Il8 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



ing to the report of E. L. Beckwith, Esq., on the wines of 

 the Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1868, the quantity 

 of wine manufactured annually in France amounts 

 to 831,000,000 gaUons, exclusive of 165,000,000 

 distilled into brandy. Taking this enormous sum at 

 the very low average rate of 2s. 6d. per gallon, it can 

 easily be understood why France is so much concerned 

 and dismayed at the progress of a foe which perils the 

 very existence of her vineyards, and how this army 

 of insects threatens to be a more formidable enemy, in a 

 pecuniary sense, than the squadrons of the German 

 Emperor. It is already committing alarming ravages 

 in some of the wine departments of France, and has 

 spread into Spain, Portugal, and Austria. 



About eight years ago the Phylloxera unfortunately 

 made itself known in this country, and has proved fatal 

 to the vines in some English vineries, crossed the Chan- 

 nel to Ireland and the Borders to Scotland. I have 

 recently heard of its fatal effects in a good many of the 

 English counties. I have no conclusive proof up to 

 this time that it exists in any place in Scotland except 

 Drumlanrig, although I have heard of the vines in 

 several places in Scotland having in some cases died 

 outright, and in others been curiously affected. Al- 

 though such circumstances are suspicious, it can only 

 be hoped that it is not the result oi Phylloxera. 



After the most careful observation, I have come to 

 the conclusion that there does not exist in British 

 gardens another insect that can be compared to Phyl- 

 loxera, in the rapidity and certainty with which its 

 work of destruction, in the case of the vine, is earned 

 on, nor one that is so diflScult to combat successfully 

 without the most prompt and ultra means. And in the 



