NEW VINE SCOURGE. 
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which has attacked the vines of the east of France, I 
have the honour to transmit to your Excellency the 
inclosed copy of a letter received by me from the 
President of the. Chamber of Commerce at this place, 
containing the information possessed by him respecting 
this new danger to vineyard owners. 
The President, after showing that an insect of the 
kind was discovered at Floirac, near this town, four or 
five years ago, but has only been observed to a small 
extent on two or three other estates ; that the Govern- 
ment of Paris has offered a reward for the discovery of 
a cure ; that the cause of the malady is unknown, and 
that the destruction of the plants is recommended as 
necessary ; questions the identity of the cases observed 
here with the disease of Languedoc. 
So far as I have been able to learn from private 
inquiry, the insect is almost unknown in the neighbour- 
hood of Bordeaux. 
I have, &c, 
(Signed) Thomas Carew Hunt. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 4.] 
* if. Gorti to Consul T. G. Hunt 
Bordeaux, 11th July, 1872. 
Sir, 
I have obtained from persons of experience in 
Phylloxera vastatrix the following account, in reply 
to the questions on which you seek for information, 
viz. : — 
I. Since the first appearance of the disease in the 
Palu de Floriac, now four or five years ago, its 
* Translated from the French. 
