December 4, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest 



583 



promise of a heavy crop, and in one week from tlie time of 



tlie appearance of this bliglit every plant was dead or dying. It 



is the prevailing opinion here that the Peachblow Potato is a 



variety which is " run out," and its culture lias been generally 



abandoned. 



rijHappening to see, last autumn, a few bushels of small 



Peachblow Potatoes for sale, I bought them for the purpose 



When the plants were a foot high, and before they blossomed, 

 I began to spray some of them with the Bordeaux Mixture, 

 and repeated this operation every two or three weeks there- 

 after until nearly the last of September. The times of treat- 

 ments were regulated somewhat by the weather and the fre- 

 quency of heavy rains. At any rate, I aimed to keep leaves 

 and stalks on the sprayed plats pretty thoroughly whitewashed 



Fig. 148. — The Kauri Pine. — See page 579. 



of giving them another fair trial under the protection of the 

 Bordeaux Mixture. Last June I plowed a clover sod between 

 the tree-rows of an orchard, and there planted these Potatoes 

 in five equal plats of three rows each, manured in the row 

 with the Mapes Potato Manure at the rate of half a ton per 

 acre. The plats lay side by side, running north and south. 



with the copper sulphate solution, so that its presence was 

 always visible all over the plants. Whenever a drenchingrain 

 washed off the application it was renewed as soon as possible. 

 I made the treatments with the portable Eureka spraying 

 machine. I thus sprayed Plats i and 2, left Plat 3 (the middle 

 plat) untreated, and sprayed also Plats 4 and 5. 



