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THE * GARDENERS "-CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 4, 1875, 
Plants protect and defend themselves by flight to 
higher regions, as in the cases of the Holly and Ivy I 
have named, and no 9 one wonders at the deed, because 
it is common, an t 
kingdom, develope es its reopen n d whilst the 
Fly-trap (Dionza) closes it ue 
E 
posed of, any by peer frees such as 
hanging in the larder for a few da ays, would think 
well of it if it is to be fitted for digest 
ine Ap “after sipping 
all the 
more or less 
The knots and 
amples of sap-producing 
The bunches ^W "A twigs on the Birch, all 
stunted, have no appar 
any service to the Daher: tréé ; y 
there must be a gushing supply of sap to support some 
fifty or a hundred t th; the 
bark, however, о а- 
tion, not to mention that the specimen is pla i 
on the tree, whereas the whole structure of the 
Drovers is almost ыле үш, and more like a thing 
That certain chemicals 
© 
m 
y frie 
watched rill. ani taret > see n flies dished 
up, but all in 
** And still we T and still our wonder grew," 
How plants digest who have no cud to chew 
Alex, Poreyth, 
ot edi ble fa ; it was 
Covent C лере Market, md is even 
| Moore brought 
ome pouen to s meeting at ithe gore. Нора» 
М. 
A E ipl 
andbook published 
The Lodge, 
ES 
eeper 
ooked it for the table, 
omach, From 
at and s ould be ten with caution, 
aricus personatus could i be spared from o 
able lista or roin rank and d ые : an 
seems sometimes really ‹ „mh |. 
ears ago I suc- 
Masi of St. 
line 
h 
| Gas and Trees.—About two y 
resolution in tke 
em is correct it would 
dies а your io qe upon He 
tin the үә 
as to 
he fungus is really at times 
cannot say, but as » ee; метрт тә ук 4 upon the 
justified in directing 
us their own words (capitals 
ed) :— ** Wishin have the above New 
Varieties of — iiy tested ‘in "кабрь Ноорег 
& Co. offer Spec remiums amounting to Fifty 
Guineas ro Bri ish. Cultivat tors, M will be Jost 
to Growers of the Zargest quantity from One Pound of 
Snowflake “end Eureka ; Turing: five Guiness % еасһ 
riety, ‘to be awarded as fo coh — or 
pe «d am pd Potato 
seed, 10 
and s 
t 
bia be seen that the red for quantity 
only, and those who # эмт de id dmn the speci- 
fied quanti: of seed are entitled tothe prizes, Nothing 
can be mo lain, for „+ is twice stated that the 
growers i е 
ауе best perfectly justified in 
claiming к bee е had le exceeded 
the weight n by the 
recommending any pa 
but _ реси had the right, ieri 
for a vt Ae see ied ы oben was ae 
in view * wards pts ade. No 
s think can ce ган І have ка: cause of Бой, 
rthat I am writing unnecessarily when I state the 
fact that the weight of Potatos grown here exceeds b 
upwards of 600 Ib, (taking the two varieties together) 
the quantity grown b r. Pirk, the gentleman t 
om the Ist prizes were awarded. ni 
the early part November what I know, I 
ould have sent diseased Potatos to Kei n- 
у, 
sington, and left the  Tesponsibility of the act with 
Messrs, de c Fred. ord, Capesthorne, Chel- 
Jord, Суг: Ин, excellent way ‘of propagating the 
Potato discus! ! Eps. ] 
Potatos from 11Ь, of Seed. —Although not openly 
expressed, there evidently existed in the minds of the 
writers of the paragraph at p. 622, and of the reporter at 
р. 627, doubts respecting the truth of the statement, а 
wards of 1000 lb. of Potatos had been grown 
it was a startling announce. 
ment to make but it is none the less true; 
l it он t ose who have had ad lie | o 
who | ied ed that i had been grown it in the ordi- 
of; In m was 
T as an аас that І ы: te pian by 
= ш 
$c 
which Pia w the quantity nee appears to many so 
extraordinary, eing mpetitor for e essrs. 
Hooper's prizes, the оцай an agent to ѕирег- 
ag 
intend the weighing and Жыл of » € and the 
M. я the crop. ibi A : 
done openly; no secr was either 
attemp ted or ie dot The Potat bee for ты. were 
em 
following day in the presence of Messrs ooper's 
nt , and a laugh was had at m 
expense w t carefully I planted 
as 
h adn "чака Potatos, desired. 4 on 
some of thém expre ed, I 
m to come on the day I intended to raise 
Eurekas 
sence of between aed and thi 
weighed at the e, the 
Мыз was fairly aii sit па 
, noto more than I anted, and I 
convinced that I can exceed even great weight 
another year. In fact, I a undertake to 
‘ow a ton of Potatos (2240 1b.) from 2 lb. of E а 
НУ to esed om no cu 
un 
Бе ttings o 
ual way asing the plants brun ted, 
pui Ford, aes Chel, ord, Cr R 
s from Arundel.—I notice in your columns 
last indi a short paragra ph to the effect that the 
of Norfo ld k On 
— 
— a A онум А ы does we be 
his ost aero 
S 
не fies of all e iiie 
del Castle 
but I sh 
clim ich a 00 n 
аран E ali deri within: my knowledge: Pi 
Alla um ac ou dreti rapid. von; ча Бр 
most profuse and not ill t 
year, when good flowers are bo ce. F. Oller 
head, the Catto Wimbledon Hous 
Pinus aristata.—Mr. Meehan wonders that 1 
med for Pinus ae what he 
undoubted right, and he says, 
American еар would —— iod et. prioi 
Pin He m 
may 
141 last man knowingly 
a leaf to fall from the cha 
trees do not seem . Probably 
a 
came о this country the | 
Mara, M i Say foliage бс. me, and 
them with the figure of 
to the 
I com 
I cam 
re 
then anid 
0 
satisfy any doubts Tod or Mr. Meehan may entertait 
on the idis Andrew Murray. 
Min: тет х, : 
wish to say words, but not in the same D 
y Mr. Dean should get so angry, an si 
m 
a 
having any stock of the 
of, he should have 1 = — ^o complain who 
think they had r o do so. I did not need à 
d my position, ng 
full knowledge Mist m my 2 was € + 
sold ten times the ving that 
and it'was nottojbenefit тузе, = jeté any one, be 
I advertised as I did. t he sab 
h afraid that rem re shadow or the 
parties, h owever, off 
not to be Porter’s Excelsior (but dicic 
and hitherto not called so, 
suffer plet of my old | 57 
friend, d sae Balfour, but the fact is HE m^ а. 
ZSESHNLFTEZZE-L.HMUREBGR HU MEGA рр а реа раа кол и. 
Y. 
"P M ET Tram РҮ —" 
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