28 Vinifira Trials 



VINIFERA ON ITS OWN ROOTS 



In 1919 the acquaintance was made of a Mr. Poganani of West 

 Grove, Pennsylvania. This man was acting as fireman in the 

 Dingee arid Conrad Rose Company's greenhouses. lie proudly 

 exhibited a home vineyard of vinifera grapes that were bearing 

 heavily, though growing on their own roots. He offered to lead 

 the way to a number of similar vineyards which he stated were 

 doing as well as his own. Mr. Robert Pyle and Mr. Antoine 

 Wintzer of the Conrad-Jones Company have reported this vine- 

 yard several times since, and sent cuttings from it. It is still 

 thriving and bearing regularly. 



This vineyard is growing in clay mixed with sharp sand. It 

 was planted from cuttings some three feet long. The varieties 

 are the three Muscatels and the cuttings were brought from Italy. 

 Holes were dug eighteen inches deep and the cutting was coiled in 

 the bottom of the hole until it just reached the surface. Mr. Pog- 

 anani feels that this method of planting is important. The grapes 

 are sprayed with Bordeaux mixture regularly every ten days or 

 two weeks, and are carefully pruned and cultivated. 



OTHER SOUTHERN TRIALS 



In about 1910 Mr. Lindsay, of Tryon, North Carolina, received 

 a number of varieties of vinifera grapes from the Department 

 of Agriculture. These were grafted on resistant roots. They 

 have received the same treatment as his other vineyards. When 

 studied in 1921 they were thriving and Mr. Lindsay stated 

 that they fruited regularly. He gave it as his opinion that vinifera 

 grapes can be grown there, and with very little more trouble 

 than the American varieties, if grafted on proper roots. Because 

 of his well established and profitable trade in the American varie- 

 ties and because of failing health, he has not increased his plant- 

 ings. 



In 1918 the Southern Railroad Company furnished one 

 hundred vinifera grapes grafted on resistant roots for a trial 

 in northern Georgia. Mr. Morrell reports that they are doing 

 well and are already coming into profitable bearing. 



In the Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Department of 

 Agriculture of the State of Florida, F. J. Zimmerman, the leading 

 authority on grape growing in Florida, states that 'The vinifera 

 varieties of Europe and California are found to do reasonably 

 well only when grafted on phylloxera resistant roots." This 

 doubtless refers to conditions in Florida. 



Many additional instances observed or reported by Mr. Huss- 

 man, Chief Viticulturist of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, make it reasonably clear that if vinifera grapes are 



