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FA.',.IMEr,.S' COLUMN.

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FA.IMEr,.S' COLUMN. EARLY ABEARANCE OF THE POTATO DISEASE.- The potato disease has made its appearance here. I was digging Rivers s Royal Ashleaf on the 21st and 25th May, and I found several tubers attacked. 1 am of opinion that early potatoes will suffer very much this season, on account of the heavy rains that have fallen lately.—F. Bezant, Caversham, Oxon, in Gardeners Chronicle. THE WEATHER.—The weather of the past few weeks recalls with vivid force the present application of the celeoiated couplet ,of the clown's song in the Twelfth Sight With heigh, ho, the wind and the rain, For the rain it raineth every day." It would be indeed a national disaster if after such a splendid promise of a fruitful and abundant season we should have to realise that, if a dry summer is to be feared, a wet one is an absolute misfortune. Just now, when the Political sky seems to be clearing and the air is less charged with the dangerous vapours of war's alarms, when people in all positions. a espe- cially those engaged in trade and commerce, are beginnin to breathe more freely, we Unci a new daiigerstanngu^ —that of a cold, wet, ungenial season. W hat that means 101_ au kinds of out-door produce we know too well, and as day after day passes and still the floodgates of heaven open, the rains descend, not making one universal onslauglit upon the earth, and thus exhausting the vast reservoirs of Nature in the effort, but dropping a downpour here and a tremendous storm there, in one place dry and pleasant, in another not far remote from a flood. The winds that so rudely prevailed recently have now lost much of their force, but the elements are full of electrical influences, the clouds loom up heavily but in grandeur, and sud- denly and almost without warning discharge their contents upon the unfortunate bipeds beneath. Well may we earnestly desire that for some time at least the sun may shine upon us every day.-Gardencrs' Chronicle.

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