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Any other partieulars you may need about the Maqui plant I shall he 
very pleased to inform you. 
I remain, &ec. 
(Signed) JUAN DE LA C. CERDA. 
OXXX.—VINE CULTURE IN TUNIS. 
While the ravages of the Phylloxera in France have diminished the 
production of wine in that country, the diminution has not probabl 
affected the great export trade of Bordeaux. The whole Mediterranean 
basin has been drawn upon ei i 
FonEieN OrricE to Roya, GARDENS, Kew. 
Foreign Office, November 22, 1889. 
I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to 
transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Thiselton Dyer, the accompanying 
despatch respecting vine culture in Tunis. 
Sir, 
I am, &c. i 
The Assistant Director, (Signed) James FERGUSSON. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
The plantation of vines has been extended since 1888 by 759 hectares, 
bringiug the total area of vineyards to 5,200 hectares. 
crops in 
; I have, &ec. 
. The Marquess of Salisbury, (Signed) R. Drummonp Hay. 
&c. &c. &c. 
CXXXL—PHYLLOXERA IN VICTORIA. 
The note in the Bulletin for September 1889 on the Phyllo i 
South Africa has led Sir Ferdinand von Muël essai Ap 
Botanist in Victoria, i 
No doubt the circumstance to which he refers is liable to recur else- 
where, Thè only really sa 
which has been infested with Phylloxera is to use vines erafted on 
American stocks. - 
Sir F. von MUËLLER, K.C.M.G., F.R.S, &e. (Government Botanist) 
to Royan GagpENs, Kew, 
Dear Mm. Dyer, Melbourne, October 21, 1889, ` 
On zy a few hurried words this time to say that I read the able 
Teport on measures against Phylloxera as adopted in South Africa with 
very great interest in your admirable Bulletin (September 1889). But 
