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THE “GARDENERS: CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST ts, 1874, 
or by cutting small Potatos, o when 
DERRY. —There has not been better npg of a 
Potato crop for ing, 
Flen 
kerepe en the Victorias mange ig p more than ait 8 aa Der last oem years. W, 
S sorry to sa the 
smeany 4 piee i rk of destruction in our DONEGAL. — iio crop in this district 
i thood. It has confined itself for a fortnight AEEA to be very good, SF rmstrong Hanlon, Drum- 
toa of round white Ashleaf and American Ros e Castle. : 
Potatos in a ers en, high up on an expose gdh Potatos arge in size, an 
a ide, to the north-east © We ey a excellent in quality. D. Pre. hey, Knockmaroon Lodge. 
to escape scot-free this season, the grou y.—Potatos are better than they have been 
so warm and dry—the best A adjanak of for many years in this part of Ireland. ‘The disease 
bee disease ‘that we poy selection hl is oniy Boy making i p appes earance. F. Bedford, Kil- 
=- Potatos are grown in : 3 gar t Killa 
pet i the | h mbsa ainal Te Whe Potat tato crop is looking remarkably 
: fire Chien mrm on ey mgt Gorge = well, ar early varieties are turning out very prolific 
Keith . T m rain y wm | and ‘dry, and came into use very early ; we pH them 
: poets ht The P o crop in many districts fine condition in the open borders the third week a 
badly cut _ with the “igri of Tene fii but on ‘the ane iru Dy Se ese vot keine ane gan 
—— E Agist ee S e heavy, We find Scotch Downs and Paterson’s White 
: for market pur “bees nik Oe anal on A of early ones | Seedling Rock the best for field culture. Robert 
along The yield this sas is s generally not 
very hea Sbit the quality i Š good. Our gar p 
is extra sd and n this point I may y have 
something to write, shou id you a Kidneys m oe 
ap v slightly on ona ‘few Myatt’s Kidn n July 3 
hes ing. ohn Gray, Eslinton Castle 
“Dax ERWICK. —Potatos in gardens and fields are look- 
ing well, and as yet there is no appearance of disease 
Peter Loney, Mare ont House, Dunse. 
CAITHNESS,—Potatos are looking fine and fresh. 
. Some patches are affected with a little blight, but 
nothin, to soso of. If it does not exte 
we 
nd further. 
ave an excellent crop, Fokn Sutherland, 
ee 
DUMFRIES — The Potato crop has not looked ~ 
Bees sy om D. Thomson, Dranianris. 
IAN.—Potatos are looking well, though 
on June 12 we hed 2° of frost, which killed them to the 
where the sun ca Pine aye oe a 
ac! , recovered, and the effects of the 
not observable. Ades — only had a ra 
: - 
ve had accoun 
lex. Shearer, Yes 
ve not 
heard of se discovered i in this locality. 
R, Adamson, Baltars "Colins urgh. 
Forrar.—The Potato me 4 never looked m 
pro rm and there are nos pos in this 
quarter 
rate, a “ie and healthy, wit 
disease. The rts are a fine catia dia 
promise to be 
rs on a Se Smith’s or diába; 
apy a 
vie rae paas of 
excel- 
n general is looking 
„they are covering 
will suffice for 
ere is a good prospect of our harv 
pe F Briakind, Dupplin Castle 
oe eae quality, 
t good crop, and no disease has od f ats appeared 
among the tubers, nor rr sp ri nire ts appearance 
e haulm ; un- 
rit of 
Dunrobin i 
WIGTON. To-day (A 
quite apparen 
Su ae 
the tu 
as es ; 
e, ated like cs cyed sands as tl 
of “neon appearin; 
Gardens, 
ava The 
CAVAN. © crop is more promising than 
been a number of years back. 
Be peek Somerville, 
— e a very promising crop, 
looking healthy and are vith a very slight appear- 
ance of blight. G. Fairbairn, Curraghmore. 
aylor, oes a i 
RMAGH, — otato cro ote tlle eiiie ay 
could not be better, pi , Brownlow es ye 
_ 
has case There 
is Bag little sign of blight, especially upon the late 
ey —A better ve dhe Tg for the last twenty 
Lome T — Besbor 
WALES. 
ANGLESEA.—Kidney Potatos are rather a light 
crop, but Sorry : nTa and quite free from 
disease. Fiel s look w 
ell at present date. 
Bridge. 
Robert W ‘ebster, Ghyugarth, ‘Menai 
RDIG 
also Fortyfold ; Race- 
kshire Kidney, pag prolific, are 
ot quite 
ing fast Aan ser no signs of disease, and in 
night hen 
ght rvest all our sorts 
apply our is until the middle of October, when 
the f ictorias, Regents, and Flourballs 
ict tak 
eg ms for the winter consumption, P. Middleton, 
Wynnstay, Ruabon. 
MERIONETH, —The Potato crop in this neighbour- 
hood is very good this season, Early — ms 
in garden and field are a hate crop, and n 
ance of disease at present. All vegetables hae sons 
well here this season, Hames Bennett, Rhug Gardens, 
Corwen. 
set Oe ae early Potato al mek 
us are v no symptom s of di t the 
present ‘tia me ; | ate "kinds in the fields are pe ira 
healthy, and promise good cro ion é. 
CHANNEL ISLANDS, 
_ GUER -—The Potato is this 
Poca “ing crop is very wy ; 
s. Thomas C. Bréhaut, bond. House, 
Guernsey. i 
JERSEY. eri —— i are inaa and 
crop a e small s, have 
so quickly as in previous years. Wm, Melville 
The Royal Vineyard, St. Lawrence, 5 
= 
open is ~~ to ef by careful examina. 
us predominating chara racteristics, and 
fin sails glace it con thes pats s to which it bears the 
closest affini a8 in all its details.” So wrote Audubon 
paar Bac what is 
whole, 
sities vege eta he {i fe are so ely in , and 
graduate into each other so inset: re in fo 
ing divisions on too trivial ioe ee we subvert the 
cation. Thus of founding a 
pe seems a tendenc 
is both more consonant with previous custom, and 
sites sensible in every way, to retain it among the 
Seca idi we 
val, — ei ent — which the insect 
ast inter 
a 
ay 
Q 
ç 
resence produc 
iisk ‘swelling of the under-side of 
1 
os often 
of an cedinary P ea), a e normal green is 
blushed with rose where « seen to the Be of the 
On e shall find 
as Reeri to 
oO 
` 
ps o 
i=) 
e sh 
rnished with rows ol 
inw diye gt) which will be more particularly referred 
appendix, The eggs 
orn 
tially from the Foire end, 
whose pale 
with the strongest microscope—is sha 
run under the parenchyma he leaf. 
causes a curious change in i 
growth being so stimulated that 
and thickens, th 
imnbenses ina ‘circle around the louse, and fi 
raa covers it recede: and 
eepening cavi e lice a 
that two py the same gall If, from the premature 
death of the louse, or cause, 
abortive before being completed, then the circle 
thickened down or fuzz enlarges with the 
of the | ot and remains to tell the tale of the 
. Ot ys tl 
. s pe an ng | ¢ggs, as her im: = gams parent 
atter family ; but in the pireler tarsus of the another in quick pte 
is erentalyapidian” "Dn every seperate | phgyuaher de and hr 
} a an. every department of issue and found new galls, 
ural history a species is lly found which | tinues the summer ‘at tha fifth or 
forms the ean oe | link ee the two genera, | generation. Every egg ' 
rendering it doubtful under which genus in should | which soon wonderlally polite, T 
| properly be arranged. "Onder such circumstances the | of eggs found in a Gagie gall averages a 
atching, pe eeg "o longitudi- i 
ung 
tn A >. 
y this mate is simpy a i 
the 
