768 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. (Noy. ii 
planted whole, and even. largo Potatoes should b 
ce W. 
e have ascertain ‘that autumn planting has 
port, | arrested — use of lime,which 1 absolutely destroy 
‘We had early Tei ó aur attention on the pe Potatoes lefi in ik ground may fora lr such ny 
vang 
uch para: 
e tnat 
Pathe been pan throaghout lg for the early | tive action of turf, an nd in 
ur first repo ort gave 
supply of the Dublin market 5 tha t alt hough me | directions for its use, since whic r 
im 
Baned accounts of its Gei utility in many cases. We had tenai 
pened | also obtained v y distinct evidence that in wet bog | 2" s decomposition, and therefore rasa e 
1 darai 
matte er ie become desapont tt me agai 
med for 
Neither can we Teri that the eriod at wh was ym ; 
leaves appear above the ground spring, is attend be than in drier an ieii soils. 
le 
less extensive ma; Ahn, i 
Upon these fears are NT T and that dan 4. met S 
no 
be anti cipated ; bu t 
cE 
Sth th 
with any greater risk than what attends precarious | grounds we ikaer w institute exper 
crops like the Potato ir in me season. The effect to be | action of bog-w on diseased Pota 
pt A 
to 
ater oes 5 | wil > 0 nts, wou 
nting consists not mere ou that certainly, W when immersed “therein, the disease pesilon will or a not follow in the train of such a 
i the th which has attacked t 
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but i in the saving of Potatoes which may ‘per rish befor way to suffer 
= tol -d i slow growth which goes on during winter | “Our tr ials having been made in ‘Dubli in, and ot 
re a ripening of next AE a small seale, aa pu the pressure of circumstan 
vegetable apie r upon young Lr, which is parti 
th the oA t of a second unfavourable season super- | fo reing u us to ake" known € every plan il kely t to prove HRT larly instructive a the © present c 
vening. We may add, ti that experience h has shown the t time, we do not w “Ih h ali 
Il refuse P ftl t tic considered as gae mane bee stee soping ï in rae 
planting, if sound, and prepared i in the manner we have 
ended. 
re _ which I may aura examine, i 
y |jar for convenen ce n two or three occasions. 
“Tt 1 tas been nl by many persons that the tri atte pe persons resi ‘dee i in bog districts, w tices ci 
Potato has arriv a state of general debility, and incas render a po ossible failure in, a certain quant 
that the crop will cditio viable to disease like the |an object of no importance. We have accordingly 
have been accidentally. lett i in the 
present, u agit new Prine shall have been raised from | applied to s REN ep als to institute trials on a Hf jar a few days, till the | lower p 
an; 
satisfactory evidence to | large s ale, and shall, whe learn the results, 
d faithful | 
mg 
a Į ater in thejar tainte d 
among the varieties of 
see e 
support this opinion. Tt is, doubtless, true that great | once 5 sche to lay them befo ore your eaat 
remain your E: 
ani 
ist g e 
the Potato, and that some are much more delicate hr servan eH wate RT "Kane onferva which forms upon the sides of the jar 
+ the N re , 
others ; but v E t varieties are | RESOR raie detaches itself and withers. Once I very near 
the most TER or the newest the most hardy. On the YON raien a lost the Va lisneria dy leaving some C 
contrary, it is within our own kno wis dge that in the) Qn the first of sees. ug g past ic has still | plants in the water for a few days, pine ese produci 
cong season very E ae recently ra ised, | ¢, „pronoun ee judgm It is ariance with ; n + th t oth len ie Bi 
ve suffered much more than kinds that have bean opinions he Ids in ae anes peu hare areful e ia 
long i in cultivation. fa 
« While, however, we withhold our assent t si tery abe pe 
and it is ales that the correctness of with green crops is universally to be anit 
of in inquiry among 'agrioulturists kike manuti 
erent that n y-raised varieties a the P e | the Commissioners’ views will b K hether, under certain circumstances, whic 
from e attacks ot dis. The disputable m rattet =a e divided into two bring about ‘some particular s 
ease, we fully a admit aa fact cee ‘som s are Loonie In the first place t e Commissioners reject t be more injured than 
than the ory of parasitical Pangi eing the cause of | | find one or two of the farmers in this village wh 
Saiao, « e pedere ot" the = kinds to be | the evil, whic ht they refer t o atmospheric influences. | (or the first oS ks ve been ploughin gi 
discontinued, and that those alone be used for future | As this is what has been always maintained y our- s of Mu st ard, declare that their Wheat crops 
-to be best suited to unfavourable seasons ; and on this unt +i more proof shall have been | cht f dys be hag ee? t, pee e ites timoni; is n 
masa saya bee T esti support of the Fungal theor z Henetitede: "The subj on ieee tb the attention 
han ony points out the Irish “Cup? variety as eet which | ‘The other point is the wearing out It | agriculturists.” : : 
“ag least ~~ the atincks of the d 
are also o! f opin ion that it will be baiant to 
of races. 
has ee —S anad: that the reason why 
d al 
‘past? the Pot suddenly attacked by a m ady ‘THE AMATEUR GARDENER. 
cleared of a The latter is in all | which ars a Penne rshrentened its extinction, is that| Bulbs in Windows.—At no periód. have flowers 
ilea with, with the seeds of fungi, countless myriads of it has degenera ted. This has been more particu- | strong a “hold on the affections in the season of 
which ttered bos gn the tainted fields ;|larly insi isted on in a frothy pamphlet noticed it in | winter. The Snowdrop khas its pure white bells, and 
and, although they pony have been borne by the | anoth u he C f gold a d purple, mig the 
to every portion of the coun en yet it ma Smiet a be the Potato should i il 
winds 
_ conceived se the soil t will be more impregnated where | he immediately etapa Be ah 
ega RA ii sap growing, than in fields} [Tp this, all other ie it is easy to o make | 
t 
in which cael not ae. por t 
“Under these e saat we dedly of meow ; bat 
m 
coming year, into that Doen thee ASON under | gentlemen who clamour for new varieties know 
Potatoes, it will be prudent, if not absolutely necessary, — are the old varieties now cultivated, and | when it smi 
. f that th 
while the bel aspirants ¢ 
summer are fet bodi in frosty bands. ~ indigenows 
flower of the ‘woods rises into importan 
i i fyin i 
iles upon us from the gen eral steri 
which the new? Have they any proo: t 
action of "the atmosphere with care, and that it should pee varieties have anise in chee Leer degree, cultivating flowers in-doors, we impro 
with lime. We have already Can the ee 
f winter. 
ve upon this | 
kind provision of nature for pleasi ing us at ae e, 
recommended that the IURA whether whole 
oe, ae S me should be dusted over with lime | facts romet their separ Wethinknot. At lea: 
z É and hard frosts oe 
aia pi omi: a Sb pror urge that in the they have not done so; and w es atey fragrane ce and ‘beauty in the oo heart Pot the ; 
e th 
e 
he pose tie Tn ‘coe ae ke the "solution of bine. 28'S with the Commissioners in rej jecti ing this 
of rain “and snow, 
inary greenhouse pl 
is very difficult, 
stone a salt, well ee G Pret Fis hype othesis. ‘That the 
already been lad before u 2 papse Shacks whees eh ave the most positive proof. Dr. , MacLean, 
unless a Pai is at our 
but sage endogens, or bulbs, are more pliable, 
int f a dwe 
-h 
such irina e have described have been|* 8 raised ae res xi aly According to my pro 
neglee but the other day a seedling Potato of grea il the p 
We forbear from adv: verting to the possibility of re- | vigour and merc seme its production i is es recent, | mys or several years, i 
pees the dittinished supply of persons yet possess it at all. With this | a constant supply of beautiful flowers, 
the seeds formed goto ys flower. This is an operation variety newly trenched c.g T shall confine myself to Hya: 
by g over, near PEs ndon, was planted in the autumn f Crocu pulbs whic . 
£ 4} 
eannot 
= s 1844 and spring of 1845; no manure bei 
ng u 
pply, and | The crop y sr e much attackedby ¢ me ee that variety of colours and fragrance. | 
tat wort 
to the Tntlignce of of the ic a = 
opm 
t| week, I shall endeavour to detail 
if found s 
ses, as 
culties, are easily procured, and 
ragran 
Supposi 
safely 
ore ota dary, antry. | not a single ‘otato was found w preserving, and 
& Hitherto we have aid ‘before your Excellency, for the difference between autumn and spring planting, 
ing in ones r0W; on a shelf or table, 
Pi it will be gener std that Riss 
stdin s of publication, several reports in sea |e ich Dr. Mactzan’s new Potato was selecte d for 
pular fo: present emergency. W: 
are — that the recommendations ae in n realit ity there is no com 8 many par 
m. 
E gu 7 in ha 
them, if carried into effect, will tend to mitigate the Varun Kingdom that the races of te wear | is that very small po ps fhe m Hy 
h ks of th Su Š by in perf . To secure the "Fall 
evils arising from t — pá disease in the Po- | out. n opini i i 
x ore was entertained, indeed o 
eae sour t = ae pos e d aere forthwith to | the late Mr. Kyr and his vie been | doubt large pots are best, espec 
app ik a ie te a spin sheet a a ant | ado ipe by some “physiologists. Yet there is not = the parent plant 1s desiren 
a ae e results ps our in a eke + i 
pr resumption to the contrary. It is superfluous to | 20W that po 
ES fon | TE derive “Knowledge say eg ona ip aA le is ao nikoek alé wi 
guid ese inv estigations will occupy | which apalai ae It is said th ape 
s said that i 
plate the necessity of publishing further popular di- w wom ont, vad can no onger be c vated. 9u al 
a we page hold ourselves in readiness to give the Golden Pippin still appears abundantly in any ns others are almost 
attention to any question which your Covent Garden Market; trees as healthy as ever | o leasån 
P acelleney may i submit for our consideration, or to | are to be ge in this country ; hig ourselves have poros such as will not 
report from time to time for your Excellency’s private | seen it in Ireland, where there is no symptom of its veneral instruction, 
formation. dec repitadé, and in Ma dei eira it is | in robust health. rent 
$ +} Fatih 
a ge 
1 aa old kitchen garden, mi 
of white sand, will do SS 
to b 
_ and obedient ome a “ ROBERT 
observe that the Commissioners avin pe te 
recommend mg noe 
= Jonn z% all land which has borne diseased Pota v to be broken crockery = 
They 
we are anxious to | myriads of seeds of Fungi lurking in oor 
although at the present, attack a new crop: that kind of dan 
Lyon P AIR? we alar house, in 
t Royal Di Society, Nov. 8, 1845. ea ti Tore 
n ov. 8, g ah. 
We take occasion to mention to yo d ti 7 “8 d ee a 
: y ths, double 
g the action of peat or | gers. Itis improbable, but not epic o i the -| as “early T 
which may | Procure thi 
of a 
| rely ne ee 
