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If a solittion of lime and sulphur be employed instead of flour of 

 sulphur, the operation would not be less expensive. 



If, in conjunction icith the sulphuring of the branches, the roots 

 were to be exposed, and sulphur and lime thrown upon them, I could 

 not estimate the total expense at less than \\d. to \\d. per vine, 

 which would entail a charge equal to another year and a half's 

 rental of the vineyards, or 18 per cent, on their freehold value for 

 the chance of saving one year's crop. 



Again, if the trunks of the vines be bored and the sulphur in- 

 serted, this most delicate operation could only be performed by the 

 factors themselves, and if the vines were to be cut down to the 

 ground and grafted with cuttings from sound vines, the entire ope- 

 ration (which could only be performed by the factors) would cost 

 \\d. to \\d. for each vine, or as much as the sulphuring process ; 

 and besides this, there would be a loss of four years' produce at 3/. 

 per pipe per annum, making a total loss of 16/. 10s. in every vine- 

 yard growing vines capable of yielding one pipe of wine, or about 

 33-i- per cent., or one-third of the freehold value of the estate. 



Lastly, the dressing of the trunk and branches of 800,000,000 

 vines with mineral tar could not be carried into operation within 

 any reasonable period, on account of the tediousness of the process 

 and the scarcity of labourers. The expense of the tar would also 

 be a bar to its being used. 



XII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



ON A PECULIAR PHENOMENON IN THE ELECTRO-DEPOSITION OF 

 ANTIMONY. BY MR. G. GORE. 



IF a piece of metallic antimony is connected by a wire with the 

 positive pole of a small Smee's battery of one or two pairs of 

 plates, and immersed in a solution of hydrochlorate of terchloride of 

 antimony, i. e. the ordinary chloride of antimony as prepared for 

 pharmaceutical purposes, and a clean piece of sheet copper of 

 similar size, or a little larger, connected by a wire with the negative 

 pole of the battery, a.id immersed in the same liquid, at a distance 

 of two or three inches from the antimony, a strong current .of elec- 

 tricity will pass through the liquid, and metallic antimony will im- 

 mediately be deposited all over the piece of copper, and will form a 

 distinct coating in two or three minutes ; if the power of the battery 

 is too strong, the deposited metal will have a dull appearance, and 

 less battery power should be employed, or the piece of antimony 

 immersed to a smaller extent in the liquid ; the deposit will then in 

 a short time assume a fine bright appearance, somewhat similar to 

 highly polished silver. If the process be allowed to continue for 

 twenty-four hours, the coating of antimony will be at least half the 

 thickness of a sixpence ; and by continuing it for eight or nine days, 

 I have obtained a continually bright andreguline deposit of upwards 

 of half an inch in thickness. 



