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Notes on Insect and Fungus Pests. [nov., 



Champion and Up-to-date, were practically all right, having 

 only here and there a potato showing signs of the disease. 

 At Greenfield, near Oldham, however, it was Up-to-dates 

 which were attacked. At Chorlton a small number of 

 potatoes, which had been planted in connection with a Wart 

 Disease experiment, were attacked. The percentage of the 

 whole crop was very small, perhaps a small fraction of i per 

 cent, but the scars were very numerous, though small. The 

 soil was light and the variety Conquest, which otherwise 

 had yielded very well. This was the only case reported to 

 the Board from a field crop. Another Lancashire case, also 

 from the neighbourhood of Manchester, showed only a 

 handful of diseased potatoes out of four large bags full. 



Only three cases were reported from the West Riding. 

 In one, at Settle, Sir John Llewellyn was the variety 

 attacked. In the other two, from near Sheffield, the kind 

 was not named, but in no case was the attack a bad one. 

 The only two Staffordshire cases came from Stoke-on- 

 Trent. One was trifling, but in the other "the tops all died 

 long before the tubers were ready to get and many were 

 badly diseased. A second bed, with only a walk dividing 

 it from the first, was not affected." They were grown on a 

 heavy soil with a clay subsoil, and the land had been well 

 limed last year. The single Shropshire case occurred at 

 Longnor, near Buxton, and was trifling. One case was 

 reported from Machynlleth, and it was noticed that the 

 haulm was not diseased, while in a garden at Llanidloes one 

 whole bed was affected while other beds escaped. The 

 potatoes from a garden in Anglesea were reported as small, 

 shapeless, and warty, while the leaves and stem looked 

 healthy. The variety was not quoted, but in a case at 

 Hereford the variety was said to be Factor. 



Little information could be collected about the other cases. 

 In one near Bath, the crop was very fair, but scattered 

 through it were a good many diseased tubers. In another 

 near Tamworth, Up-to-dates growing in an open plot in a 

 walled-in kitchen garden with trees all round were rather 

 badly diseased. The soil here was very damp and in poor 

 condition, the subsoil being clay. Duke of York and Pink 

 Beauty of Hebron were also said to be complete failures. 



