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The following precautionary measure is suggested. All cabbage 

 seed should be disinfected before sowing, by soaking for 15 

 minutes in a solution consisting of one part of corrosive subli- 

 mate in 1,000 parts of water, or in formalin, 1 lb. to 30 gallons 



CROSS SECTION OF CABBAGE STEM, SHOWING BLACKENED VASCULAR BUNDLES. 



of water. It is not expected that this treatment will prevent 

 either leaf or root infection in infected soils, but it may be 

 safely relied upon to prevent all danger from infected seed. 

 It will not injure the germination. 



Cape Colony .—In connection with the importation of plants 

 into Cape Colony, revised over-sea plant import regulations 

 were published as Proclamation 502, 1906, 

 Plant Import on 25th December last. By mutual 

 Regulations.* arrangement the Orange River Colony, 

 Transvaal, Natal and Rhodesia have 

 published, or are about to publish, similar regulations. The 

 new Cape schedule is, in most respects, identical with the 

 one which it supersedes, but certain modifications have been 

 made with the view of securing greater efficiency, and also 

 uniformity with the regulations of the other Colonies. No 

 person may introduce any tree, plant, or portion thereof, 



* Previous notes as to plant import regulations have appeared in this Journtl as 

 follows : — Germany, September, 1903 ; Cape Colony, October, 1904 (now superseded') : 

 Transvaal, February, 1905 (now superseded by similar regulations to those for Cape 

 Colony) ; New Zealand, August, 1904, and June, 1906 ; Natal, September, 1905 

 (now superseded), and November, 1906 : Western Australia, June, 1906 ; and 

 Rhodesia, October, 1906. 



