218 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



We quote the following from the excellent " Entomological Record," 

 by Prof. Townend Glover, in the monthly report of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, for October, at the same time thanking our 

 esteemed friend for his kindness in sending us so regularly this valuable 

 report : — 



" Grape-vine Borers. — Mr. Fred. J. Kron, of Albemarle, North 

 Carolina, in a letter to the Department, complains bitterly of the injury 

 done to all varieties of grape-vines by the grape-vine borer, Algeria 

 fiolistiformis, described and figured in former reports of the Department 

 (1854, p. 80, and 1867, p. 72.) Mr. Kron states the insect has destroyed 

 for him one hundred and seven varieties of grapes, derived from the 

 Luxembourg, in Paris, including some five thousand vines ; and adds that 

 there is but one variety that has, so far, defied its ravages, and that is the 

 Scuppernong, which flourishes in the midst of the devastation caused by 

 the borer, all around it. Mr. Kron likewise states that he found a 

 Phylloxera on Clinton root, and adds : " The insect has been noticed 

 here for more than thirty years," but he does not complain of its doing 

 much injury." 



"In connection with this last-named insect, so destructive to the grape- 

 vines of France, Mr. Gaston Bazille, vice-president of the Agricultural 

 Society of Herault, publishes a remedy for the Phylloxera, which is 

 translated and republished by Mr. Charles V. Riley, in the New York 

 Tribune, as follows \ " 



"Three holes are made around the injured or infested vine, varying the 

 depth according to the nature of the soil, but generally 2]/^ feet. These 

 holes were made in the experiments reported by means of a pointed iron 

 bar and a heavy maul. A tube, with a funnel attached, is placed in the 

 hole, two ounces of sulphuret of carbon are poured into the tube, which 

 is then closed with a cork. The vapor of the sulphuret of carbon per- 

 meates the soil and impregnates all the roots of the vine. The gas 

 engendered (though not the case with the liquid) is not fatal to the vine, 

 but is sure death to the insects. Four ounces of the liquid has been 

 found sufficient for an ordinary vine ; but sprinkling on the surface must 

 be carefully avoided, as it is in such a case very injurious to the vine, 

 whereas a pound may be used in the soil without injury to the roots." 



How' to Send Objects Through the Post. — lam often grieved, 

 on reading your " notices to correspondents," to see the complaints of 

 articles being received in such a " smashed " state as to be useless ; and 



