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tawney and Walter, in considerable numbers, but failed to find any on the others, 

 thouojh the roots had every appearance of beinof affected. It was nij' intenliou to have 

 made further investio^ations. but absorbing engagements prevented. 



Atlanta Nurseries, Atlanta, Ga., Dec. S, 1875. M. Cole. 



la a subsequent letter Mr. Cole writes: 



I regret that it is not in my power to furnish you with roots of the Maxatawney 

 grape vine upon which I discovered Phylloxera, detailed in rayletter of 8th December. 

 The examination was made early in October, and the subjects destroyed by burning. 

 The examination was carefully made, and the insects clearly defined in considerable 

 aiumbers, and their movements observed. 



AMERICAN GRAPE VINES IN EUROPE. 



The demand has steadily increased in France for American vines, 

 and especially those varieties which most resist the Phylloxera. 

 Messrs. Jules Leenhardt, and M. Douysset, of Montpellier, who have 

 been large importers, state that the orders during 1875 exceeded 

 fourteen million cuttings, and though the orders have been largest 

 for varieties of asstitjalis, as Cunningham, Herbemont, Jacquez, many 

 others, including wild vines, as the cestivalis of our woods, and the 

 Mustang of Texas,* have also been sent over. There has also been 

 quite a demand from Germany for our cuttings, as well as for seed 

 of our different varieties. 



The reason for this large demand is obvious. In spite of the liberal 

 national reward offered in France for a remedy; in spite of the well 

 directed and persistent efforts of the Government, and of theJNational 

 Academy of Science; in spite of the fact that improved methods of 

 employing the sulphocarbonates have been discovered, and that the 

 use of these compounds is declared by the Phylloxera Commission of 

 said Academy to be satisfactory— the only remedy which has been 

 applied on a large scale is submersion, which is not everywhere 

 practicable, and the disease has steadily continued to spread. 



During my visit to South France last July, I found that in many 

 parts of the Department of Herault, where four years before the whole 

 country was one vast vineyard relieved only here and there by an 

 olive orchard, the ground was devoted either entirely or partly to other 

 crops, and the vineyards were fast disappearing. Yet right in the 

 midst of this desolating work of the insect, the American vines were 

 generally flourishing, and those who had carefully grafted their own 

 varieties on to the roots of ours were elated at the prospect. 



I made numerous notes and observations in different vineyards 

 around Montpellier; but Messrs. Planchon and Viala have since, on 



* Mr. Onderdonk in a letter to Mr. Isidor Bush, expresses the belief that the vinifcra will not 

 ,gi"aft upon the Mustang. lie has tried it repeatedly, and the grafts have always died the second or 

 (third year, after malting a luxuriant growtli. 



