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JOCBNAL OF HOBTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GABDENEB. 



[ October 24, 1872. 



the haulm was decayed before its appearance. Dalmahoys 

 and Eegents are the principal second early crops ; about half 

 are affected by disease. The Early White Don has not come 

 up to our expectations ; the crop of it is not good, and it is 

 much more affected by disease than the Eegents. Of Suttons' 

 Flourball there is a very fine crop ; the tubers are Tery large 

 and coarse, but it is almost free from disease. A tuber here 

 and there is affected, but I dug up five or sis plants in cliff erent 

 parts of the field, and did not find one. It is a very good 

 Potato for spring use. — J. Douglas. 



I send a list of Potatoes grown by me this season, classed 

 under three heads — namely, those nearly free from disease, 

 those partially diseased, and those badly diseased ; I also send 

 a few remarks respecting them. Last season I gave a list of 

 some twenty sorts I had under trial, and I have this time 

 had thirty -nine varieties, many of them sent me from distant 

 parts of England to see if the change of soil and locality 

 •would in anywise check the disease. I fear, however, it is past 

 our skill to prevent it, except by planting early kinds as much 

 as possible, and only some of the late ones, which we must 

 have, and by giving them plenty of room. We must also plant 

 those kinds which resist disease the best, and are the most 

 suitable for the locality. This season has been an exception- 

 ally bad one for Potatoes, and has not afforded a fair trial, 

 although such kinds as have this time proved good I think may- 

 be considered good indeed. 



I am glad to be able to speak in the highest praise of three 

 newly-sent-out varieties — namely, Climax, an extra cropper, 

 boiling very floury and white, and quite free from disease ; 

 new Late Eose; and last, but not least, the new Hundredfold 

 Fluke, sent out by Messrs. Sutton & Sons, of Beading. It is 

 not only good in quality and yield, but is a curiosity to look 

 at — a perfect piebald. The stems grow very erect, and that, I 

 think, is very much in favour of the variety as a disease-re- 

 sister. The Bed-skinned Flourball is much better with me 

 this year than last, still it is far from being first-rate, but it 

 improves by keeping. It is quite free from disease, an extra 

 good cropper, and I am glad to say I found none of its tubers 

 attacked by the grub like your correspondent " T. S. C." and 

 others. I have found some other kinds of Potatoes, also Car- 

 rots and even Onions, similarly affected, and I have caught the 

 Leather-coats in the act. I always manure in the autumn the 

 ground I intend planting with Potatoes, and I have it turned 

 up in ridges until planting time ; I then fork them down and 

 trench-in the seed, which I always prefer, as far as possible, to 

 be medium-sized whole sets. 



SOETS XEAELY FBEE FEOM DISEASE. 



Kidneys. 

 Ashleaf (Bivers's Boyal). 

 Gloucestershire Kidney, 

 Myatt's Prolific. 

 Early May. 

 New Hundredfold Fluke 



(Suttons'). 

 New Late Eose. 



Mound. 

 Bed-skinned Flourball 



(Sutton's). 

 Climax. 



Wood's Scarlet Prolific. 

 Peach Blossom. 

 Prairie Seedling. 

 Champion of England. 

 King of Earlies. 



MEDIUM DISEASED. 



American Early Bose. 

 Caversham Defiance. 

 Manning's Kidney. 

 Bresee's Prolific. 

 Bresee's Pearless. 



Ashleaf (old). 



New unnamed seedling from 



Messrs. Sutton & Son. 

 Oxfordshire Kidney. 



SOKTS BADLY DISEASED. 



Devonshire Kidney. 

 Lapstone Kidney. 

 Prince of Wales. 

 Paterson's Victoria. 

 Sutton's Early Bacehorse. 

 Taylor's New Hybrid. 

 Golden Gem. 

 Negro. 

 Early Emperor. 



-S. Tayloe, Sion Hill, Kidderminster. 



Manchester Blue. 



Skerry Blue. 



Worcester Silks. 



Smith's Dwarf. 



Sutton's Seedling (round). 



Pink-eyed Cheshire. 



Alma. 



King. 



Scotch Eegent. 



The state of the Potato crops here is very different to those 

 of your correspondents " T. S. C." and " S. B.," for I found 

 Suttons' Flourball nearly half diseased and more affected than 

 any other sort grown here. Of Prince of Wales about one- 

 third of the crop was diseased. Of Scarlet Prolific there is an 

 excellent crop, both as regards size and quantity, and very few 

 tubers diseased. Myatt's Ashleaf, Bacehorse, and York Eegents 



are free from disease and the crops good. — H. W. H., Twicken- 

 ham, Middlesex. 



LARGE FLOWER OF FUCHSIA DUCHESS OF 



LANCASTER. 

 The accompanying portrait is of a flower of the variety 

 named, and well known for its fine rose-coloured corolla and 

 ivory-white sepals. It was sent to us by Mr. Olley, gardener 

 to E. N. Byas, Esq., Quarry Hill, Eeigate. 



We cannot coincide in the opinion that a plant raised fronv 

 the branch which bore this very large flower would bear none 

 of a smaller size. In our opinion it is a fasciated flower, two 

 flowers united. However, it is worthy of a trial, for we know 

 that the Top-knot Pea (Pisum comosum) has a fasciculated 

 stem, and is propagated by seed. 



NEW BOOK. 

 The Clematis as a Garden Floioer. By Thomas Mooee, F.L.S., 



and Geoege Jackman, F.B.H.S. London : John Murray. 



This work is a treatise, and a very comprehensive one, on a 

 genus of plants deservedly popular in every garden, and of 

 late years very much more so since Messrs. Jackman, Messrs, 

 Cripps, and Mr. Noble have by hybridisation produced so many 

 varieties elegant in form and splendid in colouring, which 

 have become established favourities in the flower garden. 



The different species of Clematis which were formerly cul- 



