PAPERS 
PHYLLOXERA VASTATRIX, 
OR 
NEW VINE SCOURGE. 
No. 1. 
Sir C. Murray to Earl Granville.— (Received 
22 nd June.) 
Cintra, 12th June, 1872. 
My Lord, 
I know not whether your Lorship's attention has 
been called, either by the Embassy at Paris or by any 
of the British Consuls in France, to a new scourge that 
has recently attacked the vines in that country as well 
as in Portugal, and which threatens to be as desolating 
in its effects as the disease called Oidium, which for 
some years destroyed viniculture in Madeira, and has 
inflicted serious damages on it both in France and 
Portugal, notwithstanding the partial remedy that has 
been discovered and adopted in the free use of sulphur. 
The insect which has lately been making such ravages 
in the vineyards, and to which has been given the 
name of Phylloxera vastatrix, seems, according to the 
report of those who have examined it carefully, to be 
of the same species as the " aphis," long known in 
horticultural and vinicultural science as an insect most 
destructive to plants and vegetables, and it has received 
