The Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany (Volume 12) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... NOTES ON THE MONTH. The present month has perhaps been the hottest on record, taken altogether--remarkable, too, for the constant repetition of thunderstorms, attended with violent storms of rain and hail, which in many districts have done great damage to crops of all descriptions, and will seriously affect the Wheat returns. The connection between the Potato disease and electrical storms has been verified this present season. Early in the month a district near where I write was visited by a thunderstorm, accompanied with rain and hail, confined to a small district. Within a day or two the disease made its appearance, and increased most rapidly, while in those fields which the storm did not reach they have continued without being attacked, until they, in their turn, were visited by a storm, since which they, too, have gone. Of the former, most of them are now quite rotten, and are now being dug up, to be replaced by Turnips. We may remark that the crop, taken altogether, has a worse appearance than for the last ten years, the appearance of the disease having been much earlier than of late years, and is almost universal over the whole country. In many places forcing houses and flower gardens have been converted into a complete wreck by hailstorms, as have also many hundred acres of field crops by the same means and the floods. A writer some time since in the Gardeners Chronicle astonished English planters by affirming that French planters entirely denuded unhealthy trees of the whole of their bark, as a way of recovering them. Surely such absurd nonsense required no confutation. It is now discovered that the outer or rough portion only is taken away before planting. There was a very good description of the French mode of transplanting the large trees emplo...