. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. only blockheads who will not read and learnpersist in asserting that the disease is entirelythe result of bad cultivation. It is lamentable,however, to see that cultivators, as a rule, takeno steps whatever to turn to account the lessonswhich have been laid before tliem by thelaborious and unthankful researches of thescientist. They take no precaution to destroy Unfortunately they destroy those of their neigh-bours also. It is obvious that any inquiry the committeemay further make will be incomplete,
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. only blockheads who will not read and learnpersist in asserting that the disease is entirelythe result of bad cultivation. It is lamentable,however, to see that cultivators, as a rule, takeno steps whatever to turn to account the lessonswhich have been laid before tliem by thelaborious and unthankful researches of thescientist. They take no precaution to destroy Unfortunately they destroy those of their neigh-bours also. It is obvious that any inquiry the committeemay further make will be incomplete, unlessit takes the evidence of several of our lead-ing and most observant growers, because, asscience would appear to have accomplishedall that it is in her power to do in the matterfor the present, any ultimate practical dealingwith the disease must be looked for at thehands of growers and raisers they may accomplish, however, therewill still remain the fact that our Potato cropsmust ever be at the mercy of the elements. Ifwe could ensure seasons without rainfall from. Fig. 141.—greenlands, henley, the seat ok the ut. hon. w. h. smith, (see p. 8q6.) engaged in the labour of endeavouring tomaster all the intricacies and incidents re-lating to THE Disease. Althoughtermed the Irish Potato Diseases Committee, yetit is obvious that the same interest must attach toits labours and inquiries as would be the casewere its denomination of a more cosmopolitanorder, inasmuch as the disease is the same every-where, has the same manifestations and efiects,and if grappled with in one place could equallybe dealt with In other localities. Sitting only onTuesdays and Fridays, the committee has sofar chiefly confined its inquiries into the scien-tific aspects of the subject, and that these,so far as our present knowledge extends, willbe exhausted there can be no doubt. Unfor-tunately the scientists have little if anything the diseased haulm directly it shows it
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