December 30,1880. ] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
With regard, too, to the Potato disease, I quite agree with Mr. 
Luckhurst that in favourable situations and in good soil, where the 
earlier varieties of Potatoes can be grown, that the spread of the 
Potato disease may be much arrested, and even in some cases pre¬ 
vented, by early raising the crop and securing it in dry sheds under 
cover, where it can be sorted over from time to time ; but I cannot 
accept it as either a cure or a remedy for the later varieties when 
once the haulms are attacked, though it may often be a good plan 
to pull the haulms up and cover the ridges with fresh soil and to 
allow the ground to become drier before lifting, for if once the 
haulm is attacked it generally spreads through the whole of the 
crop, and no healthy growth can take place afterwards. I have 
no doubt, too, from my own experience that careful storing and 
selection of sets, proper preparation of the soil, all manure being 
forked in, and the ground made ready the previous autumn or in 
early spring, and sufficient space being given between both the 
rows and the sets for proper air and sun, will help to ward off the 
attack of the Potato fungus, unless the weather be very favourable 
to its growth at the latter end of July or the beginning of August, 
when too often in such seasons as that 1879 all previous care and 
attention has proved unavailing. There is an adage, “A man 
convinced against his will remains of the same opinion stilland 
I am afraid I must still say after all that has been advanced, that 
I still think the fungus cannot be said to be the result only of a 
previously diseased condition, but that the growth of the Perono- 
spora infestans is the actual means whereby the Potatoes are 
injured and become by degrees unfit for use.—C. P. P. 
[We think the subject has been sufficiently discussed at present. 
—Eds.] 
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THE LATE MR. ARTHUR VEITCH. 
Since we announced the sudden death of this gentleman, 
which occurred on September 25th last, we have received so many 
letters alluding to the sad occurrence, and so many expressions of 
respect for his memory, that we are sure his portrait will be 
welcomed not only by the great number who had the pleasure of 
his acquaintance, but by thousands of others with whom his name 
and good works have become familiar. We quote from one of 
the letters referred to because it was the last we have received, 
and as a spontaneous expression of feeling of an old correspon¬ 
dent, who was quite unaware of the preparation of the portrait. 
After referring to the losses of the year and paying a warm 
tribute of esteem to the late Mr. Radclyffe, Mr. A. B. Stewart, 
and others, “ D., Deal," wrote as follows :—“ Few deaths have 
occasioned a wider feeling of regret than that of young Arthur 
Veitch—a proof of how true Christian life does commend itself 
even to those who cannot understand it. Modest and retiring, 
yet how highly he was esteemed 1 and devoting as he did so 
much time and thought to the sufferers around him, it was a 
