... POTATOES AND THE POTATO DISEASE. (From the Gardeners Chronicle.) t In proceeding to discuss the bearing of the evidence now colletet'd concerning the potato disease, it is desirable to pass by for the present all speculative opinions, and to confine ...

... POTATOES. A correspondent of the 1lfotcs.'cr Gsardion says t1 That potatoes of every description degenerate or run out, is a fact well known to many practical farmers. I am ill- formed that few of the sorts that are in use now were cul- tivated twenty-five ...

... bread- stai is consumed, than there is of potatoes; but with nearly all grades among die' lower orders, the weight of potatoes consumed generally excoeds that of bread. From, the large quantities of potatoes that are, as we have shown, sometimcs produced' ...

... thought no- thing of that, for I know that some potatoes, such as the MIoshaniks, have a delicate skin of violet tint under the white outside. But when I looked more carefully, I saw that this potato was not a I Meshanik, but an early rose, which-as ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. t are (P rom (lie Gardcaers' Ckronid~d.) The Whether there is-any connection between manures and s as the potato disease has been doubted; and it must be ad- have mitted that the coriflicting statements thatf have been made tent on ...

... was remarked that the high dried potatoes not only escaped disease, but pushed with unusual vigour. The latter circumstance may be supposed to have been owing z to the conversion of the insoluble starch of the potato, E by the heat to which it was exposed ...

... about an inch long. t Plot 2. Potatoes out into halves and dried for three i hours at about 2120 Fahr. (temperature of boiling water), until they become quite tough. Plot 3 were potatoes in their natural state. Plot 4. Potatoes sown with artificial guano ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. I(Abridged from tke Gardeners' Chronicle) wi In considering the effeet of heavy land upon the potato CO disease, the observer is necessarily struck with the large frI proportion of bad eases which occurred in soil of this eh description ...

... T'IB FATAL POTATO. One of the queerest cases I ever had, said the old detective, orcarred sjomotbirtg over twenty years ago, when I still had much to learu in my business, and, fortunately for me, knew that I had. It was memorable ns Ita illustration ...

... | ;TVE POTA;OJ:..' SE.; (From te Chronile) Fromn the appearance of the disease in potatoes, an opinioti hoas been ~entertained that light land is exempt ; from sexiduss loJUr'V in the gr~eatrnajority of eases, Upon; turninigover tha e'rturns e@lceated ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. (From the Gardeners' Chronicle) 1 t WC Thoroughly dried potatoes will always produce a crop tili free from disease. Such is the positive assertion of Mr. Bse Bollmau, at Gorigoretsky. In a very interesting pam- je phlet* by this gentleman ...

... THE POTATOE DISEASE. From several written communications which have ore reached us, and from much verbal information we have received, there appears to be no longer a doubt of the recent reappearance in this neighbourhood of the potatoe disease of lastyear ...