THe JOURNAIsi 



CiBRARY 

 NEW YORl^ 

 BOTANICAL 



QAROEN. 



OF 



Tfie department of fl^gricufture. 



Vol. VI. Part 10. 



lOth October, 1908. 



FIFTH PROGRESS REPORT ON VITICULTURE 

 IN EUROPE. 



iContinued from 'pcif,c 55.i-) 

 F. de Cast ell a, Govenunciit Vlticulturist. 



From Alnieria to Madrid. 



(Via Granada. Montilla, and Manzanares.) 



According to my original itinerary I should have proceeded from 

 Almeria to Algeria, but several circumstances led me to alter my plans. 

 The season was now very far advanced (nth December), and the time 

 remaining at my disposal too short to permit a thorough inquiry into 

 Algerian viticulture. To do any really useful work in this important 

 French colonv would take a month at least, and I could not afford so much 

 time, for I was anxious to return to France, where there remained several 

 important matters for me to inquire into. T was anxious, for one thing, 

 to discuss with French authorities the preference of growers in Portugal 

 and Southern Spain for field grafting. Besides this, Algerian viticulture 

 is almost entirely based on French experience, and so far as I could learn 

 the methods differ but little from those followed in France. 



Being in Spain I considered that I could employ my time to better 

 advantage learning as much as possible of Spanish viticulture, concerning 

 which so little is known outside of the country. I wished to see something 

 of official viticulture, and the way in which the Spanish Department of 

 Agriculture assists vine-growers, also to visit Valencia and inquire into the 

 important Pudding Raisin industrv in the neighbourhood of that town. 

 I therefore decided to proceed from Almeria to Madrid, breaking my 

 journey at ^lontilla and Manzanares, two important viticultural centres to 

 persons in which I had introductions. I had also heard of the fine estate 

 of the Duke of Wellington, near Granada ; in order to visit it I made this 

 celebrated old Moorish town my first stopping place. 



The railway journey from Almeria to Granada is a most interesting 

 one as the train passes through varied country. The line is very picturesque. 

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