Insects. 
GRAPE MANUAL. 
Phylloxera. 55 
CHTENSTEIN; and as a result of this discovery me 
sandy borders. of the Mediterranean coast (Aigu 
mortes), where formerly scarcely poor 
now, in many places, changed into beautiful premised 
Sulpho-car 
nitrogen, mixed with al 
d 
« bet re- 
the see from a gies Ege haeing ea a S. 
But the grape- o believe in these 
pinto ince cbr vtie or seca rte them impractical, 
And 
ow tiated into all the 
vineyards of France—notwithstanding its many Oppo- 
form, as no winged insects are > i wee to 
escape on the way, or upon openin ; and all 
danger of importing the insect ad re pared ie if the 
plants or cuttings, upon being unpacked, were placed 
in a bath of strong soapsuds 
. Mayet, of the National Agricultural § School 
ay preserve 
eae for exportation : clear fine sand ira be prefer- 
able. 2. To fumigate the cuttings on sul- 
phur smoke, as the sulphuric acid fnfallib y kills all 
to destroy the eggs of the Phylloxera, the 
empha tically deel ares (Vignes Am May, 1883), that 
of these have ever been found on canes of 6 one year’s 
ood. And if ever any live insects were transported 
with cuttings, less than a quarter of an hour’s Suner 
tion with sulphur would kill them on arrival.’’ 
Th £41 
i] however, Jd to jnstifs 
nents, both honestly 
the ill-favor of the ae ent, 
had been re insecticides and submer- , 
sion. And this pea ap is not a passing one, but has 
gained a stronghold by the Roepe img and growing 
vigor of the American est der various 
conditions of soil and in the mide of -. pe intense 
Medoc even opens 
stocks, 
where subventions 
vinced that their celebrated Medoc wines will n 
in the least changed by grafting t their Meniaan dhe on 
American roots. other famou 
districts, aid even in the regions of the great walle 
at iS the 
same its appearance, in spite of all precautionary mea- 
to protect m infection. Already it has 
cont 4 pane Ttaly (first in 1879 in the Lombardy 
and Porto neaee then i in Sicily), 2 ne is cohneeme 
oy v tries over 
Hun 
pc but that it was first 
_ winter, or early spring, cannot possibly 
—— ——— ea ices 
vines. Yet it must not eae that 
wile thus many 
chimera, 
a ae 
= 4: ry Bg 
of both . American vines and cuttings was ape a pro- 
hibited byt 
tain already invaded districts of France). “Thus they 
excluded — not the insect, aes the best remedy. And 
whilst it is now recognize ed and fully established th 
Phylloxera-destroyed be ieteieansbacell 
only by replanting with resisting Am erican vines, be 
urns eqeeses opie as 
iiesipsoete igre Mondes of June 1, 1883, contains 
on the Phylloxera question : 
byte Daches of Fit-James fn in which she says:—_ ne 
“While the inister 
= 
yeil over beautiful France, the American Vine throws 
over it here and there a ray of hope. Happy the soll oe 
fortune. It — 
persevere 
the American Vine covers with her verdant 
