322 General Notes, [ April, 
ENTOMOLOGY. ! 
THE FRENCH STILL LOOKING TOWARD AMERICAN VINES.—The 
latest London papers bring information concerning the French 
Superior Commission on the Phylloxera, which lately held its 
final sitting under the presidency of the Minister of Agriculture 
and Commerce. The introduction of American stocks into the 
department of the Gironde was authorized. The commission 
then decided that no one had gained the £12,0c0 prize for an 
efficient remedy. The remedies approved by the commission 
continue to be, as before, submersion, sulphur of carbon and sul- 
phocarbonate of potassium. They recommend further the con- 
tinuance of State aid to those departments which are attempting 
the reconstitution of their vineyards by the aid of American 
descriptions. In certain departments this attempt has hitherto 
roved very successful. The nursery established at Saintes 
(Charente Inferieur) distributed last year 7000 roots and this year 
30,000, and further anticipated providing double if not triple the 
last number next year, with the promised aid of Government.— 
Pa:ific Rural Press. 
LEGISLATION TO CONTROL INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION.— 
Professor C. H. Dwinelle, of the University of California, has 
been appointed by the California State Horticultural Society as a 
member of a committee to consider what legislation is desirable 
to check the spreading of noxious insects, and force land-owners 
to destroy them when practicable. 
The committee has in mind a commission with power to inves- 
tigate and abate nuisances in the way of neglected breeding 
grounds of insect pests, codling moth, scale insects, etc. They 
have full power to rigidly enforce these laws and regulations, 
which, on the whole, do a great deal of good. The whole popu- 
lation of a district which is invaded by an insect enemy is, in cas¢ 
of emergency, at the command of the authorities, and what can 
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