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of wines and vinegars : he had proved the truth of 



the germ- theory : he had founded, with Lister, the 

 methods of modern surgery : and he had been the 

 very saving of the silk-trade. It is only a few 

 weeks ago, at Le Muy, near St. Raphael, that I 

 went over a silkworm nursery, and found his 

 methods in use, as in 1870, so in 1914. Flacherie, 

 I was told, has disappeared : pebrine is detected in 

 good time. Of late years, in the South of France, 

 horticulture has become a far more important 

 industry than sericulture : early roses and early 

 vegetables are more profitable than mulberry-trees. 

 But the exportation of seed goes on : and that seed 

 is tested by Pasteur's methods. 



