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not thrive, must now be replaced by more resistant cepages 

 possessing the same properties of adaptation, such as Riparia 

 X Rupestris, Rupestris du Lot, Berlandieris, and Berlandieri 

 X Riparia. 



The Jacquez, which have been used for reconstitution in 

 fresh and rich soils where phylloxera has not a very intense 

 action, and where they may easily recuperate their hair-roots, 

 are always very vigorous, grafted or not, and we have no rea- 

 son to doubt their stability. 



Jacquez has been used for a very long time in the south 

 of France, where its grapes ripen well when it is grown as a 

 direct-producer, on account of the intense colour and high 

 alcoholic strength of the resulting wine. Its wine always 

 retains, notwithstanding special treatments, a viotet colour, 

 which seriously interferes with the sale. But it was, until 

 recently, very much used as graft-bearer in the south of 

 France as well as in northern regions. It was, along with 

 Solonis, a common graft-bearer, which accommodated itself 

 best to rather calcareous soils. It becomes yellow and 

 stunted in white marls and in chalky limestone, but when 

 grafted can withstand an amount of limestone in which 

 Riparia, Rupestris, Vialla, etc., rapidly succumb. In the 

 south of France, for instance, it is green and vigorous in 

 marly laminated limestone of the Miocene, where Riparias 

 become affected by chlorosis and die a few years after being 

 grafted. 



Further, the Jacquez thrives well in blue clay, bluish 

 marl, calcareous marls, and generally in all compact and 

 fresh soils where Riparia and Rupestris, although not chlor- 

 osed, have little vigour. The Jacquez, on the contrary, is 

 very vigorous, and its excessive vigour sometimes brings 

 about non-setting, but this defect can be easily remedied by 

 long pruning. The Jacquez, like European vines, knits 

 well when grafted at a certain age (between six ur seven 

 years old or more), which is not the case for Riparias and 

 Rupestris. 



We will not insist on the value of Jacquez seedlings, such 

 as Saint-Sauveur, Jacquez d'Aurelle, Jacquez with large 

 berries, Herbemont, d'Aurelle, Herbemont Touzan, White 

 Herbemont. All these cepages succumb to the attacks of 

 phylloxera, and have deen discarded. 



The seedlings of Herbemont, of American origin (Dunn, 

 Hanvood, McKee), have the same qualities and defects as 



