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VARIETIES TO GRAFT ON TO xVSY OK ALL OF THE ABOVE. 



Of First Importance. 



1. Catawba. 4. Wilder. 



2. lona. 6. Goethe. 



3. Delaware. 6. Aiiy European vine. 



Of Secondary Importance. 



7. Ives. 8. Hartford Prolific. 



9. Maxatawney. 



This list is given wholly from the Phylloxera standpoint, and with 

 a view to discover the real influence of the resisting on the nonresist- 

 ing kinds. There are many grape-growers who will agree with Mr 

 Husmann, who has so high an opinion of the Oynthiana, that to graft 

 even the Catawba upon it would, as he has remarked to me, " appear 

 like sacrilege." Others again will not think the Hartford and Ives^ 

 for instance, worth saving, since they do not deem them worth plant- 

 ing. But any of the experiments indicated — no matter what the qual- 

 ity of the fruit — will prove valuable as showing the influence of a root 

 that is proof against Phylloxera on a vine which on its own roots suf- 

 fers from it. Experience is not wanting to show that several of the 

 susceptible Lahruscas^ and many hybrids with vinifera grow with ex- 

 cellent succepson the vigorous roots of cestivalis ; but let us increase 

 the experience on this point in every direction possible. If the reader 

 can make but one or two of these experiments, I shall consider it a 

 favor to have him do so, and inform me precisely as to the number and 

 varieties grafted, the method employed, the character of the soil and 

 all other details of interest. My object is to have these experiments 

 made on difl"erent soils and in different latitudes ; and, in the course 

 of two or three years, I hope to gather the results from all quarters, 

 and we may thus be enabled to draw conclusions of much importance 

 to grape-growers. 



AMERICAN GKAPE-VINES ABROAD. 



Having already referred (pp. 101,114) to the large demand that has 

 been made for some of our American vines to be used as stocks in the 

 blighted districts of France,* it is only necessary to add that experience 

 over there with such vines is by no means discouraging; and that it 

 is not at all improbable that some of our varieties will be eventually 

 grown there not oiily as stocks for the European vinifera but for their 

 own grapes, just as they are to-day, on account of greater hardiness 

 and vigor, superceding the European vines in some parts of Australia, 



* Mr. Ilusm'tnu estimates in the Rural World for January 9, 1875, that the Importation of American 

 cuttings into Frttnce, during the Winter of 1874-5 will amount to ten millions. 



