74 AMERICAN VINES. 



Most of the varieties of V. Berlandieri have the drawback 

 of not growing from cuttings. And it is to be noted that 

 the most vigorous forms with types of character adapted to 

 the calcareous soils, are those most difficult to grow from 

 cuttings. 



The resistance to phylloxera and superiority of resistance 

 to chlorosis of the Berlandieri are actually without doubt, 

 but the difficulty of multiplying the grafting stock would 

 seem to render it of no use for re constitution in chalky soils. 

 This difficulty of multiplication is fortunately actually re- 

 solved beyond all doubt, the selection and isolation of the 

 vigorous forms are definitely completed, and the utilization 

 of the Berlandieri is now as common a practice as 

 of the Rupestris and Riparia. Without actually enter- 

 ing into details, which will be explained later on, we 

 will state that grafted cuttings of Berlandieri do, under 

 the ordinary conditions, in well-conducted nurseries, root as 

 freely as the grafted cuttings of Rupestris and Riparia. For 

 several successive years the average strike of grafts (first 

 choice) has been 50 per cent, at the School of Agriculture, 

 Montpellier, and in various nurseries. When in possession 

 of Berlandieri wood it is easy to obtain rooted-grafts; 

 and this is possible in the most northerly as well as the 

 meridional regions of France, for, at Th ornery (near 

 Paris), Salomon has obtained 40 per cent, of good grafts 

 with grafted cuttings of Berlandieri, as much as with 

 the Riparia, and more than with the Franco-American 

 hybrids of Rupestris. Besides, the grafted cuttings of Ber- 

 landieri are quite as well knitted as those obtained on most 

 other grafting stocks. As it is not advantageous to reconstitute 

 in calcareous soils with any but rooted grafts, and as these 

 are easily obtained from Berlandieri wood, the utilization of 

 this variety does not offer any considerable difficulty. 



The only difficulty consists in having the Berlandieri wood 

 to make the grafted cuttings. This difficulty is easily 

 resolved by several very practical processes. The best, in 

 our opinion, consists in grafting at a couple of inches under 

 the soil on Riparia, Rupestris, or even European vines, the 

 cuttings of selected Berlandieri (No. 2, No. i, Anjeac, 

 Daignere, etc.). Berlandieris knit very freely. English- 

 cleft, whip-tongue, and side-cleft grafts are made according 

 to the size of the stock. Generally, under these con- 

 ditions, roots grow at the joint, but they give rapidly, in 



