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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ocr. 4, 
others refuse to do yd Pp laid on a dry beard | little more heat will, as has been elsewhere stated, | wh which azotised manures exert on grow ing plants, i is 
fact, although tied, meat | aw 
trefy, and are 
morean Tomson to allege in 
s process. 
Tt appear Galignan? 
the sitting o 
cked by mouldiness. 
s from 
if the | "French Institute of September ie 
s stove, and then in 
pita speedil y pu- 
e have, 
favour o EM Bov- 
s Messenger that at 
nr 
of comm 
ease of the Potato were announced. Am 
f M. Crercer, the inventor E a 
n fi 
to nearly one-third the mely, argh sieeve „Ther ere is no doubt that large and jauickly-grown 
rinciple, and 10 per cent fi c any disease 
oft am hg legge 6 is ss is abimi c ratón carefully. Piofes ssor ienna boih ae uch as are smaller ; but the wed prowtht of 
application of the old woman’s pro of mixing | nearly 6 Ibs. of Flou ur from a bushel of very bad the former never causes disease, it only renders them 
Pota the making of bread. This is well-| Potatoes; others, however, complain liable to suffer, when other es have com- 
known. The Potatoes are first boiled, then dried| more than half the quantity. ii prob ably de- | bined to produce disease ; at the same time, even 
fore a fire, and ru te with the Whea at flour. | pends entirely upon the care that is given to the this tendency is h ae 4 the superior 
M. Clerget produces the i J ay or crushing process. It is ‘to be borne in | vital energy of pid an rous plants, 
an rp all the niys neous and us ir ess por- that otato is a mass of bladders, held | It is, therefore, not to be mepecied that plants su 
ns of th E ura and egeris Ee commerce | together by organic jee and „tolerably : tough. _it pli lied with azotised manures shoul d b e liable 
o aa aigis mproved scale L ae is in the inside of thes pa 
ence as it is ae” e do hot a ted, by nature. "If we could separate such mon amongst Poiatoes, an those manure d with 
profess to d this img) but g ibe it as we | bladd r, and could place d dung, o red at all; and this, in- 
find it. Hereafter we shall learn from the Co omptes | a row, we should i tha from et ‘to 200 w pees deed, is the trath, for so far 
Rendus what it really means. come withi in the s of an nch. Now s | being attacked which were strongly manured, i 
Various other schemes may be found in the ary to Ate or l y gpi that aer ouch set to the le 
hey are eot the four which a P are quite as much subject to the eer 
mists nc papers inei no machines ry véns most highly manured w nth E. 
dryin g as 
by co 
serious atten’ 
As far aes “i judge, ad 
ticable, answers the purpos 
the absence of moisture. We 
tha ot se ki os 
nd F 
repetitions of what e alr eri sipe ed in our o 
schem 
at two plans for turning 
t the 
converting i into i are the only ones worth 
hich ce cann 
mongst t 
pgti me TEN 
dy re facilitating the formation of organised 
tolerabl 
wth of 
paper in the last Number of me 
eip 
a Pharmac ie ely 3 proposes a leave ided th ts of vege- 
arch in wate a get place, w 1 | tabl lso prese ise ong, y ai 
> ring, for a few Gheon € little vinegar is | ous, pary he alth rowt ae Nee ‘the substances 
t | formed, which dissolves "hae much of the remaining | required by plants are nearly al guan 
| impurity, and leaves a tolerably white and quite | and therefore if ligh heat p 
wholesome fecula” Alth this operation is | fact, if the weather is favourable to vegetation, hal 
not necessary unless the condition of the grated | is every reason to expect that plants thus manured 
co 
Pots eee. ae = have been unusually bad; yet the 
will become strog an healthy’, there is no theore- 
uld lead us to fear unhealthy 
wet flour 
may has sveyed i from cottages, without injury, to 
or irregular grow ae 
But vet uri of is kenes oi 
ed, the Potatoes could b 
by 
or 
count, namely, 
first pn, sia iari 
f, inde 
aced perwedá iliina, yet the latter ee si 
- THE TULIP. 3 
Havine during the blooming season taken rather an 
alg 
4 yo. 
with which 
the ation or mashing i is performed. „One man will 
be et fine enough to crush every one $ hese ex 
tremely small pee There mus re be 
some loss of n the operation of crushing. 
ppan it as wi ys and of course the loss is 
in u 
midland counties perhaps I may be doing the Flori. 
orld an ceptable service e by ge some 
ti 
nder my observation. 
eicester was the first Jea which I visited ; r 
t exhibition, and, coi 
poten 
NAT progress. in 
therefo 
separated ‘by the strainer; another half; some more, 
7 Bee 4 4 D 1 2 ah 4 
sidering that the members are ps all young sora sy 
many & good flowers were produced. Strong’s Kine 9 
urrents of ped 
y an y con- 
of ee Mis of eo a the flour. Crushing, 
mas. shin ing. 
e in good character, el BN rather plen 
ey m Pape 
thet 8 nd the uster some 
air i cosh be = ed 
bok is Pontes which 
fata, have the disease only in an incipient state, 
It is not worth constructing 
it mig ht be arrested. 
tis ther efore 
buildings for this papoa for the pea would be 
before 
med ould be bui pae it is 
Gank erpel ans it we geist Homa ould 
o apply it even to those which seem to be satel, 
Here and the 
purpose of drying daaip or dam rn; else- 
where are malt kilns. Some Union worklouses 
ye rooms w d by s sto oves, on pai wes 
ll th t 
an ; ie 
feats api flues. In all s 
papain 
ing here 
recommendati 
N 
ation. 
ur from 
vinia the ray auld ‘not be saljeced rie th 
rub. 
in seedlings, pa ave but "om Howen de 
cidedly new amongst them, ae $ wi ar some 
have b a 
es t ae ta some other operation, such a 
g betw o stones, or grinding, sahatcly the 
bladders ‘which escaped the first process may be 
br oke 
en in the se 
+h 
ave been a 
added to the collections this sea: A 
I reached Derby several days ‘Petoro their show, and 
had a regular eager of the principal beds, whică 
gave me x better idea of th 
r ieir style of growing, 
ys 
are buildings aie iat for the | the amount of eae that The hae countries orl H 
mage Europe may be estimated to haye sustained zi this | Te 
visitation. Our own computation has been five- 
sixths of loss. kiti : T id k be Ao oo high, 
altogether an exagge 
g | think it rs and shall or too hinpy = 
Ve 
o earth | | are mis shall know by Christmas. In 
see that hil re 2 not for a mom ei deny that 
the disease is unknown in many places; we have | 
o doubt, however, in er ee nae of cases, 
ther + 
t] always said so. There is little of it in in Scotland ; 
the north of En gland ; on some of the hot dry | 
ere I saw the Earl 
a flower of ‘excellent properat more like 
tus Po stham penn; nyiap i ekp with whida | 
inct; and 
errang colour als 
neighbourhood. Hre agai 
and the Wes ot Engl en is caer ss to en 
i ttle sign of it. But in Shrops a. at ~ it is ve 
doubtful whet her the Potat ~ ass seg the 
As to Ire Spr mu 
ey 
various 
| midable degree near Dublin, iiie e e w hat 
rofessor Henstow, always fore 
with the sappy na ti 
7 sacks, 17s. 6d. 
8 stone, , which will o zE - 
the operation has 
been pidana with aaor Peni 
some of y; we 
s, | have it from the county « of Cork ; we know, on the 
n Sara 
season, was finely Talh grey the m 
being nearly blae ii he white of a EER: dazzling p! 
and the feather well laid on, wi ae ut à 
bi own the centre of the pet. Pa 
E bizarre, corny different from the 
known in the ane ropolis by th 
ious like a fine strain of Charles 
sy ease Agar with Brisson ; also a — i 
bizarre ; and I may here observe that ther 
tesrown 
must ii 
eym 
Bop the sate Lie we are 
through the north of Ireland, and also in Meath 
ath + k p } Le e E S A 1 
I pai a visit, as usual, to Piso soy and found a fit 
bloom of bath breeders and broken flowers. Am 
works 
be apia orthe Aem = is coiléerned, things considered ? 
has put out Popsas to grate, tatoes 
of grating 
; the ny aii 122 Ibe: ; call this 
— tead of 8 sto me of 
and in a modified form in Fermanagh—east, north, 
and south. Is not this pega! alarming, all 
Wen oa a e price of Po 
mongst 
the varieties that par ticularly took my fancy W: as B 
nd Pues pe fe: Ao pase which 
i Tonis XY ; 
tot 
even now. speak of th 
markets, which are platted with sellers, and wher 
ers dare not purchase, in the uncertainty of fhe 
Polat toes ke eeping. But look at the places where 
Lilas bi 
kodeina the poor § 
4 
aA th 
? 
Foe: operate. Why, we hear that 
quoted at 16s. a sack at Col 
they are 
chester, ory ey ranes at Liége. 
The idea of mee out re Pota toes to be į grated 
is a good one, and well skami 
farmers at Hadleigh er 
grated, at 2s. a a PS 
women who 
back i 7 the time it takes to 
e process 
age ch sth the cloths from ti 
which it is spread, and 
rage option. One -a 
out 20 sacks t 
epe ur space is more than exhausted, and we 
ust 
only roo 
cup ; pure, gir & ind 
though it struck down 
the petals. Grand, or Sable Monar m F 
th tyl th the cup slightly ongers 
deig g an wit =e Ora 
it was 
fone 
wer 
rtation to Potato o growers to attend to DRYNESS 
DA 
charact 
t De rby. 
mens, the following were very 
ry fine 
s for takin 
But it = a answer to mi ly even the heat 
hich romunerates be both the shore i things, p up, Telands had not been otherwise 
ra ne ira ES ne. eine Bey SOIL for pitting, and If the heroine of th the oe ro are beon immortalised in 
may be om tine io = | erop ean - _be bes host gent dis against the dangerous oe m pe sore ee ae oa the one that 
them before the fi SEEN andae my saias ae 
T the many statements which haye been a ee ik wie, sae Tann ie ely pur pure, 
i inclin: 
boiling wai 
hot 
sold for “ 
to hot Rp itself whilst it is m saa 
at once toa substan whi 
ich | 
British Ta sors A 
‘om feapociing the origin of the Porato Brieur, 
there is perhaps not one which has been more 
an error 
the press, we are made to 
b a typographical error which Sak 
We had had intended to haoomiouad "the use 
widely epread than that which attributes 3 its ao. 
the use of highly azotised manure. 
w | (which I allow to 
rather a in favour 
table 
those of our readers who are in the habit of using 
guano, and similar strong manures. The effect 
that the Queen in 
far, very far, behind this apinn a 
| The ‘eo ection here is rather short 
