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and more especially to the leaves, wLicL are of a yellowish-green colour, 

 more particularly in early spring. 



It is a vine which does well on sunny hillsides, since it requires 

 warmth to ripen thoroughly. It may be pruned, according to the Guyot 



Fig. 22.— Bunch of Tinta Aniarella. 

 Ki'prodiK'i'd from I'ml lujiil riiiii-nln. One Imlf iiiitiirul size. 



system (single or douldc) with short rods. Oiif of its peculiarities is 

 that a good many of its buds are blind and d(» not sprout in spring; it 

 is somewhat liable to cnninnclaincnld. the .'^omewbat mysterious disease 

 known as couti iiniie in France; it seems to be fairly resistant to fungus 

 diseases. 



