tion is firmly established, its 
ts of experiments ne this its position is y pee tienes forward 
don 
lead to deductions ura m 
upon t hem give such results RA 
wth is astonishingly r api 
their growth and habits as ia tre 2 is q 
their destruction its true paras LIN. PUN 
tit “ot Dodder which is grown in Flax it is not our present object 
— De gathered from s y — in 8 Number farther growth of r lant until it ben 
of the Agricultural Gazette for the present year, its seeds, but i rtant to a 1a E : 
to the effect that one grower had separated as one firmly —— it appropriates the 3 - T 
much as 70 bushels of Dodder seed from his Fl he plant upon which it grows to the a Rd i 7 
Of this a sample of somewhat over a bushel of the new structure, s se — ws — » E ; 
i l|in every direction, each o ich clit 
Col Sn pumas Oh plant near it as the first pi — $ t4 done 
arm 
sowing, with a view to obs its surrounding plants in every * 
owth, the 3 " on whieh are now to 7 e y 
|^ detailed as prelimi ary to remarks upon its forme ed flowers which progress „and these 
agricultural hist ZA n being seattered again germinate, and if any 
Experiment 1.— = g plants be near them they attack them 
they xs e th: — crop, but if not bon He 
u 
saucer with fine — — following appearances 
+ OME 1.) soon 
presented themselve 
far ht: is an end of M est, "for denis seems no 
reason to think that the seeds "lie dor the 
soil ready to attaek the same kind of erop when 
sown in another rotation, "although we have heard 
it asserted that some land is natural“ to it. 
x The question t hen arises—whence e is the PRN 
cue |derive nd th 
— —- — —̃̃— d? a wer is one which aims at curing the evil when x 
4 days Bay 6 days 8 days the erop; this assertion is proved vy "ih and the other which succeeds iu. preventing iq 
Germination. of D cogs, ms rel o o forms of PE er existence. Young eropsof Flax and Clover n 
Fig. 1. Dodder seed with h its radicle extruded have under consider are neit of en always be careful lly gone over wi 
— — dee, soil bearing the testa or er — of Great Britain, they have boh b them cutting off Thistles, creeping Crow-foot, and! 
Fig. 3. The young thread like plant as it were on the look been introduced wit re Flax and ommon in : 
out ira nem parent. n now. en lik fibres o 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
clas e | crop 
direction. Tiet, alo ne j 
[Serre 1 "tal 
9, » 1859 
the eleg: n sample, qe ' 
x 
xd 
EAEN eran aie that of t 
t 
4 
enow refer t 
Ik v to 3 
that this erop is ofte 
inj ury done to the p 
which have been a Mors 
bald spaces for the next s 
the pai 
1 E 
This pee like the Flax Dodde 4 
tem the seed, and oe Clover Jod 
ntirel — fro akes z ‘ 
— progress in . deep soils qe 
the lias and London e light o 
eldom encourage its gro wth 
chee 
28. 
bts aeg i 
Now ards ping i 
nemy as — eit er in plane or Clor 4 
ser. of action as usual are one iD Aa ai 
Fig, 4. = — 2 — ng a foster parent it emerges from the soil jt oné en Mr. Mecut’s agrieultura — gathering s kome 
n, 3 41 the plants, which germinated 10 years since, the who le party | collected aro round 
now T is 
Thus 
freely, dais x a aoe days, the thre pU aee e germs 
oil 
gradually elev ate ed o ut 1 Amd € Lies in the Clover crop, and only one 
MD 
pe 16 1 
* ering — — oung of abo ut 300 was — to AS its 
examples of Flax, Chickweed, "Tomato, and others | nature; and d come from all As respects Flax it s 
among them, the later germinated seeds imme- parts of Englan d, that is Aalen 2 “of its — e 
diately directed their threads V them, and 9m parative rarity at that time. — 
commenced that parasitic mode of growth which . 482, the Cuseuta epilinum was not heard sf. absence of ns e in X straw mue 
was so fully shown in the next Bink his cou ry until the commencement of Flax | profitable 
£ 2.—A saucer was sown with a cultivation. Som years since f 
mixture of Flax and mars. in a few days both introduced to the farm of the Royal Agricultural ET. in pos the ves plan is WA 
germinated, ing of a few a foreign | down and burn them 
is we observed so small own X 
Dodder, and as the seed of this crop that it cannot spread 
wn in NE mam part of the farm be bur E 
tion. of MA menie carried out b 
y carefully selecting your 
wonder that this second | n, account sho lo 
"eem from an infec 
— |Dodder or Clo 
S wid w 
and ` Dodder: —The Flax 
wc apis 8 leaves and the thread-like 
r made thei 
“Dodder 
embryos of the D 
8 The b soon embra 
eir appearance 
iced the 0 [is 
an 
1 e diffe n the dirt and Tar 
ei of ht a he ur ae, te wes noo roa ad ta 
Seed,.— u de larl 
p a seeding time is ‘of me up 9 —— ren generation of 
i 
se^ mites 2 tems are n 606 seeds, but they are more e 
well-formed seeds. y latter than the 
Plot 2. Flax Seed greater; still i 
come before 
Fk 90 ladies, Tios watts 
TTT 
he same plant h Betta ré been estimated 
^ Plot 3. drm — is now a the p = ee ges N ia ni (Flax), 
ed ed up with m ns has n the iens —.— pd it feeds. 
he p mce of Dodd 
be determined by any one who 
se f the paras! 
AM babili results that in all |n ot will perha d it sior 
MEE and pro, iint gress of Dodder on ihe young Flax Dodd. ag ity: n po a ae ie ecially of p: fr is uA T we rom ie Fae ori ies 
e Dodd or, 01 
Fig. 2. Lum e HEAR PDA Te the ele A 2 nid: nly infer ; one e hio wever is m well dn" pedis ii 
six its tached d Dod der ou -— AERE now lifted the firmly aa 1 tum Si Mat itg am antity w will be con. thread-like pl inis wil? peep 
nd the lower natiachiog part Ber fU new shoots, regards of med pire —.— k u^ s 
atithe remark | th i 
a (in en, we adl om: aerei lined oy be Ceara ne aie uniformly 4 time. 
imd Hs which it Arne one a od vro n samples, oe fer s eeds than those indieated pres 
the tino ils , and as during | a smaller nu of ies E Y | ts to be expen this 
eo pes progressing the foster Béods.to 1 
: mies — ithe bs Capsulas. ach Seeds. | 20 mais of time and observation, 
viie the p foster parent to be p eti grow Flax, in E XL B4 of sede ey information a n such! 
parasite is p 2| Dodder Har es plants of is 
to penetrate it, and having| So: that the To = 85 
produce- of seed in Dodder Flax hieh 
