322 PHYLLOXERA VASTATRIX, OR 
despatch of the 25th June last), which had been so 
injurious to the vintages of France and Portugal, had 
been equally prejudicial to that of Hungary this year. 
His Excellency said that the Hungarian vintage was 
this year a very bad one, and, indeed, that the whole 
agricultural experience of the country, this summer 
and autumn, had been unusually depressing. With 
reference particularly to wines, M. Szlavy said that he 
hoped that the Exhibition at Vienna would be the 
means of giving an impetus to the exportation to 
England of those of Hungary, which he imagined 
would be found most attractive to the English palate. 
In that hope he had caused a Hungarian tavern 
(" vendegto ") to be erected in the precincts of the 
Exhibition, at which not only the best specimens of 
native wines would be laid in for consumption, but 
such national Hungarian dishes as most provoked and 
stimulated thirst would also be provided ; and His 
Excellency thought that this arrangement would prove 
particularly attractive to the English. 
Speaking afterwards, on the subject of the vine 
disease, with the Director of the Agricultural Depart- 
ment, I was informed by that gentleman that as yet 
he had heard of no effectual remedy against the 
ravages of the Phylloxera vastatrix. 
I have, &c, 
(Signed) Edmund Monson. 
