Decemper 22, 1860.] THE GARDENERS? CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
safely over the earlier hours of Saturday | | 
— 
were tided 
instead of being left listless and unoccupied and 
ra 
zor 
1137 
tetieg. 
YAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENG 
Tue following is the Halt-yearly Cash Account, from Ist storey to 30th ek 1860, presented at the 
Annual Meeting last w 
Home Corresp 
Potato Disease: Removing EA yorni Stale. —-In 
86 the following very remarkable circumstance trans- 
with us, which j 
his 
only where the Lettuces were epee paa higi 
ig the res of Potato tee ight, it t pen 
tee months afte z broke 
fit ba tie Contine and i eek or two after 
England ne ireland “that Ponpa were hate all 
rotting. ere everywhere taking them up 
without Pe bode with a view ving the few which 
vie of sa 
Ee icaved Kidneys, which were 
Lettuces 5 these also proved Pn! be mostly 
however, were 
not mixed with the 
all pii- 
as usual 
t, when unexpectedly, and to o 
great astonishment, en one tuber on this plot w 
infected, or showed s signs of disease, save that they were 
till the pat was 
Dr. 
To Balancei in ee) 1st January, | 
1860 
1342 12 4 
ee 
J 
Sales 
Advertisements 
woes Ast tig - 
Ches 
War wie ek 
Dividend from 
estate of late 
Secretar: 970 11 10 
— 983 710 
Sale of Sundries 46 4 0 
-c 5404 15 9 
July, 1860 : 
mount receiv 
this account 
To Canterbury Meeting, 
A 
| £9371 9 1 
2624 1 0 
y _Expenditu 
“pstablishment, 
t, Taxes, a ogy 
and Carri 
includi ing 
| 
“| 
sistas e äl 
415 10 6) 
325 0 0 
Sundries.. 
Sul bscription returned | 
2008 9 1 
By investment : 
20001. Non 3 per cona 1875 0 0 
1827 16 2 
02.0 
—— 1827 18 
By Balance in “ml — 
Bankers S 4 3647 6 10 
Sec: retary re 1215 0 
—_—-——_ 3660 110 
£9371 9 1 
Examined, audited, and found correct, this 7th 
Auditors on the part 
(Signed) A.N Hoop f, T A say 
QUILTER, BALL, Jay, & Co., Accountants. 
day of December, 1860. 
Signed) WILLIAM ASTBURY, "4 
Hen 
Con RBET, of the Society. 
small as intended to be, for next year ’s planting. „Her 
was found to be efficacious i in saving our crop, % es thet 
it was entire; y by 
the disease was known or heard of. Potatoes, should 
lt mn the forwardest varieties, 
eir tops as soon, or rather 
poles tad $e ve Pose saved, as then, not til about 
ugust 12, did the contagion, manifest itself. S pull 
the stalks ight, a hae dec 
abrupt a destruction of the plan “All ¢ Ego 
gied fro ps is pedient, in ‘ial one  Danted, is is 
t it makes m to trans plan t Brass at thei 
light in re 
me . Hardy $ Son, M: 
m Mangel Wurzelsi—In reply t y ne 
inquiries, this is the third — bare Kept my Leices- 
ter ewes M rom wie i pa May, 
ear, hes 
ALANCE SHE 
ILITIES. 
To Capi £ sd. & sd 
Surplus, rr ee 1860 13,264 611 
Su opas Ti Income over the 
Ex au teh 
oi sf aes 
He i T 5404 1 
nditure ees 5 1 
3396 6 8 
To Balance at Credit of Canter-| 
bury Exhibition, 1860 796 210 
£17,456 16 5 5 
16,660 13 7|| 
aT, 30th JUNE, 1860. 
ASSETS. 
1860, which that date 
amounted to 36971. 
£17,456 16 5 
eae AL (RERS, POULTRY 
urday a aior 
danc , all ali 
progress, all he increase. ” V 
at it; the l ry mania, as it Hi called, has 
se 
e iets 
n making i ronnie 
wedge 4 this Lye Sih hs nets 
and at Birmi ngham 
Like 
learned 
tive. 
incer ease as 
at 
alike show Giaa ion-oai 
wonder i 
long | the best s EE ton 
now a pursuit. ined there by the certo bound ships, motors 
and being |s e. locality 
the Silver of Messrs. Teebay and Pearte; and 
Malays London fowl. 
with Berd Poche of the river, 
it. The East end sends 
They are 
title 
SHOW. forth ; 
one of the most suc- ne Polands of Messrs. Dixon, an ao Edwards, 
Whether we look them co topen 
ention. 
them 
ern 
specim: most prizes, 
because neither smoke, 
ewer thei 
Sultans, (and anot ther rarity, 
We can 
| Rake’s, not apj for eggs, but for their petiti there i is 
also for Don raad like those of Lady rg i ae 
chioness ester, Captain 
each. Success seems certain as the pains- 
taking. „Miss Rake took i five ia in s Bani nish, and 
Lady L. Th kings were a hazard, 
s 
as 
sao 
el Roo 
matter was pad 
below ee — in a field which ra =~ 
of Mang: I suspect it is the roots of t 
ond “bat I “hoiii be glad to know whether it is oa 
me 7 isat etrate to so great a depth, 
mae i so season. Though, a at the same 
vg as the 
was 
as 
+] 
in —The enclosed fibr 
waaay from a ‘tile drain, 4 feet 
up y betesthie yak but to 
it 
exploits such as these es be mukom, re 
grr 
excellence irds. With 
Hornby, G 
i | field, Ti pe oa 4 that fairly weight their 10 tbs. 
the ard of i 
23 Tb: 
ranen 
no opi: 
k rosc cim them. We can speak highly of F the aan 
classes; all of them, Sebright, Black, White, „and 
.J. Andrews, 
to their own 
the ET that Captain Ka eee had 
e ba Dorkings, we will conclude these classes by 
saying we have never seen better Spanish or Dorking 
anywh 
ay The Chien that would next demand notice are 
_ Every shade and colour were here repre- 
el 
his year, an and consent siss soil over 
Eon, Mr. wrens and Mr, Baily. 
geoph ? Clubs. 
Irswicn.—At ti Skana meeting of this Society, of 
whieh a a al sir is given in the Hast Suffolk 
Mer 
this instance of a sandy nature 3a 
Mhita al 1 a 
Seer. 
in England, and 
. Bid 
The finest single root of Beet was 
ets a much 
an 
Eons draining in 
“bre red the 
he sie, at any T: n tas Me 
Archer mee very ick i as usu an as well as the 
Our old friends tas Ġochins were in fal 
feather, oth, Buff and Gro . Co 
Moss ie 
ttell & sone 
Mr. G. Hare, of Holbro ok; 
it weighed 17 aa 
e Sw 
| were very fne. Mr. J. ae A a iai dowei 
extraordinary Swedes, aps. Ibs. each 
rage. The Whi ite Ten 
i 
int ri Ah whi h w 
gone to the e expense ‘of be 
matter big as filled many of t the tot up, | to the extent of 
w 
e been the eT had HP? 
sa pipes; and ge Scabies in 
ntime. We phat this bide a 
above of ee area. 
consisting 0 lobe, wa: $ very 
me amount If the 
re decided to be th ngel Wurz 
bt the depth of at Tast 4 neck it will add another proo 
toth the value of deep cultivation, Al 16 Ye ars’ Subs oriber 
range Gi 
I think that we does | sitte: 
acre. 
som 
rzel, penetrating i 
gan, of Bram- 
ighing 273 lbs. ; although the top was 
grown toa surfeit, the Turnip was was sound, and certainly 
not sore aw following prizes were awarded for fields 
of Roo! 
sp te 
y Migel pla: pry 
usual but n a er 
sorts VS refina be s Eae» fou tases freuen i in 
mg drained go wel, Ne aes Fane than in newly | 
mined pi 
downward of EA 
mst over the iain i is y “to 1 - isdirect the roots of 
a 
®© 
pencil 
| the Silver of Messrs. 
| Gold-spangled of Messrs, Lane 
ere 
Kerr 
de 
si ge sean 
E. Pac 
Y |G. Hare 
yore = L. Everett 
o Worrall, and ion 
Exhibitor. of roots, 
Tuddenham 15, 
Playford 
Brantham 
Playford 
hob oor 
mage 
eve 
H. Biddell 
W. Gurdon 
ard 
ACRES WEDES 
R ig 25,680 
Hare Holbrook — 
The above results were obtained by 
acre selected as an average of 5 acres. 
