40.—1845.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
673 
rm, y 
are more evenly dis- 
breeder colour as the 
p me seed planted a little 
ils at all affect ted, nor are 
Í 
affected by this disease.— W. H 
par erhead, —— Hav ing “planted some Ash-leaved 
Kidneys | in my garden early i in the spring 7 7 inches s deep, 
Nat. 
The circumstances ware as follow :— 
later, and more sh allow, are not 
any o ys er Ras in the garden 
tis opinion, from pe 
ations xod inquiries I hire | made, t that m com 
obsery: 
t superb pion iov 
` Piarres, on! nly o e of which Tak comment ; ~ TA rr a 
the effect of wet ; that it will not infee 
other Potatoes i in contae t with it far me er phe any wpe 
Biy red flame up the centre of each peni bat 
who lly destitute of feathering ; 
il l by n 
ia es the 
dy pae as one of the best; this i is a noble 
vily 
-flamed flower ; 
vourite ae 
tuber. 
Potato i is called the “ Irish Red ; 
P 
ig 
st year, planted the 29th of April wale 
tubers, The ridges were manured with 3 cwt. of 
African guano he soil was a thin peat upon 
grey and yellow sand, containing a large proportion of 
oxide of iron, and very bad land, was Grass, very 
unlevel, and in the autumn of 1843 I had it dug 
v 
m 43 
with the pa with a view to give employment to some 
was sow 
a ann 
g, and ties appears 
are kept in a a bii cool ae 
is said to ha 
either vegetables or Ta aie that on | of the labourers then out of hier tage It n 
exposure | to ‘the air the moisture is ab: orbed ; that | with Oats, and was a bad c In the spring of this 
no > when ma o | year, 1845, it was eae set in ridges, guano 
any. cattle—R. C. th rowne, T mwerth.—— er to pre- | broad d a horse-hoe a along the ridges to 
o ait Bary a striking deficiency, | serve seed for n xt year's crop, of which “the murrain | mix the guano intimately with the soil. A pee was 
will cause a a ghee reity, I dried some of id best sii done wit et manure alone, and two rid ith 
_ perhaps the colour too iie a and rolled each Saad in pa per This s don gars All were an excellen Etla I 
but when in goy od char: mo nth ago, a and tl now S AREN. Wace they were small, b t all were 
quite f “free from the disease. I always chow my Pota- 
be I thi nk 
o 00 
: i n Title eou gan asto ines PEN Lady Flora, 
Ma youn ung flower, may be shov rose ta 
ploom ages, n; it is a 
ve 
Atoris a dee “hyblom 
the disease ited 
ar] 
oa, thick petal 
s | lightning early in the s ae Hi at Ton ridge, Ke: ni. 
Ly sais ve nearly 2 2 ro ds of Potatoes planted in my 
garden, the “Ash I which were planted | 
in the “pes February ; Shaw 8, planted at the same 
ded 
wer of rer fine properties, “with a short cup, well i 
is singular enough that all this fine ra 
d 
a Pink-eyed mek ; Scotch bige which were | 
ere 
uite ripe, this s essential both for 
tion and for se: 
dry rot since 1 planted in y ite A of April, which I 
invariably do.—M. M. Milburn, Thornfield, Thirsk. 
| —— Having been particular in my examination of the 
plant, from the first he seston of the Spot on the leaf, 
prese: srvation 
fr the Chellaston Faer ‘the 
ners of which were ectly unacquainted with ‘their 
herwood’s varieties were also fine, Soni ne 
t bloo of Lilli ard violet or Bienfait, Lady 
no appearance of di 
fom e — “places, I 
therefi fore, 
is- | damp and aly ‘weather of July and a 
grew with alm 
ow i | planted in ree The g s differen at h kinds 
from a sie athered bizarre, known in hg this of soil, viz. :—black od. oi I feel t that your explanation 
t Vi llafior, and Rose Ves bottoni, about 15 inches in oes oar a stiff loam. yji | quite correct, Diara rag it is seoapera and not 
about the 20th of or, ond other words, it is caused by the want 
= exhibition, and fou June, the former in black Sea and the latter in stiff | of due ventilatio 
evaporatio) oa ele stopped by the 
Pre- 
xampled 
viously the Plants ost 
ed, 
whai may be not appakatiy exist m the 
middle of July ; and that moisture was either the 
or medium is, I t 
gee &e., , in abundance, and all of the 
possible strains. The next day I pi roceeded to 
S open n Yo rkshire e show, and here I m may ob- 
1. 
apoplexy than anything mi 
disease 
I found that when the 
rst showed itself on the „leaf that the tubers 
hink, certain, for this = ‘ven, fr 
early in June, a decidedly wet season 
Pink-eyed Potatoes are the least affected, whi ich 
e, 
ing; asa matter of course the inferior ones greatly 
| have ‘not 
L 
*rince or Sultana, Si idney Smiths, Co sunta Tapash 
ny others of like pretensions, er crowded the room. In 
nd | time some showed the ‘ goer deaden but if the 
i- | toes sn Pig forward enough to be dug up before ‘the 
appeared on the leaf they are still sound. The 
kin inds I have examined are an early regs mgs an 
early round Potato, having no particular name, and 
4h } 
are affected. The jater vi ‘om 5. to 8 Ibs. of 
t the 
and of the later sorta, the Peach and t 
w 
two . 
farina to the 4 ew former sor ts y ield 14 
16 lbs., their gre 
sho owing 
+ T nd thet 
peed eds and the ag ee ourh 
ackground as y 
i deni grow weli ya t the ey have, and I understand 
e x peo into their PE 
sf importa of 
3 had d sited oh the 
azh into the public 
rst comprised the piss 
les Xo otter Victory, Gra id 
irge 
riorit; y- In n early sorts the farina is not fully eles 
being fibrous and Por and the s are no 
, 
e R d Rou ugh 
These gi but “Tittle affected, 
hill has one o re bad tubers. 
The diseased tubers of s i | sorts 
out i m ey aae und | wher 
wholesome as when o me groit 
ofa A E bios 
pea 
n the other a shoot of 2 inches 
n the sabe T can mention several parties 
>| long, kg fresh pe mare! Le has hes oxen 
pigs; 
who táv? for “the last ert: hos giving bad Po 
seed for next 
toes, without washing, boiling, or other preparation 
to pigs, which received no othe er food ; and this being 
Have li dug up as Tas out the sound 
©COonutrar the 
parties to be satisfied of the fact. The affected Potato 
cannot be cured ; and I ieee ieve the soil is not capable, 
from having once grown them, of producing the dise sease 
i 
had been 
eied mag Chath X., in the sah pan, 
en petalled flower. 
m I may have acted in concert, would 
an. tai 
. 
wed to extract or re- 
hag? 
are, 
Thi is with me, an: nd ‘with most 
S, it in eave spate safe, iya ernieren on the ground 
to green, if rg a for about pik wy ek or 10 days, and 
then to pla as for a Should they rot 
nothin ng will fs lost 3 for I "consider they are 
g 
next season ; Pera that the chlorides and other 
so far, useless. The Ae its at difference re 
ion ant 
opin 
secon to lect a 
atm spade with electric | 
cy. “Dar 
. 
again if seed can ; but I am con- 
ed 
beg ars Bese! dined 
fluid, the moit state of the mkin of the = Finca in 
a powerful conductor, conveyed the flui 
Kait tn tts pen ge over the surface, Beyt ae bined 
the next best ep I ied A another r Potato—i t 
Pa, o not vitae eo 
convinced that the disease is 
ne 
rs 
P 
aas tth pfa fiha Pat. 1 
ely 
d excess oi ola “and ner: 
regular-pe taled flowers pe Hie Tulip, 
gra 
farina), 
X petals are the ackno owledged n ber | that 
yy ght to win as seven; and tho ait one may 
een extracted, to bring g the flower down to the 
iS rd, still the wan of the r requisite num- 
ought in 
ay add that, Sari the many years ‘I 
te, ar at is T apa y on Terk fuid, 
the absence me 
The ate tuber T T shall 1 put on a dry floor in a barn 
exposed to and with very little light, and keep them 
chars; 
wed itch, effect is eer! inereased when a 
con Fiene is not at han bigs a ae tn Pace 
pon BR botto: out the 
soil on de 
grav soils, 
elly, or rig Pasi aa 
yen I have set aside b 
estroyed, by the sap being c hanged in cha- 
freer Fok Pe, When first paia vitality is Sine 
des in 
after a month, or when quite dry, pat them into a "dark 
is va 
t of ‘the | 
tnh 
mable, anc 
ae g 
ing utterly useless lante! 
e same pi p 
5 of the = of groun me Breadfruits (the 
an 
. | ness and cold air. 
d pedi 
A leaves and haulm becom aut 
pid but from a ng ae d fungus ae re 
may not generate for in aoe, s this prema- 
aà ome of essor Morre: 
as has The di: 
to png veral of my workm 
effect. mds ™. a Mise ‘Stingloure 
r gave 
‘ae lecay. 
I think are wro damp- 
tself is con- 
ial to p growth of Se Potato, org when well 
cold air cannot e Besides, I Si d 
D, lavi 
pare a piece o of an ou 
pasture close—the extent about 3 acres, the g 
r loam on the site of a hill. About the third week 
Apni I plant ted 1 acre with Po otatoes, viz., Ash- 
ed u 
Potatoes iiag on the s 
ia AS ntly gr gre 
not ween 
soot a = 
all, the air, as it were, “ ease-hardening” 
but the wire-worm, &e., if there are any, Vi y much | 
nd a: 
same day: in bt adjoining “the latter), and 
d tu ube: ers. I should say the Potala 
te point fi the hauim, the 
bee = the: Pottar H it: ” and 
med to be 
und 
be pretty nltro 
soon Riasy e in the 
t att from t sorbents, 
surprise, se, out of a cro 
which take up ye afford them beeka being de 
yed. I am told by a friend at Wan tage, in pe 
that seyeral old farmers spoke of seeing “ white 
were in a little hollow gorse = wet ah 
mami I m the Pag oe tubers are more infected 
ed | fall during August, and expected unfay ourable effec effects} by 
all ones. Jean only attri- 
from it. I can 
tell, but blight has been very prevalent ; and, Pe 
before observ red, an undue electric state of the 
s T| some 
wmiwards by 
be. 
Woon Gules ve e piade sap. Many 
at 36 genes ago T| 
wy 
A. ME, owe. 
sT 
ears ago, and to ‘the absence of manure.— 
Prasat pin th igh 
published, in the Mechanies _ Magazine,” t D 
f this scr say ae 
nd no serious ae are to be heard, 
Semifluid mass, But in the Breadtrai ts 
d! for 
, if Very little 
uses, part icularly in fattening 
eran of the residue o! 
previously feeding th 
pigs; 
and the 
the root E va se k 
„Pigs 
wise. yg ut, m snl I must allow, that any which 
I have seen _dug from the ground, in this locality, are 
number. although not 
e store pigs wi 
fed ov upon Potatoes thus managed, w 
fast, pati uate f hag ne Pork.—G. L. py 'Enfeid. — 
‘kshire, 
TE | have | 
taad ina 
if pod Pie em "Wield i Pie 
been taking up my Paa me hess dn and a more | 
than garden ones here generally. 
beautiful, healthy, and abundant crop I never had— 
uality, to those of last seaso’ taking a surve yo of 
te Potato fields around us SI that the more 
elevated a epee have sa aly feat from the soak- 
ing rains of and August, have now assumed the 
yellow leaf, ar the Potatoes are much better grown 
