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in the department of the Puy-de-D6ome writes: ‘French vines grafted on American 
stocks yield a wine as good as, if not better than, that given by the ungrafted French 
species.” 
The report from the famous Burgundy vineyards is most encouraging 
and shows that the day is rapidly approaching when that region will 
stand where it did before the Phylloxera invasion. Similar reports have 
been received from other great wine districts, and it is now the gener- 
ally accepted opinion that within ten years the vintage of France will 
be greater than ever before and not inferior in quality. 
REMEDIES FOR THE PHYLLOXERA AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
We learn from an article by Hon. A. Fischer, Secretary for Agricul- 
ture, Cape Colony, in the Agricultural Journal, Cape Town, May 7, 
1891, that up to the time of publication all discoverers of so-called Phyl- 
loxera remedies have been given an opportunity to exhibit their means 
at the expense of the Government, only the material being furnished by 
the persons concerned. Mr. Fischer in this article disparages fitture 
miscellaneous and uninformed endeavors to find a remedy, onthe ground 
that all substances and means which have been brought to the consid- 
eration of the Department by inventors have been already tried by 
scientists and practical men of almost the whole world during the last 
twenty-five years, so that there is hardly a chance that any one will 
“just happen” to find a remedy. The only wise course, he decides, is 
to concentrate the expenditure of the government on protecting as far 
as possible the area as yet uninfested and in procuring Phylloxera- 
proof American vines. The text upon which the article is based is a 
report by Baron Von Babo, acting inspector of vineyards, upon a rem- 
edy submitted by a Mr. Von Schade, which proved not only absolutely 
ineffectual against the Phylloxera, but detrimental to the vine-roots. 
ABUNDANCE OF THE PEAR-TREE PSYLLA IN NEW YORK. 
Dr. Lintner has announced in the Country Gentleman of August 6 
that the Pear-tree Psylla (Psylla pyricola) has become exceptionally 
abundant in several of the Hudson River counties of New York State. 
The leaves of the young shoots turn yellow and sickly and the twigs 
themselves become covered with honey-dew and attract smut fungi. 
They become so abundant as to give the twigs the appearance of hay- 
ing had a coat of black paint. Many leaves drop and frequently the 
fruit is blighted. Dr. Lintner urges an application of kerosene emul- 
sion, both while the insects are at work and during the winter; at the 
Jatter time for the destruction of the eggs. 
THE EVOLUTION OF A NEWSPAPER STATEMENT. 
The absurd statement which we published upon page 427 of Volume 
11, to the effect that some one in Arizona had captured a butterfly 
