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autumn the readers of local papers are informed that 
“ Mr. Thomas Smith has just exhi ae = = office | all the fibre then pon in turfy 
some remarkable specimens n Rose aks and lez mould arted into new Seek 
Potato that weigh on the average Zs ae hy” orthat | They are then set out-of- Aes for a time, when they 
rs ohn Brown, of the ‘ Windsor Castle Inn,’ has roduce a few ms ; afterwards they are put eid 
just lifted one of the most remarkable crops of Vic- | gentle heat, when tett make rapid growth and bloom 
torias we have ever seen;” or that ‘‘ Farmer Bull, rofusely. Mr. > e own To flowered 
whose general crop has proved to be a lamentable them i in this way re the ie teen years at Crake- 
dward Gilman, " Poa Hall Gardens, 
failure, will have his rent entirely paid by the enor- 
mous crop =" has r at E own Potato, 
the Prince of Wales, And thus, all directions, 
paragra an mat are doubles 
fitted | to Pe the diet of cattle than of men, Dut Naa 
j wong 
pure 
nie kee reepoile ies we scarcely ever 
see in this country, but which, nevertheless, is amply 
deserving SEN is the Finocchio of t the Italians, the 
” things they will have no lack 
of eigen st that Geata I may commend to | of botanists. The base of the stem, together with the 
\ erican variety, sheathing Sais of the leaves, become in = Tee 
that Sail ha ce immense tubers, quite putting the | dilated and succulent, and when boiled o wed 
ly in the shade, and the new Snowflake, if | have an a flavour deficie = in the sesjority o of 
single eyes be planted, will also produce e | our eitie sabhi In Italy, i = the age it = 
tubers. In the matter of ave e have | a never-failing iea of the d 
not yet attained to that said to a been obtained earthed up to secu ence, whiten, and Felicate 
from r lb. of merica— t like our cousins’ | flavour. Bach z pa; its in se _— eo 
mountains and rivers their taters aa ‘tarnation big” | too potent to be oreesa: 
also, However, I have h f 1 cwt, of produce | rows successionally all the spins, and the pa 
g from 1 lb. of seed, and that is quite eno thinned when nec iey. ring are 
practised when necessary, aid m eaid, is ‘precisa | 
Potatos have other and more important | 
points than that of bigness. 4. D. 
Viola cornuta. Gay the aioduetion of the 
Viola and Pansy, such as Viola 
ificen! a” ke. ., little has 
iginal Viola cornuta, 
lds its own. 
ipal r garden, 
beautiful soft mauve hae sea ee) lighting up eg whole 
mass, Since the days 1f 
it in on at this late season of the ye 
than at Pan: An season plant it exten- 
sivel: nce more do justice to this 
y, and see if I cann 
somewhat piptected old Evatt te. Æ. Bennett, Hat- 
field, Herts. 
arsley.—To secure good curled „Parsley a og 
care in th aps ages hat 
This I lift an out, and put it 
away ina ARRA remote from the res 
of the stock, and 
sowing, 
spring, and not run any extent that ye 
Stili, i if seed be sown seri in the spring it will ‘be sure 
p Saeed eles seed and h ve become use sanyo: 
seless, 
Fic. 
as soon as the stalks Sea and i 
ot feet eR tay the is ee 
| Italy itis used n oes Sache as we have stated, 
| but also raw, as a salad, — by itself « or with other 
| vegetables. In this » however, its flavour is 
| too ronan! cot ie our ge Ad M. [See also 1874, ii, 
P- 
Himalayan tar Fungi. —Dr. Fleming, late E 
has hands m: 
x 
the Himalayas, It cons 2 
of Uredo » ematie Beck. ; F : 
De ; Puccinia dlisdiens: -C Cooks e; 
bes 3 Uro Sere 
. uredo punctoidea, 
“Ailographum 
: cruciferarum, 
Cooke ; Soke ; and immature states of 
branches from 2 
visit there were 
time over 208 
idis én on it, and many more Fie 
old ones faded away. th : trade 
re cae inf > Ben that it had spac | rapes nd the follo ' 
e manner for fully a month, and fro 7 i wing 
appearance of it it was aoe = to remai a uae N B oe es aran Belfast, re 
come. bridge, and Ne caw 
it is simply eee pth the pisen a hae shipped from Belis r thst ia Goal ~ anr Serie 
| 
flowering, ae, ye ye is shaken from the roots and 
t off, = 
102,— FINOCCHIO. 
ae Ba 
o 
R 
9, which in case of guilt b 
not my fines but enables the Court to a 
of ffend j 
Successful Vine Culture.—I send 
E aaen m of a house of Muscat Gape 
charge here, and would append a brief 
t since the Vines we 
E ath weighing Mae 31b. to Raho Ib. 
rved n ency to s 
fruit Hedy i finished off well We hate Pomel 
border 
the syringe since the plan’ 
Shaw, Donisea one, Be Edinburgh, Oct, $ 
The Plaint of the Potato. S 
e great wr done 
to whose lot it fell to revise “the: ac 
the Royal Horticultural Society for 1875» 
mamie alaa 
