... THE POTATO DISEASE. TOTE extent to wihich the potato epidemic (as it is com- monly, though not very accurately, called), has progressed in this country is now so alarming, as to justify us in arousing the attention of the community by every means in our ...

... SEEDLING POTATOES. MR. CoL.sN MiCPrERsowN, of Viewbank Terrace, Dundee, gives the following valuable particulars, showing the practicability of perfecting potatoes from the seel in one season :- From the seeds of 12 potato 'plums' sown this season, in ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. I0-Xi 7 AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 0 I THE results of some very important experiments made by Moos. Aim6 Girard, whose name is so closely identified with the attempts made to com- bet the potato disease, have just reached us, and they ...

... instances of disease. This year, the potatoes, either saved from the former crop or some of the same kind purchased (most of them the 'early rose potato') were set in the same ground; and without any idea that the potato any more than, as 1 believed, the ...

... POTATO CROP. Several correspondents have sent us their opinions as to the cause of the failure in many cases of the potatoes planted this season. In general the failure is ascribed to the seed having rotted in the ground ; and this again is at- tributed ...

... remarks of the last speaker might induce the belief that the, rot. ten] potatoes were utterly worthless, and poisonous as ain article of food. Now, the most offensively rotten potatoes were known to contain a large quautity of starch, which it uould be folly ...

... AN EINEF1Y OF THE POTATO. TuE Irish potato is threatened with a new and ter. rible eneomy, which judging from the accounts given of It by those who have had long and bitter erpe. L rience, will not only devastate but utterly anuibi late the crop, which ...

... TIHE POTATO DISEASE IN ENGLAND. (Prom the Cardener's Chronicle.) IT is our painful duty to announce the certain re-appearance of tile potato disease, in its old form, in the open ground. Wle have for some time had too much reason to fear that our forebodings ...

... Recorder. FElMANAe.GH-The crops look remarkably wvell in Fermanagh; but the potato rot has made its appear- ance. We saw one diseased potato; and in a field the leaves of potato stalks and leaves of some shrubs ex- hibited the unmistakeable blight. We trust ...

... ttan has been experienced for many years. From a recent official examination of the potato crop in the Arrmaghi limon, it appears that there have been one-third more potatoes planted within tise boundary of that union than last year; that they are better ...

... ] iRiSH AGRICULTURE.-THE POTATO. Although the potato, as'an adjunct, has become a ,ery general ,article of food in 'Greac Britain, it -is in- Ireland . alone, where the-population is interested in its cUlture, - S almost the sole means of tneir sustenapce ...

... THE NATIONALISTS AND THE POTATO CROP. THE Eeeooins8t says :-It is, unhappily, now only too certain that, owing to the failure of tne potato crop, wide districts in the South and West of Ire- land will be plunged during the coming winter into deep distress ...