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ing of .3 parts of sulphate of copper, and 97 parts 
.of sulphur (or charcoal). 
II. When the plants are covered with foliage, 
the liquid treatment, as recommended, should be 
applied. 
III. When the grapes begin to mature the pow- 
der containing 5 parts of sulphate of copper and 
95 parts of sulphur (or charcoal) to be used. 
IV. After the grapes are collected the liquid 
treatment should be again applied with a slight 
excess of sulphate of copper. 
The present deplorable condition of the vines in 
Sicily, Italy, and Greece, where the wine and 
raisin industries have this year been all but para- 
lysed offers itself as a good object lesson to the 
the agriculturists of these islands. Her, ethe disease 
is now but in its incipient stages, and if therefore 
energetically wrestled with there is every proba- 
bility that it will be possible to keep it in subject- 
ion so as to render its effect practically harmless ; 
but if it be allowed, to firmily established itself, 
there can be no doubt whatever that the projects 
for the cultivation of the grape on a large scale and 
the establishment of a wine industry in the Mal- 
tese islands will have to be relegated for another 
decade at least to that limbo of Utopian ideas in 
which so many well-meant schemes for the islands 
weal and prosperity have already been stifled. 
John H. Cooke. 
(Member of the Commission.) 
The Meadow of Nysa in Asia Minor. 
BY 
Capt. Moore, r.n. 
The Meadow' lies at the foot of the highest crest 
in this part of the Messogis range, called Bey 
Dagh, which is the watershed whence the streams 
flow north and south into the Cayster and Meander 
valleys. This crest and the heights which bound 
the plain to the south and w'est are green downs 
sprinkled with trees. The meadow' is marshy in 
parts; it is in fact the mother of the springs which 
feed the torrent in the Here of Malagatch, and 
which clothe the orchards and vineyards round 
Sultan Hissar with so rich a verdure. We had 
no instrument at hand to determine the precise 
height above the Meander valley, but we estimated 
| it to be not far short of 5000 feet. That the 
, elevation was great was evident fr:m the fact that 
although the barley harvest had already begun in 
; the valley, the few fruit-trees around us were still 
i white with blossom, and no other trees had yet 
I begun to show their leaves. 
There can be little doubt that the Ovajik is the 
Peimon mentioned by Strabo. It is a remarkable 
spot, the only level piece of ground for many 
miles from Xysa in a northerly direction, and the 
road to it through the ravine is so marked out 
by the nature of the ground that the traveller 
cannot deviate to the right or the left, and is led 
on his way nortlrwards to this spot. It is true that 
the valley of the Meander was close to Xysa on 
the south, but, as has been shown, the Meadow- 
must have been to the north of that city, and 
there may have been reasons why this secluded 
plateau among the mountains was preferred by 
the Xysaeans to the more convenient plain at their 
feet for the celebration of their festivals. It was 
far less exposed; the approaches to it could be 
more easily guarded, and religious associations 
appear to have been connected with the locality. 
The only difficulty in accepting this view appears 
at first sight to lie in the distance from Xysa, 
which Strabo gives as 30 stadia, or f miles : where- 
as the Ovajik must be between four and five times 
that distance. But as any site, within four miles 
from the city, must obviously have been on the 
southern or Meander slope of the range, it is im- 
possible to place the Meadow, described in con- 
nection with the Cayster valley and the Tmolus, 
on the southern side of the Messogis. The apparent 
discrepancy may be explained it we suppose that 
Strabo wrote “130 stadia” and that the 100 has 
been omitted by some transcriber of his M. S., 
either by inadvertence, or, it may be, intentionally 
— the distance of 190 stadia from the city a; pearing 
to the transcriber much too remote for the site 
selected by the Nysaeans for the celebration of 
their public games and festivals. It would be a 
very difficult task to measure with precision the 
distance traversed over such ground as lies be- 
tween the ancient city and the Meadow: it may 
be rudely calculated, however, by the time it 
takes to reach the latter. Mr. Purser, who has 
had much professional experience in Italia as 
well as iu Asia Minor, calculated from the time 
