39.—1845. ] THE 
| = GRRIVAL OF DUTCH FLOWER ROOTS. | fow 
k NDLE has this season 
q Wives 4 oE HYACINTH. and other Flower P aan 
st m 
im] from one of th i rig ae art 
They are brine at eral vena a See the Chron 
y eneral list and prices.’ 
Gaon. a Seed poe uth, St 27, 1845. 
‘a ee Any Agent r HUNT’S PATENT | 
a T GARDEN PO POTS having in stoc) jain Thi in, Pot an stand, 
. list as Blue Bas-relief, Fla will 
m oe pres price 
the saand to the Patentee, 
by rese order. An early 
as pe heise wanted for a shipping o 
inl mber on ae will oblige. 
cas Pimlico. 
The ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle, |x 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1845. 
TERPENENS 
ee 
655 
eca 
jim, Poir 
great extent; and from the begin nning 
aA what if Hull is. able to export 
So. much the better "for the Yorkshire 
least to 
we said l 
Potatoes? ei 
gro werg 
In c 
o 
weeks ered Oax concerning. the beauty of the sessile- 
EA di SOE E 
onsequence of some remarks made a few 
alter the colour, which itoati hog fase Hic ted 
place more slowly, but not less surely, if the Pota- flowe pondents have desired 
toes had remained uae in se a actual measurements of 
Some inquiry h snail a e probable rem specimens of my ative species, Je are, 
advantage be Sasing yp Soreness with par lime, | however, unable to supply the egg In all 
when they e pitted. It may be voll phy | UE Fegor Spon the subject, whie ve exa- 
experiment eae e do not see w li | mined, ak are not 
nes be s nd agio somewhat a pienia of the oe at all, or it Ppeats very doubtful 
Another importént ‘question is whether a lica- | NOt been mistaken for the sessile- fruited. Alm 
pene Ar haia FOLLOWING A a x. tions of salt either meuarelly. + s victy of ot | the only thous. ‘statement that w ca fod 
Sr ae A eremnoiogiost 5 bei ocean, or artificially, as in erage have had pea a4 ra oe Loudon’s.“ Ar bo tatam.” page 
l ny tendency to keep the n of. We alluded rue Q. sessiliflora is stated to be 118 
ato question is almost ex to this matter last week, Haa thien n asked for infor- feot high, in in Stu udley Park. 
more positive evidence upon many mation. It then appeared that two independent any of our readers should possess large trees o! 
n be collected, yet a p x S ce may | observers, one in England and the other in Flan- the salio Dniie ds topo and will send us thei 
mo A 2 fest s Ta od ox wen £ aac ders, had remarked that Potato fields near the sea dimens ions, we shall be heey, - É pan ne them. But 
readers will excuse our at once drawing basa pei cnrepondant. Sag: singa 2 oon wears a 
ed our attention toa st ent in one of 
eit fpatticalar attention to the pa that the crop is entirely free from |§ nly shall we aie hae h fase ‘called rt e 
autumn-planted Potatoss hetter: or worse | anche ohererar seaweed’ has boen ‘used for vies f pilkas tan s0 sae ” od not stalkless varieties of 
“gy e oh 54 om eae aure. Is thi e? Our Isle of Thanet friends | the common Q. pe 
ote cies, a ductive; PUT mo E i a, can a answer _ question. In the meanwhile | myg aou i ibe id eh a rk 
p: p Mr. Ives, of Goldhill, near Gerrard’s Cross, Bucks, P F yed in extracting 
that point must be repeated, no poolne informs us that.last. win e sowed. about 2 ewt For eat LOGIE: GPS tie 0 POSE ee ont a 
gaa om a eon ike ie prea ma wg ee hi Bland eve | Pca, «hued scenes may be it mon 
Dickies de correspondent puis that pera his ee es ee en, eee ae te i per et a 
ony’ p planted with Potatoes, four five sorts, and tha: tékah i 
An an 
Potatoes are elsewhere hcg those planted last 
autumn are excellent a bad one being found 
t 
ore than half their Potatoes fro 
‘otatoes have at measure escape . 
st be 
tY>| time wg he could lose ti is ons por very few of do 
affected. en up 
a peck of bad o pon ie ttributes 
s success to the use of chalk and salt ; the one 
pak orbing the wet and the sige? acting as a pre- 
indy eart offers ce of success 
, be 
ay give i 
e to it, -= A ae z and | pack- should have had a better crop still. His soil is 2 gri 
S goo sha 
othe with a nail panch it fall of 
and rub the Potatoes on the other i 
xcellent rasp or grai 
orn a or other machinery of thet 1 ae will 
for farm heavy rollers, or such an ap nper 
ratus as that d described by a friend in the following 
memorandum :— 
“I have seen Potato 
large 
process was as ewe ie 
It 
Starch manufactured on a 
scale on a farm in the north of Fife. The 
Spe os er employed was 
s of opinion that if he ‘ik a 
arp gravel. 
a correspondent, whose |? 
its fly eda otion was 
nding the Potala and washing the starch out 
f the pulp. My only object in sending this note 
her hand, 
mistake dressed his ground with ? 
as ordered, finds n 
is to descri ribe this machi ine, in order that when it is 
pat of the Potato 
was ome a reeled may be hie 
wise r as we have any 
rsonal inspection, we shonld 
o ich are quite sound wen i 
t of ai wn remain so if kept 
Wate mte Raj Sains the us some taken a 
eeks agi t-a set of ipag A ones, 
d they hg ae st a ten st en 
note 
SE however, writes w 
ry: a 
4 "Tasei Potatoes which were apparently nega 
m disease, when taken up a month sin 
ee now rapidly Seane spotted. show 
vend i which were remarkab gee bins a 
a w to 
green before Sorin i tes thins ex- 
int cue the n dee 
plan 
ep, as 
case the seat of Hating 
A had S 
s a spots, which are, indeed, at wie s 
too, fro astbourne and Torquay state that 
K e to par 2 | the 
me vot ere ia fongo a sr a ipar a that colors: hy hi on sa ie separate the starch from 
at Clevedon, ‘in agita which i is washed b = ko f hg niet simply a reg sgt 
the Bristol Channel, the murrain has shown iell ai no a a or ae eta aces eine mae 
i evolves a cylinder of sheet iron, whose ce has 
n Haa roughen ng a pa ty his esli nched 
Be, m the insid inder con- 
r an it rem bs most convenient to 
ose who wish to inv ate the causes she thi ye tually revolves, “dean p potatoes ae placed ip the hop- 
ease ntlemen who are obliging en P 
s a 4 condition. And alon ng with a pote ye stream o $ 
4 famish ‘r to «dhe pe gore confine their | conducted thither by a pipe, this pulp S falls into the 
h aay part of the _— where the starch is 
PaE ae" Potat At ik ae nh ashed out of it. This i sa cylindrieal framework 
, sate f wood « ori A ted 
= foe pcs gael erg Jopted? | site fin slanting at an angle, as far as I 
and as 
remember, of about 20°. This cylinder slowly re- 
at the so 
(the finest ioking Potato-field we hav 
n was on the side of a chalk hill between T Twy-| 
steep in- 
_ _ Has chalk-land, with a wr 
; as ta > 
in those 
; but, in a 
vent the oceurrence of the 
Own case, at least, it has not 
ted that 2000 tons of apparently | 
If sae 
which may be saved for| much more, but 
| to the writer could 
‘ho 
action 
returns of ee karea with = | 
niea informati 
cline 
| th 
isa Henley-on-Thames, beyond the village of 
it will e 
tirel 
machine 
it n 
the whendeve in a milky stream 
for | its recepti on „wherei itsoon se 
ay Oe 
be gathered re mit should 
thatso Cs SPASA ace tbe a | 
A few returns only are of little . * 
sah 
Jna? 
whenever th enough.” Why cannot the Union 
ndertake the preparation of Potato 
zht at Hull aga ported t 
m they oac Te ning 
re-.) genu: 
‘evi Naan 
Conjecture, whi od may bi 
correctly between aint coincidences “and 
aik results, basri comparing a large mass 0 
At Lage 
worthless. 
Koma be said is mere | 
e wo ould also add that hi is ] Potato-murrain seems: 
where 
itis 
ting i 
eaa Cultivator, a Canad 
aek 
wel RES with Sees or 
to leave them so for a short 
when 
e out, in many eases, 
itself 3 in the course of the 
Si the 
it will be as well, which wo 
koin enna 
eat be. fn nd an 
e indebted to he kindne 
himself Jea 
account of the 
een ser | in rC: and w 
such a visitation. 
is not. 
stated. to have produced much mischief, and — 
sod aor a 
In this | of 
has anada, an peor “s 
to us another year, if we surie again afflicted by stayin 
- pea both of 
f| portion 
England and Scotland, Nate, pabitty Hii at 
flour ? 
Y Pike day Catal STORING AND PRESERVING. 
ide to. my present ex 
time to test their effi 
cause of the g 
appease W mo he oneal te niak means of checking it ; 
Epe and oven-drying g have been Tecom- 
whieh aj ate 
to the great quantity ape the 4 subject 5 with its large pro- 
juice. ore suggesting another method, 
let me ask whether others have also observed three 
