SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 339 
in the catalogue, be safe in making his selection at | expected to prevent the pss of the fungus. Fro beggarly packets of seed of this is variety, a very small 
te shows. | _ The seedlin ng Roses sent out by my firm this it would seem that it would be impossible for proportion of which grows. No pains should be spared 
t otatos to become diseased E — up only a few | to secure success with this sweet flower, no song of 
_-witness Lord Gide; Princess Mary of Cambri ridge, | weeks before the disease appeared ge yraa saat praise is needed from me with which to sing of its 
Duke of Edinburgh, and now soya Hybrid. — the advice to plant early sorts. B. Clarke, F.L.S., | beauties: that has been done in your columns by abler 
Your readers may rest ssured that this Rose is a » Mount Vernon, Hampstead, Sept. 4. pens than mine ; but its early and unobtrusive beauty 
ing Tea, is oe freely at this moment in is simply irresistible, and holds spe 
these nurseries, and is fully bearing out the awards etable reges —The steed yer a beholders, as Mr, Fish wrote, ‘‘ captives to its own 
made to it. George Paul, (Ge 7 7 tied “a classic. ground, sweet will.” It is at once the earliest and a 
myth, either of eda or modern ‘dates The em of our spring garden, and its recuperative powe: 
Giant Bunches of Grapes.—I was told the other | classic ground referred tò belongs to the English | are something astonishing. On the roth of last March 
day by a first-class gardener, that these huge and | classics, and is n S far from Datchet Common, near | our plants were in their almost full beauty, and a very 
ungainly monstrosities could be produced by the graft- Windsor. Now very reader of Shakspeare on see- | severe frostoccurred, which seemed to casual beholders, 
ing of bunches on to the stem or shoulders of the one ing the word *‘ Datche t” in print will immediately | who did not know its reviving powers, to have put an 
to be the future giant. Is this so ?—and, if so, will it | remember the inimitable comedy of the Merry | end to its — for that season at least, but in a few 
not account for the appearance of these remarkable | Wives of giera r, and. os weg E carried down | days it be egan to hold up its head again, and gradually 
but r useful productions? Pomona. [We have | « Datchet e” (ac MEA the basket of unfolded its unsurpassed flowers of lovely ass and 
recently heard the same thing, and intend to have the ay oer son (akit headlong into th neighbouring | shortly was as charming again as though Jack Frost 
experiment tried another year. Eps. ] Thames. Falstaff saw many am azing sights (appa- | had never laid his cruel hands upon its unassuming 
Angis belonging to another world) in the neigh- san The fatal disease will, I fear, always show 
_ The Potato Disease : oe, es chor bouring fairy-pits of Windsor Forest, when he was | to a certain extent, but A is so indispensable in every 
in Paste.—When the Potato there disguised with a buck’s head on, but we doubt collection of spring flowers that no efforts should be 
lent it sometimes happens that, althouge Potatos whether he ever saw anything more amazing than the | spared to enable it = hold its own, and being sucha 
are taken up periectly sound, they show the original of our atut cut, which i s natural, and still | favourite of mine I have been at great pains to secure 
disease within a week or fortnight, and es nearly | live es, and belongs to this world ad not the nra a healthy vigorous i and seedlings have always 
all are rapidly destroyed; and this accident may | To descend from the realms of ro been attended with the greatest measure of ess, 
happen at a later period, as it not unfrequently | tion of a sober fact, we may say that the extraordinary William Tantum, Fenagh House, August 5. 
happens that the Potatos purchased by retailers are | and pene ons of a horse, show in our engrav ing, is 
quite good when purchased, but within two or three | caused by the singular and entirely natural growth of Potato, Veitch’s sre E Kidney.—I have 
weeks afterwards numbers of them are found diseased, | the crowns af four lopped Elms. The sketch istaken | great pleasure i in supporting “H. J. C.’s” character 
and perhaps all would go if not sold off quickly. This of this truly excellent Potato. I think T have grown 
suggests that the spores at the time the Potatos are ` | here all the varieties of kidney Potato, but this to my 
taken up may to germinate, even i . mind is much th : roduce this year is truly 
they otatos. In one instance I gran d the quality exce T ater- 
ol o of the average size of the others son’s Victoria, are the only sorts I shall grow in the 
which had ails escaped the disease, a or arde h erican Rose I have sent to the farm, 
posel ft it in contact with th diseased for a long e s excellent crops, 
time, to see if it could be communicated, but found it table after Christmas, I bo and distributed this 
could no is freed from disease I suppose to variety amongst the cottagers on the estate, and it 
_. be owing to the Potato ha grown near the sur- = reat favourite tton’s Hundredfold Fluke I 
face, or subsequent exposure to the air, by which the nk is an excellent kind, but I shall tell you more 
in ha me harder than ee of the others. pon it by-and-by. ¥. Rust, Eridge Castle. 
the skin is not supposed to co my t r 
breathing pores like the leaves, a vaya ening The Potato „erop of 1874.—No doubt, as your 
correspondent, Mr. Lumsden, says, it would be well 
for others to give their experience of the most suitable 
the entrance of the fibres of the fungus may perhaps d 
nsuitable kinds for their locality. 
: rive some support from the fact th here the piety 
y Potatos here, and, from experience, find it 
Potato crop poe yid goo destroyed, it has anything but a Sas practice to grow too m ry sorts, 
8 only A nia smaller il al 2 it the fol se ey able here get 
from renew an early crop the o: well ; 
not having been put on the pa xi a a Veitch’s Improved is - due 
Kingdom, p. 115, ‘‘that the ye g Taai i: good tato both in 
nearer in quality to nly met with on uality a rod wers ; N Sa Ultra, 
the finest plants of Rye in shady poor pe towards Sather later, is >à excellent variety ; ag arly Rose 
e a goo cropper and boils wel at of pad favour; 
: 2 aterson’s Victoria is a goo cro per, u; 
poring ebam y mak ‘the perhaps als the other cir- in, boils mealy, and of good flavour; York 
with this question it may deserve notice that paste De Bee: Rege oaa kopa ost 2 y ees Ar Pasi ell: aaa 
made with water quite saturated with salt does not Sout ret 8279 CH le this y $ P tato, but 
mould ;+ perhaps, eget 2 might be worth while 
for the growers to ma experiment of placing a 
or two of otal ag perfectly saturated brine SS 
for a a og and then lay pee out to dry, fully Hy pat Å Vs fic 
three ys, O 
is a 
grows out badly in seasons ike the present, particu- 
loriy, on. very light bend ; land ; the Red Fluke is good on 
strong land, but ows badly on light soils, it is a 
good cropper and well ; the ae Sees 
si) NES 
aN Vg 
wh W 
se the light and air, for t a good Potato, but grew out very early this 
any time elad of their seca d pote’ to see if they Fic. 73- a vat wnt aos NATURAL chowrit OF FOUR 8 pa , 
would keep better than the others. The salt as well OPPED ELMS (SKETCHED AT SUNSET). worth growing eeg baa aA RT heen here not 
as the li ht and air might indurate the skin, besides opper but pasty I found our Potatos in 
preventing, it may be hoped, the germination of ‘the from the footpath go a Tsim field), which runs from the i lds making a second BF owth, so we have li 
spores of the fungus d ar to injure Dat chet Common raysbury, a few = ards before | the whole of them, Moet lamped them the same as 
hoe a I passed ence tw perfectly saturated Turnips gh a ime, to set “thelr skin. We — d no 
othe 
about two or three days, and they atema 
green on ŠA pre to ligit: showing their i 
been injured, and reais qui 
the second and dict te immersion leaves | S007 0S5 aS can-only be- 17 soon it toe pomit aty weighin ac 5 
Tf ; the Elms themselves stretch over a space the ae ae fiom A gaei 
= covered with a whitish crust $ TË ecm srateiat lin ) of about 150 feet, and the tallest of bap ce 
It thus employed would eae en Bet | the four trees is about 60 feet high. As shown, they | winter, 7: Cafers, Woodcote Park, Warwick. 
LAS S raat planting early have been lopped a considerable distance from the 
texts, rts ek eating them with it o de aero them arr ground, but above this they have never been touched Looted og tig Woe Potatos.—I am or 
Wat fo i ssi PT R okii of hiipii ae Pta by mortal indeed the trees; when viewed from | last person wh would re mmend such Potatos t 
il 
nt, only 1 like yen! scr: erractic- | the public, if I kaw it, ant I certainly felt my rari 
ter became mouldy very soon, and was y looking [ppd las, z > omg Chennell, placency f rather shocked when I read this character 
yae ed over with the usual moulds. year | one of the Queen pil eb kindly siesta given to my seedling, the Rector of W ock, by 
attempted to communicate the disease to a lot Ol | ustathe he spot, informs us that the horse's eye has mov Mr. Lumsden, at p. 808. ell, one comfort must 
very small kidney Potatos which been taken | ` little jaw. | sustain me. I was induced to ‘‘let it out” from the 
it about two months, but the une 4 entirely failed; | we only say, in conclusion, that our illustration | circumstance of the Potato hai gained a First-class 
ee ee n 6 on a siriat ra not er in the slightest degree, in fact it | Certificate after it had run the gauntlet by being par- 
eters po ome quite dry, nor yet on 4 cut surfa has been purposely ke a ile less like a —— taken of in a cooked state by a full committee meeting 
oe” ' sg sod wine figure of an ol image the tree tops | of the Royal Horticultural Society. It having hitherto 
texture of the skin, proof against the fungus | zg tually present, W. “GC. Sm: gained the appreciation of my friends, 
aie while in the ground, mere dryness of the skin introduce epee now for your e 
"with ihe oes = Mra may perhaps be accompanied Myosotis dissitiflora—Let Mr. et try rais- eg a Lumsden’s opinion about ** 
ight degree of increased hardness, might be ing his annual stock of Myosotis dissitiflora from seed u have “a a chiel "at your ‘who sa 
* It would appear thàt over-growth has its disadvantag instead of from cuttings, and his chances of success at this garden 
the largest Beet-roots co ntain hapa sugar hes th aT pea E yearly plant. out several | 21 
and on that account Da former are not selected for making thousands of this i er, and 
t This paite appears to well-a¢. contin the C 
occasion adhesion 
paste, bat aker some time Sal cr crystals of os Si Simin a? 
could this be prevented by the addition of a small quantity more than two or 
PETRS minte quanty of at o ich eaters i Potato, if either 
veteived at all, would improve Me Ga ad © 
