176 THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 7, 1875, 
weather as sigo the disease first epic ws What 
some consider a new diseas ces in the 
first part of ud season, especially am 
Мыр ке x dance it is only the cu which bere to 
be com e years back near Edinbur 
50: 
M ; үкөл of seed Potatos sii moorland Lm 
tricts, repeated at least every second season. 7. 
Aton, Cossey Park. 
—— Potatos began to show the Со heavily 
about the 2o of last month—amongst 
Extra Early Vermont, and Robson's Challenge the 
most. The beautiful wea sd es de now getting 
has up to this time stayed i very m 
Charles Penny, The Gardens, йч. cra A Bet ^ 
Potatos are really 
pearanc 
Gardens, Augu. 
NOTTS Nie wo the Ec crop we cannot 
say much at present as we only dug up two or 
three кн here, TT Myatt s Prolific, eu g 
ag average crop, good sized tubers with c 
skins and free from disease, and Crystal Palace Kidney, 
about which we may say the As a rule in 
is district average crop, and very 
i isease, Ш Gardens. — 
vea rtunately, in n many places I 
every symptom of Po vá о disease, and have 
found * ^vi bad tubers. Fro excessive rainfall 
uch afraid that the ine will be a failure. 
e up badly, especially 
Snowflake. Rain r July 7; .33 inches. William 
біт Kingston Hall, Fuly 28. 
EI. D.—The crop in this ЕНИ is апу- 
buf satis one everywhere the haulm of the 
late ones shows un the disease, I 
er 
found no dise rs ; and r" the early sorts 
were bi a fortnight s since e a a patch wad 
but in looking o since we found 
y. FA Greenshields, умей po Chipping 
Nera А August 4. 
RUTLAND.—The rainfall, as observed here from 
jeu = - -— of July, was 19.90 inches, the 
n July was 8.48 inches. This 
ЕЕ mE ra m ich commenced on the 14th зван 
continued until the 2505 © 
no appearnce of disease, and such as have been 
used proved of good quality. Frederick Clarke, The 
Gardens, Leda thor. 
SHROPSHIRE. 1. The Potato disease has set in wi. 
gv vai ce both on the heavy land аа ы 
Оп the former it is astonishing how quietly 
it is doing its work d às — T last 
I had 12 bushels a peck of 
tubers, and "this Dx {оешу in digging 
the ver quantity I have as many as 4 pecks. 
fear the sses will be heavy. Daniel Fuad, Hawk- 
= 
ton is 330 feet above sea leve e escaped spri 
ts this сч cem A. S. Kemp, Houghton Hall, pori 
жай, July 28. 
— The Potato rop with me is a very good 
one, and of селен quality. E: he disease has 
appeared on some sorts, but not to any great extent. 
There are ga complaints in the песо but 
late sorts ar ooking remarkably well, and promise 
. H. m Wiley Gardens, Brosely, 
* 
ty. 
kinds growing in the park on newly trenched ground, 
Sutton’s Red-skin - Flourball and Hundredfold 
tasen withstand the disease better than any other 
kinds. John Austen, Ashton Court Gardens, vau 8. 
tiro are an excellen ъв 
and they never looked better. "There is с dia 
All tare er M are ^e; rate. Thos. sy al ‘Alton 
Towers, Fuly 2 
Early crops were very fine, and but few 
diseased. The late varieties are very promising. 
Thomas Байел, Blithfield, Rugeley, August 2. 
have been 
eif of sound tubers 
mised to не equally abitiidénk; bi t the disease has 
bu made arance is spreading with 
бей та bidity. if this is not Е ted by the present 
fine weather it is much to ared that the late crop 
a good deal шн, . Sheppard, Woolver- 
29. 
tatos are a good crop, but I regret to say 
are badly disea ‘ied in som es more than 
4 are tainted. There were reports of a new disease 
me time since; I 2 not seen m id bad effects from 
it, but the Жен disease in its w orm is making 
rapid pro ze Blair, 1 Shrubland Park, 
ase is eae On first appearance we lifted a all 
ours, and th eping well as yet, and of 
quality. The whole of the Potato ground is 
already crop i, Sa Turnips, &c. 
T iseas ad ry ra rogress, and i 
aftecting the tubers in all directions in E This 
week’s fair weather does not seem to have stopped it, 
and we fear, from the excessive hen a of top, that it 
will prove worse than usu ason, The very 
late Potatos т not yet hurt, їп бет тун к ith the 
us certain state of maturity beii neces- 
sary to its Зее D. Т. Fish, Hardwicke. 
ees "T а Potato eg is very good, but the 
у о first attacked was 
the E Early “Oxford, but it is pts ing all round now. 
Sohn Burnett, he Deepdene, Dorks, Fuly 30. 
ere—in fact I have 
amongst both early and late sorts. S. Ford, Leonards- 
lee, M MA August 4. 
— 
some of the 
atm is SIN де s Me bowa 
appearance ei ie 
late ones. a G. x0. Packngion G pui pu Coventry. 
ESTMOR s reet ry good crop, and of 
be gti А i-us у, rid ther prevalent here 
and around the Ш ааа ў which appear 
por eda m his year—no doubt o aoe to the 
heavy a in ~ у part of July. William Shand, 
Lowther, A 
snd: iad oe early eer. of Potatos 
we must expect the ase 
bad ones. The ier kinds look well, and have every 
appearance of a full crop. Yon Wyke, Kyre House, 
Tenbury. d ugust 3. 
rospect of the Potato crop up to 
the last fortnight was most promising. The plan 
was healthy and vigorous, without a sign of disease ; 
now the whole of the early varieties are much a 
and so 1 ' manifest itself that the 
most t in the a day or two 
become entir , and I have no hesita s 
in sayi ingly is the 
ying, that so th spreadin 
that at the present time upwards of one half of the 
very best шн are affected ; and I much fear 
with the almo: 
the tubers now in an e disease 
thoroughly established, it iti doubtful, whales iflifted at 
ce would be mi 
once, its virulen In the present 
State o t would be useless to speci 
€: Mp sug which are least subject x aus 
m alike to suffer at the present time ; 
d it is to be] hoped that the fine drying эеле we 
are at last experiencing may continue, so that the so 
may become dry before the crops arrive at 
am my report on the Potato 
MEER 
crop for this locality must be very a I 
o not remember ever seeing the са res b 
made its appearance here about June 
S year fallen victims to the disease, which has not 
en the case generally. urselves are taking all 
early one a ery sorry to state we 
shall not get one-sixth part of a crop such as we h 
ast year. I ay examined our late varieties: in 
than one-sixth part o 
pred eon 74. 
— Potato crop, em SO good as usual, 
F: [nem “Wortley Hall Garden 
an average crop. 4. Fohnson, 
IRELAND. 
—The igen = the Potato crop in this 
нба аге тны, good ; ey are better than they 
od for the last five years, Л. 
Ti iyi, езен Эзу, met = | 
ЕМАСН,—Ро{аїо crops are very promising іп а] - 
Es of the country, mos sorts T heavy crops | 
with but little sign of v. W. A., Brownlow | 
Tus 
эле crop has not looked so well | 
The crop is very heavy, and what has 
already been dug is of first- = quality. e 
appeared about ten days ago, but is of a very mild 
type, and is no Сона Sioci-sdndibsed chiefly to 
the early sorts. Early sorts of first-rate quality are 
selling atfrom 44. to 52, per stone of 141b, M. 7, 
poc 3. 
—The ae gat the ae Ме 1 in bes 
district ae remarkably g bly 
uster, 
ink its qualities are everything 
. ato. William Heming, 
Palace ГРИ”, 9. , 
MC Potts crops in this district promise to i 
be the Pets we have had for many years, and there 
scarcely a trace of disease yet. Armstrong Hanlon, | 
Drumboe Castle, Fuly 30. 
DUBLIN.—Potatos a good crop, and, as far 25 
my observation goes, are без free кой dis- 
at this season : the ari but on the present oc 
= 0 
bloom, which reminds one of the crops before the 
advent of the di G. Smith, Vice- Regal Gardens, 
uly 31. 
GALW e Potato crop has seldom presen resented 
a healthier appearance at this period than at resent. 
The fields are perfectly green v healthy—free from 
signs е, eral of the earlier 
varieties are harvested, e have yielded mos 
ab у, alm ound, and ae 
keeping well on shelves. “Myatt ees 
Hammersmith Kidney, can Ear 
AN. 5 ier have ieee ral i that could e а 
Rector of Woodstock and A om 
meri 
affected, the former more than the 
may mention that, for fields, the sorts most 
s Victoria and Scotch JD 
very g 
peared onthe Каша, William Emery, ма Сай | 
— ; kabiy - 
e Potato crop generally is remar" i 
geod and fine in a. Thee ie appearance | 
as Carton 
. ames, 
^ - looked - 
KILKENNY.— The cr op of Potatos never 100) - 
M. the south of Teehind until July |, руз” 
vy and gen 
days, un wild fie and безет та mide i 
—— until the ced when we ‘ook 
m that un E 
pes 
appearance very 
а violent hail-storm ; 28th it лса 
