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conditions fjor the development of the disease. Vines, especially 

 those with a variable root-system, will become accustomed to 

 soils holding somewhat excessive moisture, if this is uniformly so 

 during the same season and one season after another, or to soils 

 holding scant moisture if it is the same continually. The moisture 

 conditions can be made more uniform by proper and intelligent 

 cultivation and by giving the vines ample space. This latter saves 

 money, labor and trouble. 



Wherever the disease has made its appearance, it is some- 

 times difficult to start young vines. On account of the disease 

 germs entering the tissue of their wood, as soon as they begin to 

 grow and their roots not being down deep, where the soil remains 

 moist and cool, they are apt to suffer somewhat even on rich 

 ground and the disease soon developes. It is simply a question 

 whether the disease shall remain as the harmless Form I or de- 

 velope into the deadly Forms II and III. For this reason young 

 vines should receive careful and intelligent treatment in cultivat- 

 ing 1 the ground thoroughly, holding an abundant and 

 uniform moisture supply from the time they are planted. On coarse 

 gravelly soils or any soils, which are apt to become dry or heated 

 near the surface, it is well to give them some irrigation for the 

 first and second year in order to enable them to go through the 

 summer in the best condition. A gallon of water, applied in two 

 doses during June and July will help them along wonderfully. 

 Because a certain resistant has not been a success on a particular 

 soil, does in a good many instances not prove that it would not 

 have succeeded, if it had received proper treatment. Slipshod 

 methods in grape culture will not do, wherever the Anaheim dis- 

 ease is present. 



Even where the Phylloxera has not made its appearance, but 

 the Anaheim disease has, it is extremely unwise to plant Viniferas 

 on their own roots, as for most any soil we have grafting stocks 

 at present, which will cause them to do much better and last much 

 longer than they will on their own roots. But considering the 

 great uniformity of all the varieties of any of the American species 

 we must realize how necessary it is that we get a certain type 

 of vine for a particular soil or locality in selecting not only the 

 proper root but also the proper graft. To choose the prpper 

 root is most important and to choose a proper graft is almost 

 equally important, because the tops of n,o two vines grow exactly 

 alike. But it is impossible to lay down exact rules for guidance 

 in either of the above requirements, because conditions of soil and 



