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AMERICAN VINES. 



Fig. 23. Leaf of Berlandieri Resseguier No. 2. 



GROUP No. 2. General colour very dark-green and very 

 brilliant (varnished) appearance; wood hazel-grey reddish, 

 strongly striated and excoriated; leaves dark-green, brilliant, 

 appearing varnished on the upper face, rounded, thick, 

 margin largely undulating; often folded conically; teeth 

 very blunt; petiolar sinus lyre or U shaped, but variable; 

 apex of the shoots whitish, slightly carmine; young leaves 

 bronze violet-ashy colour, turning to a real bronze and 

 passing suddenly to the definitive colour. Forms of this 

 group rather tomentose. We will only mention amongst 

 them the Berlandieri Resseguier No. 2 (Fig. 23), which is 

 one of the best for resisting chlorosis, and the Berlandieri 

 Cristal, which is a form of great value. 



GROUP No. 3. Leaves very large, more or less honey- 

 combed in structure along the principal ribs, brilliant on both 

 faces ; ribs always reddish at the point of insertion on the upper- 

 face ; this colouration is prolonged half-way up the leaf ; teeth 



