208 THE 
GARDENERS “CHRONICLE. 
[AvGusT 15, 1874. 
San Donato, near Florence. It formed one of the 
most pa objects at the recent F lorence by pres or 
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The wee leaves in these plants are reduced to mere 
scales, the b es or cladodes assuming the form 
and the duties of leaves. 
THE POTATO CROP. 
ENGLAND. 
Brps.—The Potato crops in this neighbourhood 
look very porke and there is scarcely any > of 
mall, and 
ing e in some situations, Alex. 
tubers are growi 
Mear. Woburn Abbe 
——Our Potato crops show no symptoms of ee 
present. The tubers a = numerous and g 
quality, but very small, owing to the oe pa er 
had in this part edd, Luton Hoo Park. 
Berks.—The Potato crop is te but I am glad 
, Newbury. 
Early sorts on gee ground yield a ity clean 
crop. tage varieties have, in many instances, begun 
w out, so that their yield will be uncertain. 
Alesender Galt, Aldermaston eat Reading. 
very aien owing t rain. Philip 
Our crops of ate Potatos are ey fine a 
in in gut and 4 the present time n 
= has appeared: "This remark applies to the 
— i The late ones also 
tod very. E The crops which are situate on 
higher grounds may be consi avi 
I in pla no disease. Late varieties 
are also looking well, and no symptoms of disease are 
visible. angle o ground is on the om above the 
tum being chalk ; we obtain from 
them Potito. ofthe finest quality, iip not very large 
n S choice kidne thrive satis 
R aid aiie kinds. Geo. Thos, Miles, 
Wreombe ab 
CHESH E.—Early otatos were much injured by 
frosts at the end of rg oh and beyond the ee 
of May. n Mayı I6 t 
and on ne, 13, 1 
he thermometer show 
of frost. From this 
— Early so good 
a few show paberis ile oF» ek Late varieties look 
well, ve ise of a i 
3 eg inna vy crop, Y. Malcolm, 
—— Early Sah to have ee rather small, but good. 
Late sorts look well, and in all K Sina ability will 
and gee aire crop, No e been 
four = Alfred F. Grant, Withington * Hall, 
Sre, homed po Berieme 
, In quality, ha 
es and being of of irregular shape% Tyas 
e ioi n by frost t ianiai de 
Soe pro 
the effects of our enemy Mion be but en if at all 
felt. A. Ayson, Oxton Hou wage 
—— The earlier sorts a chiefly ripened off a 
t totake up. The late ie "Rese ts and Lawes, 
are growing out rapidly, and the disease has spread 
very fast in the Lapstones during the last week. I 
ave taken up all ew of this sort, and am lifting 
the Regen 
latter are quite free from 
epinis the best kidney pa York Regent the best 
late round Potato. The of the latter must be 
changed o occasionally, but the Tekst one I have grown 
and always got very y oN crops. Yor 
wn by the side of e sees oe 
produced by rlar the heaviest crop la I think 
pai generally + are of good ey this season. rE 
, Kille 
Dorst —The early varieties were very small, but 
the A ‘en early and later sorts on remarkably 
Those in m elas vate are abundant and good, alt though 
the n has in a few places made its appearance. 
is Munro, Clevelands, Lyme, Reg 
fall. The crop is abundant, but, , owing to the drought, 
many are small, 
aS Ee 
as they show symptoms 
„is still Sa green, but 
n adhe sorat to the 
Aw agast 7, which is 
us commencing. There is not a trace 
of disease sakes in the haulm or tubers F 
Aa c, ELEA 
M.—Potatos look = but the early varieties 
Pikin ain a little dise 
below 
ten years ago 
d this first symptom. R. Diii: Seaham Hall 
pei Sunderland. 
The 
P crop is excellen t, both in quantity 
and quality, but rather small Boat the dr 
ha of 
‘ought. 
Within the last few days I have heard of t diese 
-a its a e in several places, but I have 
seen one, and only one, plot infected. I shall all 
speed in getting them out of the ground, as I believe, 
ith n the soil, that on the first change to 
iseas e e will spread wholesale. Richard 
é 
ve given up gr oving late kataton 
and now confine myself to such kinds as will c off 
ly, and enable me to cbse a jiii een 5 fom 
d. ly Rose, Dalmahoy, and 
m, keep well till spring. Thos. Biin 
e Potato at is ronnieb promising u 
to “the saat time. Wiliam Earley, Valentines, 
Tiford. 
GLOUCESTER, —Early Potatos on good garden soil 
re a very fair — On light soils the case is dif- 
ferent, owing to inti i ns tage ert of dry 
= r, and, I am sorry t he prospects are 
very Lae ar eS William Forks Kingscote, near 
Wate. under- Ed, 
— Earl 
y Potatos are a heavy crop and morens 
in quality, butin cases wher have oe 
ri am sorry pa n g 
i instances. that they have to make 
d growth, which the crop. No 
x Pac sease has as yet made its appearance, nor is it tikel 
o o SO, 
on Cram}, Tor 
set in, to the 
hfield, 
is certain 
injury of the crop. W. Wildsmith, Hec 
are ana 
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HERTS.—Potatos yield well, and the crop is per. 
aere Ña sound, ‘enlace Bennett Hatfield 
The her 
s good as poss ibly can 
clean ead ké puka priedi Anthony Parsons, fka 
bur 
Ashleafs, have been excellent e are now usi 
very excellent samples of Lapstone, Prince of Wales, 
and a = King. e have another Giant 
King, but i month or six weeks later than 
Carter’s, but i Gopan a very fine Potato ter 
sorts look v healthy, and we have n found 
one disea ber. oàn Cox, Redleaf, Penshurst. 
m informed that the disease has made its 
appearance on the moorlands in this neighbourhood, 
and the tubers are very “sae a but generally 
the ev aa is ker a mall p me n the 
dise its appearance ye ti 
diately t hat be ais which I consid a pe 
pra DP). Coe, a al Place 
—— rop is only a poor ` one, owing t 
, but up to the time I write (july a 
there is very oie disease, but fears are entertained 
that heav will bring it. This is not exactlya 
Potato district, not nos s being grown. okn Robson, 
Linton Park, Maid 
arly nara ace re very small, but good. These 
suffered very much by frost in May a and June. The 
well at pee William 
mS, seine ough. 
pots “Hs © ood but ee oe) x theng 
weather, 
weeks, 
am, 
nly one 
` William “Folwell, isining oi Wing- 
—— Potatos are as yet free eae sai but the 
crop is light and the tubers small, ing t 
excessively a weather. Thos. Woodford, Eastwell 
cate 
a 
Park, oe 
RE. -0n very light mossy land the crop - 
will be ee ‘inte wn twice 
and will, we hope, turn 
>p this ar if A apes or the diseas 
New sorts, or at least such ao as are new to the 
district, pedo to “de best here. of the 
Par such as Da tee mitts Oxtord, Fluke, M 
e, &c., curl-in t ne, and grow but ite 
afterward fg ba sat = 
otato seal is good, ii disease T 
till tl iké 27 bos a hong month ; heavy ains hav et 
in, which, I fe ere cause i = spread sanity O. 
soil is stiff, ip a l subsoil o lay, upon the ait 
asures : elevation 404 a above sea-level, tt 
Ladij, Hamihoie Park Gar 
=-— ti a ato ea$ ai o be a goo 
Ther mptoms of be dis isease at p 
aie pened The Cirdan, Haigh Hi A / 
—— Early sorts were cut down by the lat 
b rops are , and late varid look 
y "There are no complaints about the 
murrain at present. Ldward Green, Bank Park, 
Warrington 
LEICESTER, —The prospects of a Potato crop are — 
by no means encouraging. The drought and heat 
t 
tared for quality, and probably disease will occur, 
Hitherto no signs of it hav Ea appr W. 
os “vases Castle Ga rden. 
early crops ooo light and smaller than 
usual, b very good in quality. There have been 
very few tasting of Seca, and ong a few tubers. 
am sorry to say, however, that the late crops ae 
supertuberating. Montgomery Henderson, Cole Orlon 
Hall, e dat ouch. 
he early and second early kinds we 
eariy x 
had bet better, so far as quality goes, goman a little 
p to the present no 
= fits x esize. U 
4 “crops of all all early sort sige TE isease has been observed. The 
: Sac growin + | are s Hammersmith ne 
Sas: free Abb gen E outs G. Fones, Mottisfont te ny Ser sp megs unk ee aor 
Es TEREFORDSHIRE,— tat n rolific, od ; Mona’s Pride, 
without any sign of disease; later sorts akko in be but they are oy Tae oy adle | o y and ery good. Late Potatos we do 
well, Sohn Taylor, {sel Grange, Cockermouth, in — va Coleman, Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, gros Mi ke aa par p e it on 
DEVONSHIRE.—The Potato crops are - | and quit te mgs ee crop, nearly ripe, | which io Go t will some exten! 
markably well, as yet are perfectly free fom | © quite free from Late varieties look very | their quality. Y. 2 Gopsall Hall, A 
isease. We have already Myatt’s Improved - y, and give promise of a good crop. A. Bye, ee y. F. Brown, Gops , 
Kidney, a splendid crop, of enormous size, — Hampton Court Gardens, Pe not be LN.—The crops in this n 
very fine, Most of the early sorts are quite ad at eT ee are very good, fair in size, 5 ae to = usual mark, on vr 
and — ripened, Late vari are a good crop, 
pe and ready for storing, so that I trust this Son Sem 25 Fones, Perrystone, Ross, a — quality, and free 0 disease. Late varieties 
planty early are very promising, 
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