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eu urrants of ecommerce are obtained from the Black Gong We 
e 
nd the Ionian Islands, and the annual value of the e 
amounts to about a million and a half sterling. 
‘Latterly the plants yielding commercial currants at Pyrgos, on the 
west coast of Greece, have been attacked by discas), and Her M ps 
Vice-Consul in that district has furnished tlie following report, w 
has been obligingly communieated to Kew by the Foreign Office :— 
Ponaran OFFICE to Boras, GARDENS, Kew. 
Sin, Foreign ON June 17, 1899. 
t directed by the Secretary of State r Ron eign Affairs t to. 
transmit B. you, to be laid before the Director ofi thie Royal piros s. 
report on the vine disease at Pyrgos in Sage 
m, &c. gic 
‘The Assistant Director, d James W. LOWTHER 
` Royal Gardens, Kew.. a 
É : : Eadan: 
A Report of M. Vice-Consul FAUQUIER, of: Pyrgo 
rant Vines in his Nice Cedar T District. 





in panting y figures. | 
. As to the damage big at least one-third of the crop, there can 
E doubt whatever. 
ye 6 June 1892, 

| Signed) | Cartes Farqrma, 
Vice. -C 


= n, Wi Vu Tiros retired rom the servien othe Royal C 3a 
Le Kew on April 30th er serving 26 years as foreman 
_ Arboretum, a t positio pog he "filled with great, credit. to himsel 
. satisfaction to his superior officers. Before coming to Kew Mr. True 
_ love had charge of the then mines EM obe sind his se selection 
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