. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. p, .Swedes, Mangels, and Dales HybridTurnips : they all know well how to cultivate them,tfiooo worth of such seeds wi^uld go farther thanmany thousands worth of Champion or otherPotatos, which, after all, by the mysterious decrees ofProvidence, may be smitten in one night. We say inone night. Why ? Because before our eyes a largesowing of Potato seed, saved from the Potato appleor plum, as some call it, in 1S45, was destroyed inone night, though well protected ; no near relative toor congener of the
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. p, .Swedes, Mangels, and Dales HybridTurnips : they all know well how to cultivate them,tfiooo worth of such seeds wi^uld go farther thanmany thousands worth of Champion or otherPotatos, which, after all, by the mysterious decrees ofProvidence, may be smitten in one night. We say inone night. Why ? Because before our eyes a largesowing of Potato seed, saved from the Potato appleor plum, as some call it, in 1S45, was destroyed inone night, though well protected ; no near relative toor congener of the common Potato is safe fromthe Potato fungus, Peronospora infeslans. In1S4S and 1S49 we saw Solanum sullruticosuniseriously injured in leaf, stem, and root in theTrinity College Botanic Gardens by the sameidentical disease as that affecting the commonPotato. Unfortunately, the farming classes graduallyput faith in the Potato, year by year increasing thearea under crop, notwithstanding the serious warn-ings received ; for, although the disease has never THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE,-^\k^cm a/, ts. FlU. 71,— I-REE FERNS AND SHEE-CAUBAGE ON IIALLEYs MOUNT, ST. HELENA. (SEE V. 396.) 402 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [March 27, 1S80. ceased to afflict the crop, the procUice was so largethat they said they could well afford the loss of 25per cent., and so on, till a general destruction hasfallen on some of the best varieties, except the Cham-pion, although it has not escaped scatheless, so thatit will be more than madness to depend wholly onthat or any other variety till it is the pleasure of theAlmighty Ruler of all to destroy the destroyer—themysterious, the subtle, insidious Peronospora in-festans. Sake of thf, latf, IMr. Serjeant Coxs Orchids.—On the 17th, iSth, and iglhinst. the collec-tion of Orchids formed by the late Mr. Serjeant Cox, atMoat Mount, Mill Hill, near Hendon, was broughtto the hammer at Stevens Rooms, and realised ^1996\ts. td. There were 1240 lots, and the followinga
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