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to the roots is said to effect the desired object. From the character of the 

 compound (all potash compounds seem valuable) it would appear that this 

 would be an aid in the wished-for extermination. I see by the late French 

 journals that such men as Milne-Edwards, Duchartre, Blanchard, and Pasteur 

 have experimented with the above with complete success, yet it is to be feared 

 that inability to make any such applications suflSciently general, will ever pre- 

 clude their effectiveness as practical remedies. Yet judging from all past 

 human history, we must believe that a remedy wholly practical must one day 

 be found, for has not human ability ever proved commensurate with human 

 needs ? 



We see, then, that the question is answered. That notwithstanding the ter- 

 rible Phylloxera, so ruinous in sunny France and genial Italy, is a native 

 among us, yet we may hope and expect to sit under our own vine and partake 

 of the richest treasures of the vintage, and though the storm king descend in 

 still more wrathful mood among us, we still may expect to possess one fruit, 

 and that, too, the peer of any in its healthfulness, varied uses, and delicious 

 flavor. 



