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Art. 6. The memoranda, essays, and notices must 
be lodged either with the Minister of Agriculture 
(Direction de 1' Agriculture) or at one of the prefectures 
of the Republic, at the very latest by the 31st December 
1872. 
[Enclosure 5 in No. 5.] 
* Extract from the " Gironde " of 19th July, 1872. 
Since 1865, at which period its first destructive 
effects were experienced ; since 1868, when the 
first systematic study of Phylloxera was originated, 
the disease has made a little advance every year ; but 
its march has been slow — one might even say very 
slow, when we remember the rapidity with which it 
has been propagated in the south. 
The communes of Floriac and Pompignac are the 
only ones seriously attacked. Floriac shows at the 
outside — taking both those on the flats and those on 
the hills — 100 acres attacked and destroyed. Pompignac 
offers about 4 a 5 hectares (8 or 10 acres) of diseased 
vines. Here it broke out only in 1868. It is worthy 
of remark that these two centres of the disease 
are at from 7 to 8 kilometers distant one from the 
other, and surrounded by vineyards, uplands, hills, and 
lowlands, the general vegetation of which is very 
beautiful. 
The able correspondent who has furnished these 
details adds : — " I went on Monday morning to visit 
those diseased vines in company with several members 
of the Agricultural Society of the Gironde, and at 
Pompignac and Floriac our observations are but little 
different from those made at our last visit, and last 
* Translated from the French. 
