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CXIL—ERRONEOUS REPORT OF PHYLLOXERA IN 
GREECE. 
e Foreign Office has communieated to this establishment the 
flowing despatch from the British Minister at Athens denying the 
tness of the reported appearance of Phyllexera in the Morea. 
p 
^in the Eastern Mediterranean cannot but be a ground for the gravest 
anxiety. 
Sm E. Monson to the Marquis of Sarispury, K.G., &e. &c. 
My Lorp Athens, 23 August 1889 
Tux “Times” of the 19th instant mete enm d a telegram 
from its correspondent m iro stating t hylloxera had m 
appearance in the Morea, M. Gennadius we aphed to his er 
asking if this were abi 
WP II instructed to make public at once the most categorical denial 
- of the truth h of the re 
Mr. Consul Wood, "d Patras, has sent me an official despatch 
asserting that there is no Phylloxera in the Morea; and M. Dragoumis, 
in mentioning the matter to me to-day, said that he M that the 
report had arisen from the fact that a vine cultivato at: 
recently requested the Government to send an ‘nein to look at his 
vines, ose he feared were unhealthy; and that the specialist des- 
patched he Government had reported th = though sickly the vines 
were sita free from the dreaded dise 
ave, &c. 
. (Signed) EDMUND Monson. 
The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., 
&e., &c., &c. 
