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the rotation before Turnips or Cabbage are admitted again should be 
increased. Where it can be done thoroughly, trenching so as to put 
the fungus-infested soil below and fresh above is good treatment. 
Lime or manures, such as chalk, and others which contain lime, 
have been amongst the applications which have been advised for land 
subject to “ Club” or “ Anbury,” and amongst these, as far as I can 
judge from such information as I have access to, and my own personal 
observations for several years, gas-lime stands first. 
So long ago as 1859, the late Dr. Augustus Voelcker, Consulting 
Chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society, noticed (in his paper on 
“Anbury,” in the 20th volume of the Journal of the Society) a case 
in point. On a sandy field at Ashton Keynes, near Cirencester, 
Dr. Voelcker found the Turnips diseased with “ Anbury ” to such an 
extent that there was scarcely a sound Turnip to be seen, excepting 
on two spots. On one of these spots, not many yards square, the 
Turnips were nearly all sound, and bits of a whitish substance were 
on the surface, which, on investigation, proved to be remains from a 
cart-load of gas-lime which had been unloaded there in the year 
before. On the other spot likewise there was hardly one diseased 
Turnip to be found, and in this case the Turnips grew where a dung- 
heap had been set up in previous years ; and to this Dr. Voelcker 
attributed the greater proportion of lime which was found in the soil 
at this spot to what was found in the field generally. The analysis of 
soil from the gas-limed part showed, as might be expected, presence 
of gas-lime. 
In a note on the uses of gas-lime, published some time after (see 
foot-note, p. 31), Dr. Voelcker mentioned that at his recommendation 
the occupier applied a heavy dose of gas-lime, which completely cured 
the evil. 
In my own garden near Isleworth, I found the Cabbages “ clubbed ” 
to a very serious extent, and, experimentally, I had the cleared ground 
in the kitchen-garden dressed throughout with gas-lime as a regular 
thing in the autumn. It was laid on so as to be a light sprinkling, if 
absolutely fresh, and more thickly if the gas-lime had been exposed to 
the air, and, in due course of winter working, it was forked in. 
Under this treatment the Cabbage ceased to “ club,” so that (as far as 
I saw or had means of judging) the disease, before I moved to 
St. Albans in 1887, had ceased to infest the soil. About the year 
1874, when I went to live near Isleworth, I could have gas-lime for 
the asking at the Brentford works, but before I left its use had 
increased so much in that Cabbage-growing district, that Mr. Wilmot, 
well known as one of the leading market-growers, said that they 
should not know how to do without it; and personally I found that I 
had to pay from 6s. to 7s. 6d. a load for what previously had only cost 
cartage. 
