506 RiiPoirr of the Dki'art.mkxt of IIoRTurLTfKK of the 



225 ; of the 225 Riparia Gloirc vines, 206 were dead. Late in the 

 fall, all of the varieties on their own roots were set excepting 

 three sorts which were put ont early the next spring. For most 

 part the vacancies in the Riparia Gloirc plantation were from 

 vines that failed to start either because originally poor stock or 

 because weakened in the trans-continental shipment. 



1903. — In the spring of this year the vacancies noted the pre- 

 ceding fall were filled and all of the Clevener vines were set. A 

 surplus number of vines were bench-grafted and put' in nursery 

 rows for possible vacancies in future years. October 1 of this 

 year, it was found that 17 Riparia Gloire stocks had died; 9 of 

 'St. George; 9 of Clevener; and 29 on their own roots. Of the 

 grafts on Riparia Gloire 8 had died ; 48 on St. George ; and none 

 on Clevener. The vines were pruned, tilled and otherwise cared 

 for as in a commercial vineyard — this record need not be bur- 

 dened with the details. 



190 Ji. — Upon examination in early May of this year many dead 

 and weak vines were found. The greater number of these were 

 plants on which cions had not united with the stock but which 

 had been kept alive by roots from above the union. jVIost of these 

 seemed to have been injured by the extreme cold of 1903-04. In 

 digging plants to fill vacancies from nursery rows at the Station, 

 it was found that the union of stock and cion was not so strong 

 with bench-grafted plants as in the case of those grafted in the 

 nursery row. Many of the bench-grafted plants bore roots from 

 the cion, which were removed, and the plants set so that the union 

 was about two inches below the surface of the ground. After 

 planting, the vines were banked up nearly to the top of the cion. 

 The following were the numbers reset on the different stocks : St. 

 George, 85; Riparia Gloire, 56; on own roots, 48. All of the 

 Clevener stock was grafted this spring, May 19 and 20. In the 

 middle of May of this year the roots which had gro^vn the preced- 

 ing year from cions were removed. j\Iay 23 and 24, a new lot of 

 plants were bench-grafted on the three stocks, buried until Juno 

 2 and then set in nursery rows at the experimental vineyard. 



