...an abundant harvest. In early August I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. The wretched people were seated on the fences of their...gardens, wringing their hands and wailing bitterly at the destruction." The destruction of the potato crop was the destruction of the people. But it need...

...to Dublin and seen the fields blooming luxuriantly; on his return, however, he "beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places...bitterly the destruction that had left them foodless." That fall, three-quarters of the crops were destroyed. The price of food rose astronomically, and in...

...abundant harvest. Returning on the 3rd of August, I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrifying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were seated on the fences of their 310 THE POTATO DISEASE. CHAP. V. means of subsistence is extraordinary, and the widespread destitution...

...Returning on the 3d inst., I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the people were seated on the fences of their decaying...the destruction that had left them foodless." The Dublin University Magazine for April, 1847, gives the following affecting view of the condition of...

...all the luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3rd instant (August) I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were seated on the fences of the decaying gardens wringing their hands and wailing bitterly the destruction that had left them foodless2."...

...plant bloomed in all the luxuriance of an abundant harvest, Returning 3d Aupust, I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were rented on the fencea of their gardens, wringing their hands and wailing bitterly the destruction thai...