ee } 
_THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI 
ttly afterwards received fa most un- 
vith at re judging E had to do with some ill 
} - | eight w were e expanded : ato “It is trained on the 
tempere red or litigious: person; it wrote tösayi ifhe was not 
ine-s a at the hottest etd, m 
| made shcoss last summer 3 fe et in length, wh ich I 
CLE. 837 
few only were diseased. Ë should | say y 10 ‘per cent, 
altho ove on a strong retentive soil. This i is sorely 
n Cogan, 48, Leicester- 
have aes thid rene in justice to 
We 
| the preservation of the flowers, rs, I can assure “ Biesbel? 
Ka lag = that sa have not only preserved them, but have 
The greatest amount s frost last winter 4 was 23°, —6. 
rrey Wats {We presume the writer to mean 9° 
em o exhibitions, and ha 
n 
Mr. Cog: 
Orailoy (see p..785).—1 y 
obliged sto destroy a- magpie ae ‘incessantly | 
annoye people in she drawing-room -by pecking and 
a window in @ ‘small anteroo roon; | 
+ f whicb, being rather dark, the e panes on the outside | 
resembled a looking-glass. 
My plan is as follow air 
ad been take 
the ige er 
e been awarded Fale 
of 
be obliged by 
Planting Potatoes. es reer you 
adopting in planting 
soon as they 
are fully me I cut pe em off, and pm: with we d Potatoes. i ame eres the a “blind end” of tt tato 
I g t the bottom of th ff, keeping _ with the eyes re sets, 
then | procure as many ih, as I have flowers, and suf- which are e carefully “duste ope er then 
this bird was supposed to have iost its mate’; on recol | 
Bere I think it pie were ab cimi — in the ineeniiig; | 
otetut conscious before I 
} ue sessi iliflora 
T.H.Co a in your last 
acts kart sie 
hat a 
| I take a piece of string and tie it round the 
£ the | 
| flow: 
end o 
er, and attach it to the knob on the {op of the lid, | 
turning the latter upside down, and s ap the | 
lower. within ne Riak which I then remove to a coo ol | 
i ce and fill with water. to the b brim, T cannot say 
the discussion in 
frs 
cont tinustion of 
* An Old 
å th 
By but I 
| y had aed 
| rer and upon giving them a gentle pa or two 
on a loft r dry ə 
| pr sere ed are planted 3 inches under long dung, rier the 
the beds 
“two sods narrower than porer: and only three sets 
ut across the bed. r ther 
| destroy: ing the sets so treat 
rape in hon got manner than b to nt 
he m the largest and 
ew 
vet 
| Potat 
more ger 
Tittle eam bate seems atte t 
e ge eneral inyitation issued ar ur months since, 
ir 
Tariy H the tree 
r to a general ignorance. of n existence of su 
Vh 
+h 
| seedlin; 
a| th 
they 
| se the plant 
n, St re Sag Potte ries. 
thi 
Disea. e. 
were removed | 
.—J. Marshall, gr., Grove House, sien 
for jain reasons ; first, 
sk this season sareharged with 
y 
mdly, 
moistu re’; and, 
with 
"The Potat 
certainty with regard to the o origin pie extent at the 
disease which has so extensiyely, Lge ye the Pot tato 
et if the 
y possibly cheek any after tendency to 
Wa 
se.—J. R. 
Greening Potatoes —1 wish I could confirm a corre 
dise 
plant, will Ae allow o RI 
ling Pota! 
l; 
iat is, o 
e pis MaE ad their erops attacked ! If it shall | 
+ h 
Potatoes, bnt here the 
epes so ‘well as those not my so 
è green ones har 
jatever 
not believe that øb- 
4 
3 
J 
A a 
+ 
that s 
E] 
this fact 
w ngi ~i it ne as s been 
h Po 
will l 
conclusion that 
the it 
owers of the old a 
setae notice. I was induced in Octobe er to take | 
T 
EEA 
al 
ad ever seen. I found it was 
t had attracted ne attent 
ion 
exbaustion s oe 
| common kinds of Potato 
may be tra it is 
| portions of our 
| ha has entirely escaped the visitation ; and I ha ave a also re- 
t the 
S cer ate ower er, 
ĉe, veral bushels so RoR: a a 1 perfectly 
| green. of these Potatoes had been exposed. t 
| months, bee the refuse o 
[h ad be eens evered from their „parent stem. long 
hin 
> 
| 
ich proves that in it case we do not the un 
nti tific observer led by bel lieving 4 prea simile 
T of these Oaks in | 
and all| 
that ail many ‘of. them very fine indeed, 
a more elevated pri ste than the psn 
I am ‘informe . Serace Dickins, Esq., 
he has the tree at  Coolhurst, his seat, 
Though apparently to the gegen of the cause I am 
8 I will venture ere a portion of a 
e received o on the subject fzor: Me pees 
sed with  partienlae | 
| kaaas, whieh, when co irar, [x mor 
who pr that 
it AA hi in the stem or baulm will nee that it 
The 
d th 
ean oe shall T the subject of a u- 
uthbe eg tpt age 14, Gray ’s Iun-square. 
usive answer s inquiry has alre 
aie by 
YV 
especting idols the ey es of Potatoes in wood a 
| has been previously tried, and we 
ntity stored in that manner, which, so „far, is satis- 
actory. 
tree is £0 "ingame A “I was aware a ert 
n some parts of North A 
reful ex- | seized those which 
ahem commu- | ni lady fi t made its appearance here on some Ash- 
leaived Kiley planted upon the "laz * fash non, 
ady been | | the beds, ho ever, pis filled with tbe : refuse of the 
i, with pees? dung te 
| iehtatiun rubbish was put in sufficiens 
pi qüantity ‘to raise the beds considerably a ove ye level 
have a considerable | of o thatit was perfectly. porous 
j and dry, and the Potatoes were of the | finest = ality 
Shortly ape 
has been sav ihe: be go h might possibly be useful | 
% 
jiwa, other pieces of the same. kied, o 
h 
fi ap building I believe is pies ar We 
ustomed to call it the Fir-oak, I beli eve, 
leader like a Fir-tree.” 
know the tree m that 
reason rodis- 
autumn before it A poe 
The eyes 
they are hbi. ie: ees family, and placed i 
wood ashes which have never been reba and wiren a 
taken i a well drained 
| and tey dug, but not este i On t 
or aoe vessel, s0 fos 
In this | 
h dryw wood a barrel, 
er should not press reer each other. 
teas the An hig may be k 
. Davids 
ashes in 
‘Ossi 
“name, though I confess e nog 
tinguishing it by such a ren will leave 
Ee So opposite an ac to be drawn by eet 
tig reater ig ty racticl Knowledge of ms peste cor 
for them ttle 
It i 
Pota 0 Disease not Caused by 
| Salter has mr in bd 
and not for suc wes oe gt 
ives, in the world to cut t down, whether on pia 
Ti poss or for rofit, isti- 
ascertain with exactitude the specific gravity, 
of ground every Potato was rotten, an 
about Narra wi £ 
he most in d groun 
ald not ie “rapid Arei perfect drain- 
ze aid not ‘ent e . disea: Pota- 
edo jpe 
& 
of Ju mee 
hip on 
payee e. 
Chiswick, during ‘the’ 
“wa, atura 
city, and durability of the wo 
l-underst od, and little known ‘tree-will.stand. in 
tp t. 
is il 
s 
This — 
listory,” mpared with 
fall ete bs out, in 
mber 
the 
this 
lju 
Annal 
eries_ of years from 1838, 
ae apman ’s ‘Rian ey 
for winter use, fe KER the laiter produced a toler- 
able cro “iy of sound tubers, very few ut the Ash-leaved 
arsy examined the 
be m farch ner by more competent | sive havin ne | sets to- aay; and find most of them, wW, and intend as 
than myself. “We PA gunn’ the propagative month “having greatly e eeded it. as "quantity of si ep 
sd s st "OP, a one ration is Septemb aclusives sa my 
thro’ str t propensity to | has been | 1-12, the average of the last iiw years being ‘hough os isi a say anything in favour of gre ing, 
wi anguestoning faith ae traditions w hich 11°20. to its effect in stopping the disease, I may eure ies 
periment would certain] exploded— 15 process, in my opinion, renders the Potato set much 
ditions whi h every eaten is more or Sei A fe 136 | more capable of enduring frost and cold, It may seem 
guilty in proportion as he examines truth for him- ON fue ain ade a strange What I am about to state, but nevertheless it is 
hout meaning to wound elin; our sa aal S a positive fact. After the severit the winter 
d; I.cannot refrain from: telling him that ; E ae A was over, indeed after the thermometer had been as 
m e propagator, w herher of truth 0 11312 low as zert frien rought me several Potato from 
E eter, pn this Py St pe iiaii otherwise, vas It will be Pe that the average of 1 ket en on the Maize Hill, Greenwich, which 
ould he attempt rwhe with a heap us is slightly lower than 11-20, as stated bones ea conten were a D art of a quantity that had lai sed 
oto 
i raaa meliora -retinete” — to za 
» Mal- 
f iof Wales’ Plum,=This Plum w: 
tat Brentford, End i in is: 30, and i is a seedling ‘com 
‘Orleans. but that v ariety. e 
larger, of ò be ova 
o 
o the erity of pe weather 
I have taken these five months. as the on 
ean greatly affect the question. — M. v Rig a] 
i SA 
dulumn t Eaa Polaloes.—1 promised mi send yo! 
rs resu ole of Dr. Charles Trotter’s experience Sith] 
utumn planted | Potatoes: sis B a PR ae, the. sixth of 
nd had f 
ay injured, and pla 
i sand, and they g grew „vigui iig 
| have 
ay womun, when she ele; aes 
imtr adie. threw them out, pi I Tost my stoe 
tact, w will, ‘Thope, give a little ¢ ontidence tot those who may 
rent in ve i ehh i is a ae paver iat a 
a mor 'e; bloom; and':t e flavour is mneh superior. 
of large Potatoes, I say tat 
verage > size X with no sm all a 
nee , for they 
ong tbem; $ whe those | 
eared, 
fi _ more ag td “if the grouud is 
m pete so Fat = 
head latent leat. of 
be Ww 
S flesh | isy 
Unlike the Fig it never cry and the 
ne ne Unopar haty variety in smooth, 
—— they are pasara "The leaves 
ishable 
Pant ntity, a and principally lait This i is line third season 
would also 
| after the frost has bira “the surface of the 
that port Trotter } 
great success. The iden that first led Mr. T. to a the 
‘smooth and tine. This wil r from 
‘that dig air is an 
yg 
7. 
easily sis 
re of vigoro 
and ea 
um. ha> 
ihh in po pia of 1844, 
in August etenan: are this year 
could no tr until very late in spring, im 
quence of thelr Tetentiveness ; 3 whe a in ar n thes | 
Mom 
ded in 
is of Sesti in insight, The men is protected by 
i linge in a m remarkable manner, and it has a) 
z bch mporsing. nik ep the: beam 
oO 
re th ia and ea 
lalso, the groun i orougl mail by th 
winter frosts. } F the farmers with whom I have’ taft 
[any talk on the subject, that is those t that be only follow 
cellent oneondue 
pone 
ee 
thors on the top o ‘a ‘the bask were S pei b while cy 
injure 
ranches. “n 
, three years Soe eovered 
tem, 
ig Sevill. be seen 
m 
= iain plant- | 
Id Mtg Mr, | 
re winter 
ged + 
a 
much for greened OT Pasa 
ing Potatoes, I Jaaa ‘quantity planted in a fie jd on 
ich the 
over 
Tro trer in the end of February Inst, and many of 
plant— 
the mother 
for C. and T. prana Brentford E 
as a cover- | 
ts the sen underneath them, 
mean U ao sets aon neagies be firm, 
s.—I have a plant oe ~~ whieh | 
22 flowers last summer. ; bua ihi 
und, and [good h great vigour, 
and | Xe. 
situation, and from wh 
| turf or sward h S tee taken 
“This g being sha y 
peatedly ploughed and harrowed until I got it into fine 
| tiith, and upon it I planted the Ash-leaved Kidney, 
g the | law 
