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Applicants are earnestly requested to thoroughly familiarize them- 

 selves with these. They are warned t/itit under no circumstances can 

 any dejxirtnre he permitted from the regulations governing the dis- 

 tribution as detailed therein, nor can any request for special considera- 

 tion he entertained. 



Dates before which Applications must be made. 



For Grafted Rootlings (1918 distribution, June to August inclu- 

 sive). Applications will be received until 30th June next. (For the 

 1917 distribution the time for receiving applications closed on 31st May. 

 1916, and present applicants cannot be supplied until 1918.) 



For Ungrafted Kootlings and Cuttings, to be distributed from July 

 to August inclusive, 1917, applications will be received until 31st July, 

 1917. 



Supplying Clean Districts. 



Rootlings and Cuttings cannot be sent from nurseries in phylloxer- 

 ated districts to clean districts. A limited number of clean tingrafted 

 Rootlings are, however, available for distribution to clean districts. 

 The price charged is £2 per 1,000, packing extra. Applications for these 

 ■will be received by the Priuci])al, School of Horticulture, Burnley, until 

 1st June, 1917. 



KUPESTKIS MET A LUG A (CAPE). 



Jiy F. dr Custella, Government V iticultnrist. 



The phylloxera resistant vine stock known by the above name (the 

 word " Caj>e " being used to distinguish it from a distinct variety of Vitis 

 Rupestris, at one time rather lai'gely used in France), has been fairly 

 extensively planted in northern Victoria, and generally with satisfactory 

 results. Until 1912 it was looked upon as a good stock, but during that 

 year its value was rather seriously discounted by the decidedly adverse 

 opinion concerning it which appeared in the preliminary report of the 

 committee appointed by the Department of Agriculture of the South 

 African Union to inquire into the suitability of American stocks.* The 

 committee found that the stock in question could not stand much mois- 

 ture in the soil, and that it suffered easily from drought. Though satis- 

 factory in fairly deep, loose, cool soils that have never too much and never 

 too little moisture, frequent failures were recorded in drier soils, it 

 being even stated that the resistance to phylloxera was insufficient. The 

 remarks concerning this stock concluded as follows: — "In most of the 

 Goiidini and similar soils, Metallica can be safely used, but in most soils 

 it is a bad stock, and hence grafting on Metallica ought not to be con- 

 tinued in future." 



* An extract from this report dealint; with Rupestris Metallica (Cape) was reproduced in the 

 Victorian Agricultural Journal for July, 1912. . 



