The antiseptic 
3 it is cheap 
sholesale purchase. What w be its effects in 
ising or viskar ang the poisonous quality of the 
par = nts sro, 
I } 
this year.— -G. W. Johnson. 
well know: 
P sac 
qe 
asaw 
: ner Tipe 
injure hes my b 
THE GARDENERS’ 
plained. The sap modified in 
blood, forms itself in the leaf, and descends through the 
skin in the stem and the roots. „There the e sap being 
sickly, deadly, Ekaa the l the 
ste em, and kills i on ‘fact is, t the 
- on d Aram which I have aug up, and 
hay tation oE eheh 
hers whl whioh i Sap to h 
remain the ground, it ay be wor 
for patan A 
disease in pa 
SRT ground with a solutio; 
th 
on alas stem, rr leaves pos and 
die, ushroom. 
ath by a poisono 
ds into t the 
Potato, and i if the malady follows its natural course itis 
CHRONICLE. 
livin, ng juice, in vegetable | ground. When 
are 6 or 8 inches high, I draw the 
the middle par a 
tolerably wide, gives them a bani 
and mature their tubers i 
curl, or mildew, or an 
blight ee year. 
1 they 
earth to them Pania 
irrigatin ihe 
powder, Sand | those „which ha 
e bee n pr rematar 
Seay i 
with rye 
low, sometimes grey and dark, is soon 
terial attaching € the glass. "Unfortunately Teh 
f, 
humed may 
All this may be rash aoa 
yards car refully dried. 
ut in such a fearful e eepe, we ch threaten 
with the powder, or washed in a strong Be ik, and | 
afterw 
Sp 
Tagme able, that the animals es to eat 
them ease being now known, th 
tractable su 
stance. , The water- bath or glue-pot failed with me ; 
g 
pr at ueit to be Festal to diminish as much 
as possi ible _the evil because it is well k pe n that all 
&e., 
wild, b 
little less than a famine to 
ggestion may be deemed wort at “attention. —A. 
ffect Sica corn mee intro- 
duced "This the tia try, remain and betngnte more and 
Walton.——I believe you have 
isorde: f 
So far 
ee the pitino seems to be universal ; 
if 
, but waste l in the end. I 
have succeeded best in the following manner 
sheet zine cof h e desired, and = nch a aaa hole 
through the top ; ns cut your glass less than the e zine, 
so as to leave a margin ; then the paper label less in 
like e proportion ; then the e glass ; with a ‘sharp penknife 
same way in Pot: 
wit rgi and iaiandia niy -b burn it. —2. Acti in the moisture E a oa ram i and | 
erywhere ; and and the 
i | ently applied, the crops ‘will l be affected. next year, and | zine in an oven or the bar o f yo ur e _ 
then rp the evil, | melts stir and spread it evenly ie D pilen 
Ka Potato-haul he disease, | side of the glass you mu 
ust attach ie label by a “little 
ground is nie Eeey two inches 
oa rally drained 
ugh they may appear so to the e 
| aft 
moving the zine 
ipod: edges may 
for thou: ye. 
yet they may not have escaped | the disease. —3. The 
with the low and moist. 
ig = 18th er we we had a light breeze or 
ick haze, a which I remarked “ther 
in sage if o 
. The seed 
for next year ought to be anes like 
or pressed wi 
warm against the 5 ie. The pe should appear 
through the glass perfectly free from air or speck, x 
damp. 
rn, &e., 
Himos sulphate of copper, and common ak * diluted in 
ter, in order to kill the rn if any, on ‘the Potato. | 
yore] 
wise the label will 
| think it might answer to es manufacturers of such ar- 
ticles to sup ay them with the glue read 
possible from those of this year. —6. A mixture of lime, 
ly spread on the 
The e gardener would 
th h 
ts from wa a of time, an 
ts | the 
| power of yom a E er in the ground by 
y par 
Potato-fields infected: this mixture rie mie the 
oi ne ted nar still hold to the 
on by ‘ie ain id and I have nothing as yet 
me alter it. that the | lily in „the pes 
1 +, 
Pine iio aes answer to “ qa us,” I beg to 
state that I place loose faggots abo ut one foot in depth 
on the slate covering of my tank 
leaves and soil to plunge the pots or plants—say 
about 18 ins. in aap, I find on examination that the 
ee heat produced by the tank is abou 
nd this Ms the result: (I have dug tien all). Oaa a bed 
400 Te weet = of Jersey Blues, from whi ich the 
which has been so prevalent during the summer season. 
ometer being placed among the faggots). This 
gre about 80° or 82° to the plants. As some difi- 
of moisture 
Since the warm weather has set in, about three weeks, 
; the 
taken, five rotten tubers. 
k ait rotten 
a 
y 
e arising from me arp I may add that I have inserted 
f 3 i 
, | but ia seems to be so onnd and go ood. “Neverilen all the Joints e bda Ep red close with cement ; these 
ditto, about | the er 2p is a failure raging about half a pipes convey the ‘steam. into the pit, and the moisture 
disease is a| Ri soh ard Giffard, Bellevue Coria St. Pet tee pon g ly by merely p fslat 
above-ground, and that n Starch from Diseased Potatoes.—It ble | th tl have now one Ripley Queen Lag 
nt down.— er no delay sho TIER take place pips in height 
ed Potatoes the unfor nate „possessors of diseased crops of Pota- T P., ; Cowal. mage ply to your correspondent “ “nN” 
ks a d 
not ex = 
my early sorts whi ch g grew 0 on ary re TS, ey nd w 
partl Tiet 
paio 
I have very arara had a an n oppose of being pre- 
sent at a microscopical e: n of the structure of 
the bad Potatoes, made 1 i: saad and Mr. I. An- 
e | thony, both of Caius Col ae Cambridge, in which it 
was observed that the globules of starch were not at 
apple, or whether it is prajent4 to o eei it at all, I beg 
make the owing arks + e first place, it 
ener ae that v ay lar ae crowns ay not te admi- 
ration .of the present generation ; and tain 
considerable — 
‘on.——I wish what you 
say 
Last year, as well as this year, 
(3 
Mi a 
s 
parts of the Potato. to those 
that 
smaller ones, under the —- of a ver ie ‘high 
ery 
of atmospheric ak? artificial means 
e ground in 
und was w well drained, and the culti- 
bad potatoes. ‘They, Eai Tee obtained some =a z4 
to. Now, such things have not o only. been 
accom pli i shed 
by letters from 
by reducing ‘hem to a ae and then 
The means page ng as far as i 
in the first plac 
the starch in ‘cues as mae 
by a small i instrument the eye or growing prin sian 
he 
the Potato cr crops in PRR ‘hed Isl 
parts of England, is universal i in Belgian, aa almost al 
3 and rofi 
ine has done Printer. $ 
in the most Aare eer state. This seems to bea 
valuable eal as it. shows that some picks use enih 
made of evemthose Potato: which Tri REEF 
mildew fungus. 
which ia oa Lai clas “under "the head "Botrytis? 
y distinguis sh, and w ill 
ninjured ; 
A Soek is aia 
therefore, probably conclu “| 
pa a be ae: 
= D ca oe dy ag biomes & pe = > 
yed, 
os ugh the = of the crown, 
mids rogress, and Sbieh have t for h the mp a named. Now 
food ges i ha a of the vegetable tissue, pe the it will cheek Me size ug =: wn, ultimately, I am 
- | spreading 0 of the f angus. I se aie: y 3 but, I am sorry to ar it always, as far 
tres that the globules of star mt have observed or heard, leads to distortion ; SA 
ess the process has been very eaten 2 perf 
ki or ar ought t to be, as a matter of taste, pe 7 
Tta 
erte ed t use. 
— to > me, at the most 
mi Some 
winds, to — &e. Never. 
Potato starch apie y be miend nor the ; mode or prepar- 
ni hehl. 
y w 
equence to know 
=i than 
od Er Hales "Ca mbrid, 
to me.—C. C. Babington, St. 
air 
a pan 
te re pei in aig high tempera- 
ure with much geo 
e microscope shows that 
h fructifies 
or theory, I I will detail my plan. My own family well 
think it must at once 
The Professor has, for several da s followed oe Culture of the Potato. ok great deal has been pub- be admitted, that wh atever condition of atm atmosphere 
ia vf the disease in se several Se and has | lished respecting the. cultur! e of "the Potato ; but as Ere draws; p technically speakin £, the n pE, or growing 
me the follow wing re: tend to 
ae crown. 
In other words, an unwieldy crown crown. 
+h 
know we can buy none equal to those which I grow. 
and that on a stiff — ace soil over brick-clay at the | 
adds to the weight e fruit, I can preg say that I 
depth of 12 to 16 in 
pagation we are 
ery other kind of pro 
sn 
eseri i in the selection of the parents 
to ght 
am not Las ongh . decide, 2 No ging = 
wer fairly 
prac ctitioner, 
soam I with my Pota 
many do, jou those which 3 in the spring “may rie ny n to | 
nad > y plan is this :—When m pel Potatoes are dug | 
tumn 
to the cart: in kier and hgh it possesses 
powers of elaboration in patois with the other leaves, 
ean he Tle doubt but what becomes o of the 
| by a fungus, whic 
ETR 
This fungus is extremel y thin ; but it 
and ee itself by millions. | 
havin, 
g size, or per ‘haps I m ight say of a s 
larger than the small, are ent = for next “year’s 
planting. It is not nece: 
Th 
sh ore — satin a eoneludesthis a = hisletter by 
clap at this very small 
uest to the pro- /it 
ey are those eek a are tru he 
per shape of the sort, soy he a ro ugh skin, but no can 
the pict of future plant, no a crown ; or does 
it borers rate the he swelling fruit? I ion little doubt but 
gaera 
& Anti- Puff’s” remarks, 
or other agony Muc! 
careful aat they should be quite sap | 
se are—. i ed for earl 
id bore or 
second ; and the Pasie Kidney for oe tate ‘The two | 
a í always plant whole at a ved apart in the 
rows 1 foo E heb een te se last I give 3 
ive thst it it is Prey org feo ihe 
The morbid agent 
: dase epidermis, and though y pa pa 
m this last Ly dave the less 
clu those afew notions 
elds, cannot 
} 
o pecti 
o is alluded to as ha v 
ties at two and three guineas, without t first poser 
them to the approval of competent judges ; I can 
although I ak sy my 
gro of o , 
be too Teit and friable before planting, and 
i iink it begs er to have been well m. ne ed pre- 
oes I 
at ye over ithe sets. These I put in ied sallow W, Jast |ti 
oepe the earth ; in fact, theore' y I believ: 
who hav 
eff are easily ex- 
they wi “be pe SS al pled on tho top of ho |ua 
