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production, an ordinary (red) table or semi-blending wine without foxy 

 flavour, and of good qualit3^ They also were found to posses great re- 

 sisting powers to fungoids diseases. (The locality where the experiments 

 took place being immune from phylloxera, it was not possible to test the re- 

 sistance of the hybrids to this disease). 



Among the mediocre h^^brids, which are at any rate still worth keeping 

 under observation, possessing some good qualities, the writer mentions : 

 Castel 5009, 6030, 7214, 13317, 13320 ; Couderc 603, 4308, 96-32, 267-27, 

 746-51, 202-137 ; Seibel 156, 2007 ; Fournie. All of them yielded a suffi- 

 cient or abundant crop of mediocre or even better quality, and a wine with- 

 out foxy taste. They all proved very resistant to mildew and Oidium, 

 Even in a year as unfavourable as 1915, both these last hybrids and those 

 mentioned above remained perfectly healthy without any treatment being 

 applied to them. 



With the exception of Couderc 746-51 which has white grapes, all the 

 hj'-brids mentioned as good or mediocre have black grapes. In the entire 

 collection there was only one white-grape hybrid which was mediocre, 

 Couderc 746-5 ±. In addition, it has the defect that it yields a wine not 

 entirely free from foxy taste. ^ 



764 - An Interesting Problem in Connection with Radial Pruning. — D.\L^L\sso o, in 



La Rivista di Viticoltura, Enologia ed Agraria, Year XXII, Series V, No. lo, pp. 156-159. 

 Conegliano, May 15, 1916. 

 Radial pruning has elicited interesting discussions as to the method of 

 its application, and the question whether on each rod (" cordon ") small 



Table II. — Cabernet franc {hill). 



