336 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [Survewnen 11, 1875, 
the saccharine pulp of such fruits ; if not, - not an | statement "ima truth m whole, Mr.'Alex. Dean | felt certain that no one would welcome with : 
т. $m 
leasure than he even guesses at truth, or suggestions 
ссем. cell be turned into а jam-pot? t o 's authority against my | P ; 55е j ggestions 
and'enrich the long, dreary, m" scarcer winter Loos in me ori yer That Mr. Smith stated | from practical men ; n it . Decade I have thought. 
andis William Earley, Valentin. that his discoveries so far led him to believe that after | Mr. Dean's letter likely to c = ia that I have in 
a common ‘thin r bees to | the Peronospora had done its work it returned to the | this case departed from my usual ru dou to reply : 
It may not be 
attack Tees ыт in Herts, but it is » ril thing for | earth until again called for in due season.” Mr. Alex, | to adverse or unkind criticism. D. 7; | 
them to do so here—not t only Apricots, but Peaches, | Dean also declares that he thinks it altogether im- | 
Plums, Figs and Gooseberries ; so ong as there 15 а | probable that the tuber should be the winter home of The Butterfly Beds at the Crystal Palaca | 
ripe fruit on the walls or bushes to be eaten they are the resting-spore. Well, I was not writing of Mr. | I quite agree with your remark on р. 238, that 
there daily, an day long, devouring hundreds of | Dean's belief, which he confesses to be in a rather | manner in which these beds have been planted reflects И 
the finest fruit. E the last А дауѕ ге trees | crude or undefined form, or, in other words, in a state | the greatest credit on Mr. Thomson. The idea o. 
have bein beseiged literally by swarms, Thomas Gell, | of chaos, but of Mr. W. С. Smith's discoveries, which depicting butterflies in flowers suggested itself to me | 
The Nurseries, St. Lawrence, Ventnor » Ге of | Wight. were placed before - hr a lucidity that could hardly | some years back on coming across their appropriate 
San . What is his testimony on the point of | Persian title, ‘‘ winged flowers.” Altering this ] 
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Veitch's Autumn Giant Cauliflower, — Can spores entering the tubers? In the Gardeners | looked upon flowers as fixed butterflies, but saw that 
you or any of your readers suggest the reason of CELA for July P. 69, col. a, third sentence | we then had an insufficient range of compact bedding 
the above Cauliflower buttoning so early this year? to ы! т. mith 8 56 = adk » sting- ipae plants to carry out the idea, and to have 
It is quite two months before its.time in this neigh- | «A fter Т ore abundantly in dif- | straggling things would have been simply to spoil uu 
bourhood, For the last two в A hare mage tw ferent stages “of maturity, especially i ш em eg putrid | designs. s soon, however, as I noticed Mr, Thom. - 
wings, one in the first week, e ;other .in the stems, and in the tubers when in the last stage of | son's patterns at the Crystal Palace, I saw the ti 
decomposition.’ ts col. с, on the. e. page, Mr. | had arrived for a trial, and I accordingly last spring 
from about me middie of September till past aay el Smith states a the bodies found by him are identical | sketched and sent the six you name as having colours 
mas. This yea : додои, the. first.sowing h with the Artotrogus found long ago by ontagne | nearest to our bedding stock, with the result you know, 
in for — к mont ый the gent batch is sharp 4 the intercellular passages of spent Potatos, urn- | The Persians, therefore, supplied the original idea, I | 
e. its А by n ans an isolated ing to p. 76 of the same number of the Gardeners’ | altered it, and attempted to put my alteration into 
. T. лн, "Mildmay Road, ‘Chelmsfor d. Chronicle, I find a note from Dr. Hoge, | gae cing practice, an "n mk has completa bs be 
a right royal as well as wise act on the Had he not been such a master of bedding-out Į | 
Ehe аша pe же СК, Ж. the paonon the R opel Eosticnltural Society—to wi teg should never have thought of sending him the e 4 
n P eet DIES. T rel a then fiom i house | Sentation of the gold Ba RUM medal to Worthington and therefore the principal credit is his, Zhe Legal 
of Жү fend Dr Bennet, and "Marne to be with | С. Smith, Esq., fc r his skill ES. ` iligence in | Designer of the Butterfly Beds, 
; ; Mao : the discove the resting-spore of Peronospora ^ 
enema of Mach ssw, observing the etc, infestans in the tuber of the us. Agai p at The Shows of the Royal Horticultural Society ' 
although : ; has written express 4 Be c n the Gardeners Chronicle for July 31, for 1876. ae іѕ іп no spirit of captiousness, nor witha 
a pudo: ag ay vie ei T dsbelief in Ihe "Smith writes, near the bottom of col с, | wish in any way to hamper the Council, nor, I J 
fungus theory, and his з own conviction t that the fons а I Misc got my most abundant materials from add, with Mr е Бы motives, that 1 ask w hat evil 
et origo mali is due to the croscropie larvee of | the tuber." Higher up the same column we find | genius has p | 
insects." Thes raus he says, as pointed out by | Mr. Smith pm that the е of the | to make them бх such dates as they have done ire 
Mr. Hibberd. not only commit their ravages by | Pythium and the Peronospora are on the same, | out of their four shows for ре year ?—and, e 
gnawing E ee roots, but at the same time **commu- | and stating that he has found the resting-spore ofthe | too late, E me urge upon d m to re-cons Sider | 
nicate a. poison to iis ur ” in fact poison the blood ythium maturing itself and forming its resting-spore determination, 1 pres e that their object is ae 
of the plants. Thus there is mutual s sympathy between ) in the very centre of the tuber of the Potato. Truly, pem the best ES ве ёс the best productions- 
is my views so far—we both believing the 1 Potato | it would seem that Mr. Alex. Dean is almost in as word, н. е most grist to the mill Мо 
g that hazy се in аа M the oh сс аѕ ета doubt, ES ar ey get е T nones it = — to do | 
is crude and undefined abou o disease, I, e smaller exhibitions, which, | 
the fan angus i merely a symptom, note canse, Ta these ever, pref Smith's statements to his ** alto- Кы int elves, are failures as far 
gether improbables; " and assuredly justified cig aed of the general public is concer 
e in the statement that the winter home w let us see what they have d hey have fixed | 
e spora mi upon or ber, and, if their first show for March, but I think the Lo 
so, steeps for the seed might prove curative or deter- | season can hardly be said to ЕЕ commenced t 
rent, or both. Another suggestion of yours and mine and I am sure, from a comparison of the attendar 
that of ы чә ш I Mr. Alex. Dean's at the March an ad = s shows, у o fe: : 
e 
= ned with iout t ng 1, а and durin ng the Чуу see 
respectful deference to | how you “the s broadcast. Singular] 
than March, and aci lice Hyacinths = very г. yan 
Xf being the enemy. With spore with ‘pat 
the justly earned value of Mr. wW G. Smith's laborious | enough, in th he e very article that Mr. Dean was зао) 
ps the ey bear no comparis 
or grower will | 
ientific researches and dedacüous from them, | about I recommended the burning of the haulm by um then ie March, and besides, if they did, they f 
must submit to your consideration, and to | violent decomposition, aided with short grass for | would the great ро shows їп M H 
that of the ph that we must go beyond these | fuel. The sentence in p. 196 should have read | as well ps Crystal Palace in the same | 
vegetable and animal paras sites to find the cause | thus—‘‘ We burned ours—that is, Potato haulm— | so MS mer кы grandes 4 ї 
of the Potato teme It ears to me that | by rapidly fermenting it with short grass, thus add- | shu the 
nothing can be more sivit and simple than | ing to the temperature of our late Melons ort the s: be in van Seine pe Ape, Ma pa vand tt 
the conclusion I have arrived at, юй glanced at in my | Cold weather." Surely Mr. Dean must also be aware | early part of July ; yet during the first two of thes 
former letter, that the disease s from * some ap Potato-tops are not slow to heat of themselves, months the Horticultural Society keeps its ur 
shock to that t department of the ital energy of the that there would be but little trouble or risk in shat, leaving the Botanic and the Crystal er 
plant prog e Vie its powers of absorption, exhala- burning them up by decomposition. Again, itis easy | reap the harvest. IS m what becomes s of th 
&с.” от enlarge on жу subject if | to ridicule the idea of cross-cropping starving or and Azaleas which make such a feature in the 
desired, ame as Hr views, and shall | Poisoning the resting-spores out of the ground. It | sho frequenters of the Royal Horticultu 
onl: c er in them by t wh ld, however, be a m igher service to point SEE will not be e them there, for, 
have телу" UA themselves to their doxies, out a more likely mode of mastering or stamping out | the same reason that A, dra will not premati 
they may not be disposed to listen to my disquisi- the disease. And as to early harvesting it is a e their R r y 
tions on the somewhat parallel and inscrutable mys- ore, and necessitates' one or more and pickin ngs. | their Azaleas until TP 
tery attached to the rise and progress of cholera in the | Leave the ce to their fate, and then sn remains, | ofthe Rose sh 
animal world, and 13 the striking difference between E if лам еер sound until eaten. Asto seed, | our shows? 
Е | zymotic diseases, variola 
E Nothing bu but Med influen X 
could have so rn affected the Potato cr of = 
world as was the case in 1845. 
thing, “ће P disease " o her, 
this universality and suddenness sho overn all 
theories as to of disease, and militates 
all the theories I have ever heard of, and 
extinguis| as well е r Sar. 
„Жат, The Ferns, Weybridge, т. ath 
Sept. 
^ are of those wher ‘hold t that the Pan fungus has b 
act roved to be in most cases the actual ARR et 
rid feed at the same time we think it probable el 
cases the fungus may come after some т. Alexander Dean, standing, e 
—] debilitating cause. EDs.] as he confes sses, on the threshold of the Potato | exhibit at any of these 
disease, and fearing, like all of us, to master isi 
The Potato Side of the Potato Disease, — The | it, is evidently carried prises as he sees loom- 
Potato field is - enough, and the scourge of the а ing in the distance a Government commission, | [Т 
ease severe enough to find work in excessive abundan and a munificent sum for its went. and the т ош 
for all. I was, therefore, sorry to find Mr. aed raising of the Peronospora to е level of the 
Dean running foul of my arguments, or rather con- | North Pole, where most of us hav e long heartily | p/ébiscite. Eps “fe 
ting one of his own, and ree! bracketing it as | wished the pest, for we are satiated with th 
nd dexterity pete i subject, and believe that there is little more A 
of f be known about it, ing 
MU UNE. | Nu ры cl эл ps p gra wis 
ved to be the ho ant path of snar y the werscropped u 
so should the fungus be atta сту of Pis research and plodding ed Es week, Ph P 
My statement, p. 196, was to | ment in view of all the facta that have Ur had not then re size 
resting-spores | been laid before us with so much clearness and force | colouring usually seen later in the, year. The 4 
earth in winter.” | by Mr. W. G. Smith. Though I have not the andra Palace authorities had ey o bs 
this authoritative | honour of that gentleman’s personal acquaintance, I | for foreign exhibitors, and it was naturally i£ 
