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to throw upon them an enormous ainount of work. I therefore feel 
and appreciate very much your kind and courteous response to m 
I will try to avail myself of an early opportunity to examine your 
collection of timber. | 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) J. P. BARBER, 
D. Morris, Esq. i i Surveyor. 
Iu response to an application to the Surveyor of the St. Martiu's-in- 
the-Fields Distriet Board for a sample block to be placed in the Museum, 
the following letter was received :— 
Vestry Hall, St. Martin's Place, W.C., 
26th September 1889. 
IN reply to yours of the 24th instant, addressed to the Strand 
District Board, I beg to inform you that the importers of the “ Jarrah ” 
woed are Messrs. John Walsh & Co., 81, Gracechurch Street, E.C. 
am sending you a sample block for exhibition in the Museum as 
may mention that this wood has already been laid in London, viz., 
by the Chelsea Vestry in the King's Road, and recently by the Lambeth 
ridge Road. 
Vestry in the Westminster B 
Yours, &c. 
(Signed) | Henry JACQUES. 
Per J. R. S, 
J. R. Jackson, Esq., Surveyor. 
Curator, Museum, 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
CLXV.—TREATMENT 0F MILDEW ON VINES. 
In the Kew Bulletin for September 1889, p. 227, an account is given 
of the vine industry in the Gironde, with the results of the treatment of 
i vines, with certain remedies. It is there mentioned that the 
best known remed against Mildew is the so-called **Bouillie Borde- 
laise,” a mixture of sulphate of copper, slaked lime, and water. 
Further, that *the abundance of the 1888 vintage was in a great 
“ measure due to the widespread use of this remedy in the vineyard of 
* the Gironde." 
Under these circumstances it is not surprising to find that the use of 
* Bouillie Bordelaise " is fast extendi ies. 
The following correspondence on the subject has been communicated 
to this establishment by the Foreign Office. 
Foreign OrricE to RoyaL GARDENS, Kew. 
Foreign Office, 4 August 1890. 
I am directed by the Marquis cf Salisbury to transmit herewith 
for your information copies of despatches respecting the use of sulphate 
_ of copper in dressing vines in France, Italy, and Spain. 
I 
Sir, 
am, &c. 
The Assistant Director, (Signed) JAMES FERGUSSON. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. |. 
