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Fig. 80. Leaf of Doaniana. 



fruit for them to have any value in Europe. As graft-bearers 

 they are without interest. 



The Early Doaniana is much less vigorous than any other 

 forms of Novo-Mexicana, its resistance to phylloxera, when 

 three years old, is only 12. It roots freely from cuttings. 



The Early Doaniana has an erect habit, like the Espar 

 (Mataro), for instance; canes short or medium, cylindrical, 

 rugose, dull, deep-hazel colour; internodes short, nodes 

 prominent; young shoots light pink with abundant araneous 

 tomentum on the summits. Leaves rather small, almost 

 entire, symmetrical, pentagonal, elongated ; terminal lobes 

 well detached, triangular, elongated ; limb -very deeply and 



