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| AUGUST 7, 1875.] 
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this йе hooks in fact, worse than I have 
ever seen them, Тһе haulm is dead in most places, 
and the ghee are going fast. P. Frost, Dropmore, 
August 2. 
Кбит, —Potatos here were never known to be 
as the disease made its 
appeared amongst the e 
d in this ioc а ood in 
dol, 
we if Hs present dry weather 
continues, the erates FEA 
escape. I fin i 
se five sound; and 
Model, ind, having pets e a 
diseased, por gh all are grown in the same place. 
>, Whita aker, ай 
— The pr эчен of the o crop is 
what can be at e m 
good ; 
is ин difference 
e old 
and the crop is over 
ep, were not "cut down by the late 
is € de the n promises to be a goo e 
Robert Me Kallar, iow Май, “Cheadle guenia 
Potatos look very eal and " 
arietis | = yielding very well. ” Ther 
ance of the disease as yet. Tomas loc e 
тана Lax Gea Chester, August 2 
NWALL.— ew words will ex xplain the 
s of the Potato crop. The disease spoiled 
and it is ner. rampant in 
ises E Pas as much, if not more, 
earlier таене es. The 
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55 
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- Tregoney, Augus 
DEVON. he otato disease is je general, and 
_ eady par are "lari affected. Am 
varieti ase is partially arrested by the fine 
weather of the last ten days, Fon Garland, Killerton, 
Ex 
RSET. — Potatos here are very ре: Ар 
and are ripe. "There is a fine crop. The ono- 
. spora affects the leaves оруу. ang not the stalk. gi cut 
whose skins adhered 
1 lot of moisture came out by 
the sun and moistened the ground all around. Here 
is anasarca or dropsy dreaded, as well as 
op of mine vere planted 
five plots between May 1 
and 20, and Ido x think they are materially in injured. 
№. F. Radelyffe, Okeford Fitzpaine, — , 
| Fuly 29. 
n. the early part of the season the Potatos 
this neighbourhood looked remarkably well, 
M.—The Potato crop promises well. I 
Never saw Dei par атан sg 9 ате по — 
Of the disease as ee Ful 
i ut have not s а e symptoms 
| Of the old Lapstones, which are the first to 
show its sympt ms, are as yet quite free. The a 
800d deal curled in the tops, which I have observed 
cam the ground, but never 
er, and the flowers al drop UN Mum en nie. 
5 м 
barely wo des ihe tro able “of lifting. Fe Se s Ifi 
B 
ongst the late ` 
arer 
A. 2 Danesbury. 
iT. — 
yat. 
SSEX crop up to this date (July 30) 
ule exceedingly E although at the - dy 
е haulm many of the leaves show unmi 
Regent waich A had planted 
tom of i 
, and by r 
its excessive succulen ncy perhap 
give us E and ess crops. William Earley, Valen. 
pos i uly 
wever, are more promising, and am 
зерені that me present hot summer weather set 
inthe nick of save a good i 
d: em. Some the "He are pulling up the 
clos 
or my own 
— Potato No bad in haulm in the early 
sorts and second early, b 9 ine tuber not much affected 
as yet. Scotch t harmed as yet ; if dry 
weather continues it a S stay .the diseas as 
I never saw finer than this year. All other eR 
are good, Little rot in. Onions, George Harnett, 
The бе, Саййид, "Ушу 31 
—— Potatos up to the gm time are but little 
blighted, m the haulm is dying off wholesale, and 
the old Potato murrain seems to have MAE them 
royed, wore 
are very fine, DA Wildsmith, Hechfield, 
A heavy crop, but very much diseased, 
They are the least diseased on poor soils, é KA 
Mottisfont Abbey, August 
z RD.—The Potato disease appeared much 
earlier than already the tops have perished, 
and a large еа ah BR tubers are aii 
are IT lifting the early kinds— avy crop, 
which one-fourth are bad. William Pome Poo? 
сани. Angu ust 5. 
— After an inspection of about 400 
Wed made to-day, extending over some miles, 
nd the SIE ioe Mee 
re very badly uod Dwarf 
б S cory vis 
— 
о ~ 
the Potato: 
ae zo attacked with a a: 
Car uch infested with w m. Geor, 
Sag e Ari Lark Guides, © DOMEM, 
August 3. 
—— The early um are good and abundant. 
Кау at the late sorts has become a good deal 
Бонай within the ht three or four A which may 
€ the precursor of disease, but I can find no positive 
traces of it as yet, and as some are yore ripening 
e for the best. William Paul, Waltham Cross, 
ugust 4. 
—— The Potato crop is good and heavy, but, 
sorry to say, the disease has taken them badly ; 
the © Раны here have been complaining for a long 
the farm in are { off fast : garden 
am sony to say that, since тей m 
y а ion of a 
tato dis I observe "€ ‘da 
large patches of Hulta are fast dabei putrid, some 
m aulm are соо 
n all cases the tubers are very 
small. rign LA alles? Penshurst, August 2. 
only tell you that in this part they are 
ns, there is 
1 
good, but in I er parts here, such ingham 
Well and Wingham, they have the blight very bad, 
and р of Ash, near Wingham, we have 
large, and s e 
late =. we iis ve not got up Ls W. Folwell, pou 
ling House, Wingham, August 3. 
зер. otato di 
itself e earlier than late kinds were the first 
the tubers are now going bad. Myatt’ 
Prolife and ак kinds hardly a 
diseased tuber amongst them, although t their tops 
el the last few S ds wog quite died off, attribut- 
able oubt, to the crop being ri a “omatos 
here are yee me way as was the case last 
year. D. Cole, hea, Sevenoaks. 
i early s red but 
healthier. I think we shall have a heavy crop 
euxberry, Cobham Hall Gardens, Gravesend, ЭЁ 2. 
е —Potatos аге looking well, but have 
rather more haulm than usual. diseased o 
have been found among ies Sed EET s, and the 
American sorts are showing the dise that has 
i sorts 
_ Myatt 5 
аг 
rning I examined eir ral lots 
brought i yore of which we had an 
y offered for sale at low prices Ne a 
rospect is 
Green, Bank Park, Warrington, 
August 4. 
— Early sorts produced а very good 
Late y EM look ve i promising, and at present 
rom disease, Andrew Famieson, Haigh 
Hall Ln. Wigan, A ра Bm 
crop. 
he o crop here has 
aris especially ¢ the earl va- 
rieties, such as BE 
riety, Myatt’s e Feina pus Market, an 
ad eis rs alps 
with appear very ас 
cropper “at. I think the bias has Vet to be proved 
our standard varieties, 
S origin, vy = 
тапу о 
tiere wiih me Lee’s METTET Kidney is the best 
ape p ane eto be highly r fcosriitded or 
sen ly ity, a мет productiveness, John Brown, 
Солай Hall, е» 4. 
of the new form of di 
eed tuber "in the Early Goderich 
з have grown Ы уен 
tances 
rottenness of the s 
a 
B 
iz 
= 
ч 
o 
re 
ollo 
darkly stained in the cite William Ingram, "Belvoir 
Castle basic yu and > 
am sor y the ge tem of the pia өче 
of the Vien ы are al 
isease, Whole quarters «e 
growth, and the нае has er quite 
thers it is dark brown with the disease, un 
off. M. Hend erson, Cole Orton Hall, Ушу qo 
OLNSHI С Potatos аге nt, but 
eeks continuous 
: in. Very few of the iubent ar yet affected, but 
the ge nm it severely, more particularly on 
heavy soil a ong growing varieties. D. Lu 
A ли, "Sleaford, July 31. 
arly varieties produced an ватт 
се of t Lat 
any v 
Pun deer a tra isease. te 
promise well; I never saw t ж k better, and that 
is the general opinion in this neighbourhood. Willia 
сове ныу affected the hau our even 
from a distance is very offensi is too early to 
judge of the рее ee си which, by 
n. A field of Dalmahoys is quite free - 
from disea in haulm . A field of 
Paterson a here, planted on fresh land of a 
light loamy ore, well limed but not manured, is as 
et quite unaffected. Charles Lee, Hounslow, Fuly 31. 
Potatos, without disease. 
fam 
eem to p. but the 
disea ong them тацу Richard D. Black- 
more, “Teddington Fuly 
NORF K.—The Ponto blight is cone’ both on 
-— mi ‘ate kinds, doubtless hastened by extreme 
and followed by cold, wet t weather—in fact similar 
