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CHRONICLE. 
[Sepr, 27, 
varieties of the ro rò ap p aiot 
y t kin 
y marient much discoloured, d, imide or ot 
D we g a pungent orale aie like putri¢ orse- 
Sadish, ia and aiats quickly ; this chiefly in white | 
etting it settle re epeatedly, to 
to j has been dressed with rubbish from wold be eae > or 
H 
as much ot the Jew an ev. as possible from 
condi 
get 
coloured. The last coloured resi sidue may be thrown | It is SES very destructive, and is usuall tor be 
back ro the pulp. everal water nah eater or less Ge o 
may be poure ured away, and the white starch laid out on a | of ever ay 
t ry Mart to very minute details, and at 
toes. 
2. Brown spots or patches m 
Pia tuber, with little offensive anit: eet sani tower i in 
than the = this 
progress t chiefiy in red Potatoe 
very considerable "eat = eeu both the dry rot 
This is, 5, howoren eon , pro 
economy of a 5 the. grating i is ees ae repeat 
us. and 
3. Coating, limited to 
inner pa of which is soften marked by 2 distinet brown 
outline, the heart ing sound and sweet ; this 
i ag of the classifi- 
ocal re a, sta 
ar 
i. 
and suggests pitting in dry e: 
communication i (by 
we not, a aed re-dried earth, 
much moisture from the > 
of drying and sepa 
vided into saiia 
en 
adequacy pemi, 
soas to prevent 
pe on). Can 
whic il absorb 
vn the double purpose 
With this view the Potatoes may be di 
we a Apparently ni to be pitted in fire-dried earth 
es in| 3 tons in 1 
drying much i in the w. 
would be rove done ey the Union work 
the clea n Potatoes could be ground in a mi 
p- 133 ; and | Ure’ 8 e “Dictionary of Arts and Sciences” 
one to n ay 
of plants, it is m 
se thani 
beta giren ipen Martius 
wit in a gehen, compass 
1 
p- 1166) 
ourse, sev veral 
S 
this is almost a hopeless task. 
xuberant roe of 
will ensue the vigorous, but not 
crop. seen occasionally a 
g, I 
the I have 
im 
d water 
a shou e 
Siri which presses out; e greater part will 
din o fine. Of course. 
I have not + bes able at presen: nt | to 
of infected tubers from Germany, 
"ag dina 
this disease ; but 
obtain speci nen 
cannot Las ae state that it is identical. 
the cakes, ri not seta o B 
ssed the longer it will ke eep. 
amination of a 
damaged ; i it was either perfect and colo ourless, even 
= 
PRE 
M. J. B. 
ON THE Se ad OF THE SAP IN 
PL 
Sa 2. Infected, but ie leteris decaying, to be cut 
d pitted in the sa with or without salt. 
_ 3 Pu trescent, unfit fo for’ r use or keeping. 
A brief explanation of each of these three methods 
if affected at all, it was seers dissolved, leaving 
the cells empty.— ZJ. Pridea 
e attach credit to EN ‘observations of D 
dàle aud I believe no man § stand 
e Cam 
s hi ager vi Bee: phil 
ie 
may be sufficient for our present pr DISEASES OF POTATOES. 
1. Apparenti; sound. —However im impracticable pres ROM Mantius KARTOFFEL—EPIDEMIE.] 
be to find oven or kiln room for our crop, there q coneaded from . 624). 
is no difficulty in rying any requisite quantity 0 ` Tae disease, to the Puss sg 
earth, which may be done in heaps in the field, in some | part of ertia book È is B A (the dry 0) 
of the met ooe pra ractised fo or clay o or marl Parong only makes its see earance on the tubers after they a: 
using and when, i in eariy oakley 
2 t Sar mel cipal case 
and thus prevent the pos kinna of ‘the Potato. ay Sia before grmi have thro ts, or 
Air-dried | earth contains much moisture, w whi ich ee be me ra da ro oduce 
t all, or only such as are ex- 
I 
e one or se minute sy oP: ga fra ethe w. 
shoots 
sophie world x 
into the secrets of nature deserves t nora higher for or 
candour and honesty i in T detailing the results of his i 
uiries—we s shall be forced to admit thai 
that th ls of plants d 
either the ST ascen ing sap, or the elaborated de- 
e | scending sa ea bid we — that the stomata are 
orifices of Tea se a 
ne i “of thei Beds ce 
mina 
w 
e” 
dy fi hi k from | tremely f ther e is little mois- the stomata are generally found in the ited sides 
he air, in contact with it ; hard the leaves, it must discharge itself throu 
ot mado el it ere much of th f l becomes wet the greater ae pee s0 that the | orifices. 
raami per be sran ‘dried than | fi PP De Candolle, who does not question iie Bee 
n med.. T 8 2 fier | Potatoes o f the last ye ty 5 erop. | disease is often the ‘Sap, supposes the intercellular spaces to te the 
g A accompanied by scab, winie. 10W: so un whic: 
i from the air. It shout, “acto quite | sally d ri de infected “districts as the sup elaborated in the cells, but admits with all 
ot. Po spread out in the sun are said to | rot, but is spo oradic in its appearance, while the dry peed bota ni ail the doubt as to whether the fird J 
ve rotted quickly. There should be ¢ enough to | is : Sere epidemic. absorbing water lies in the tissue of 
an ia betwee m the Po and parat pa observed in 1830, but it had inereased in | in the interstices caused by the sph 
yers ; and it is almost perfia uous to add that a the erae) pal er Me it parts arts of Germa rmany, to such an | cells, h h “mieats intercellularies ;’ but 
should ‘be pitted in very dry ground, and covered from very serious alarm, and even to the rof ing up wa ex 
the rain. e T the earth in humus the Jess | b the parenchyma o 
smell it will acquire in fire-drying, soil is of rec The Potato pits, when opened, exhibited a | ‘ This na ‘operty of SDRE water,” o 
very little abso: | greater or, less s degree of corruption, three parts o out of dolle, ¢ a ‘had long ; appe eared to him as well S 
2. Slightly infected. —These rbai be cut in halves, bases of the phenomena of ve 
from stem to nose, when such the residue, when planted, the greater Po often kaye Tife ce and he adds, tha t“ M. Kieser has also 
be turn: ed o over to the third class for starch. 
in separate 
The less 
failed entirely. In the early stages o of the disease t 
aged may 
pits “from the sound ones, when the earth, in contact 
inj isas s to 
or cattle; in the latter stages of growth, however, the 
in per 
“No ow the roots of plants “consist no of cellular 
tissue E of wo ody fibre ; they have, o vessels, i 
A ter, 
zh th 
+7, Se Matt 
J 
Gy? 3: 
4 
3° 
allowing no time for rotting. 
h as ous in its progress. When 
it is only by ac errom, which are spongy, th 
y take $ the r 
the earth for these might ixed with s 
(say 1 1-6th or 1-8th), which sete not only } help t tos view? 
Ding ni 
Bal eye. The car 
of the Potato, and probably contribute to its preserva- 
wrinkled, and then po chibi little “und 
brownish spots, whi ch soon be come contlue nt, The 
sa this aller tissue eating “in al al seri and in all 
pa plants, it is more E t this E 
tion. The salt mi might be tried in a pit or two 
first, and extended in its use afterwards, if found to 
e and at iy scaly, the edges of the seales est 
d be Pearke through S 
er of a plant than by ~~ other. 
so pervades a plan and 
sop best, as the Potatoes come to! be taken out for 
sale and consumption riments i art of the tissue is f 
however, it appears that they are best dried with | same as in bore ‘advice Within t the pe ae is The sg Ray of the ascent of ily eia 
heat. This may also be done in the pits or rel iy clouded and discoloured and has an unpleasant smell, n a fertile source of theories and PR fan 
the n Kel pad — The lime may be broken small, | and is soon more or less impregnated with a peculiar entation | to me it appears very § simple. 
but not slaked, and spread in the layers of earth, be- | species of mould, which forms white elevated compact | pora ration fi furnishes us with a sufficient 
tween ayn layers of Potatoes, taking care that the lime _ on the outer surface, and is disti very great in a 2n i of any 
wes ae ch the Potatoes. The m ore lime, , the e greate: fus ifo orm articu lated ig The gra ins of | exposed situations i and we 
normal owe their | excess ; the aero ths 2 height ‘of n tree, thi 
i ¢. + _— te ap 
ae my not enough to dress aks No salt must b 
with the lime. 
p 4 3 s4 
mL: 72 
1 
pe 
„in hi omy to attract n notice. 
en male 
zo) hich will a for years 
tł wth of the mould, or 
upon 
say Pi pera 7 ‘ox, | bias the mould is merely subsequent to the disease | exists between il go in imm 
cellent bread, puting, o is uncertain, The mould itself is either very variable, | true that water will remy ascend in vacuo ; 
purpose n g mory required (as ( ¢ 0 is and that water 
e Papers > o or | diseased tubers. As, however, English and Frenc w of carried u 
t pans, mars or tubs, e plenty i rsa water. | specimens, 5 hough or exhibit a mg of spores differ- feet TA ; a the attraction of 
The Potatoes m ust be thoroughly hips the very | ent from w t Marti us figures, p resent = material which | the water bre has all the 
rotten t a tage clean part may yie 
sieve 5 e i } tinually stirred about, d | self incli hi H r. E 
: h | referred from its rapidit a ae prel 
the sieve into a pan or Tari settle. While the starch} The disease is often accom panied by scab, which is | p oe d r piilo te contact, possesses 
is settling, the pulp eede m in the sieve may be | easily recognised by its asl rather apg bordered | capable of overcoming both the a 
pressed 2 cider- ; and if well | BERSE: the concave surface of which is covered with | of heterogeneous parts, and of 
squeezed, will = a few weeks, spri with salt|a stratum of large—more or cg geek somewhat | Nature has admirably disposed—in 
= 2s. y be boiled for jmp 3 and as | reti ieulated—spores res, which are Sod econ nish, and „at s and flexibility of tl b 
i e spores are at-|and motion, and ates 
a at first idy a little partes late 
& maa exhibit a sort of hilum, which Martius bas not ae than ‘the | er Inuoble # wok 
o noti Eh +3 
saipharie i in very hi Eat apo g a meen 
n the Apple- -pomice 5 or species of f Orobanche, and which, has been described by for, rend in very api or moist 
A similar fungus | si siderable sa noe exists in the en 
to 36 — dep the star starch is set- | occurs on the leaves of Trientalis Europæa. Martius | cireumstan must: — te to the heat 
e botto han to 
oered fibre ; aad a little | of ached. th observed the little thread by which it is | our hothouse eee dice for $b 
washing off the upper part 
Pee? 
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