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unharvested for months without i injury, and the good sense of the people 
may be safely relied on to recognise this fact, and also to make them feel, 
as they now do, that men of means coming to the colony to engage in its 
fortunes are its best benefactors, and this is being brought home to 
them by the improvement in their condition arising from the operations 
in which capitalists have already engage 
am, &c. 
(Signed) A. SHEA. 

CCL.—NONNEN PEST IN BAVARIA. 
(Liparis Monacha.) 
In the Kew Bulletin, 1890, p. 224, an account was given of a 
formidable forest plague which had made its appearance in Bavaria. 
- The pest consisted of the caterpillars of a moth known as the * nonnen ' 
that has been known to attack forest trees on the Continent more or 
less for the last 200 years. In 1890 the damage done was so great that 
the loss to the revenue from woods and forests was estimated to amount to 
about 40,0007. In a recent despatch received by the Foreign Office 
from Her Majesty's Minister Resident at Munich, and communicated to 
Kew, a further account of the Nonne fo is given with the details of 
the various steps taken to mitigate the attac o far an expenditure 
of nearly 100,000/. has been incurred in pe campaign m the nonne 
pest by the Bavarian Forest Department. 
ForrrGn Orrice to Royat Garpens, Kew. 
Str, Foreign Office, 19th March 1892. 
TH reference to the letter from this office i July 7, 1891, I 

am, &c. 
The Assistant Director, (Signed) JAMES W. LOWTHER. 
Kew Gardens. 
[ Enclosure. | * 
Her Masesty’s Minister RESIDENT, MuwicH, to FOREIGN OFFICE. 
My aoe Munich, 15th March 1892. 
1 reference to Mr. Helyar’s despatch TNo. 17 Commercial, 
of June SUC, 1891,] upon the terrible destr ruction.of Bavarian forest trees 
by the “ nonnen,” I have the honour to inform your Lordship that in the 
debate on the oer a of the opto Forest. cresce Baron von 
* Previous to June 1889 the danger of so great a plague was not 
known. In 1 er several measures gtd the * nonnen ' were e taken, 
| ges d iiit ast experience 
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