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ween the meee to fill the bed up, so that | varied c s under wh t appears, can alone | a most important part of the rou -= 
dry So ea to ee Fia as effectually epee lead to aar eaaa tisfactory. "The expense, doubtless, sla j wng however, my attenti sn wa gren oi The F 
bos was to those of Mr. Knight ht when placed on a stage. | would be con api za: but the utility, whether -| blac ck-looking patch in my garden, and on close exami 
I need not say any more re: these Pines at Bic- diate or more e, would be full te | ti A 
ton, since they have been alrea dy noticed, at p. 473, by with the expenc , King’s acids As you plalaed of, and which seem to identify it with this almoal 
Mr. Barnes him: self. “ Twenty-one Queen Pines, mad have laid _— eros upon $ the birie of drai i 
Tbs. !”. ur beg t you that merr more nor less para mildew OE may r 
record ; ‘for the fact of Mr. ‘Mills swelling out wrong in my assumption: this, time must 
Providence Pines, in a small pit heated aby ‘dung. 2 on the driest chalk soil, as it is in ‘low swampy | prove 3 ; apa mildew i in general has ariel distinet feat e 
to 15 lbs. viih sn it may asto abba ave: Aly The other day my servant brought i in | beri 
first Ar loses much of its aea when it is known bas ske et of three e kinds, some o J "I feel astonished (assuming for the 
v vei pa Provid fi himself they were > uncommonly fi ne; ae tI am right in the opinion) that this ua noth b 
about 8 Ibs., whereas the average weight of a well- the aay from whence they were taken was ~oapipeat Taranii befo ore. L hav 
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vi in these matters will judge of the two ten was led to “suppose they were ripe ; $ close | with those eat fro ather: ts of th 
rate standards ; in this case, it i were pot to fe infected | coun try. In the first enaa the “black sot. looks 
not an isolated sample of or three large Pines cut | just in the manner describ bed by “J. C. M.” in las of small dimensions had b 
once in a lifetime, but an even crop esac score week’s paper. ed poor are making sad cry. They | a given poi Had it not been for the aa j 
at a time, and that score above a is thi n five m di : all. | character of the second stage, I should have fancied th 
done ? aye, Two things, y owes I havi Lege troubled you once on this sub- | it was a par: rasite belonging to the genus Uredo. 
à me clue to raa - altaro 5 ; ject, i “think T may as well go on. As we are now eat- | second stage, if I may so divide the matter, app: 
he first was, g ordinary Pine-growe ers us -|ing in my family my No. 5 (Fox’s Seedling), I had a | be the rolling or curling up of the leaves all over th 
‘ials, s fine soil is ‘roasted, or quantity dug up on yorni the 22d, when, findin ng the | plant, pmo thereby the back of the leaves, and th 
»therwise cooked 5 ‘in fact, his soils and their prepara cae plant at this period appears white with milde 
ions form quite a theory of his own, differing essen- | ticular previous Mon- | This is soon re mcceeded by a general biseka mee and ; 
tially from ordinary practi tice. Other people’s Pines | day, I pn them all to be geri en up 
are, Lagoa speaking, water-drinkers, whereas Mr.|away. Your letter indit me to wait an Manay and the rot poea so rapidly, “ant robe 
es bre WS a S sparkling | liquor expressly for his. But | before I took any steps with regard to the rest of m my the stem soon become a pulpy mass. 
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Im reader for further in- | crop. Yesterday I carefully examined all my Potatoes, | into some tubers this salting; which belonged 
formati iy thi count of the culture | and the result is as below :—1. Ash-leaved Kidney, | | zo patiya in the third stage, and I found the end di 
d management of a * Pine, s published by the late Mr. PENE entirely gone, t tubers sound, and in good order. | red in a considerable degree ; more especiall 
Loudon, from Mr. Barnes’s own manuscript in ook con- . Ju ly, in Li i N point abe ere the string forms a junction with 
cluding Number of the “ arians Magazin ging on h ld diper high and dry, sloping | Pot ; this is just what I had expected. 
Alexander Forsyth, Aiton Towers. to south ae trenched, subsoil sandstone rock | mas z plan “abou unding so o much in watery matter, appea 
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Disease in praranda —Since I last wrote to you Tam | (e.) Moist clay, gener A result, tubers re markably j th misy: peores of the whole ele It is pretty clear tom 
sorry to say that the ‘otato-murrain has made its ap- | —3. Fox’s Seedling, dug up.—4. Peel at from the circumstance of its attacking the crop 
pearance in orthamptonshi | haulm much spotted, tubers uninjured. eis "Lancashire the more sou uthe rn pa arts of the island first, , aS al a 
parts of Huntingdonshire, and is spreading very rapidly, | Red, haulm entir 
and will, I fear, do great damage unless the improved | soil or rich garde en mould, same as Jul ys Ü facilit prog 
te of the weather checks the evil, about which I am | 6. Canada Pine; soil same as Julys (a), leaf aon Thus | it is with the Pea ae. If the general 
i seen it on various kinds of | injured, haulm fas hurt, tubers sound; a f the plant move, through the ni 
otatoes— | sort, not half ripe.—7. Dr. Henderson’s, haulm _nearly heat and light, : at a greater rapidity camel hi sb 
on some, indeed, which are now in full blossom. Itis| gone, tubers sound, in ean mould.—8. 1 y the ascending curr: i 
quite as virulent o well-drained fields, whether the soil Wurzel, in same soil as a ss kr a entirely spreads with ‘great int 5 I think it ny that 
is bad or as on the cold, undrained clay of our | free, ith tl ti fa leaves, : appa 
forest-land. The worst case that I have seen is sal rently not increasi ing ; 
Huntingdonshire, on an excellent piece of well-drained | —9. “London Kidne sag rer n and with Ju lys alt the brows ‘action of the root has been much ee 
land, but lying within a few yar ards of the river, on haulm quite gone, hues a a = — con- | It is certain ~~ the atmosphere se have i 
however subject to be floode d. I do not fin d that the dition for present eating.— _ Dow n Yam lea: een a in ordinary summers. e it for g a 
ff gone. h t whatever pen the secretions of the Potato, 
very rapidly, and in every case the blighted spots ; are | lo oking under the skin, tubers sath ‘and ver y, juicy; zs tuber of a portion of accretive ma atter, and co 
covered with gis infestans, Mont. You will be | situation coe „as Julys (a)—11.. Pheasant Eye,| quently of keeping, as ua 
in to n that the mould upon the Potatoes | wet loam, no ned, leaf oe sa gone, | bane — on mall the eis advise those ra are 
‘which you oc me is identical with that upon the leaves, | trint = teh ooking ta tuber oS sad affair ae them up, 
and the same with what I ar te ed from Paris. | with Dr. a that the qe th ag m takes place ; as it is kng 
ertia s n through the less | little p1 Sa my last; in ne ough Tavo: made | to maier vith Ehoed we A and may by tsi 
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y inquiries, rr | va nced sta age produce disease amongst stock, i d 
the ous in ae more “haldy ate for, ‘in Fone chief, within s~ last eight or ik as , and very r little $ I aek add that I used two samples, 
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cells, but still retain many in a tolerably healthy state. At n some places, and with some | badly itl $ tee wa or from another corner at pre 
a later period, pony all the celis would be more or sorts of Potatoes, the non has been much greater free from this pest; the difference was consider 
les a red. Thos which are eet xhib: n their | than in ot! both in colour and flavour.— R. Errington, Ow 
appearance ; "but the pige of the diseased cells | on the Gale teaa os The panic is very great |—I beg to mention that, so far as the Isle of Wi 
are etait, and have a granu ulated amola in the towns, and Potatoes are therefore unsaleable. is concerned, the crop may be considered as destro 
d g All the plans suggested at p. 575 have been ts 
fecula remain oar S unaltered, a d ’s wife told terday, that her family vain ; appare ently fine Potatoes have been carefully’ 
to the effect of iodine as ever. ie pro , th 1 thi and aie the lapse of a few 
fore, that, at least in an early stage of the ens "the = because — a other vod in abundanee, but be- e been ret d all rotten unfit for pee 
—- sans grag a as good starch as those which are se, to use her own expression, “ thay ine med to go | vis isited Te ae in Hine’ island, an 
und. There is no lightest of any farther. a 3 suppose they piri — oo eana = — pase gH tself.—G. a eben i 
onan upon the grains of fecula, the di far as I si bel an opportuni ity of observ 
admirably ene ki Martins, It is the cellular | eye I must beg 1 f Bedfordst y partially visited wit 
tissue alone which see e affected. The cells im- | to doubt it. I have,in very gor Sens slo or eril; ; its ravages are more manifest in some places $ 
mediately conch the ial ‘especially where there i is divided the haulm from the | others, and in all the disease appears in a mi 
ly two instances did I find any defect Sue, “ie on than is dese: oe in your paper. I have 2 
the myeelinm to such a Lies. igo that the pure white of und’; both these were in the Julys (4); the out- | of t and a half planted 
the mycelium satiro tes, = the brown tint in a| side appearance was that of mildew, the stalk at the tatoes. The soi oe is fans hazel lo; vg the ie 
great measu Pane Even in this case I find the | lower end both above and below the surface of the towards the ‘south. Bsr a 1 sips tatoes Ww! 
of foetal healthy andabaridant. hans appears, then, | ground was dry, wiry, ana scarcely flexible; but this | g Ee gromade sa 
an the decay of the tuber is produ uced by the same seray p in ordinary seasons. I have found | in the autumn, and poe: in hacks. The Pot 
seo aes affects the leaves, viz., he the Toy the of a | only on ' the disease having penetrated te were planted in April, E sik in re than a us 
nt haul deep, without destroying it; in| of stable-dung placed over the aye so that tie 
sper thereis little doubt that ti d tl a both of drainage and manure. 
t bt th ai wh Y ec observations Tonla - lead to the infer- plants were very promising until sere fe 
t an; ial week n an appearance of prema 
aon even in the driest ; years. The excessive d velop Be d I feel full aaret Ee seke maT as This time, Monday Sept. 1, the : 
ment of the mould, the remark, from t fant porous character of the : soil Shaws ee) par pi green remaining on their tog 
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depending entirely upon the se d d and my r kaoni of | the snot much more ; 
be impossible t o find a remedy ; 5 pi ik it seem Seas > a large portion of i It a Foe op e goes ed, are as : 
d above, that even the best cultiva- | what ssriraete circumstance oP day $ ‘the "3th | year at the end of October. I cann find in 
tion will insure, exemption, It is greatly to be ‘desired of August, ie had an unusual nny of electricity in| that the stems have a 
if ever, atmosphere, and | from all parts of th d the foliage has quite disap] ‘ 
Government, some of our Agricultural Societies would | pate vens. PWe h ad piore paad Siow pe mercedes toate = rot of Early Sha = ine morning, and the proat 
from time to time take proper steps to insure the best | at that time, and on Saturday, the 9th, tl d better than I expected. The quantify 
peje AA oe I do not pretend small,wh en the expenst 
oe p p J ced the disease, but | but the pro —_—_ of unso 
The most rae se are a obtained „upon the as the San ames I have thought right to} This coon i ess appears s tv-brown pai 
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and wf apay cases, as in that of the calamity by which | the cold, wet, and ra n freies season, an KDA perena extends in various d ae 
the Vines in France were for some time affected, such | to our want of sufficient mp of the habit of the tuber. The 
inquiries S have been attended by the most beneficial Pot: tato. discol ; 
results. Itis impossible from any number of independ diff that of other | ffected Pard an and 98 Dotato which 
com ple: sapei: of an y observation in its favour a solitary testimony ae H.,| sou ites I ob: sairo also that one Potato fast 
disease like the present. A paare series of observa- | Petworth. Although the press has teeme: ed with re. | ceived a wound in = discolo’ the case if 
yp $ which I could not be 
ractical and —— men, | over, presu! o ie anit Potatoes fi 
ng possible poi tending | so rt has been remarked in this part of the country, as | ness had commen - w bre 
istics, with the power ps panini s as I am aware, hitherto ; sal live i ina rer die oE of y Shaws are as cogs as any Í e Pahl 
different phases it exhibits,for the | country, th I took up nearly 60 
