. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. farmers to trust for a livelihood tosome more reliable and healthy crop. If the Irishwould partake more of cereals or pulse, and lessof Potatos, in a few years a mental and moralrevolution would be worked in the the meantime a vast amount of good maybe done by the introduction into that country it has been in the past. The mild season willbe succeeded by a disastrous one, without doubt,until the end of time. Our chief hopes lie inthe following directions :—The Potato murrainmay, as in s
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. farmers to trust for a livelihood tosome more reliable and healthy crop. If the Irishwould partake more of cereals or pulse, and lessof Potatos, in a few years a mental and moralrevolution would be worked in the the meantime a vast amount of good maybe done by the introduction into that country it has been in the past. The mild season willbe succeeded by a disastrous one, without doubt,until the end of time. Our chief hopes lie inthe following directions :—The Potato murrainmay, as in similar cases, become less virulentas time goes on ; that cultivators will not becontent, as now, to do next to nothing in theway of prevention, and that sooner or latersome method of culture may be devised whichshall neutralise the effects of the fungus, or somevariety may be raised which shall deserxe thename of disease-resisting. These are hopes thathave been long deferred, though at times stimu-lated by what is learnt of one or two sorts, thatshow powers not general in the Potato. We. Fig. 142.—view the at greenlands, near henlev. (see p. 806.) intensify the evil of distress now existing, as itis hardly probable that any produce will beready for eating until October, and the moistnature of the atmosphere may keep it growingand fearfully exhausting the soil, should thefoliage escape the disease, even till cut downby frost. It would indeed be a grave misfortunewere this to result, and it will be a blessing ifall that is hoped for should follow ; but it is wellto point to the danger that may come, and withrespect to which some of our own growers, whounderstand the character of the Champion, havenot been entirely silent. Ireland is so emphatically a Potato-growingcountry, and its agricultural inhabitants solargely Potato eaters, that any attempt to breakoff the connection will no doubt provoke much of kinds of Potatos that will ripen oh early,leaving the void cr
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