7 ^ AMERICAN VINES. 



Berlandieri in chalky soils should be resolved. Now it is 

 done for most of the calcareous soils. Only one example 

 had been observed in Texas, at Belton, where, in the very 

 white, chalky, limestone soil, good varieties of Berlandieri 

 had been planted in 1884, out of which a few vines were 

 grafted in 1886; at the second leaf after the grafting, in 

 1887, the grafts remanied very green and very vigorous, 

 the canes were from 3 to 5 metres (10 to 16 feet) long. 



At J. E. Planchon's, Berlandieri were planted in 1880, in 

 soils partly formed by the decomposition of the Quaternary 

 tufa, rich in carbonate of lime, and were grafted in 

 1882. They were planted amongst many other American 



grafting stocks, such as Riparia, Taylor, Solonis, Jacquez.* 

 ut of 30 grafted plants 25 have knitted, and the grafts are 

 much more vigorous than those on the other grafting stocks. 

 Besides, the trunk of the stock is more developed than that 

 of the scion. At Bethniont's. in a bad groie soil, where over 

 600 varieties have been experimented upon, the Berlandieri 

 alone has resisted. The grafts, which are ten years old 

 become more and more vigorous, although they are grafted 

 with Mataro, which is known to do very badly on American 

 vines. f In the experimental fields of the Viticultural Station 

 of Cognac, in very chalky soils, the grafts on good varieties 

 of the Berlandieri have remained green and vigorous. |||j 



Important reconstitutions with grafted Berlandieri have 

 been made in the Charentes; these grafts, which are actually 

 eleven and twelve years old, have always remained green 

 and vigorous in a calcareous soil where the Solonis, Jacquez,* 

 etc., grafted with the same varieties, turned yellow and died. 

 At the School of Agriculture, Montpellier, the Berlandieri 

 Nos. i and 2, grafted with Carignane since four years, are 

 of an excessive vigour and very great fertility in a soil 

 particularly liable to cause chlorosis, and where no other 

 grafting stock has lived, not even the Franco-American 

 hybrids At the same time a fact of the greatest interest 

 has been remarked. The grafted Berlandieri have never 

 shown a trace of chlorosis, while the Berlandieri No i, 

 on its own roots, of the same age, planted next to the 

 grafted vines, turned yellow. These neat and conclusive 

 facts, confirmed by other results of the same nature, prove 

 that the grafts, contrary to what has happened to most of 

 the other grafting stocks, do not diminish to a notable 

 degree the power of resistance of the Berlandieri to chlorosis. 



* Lenoir. t Not in California (Trans.) 



