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The Phylloxera at the Cape. — We 

 are sorry to observe from the Cape Times 

 that M. Cornu has recommended the Cape 

 Government to continue their restrictive 

 regulations with regard to the Phylloxera. 

 No doubt, in the abstract, and if one side 

 only of the case be looked at, M. Cornu is 

 right; but there are many points to be 

 considered, and the general outcome is that 

 while, on the one hand, no restrictive en- 

 actments can in the long run be efficacious 

 in excluding the insect, they will, on the 

 other hand, inflict gratuitous injury on the 

 welfare of the colony by restricting the 

 importation of roots, bulbs, plants other 

 than vines, or coming from countries where 

 no vines grow. If natural barriers and 

 climate do not keep out the Phylloxera 

 from the Cape, no artificial restrictions that 

 man can devise will do so. The evidence 

 on the continent of Europe is decisive on 

 this point. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



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Prof. Bessey has produced a well illustrated Botany for the 

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An Elementary' Text-book of Botany. Translated from 

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