota pice get Nam nes.— 
How frequently do we find it 
4 same Ii ney, 
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ac: ee bourhood—it is, however, no 
I sought e reason Kret than obi old Mids 
hue inan unsound ye the pi i 
he tree; but o Kidn ney is Sdentical with the 
examination [found another = Albion, yet both have pom 
reason it, the raisers’ names; there are 
instead of th act many varieties now in pre 
ochre-coloured cones, tion po: are known only by 
quite ripe kernels, their mes ER ir ori ty 
we have a white never en made public. Many 
and of new varieties that wen found 
their way into the mar 
gineum, both ; 
ava coloured e otis, and 
a man; y 
oea ity 3 ix either been discarde for 
Ako opinion thereon. I am in n posses- mical próperties may be weakened before the disease | new i or have been iy un $ ugh mism ae 
ate of l it too late the distemper may | ment. It is a well-kno ‘ac some varie- 
a ar ess tree, and would sage great pence and by applying it too late the p y ; A Sages aga gp 
must be watch 
T hed, 
earliest Arm oe the application of rhe 
|e 
conquer it. 
“ts 
lf beyond the power of the lime mela worts, 
The mode of application is simply by 
parts of the ~ country are 
worthless in — parts, and 
to this fact we should af 
great attentic he for instar 
how very 
of the Potatoes grown in 
Lancashire from what 
required to boil thera in, 
m raising new varieties the 
indis- 
e, and none hut those 
that have such pei: as are 
escribed below should be 
be mo er: 
that is, fre S, 
ercoks; skin Yoshi should not cr; eras 
dryness, Tava agreeab! c tasie are also aaae S 
