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cided stand at last in favor of resistant vines as the only 

 means of entire safety, a conclusion at which the best 

 French authorities have arrived long ago. The testi- 

 mony of such men as Professor Gustave Foex, M. A. 

 Millardet, Professor Riley, and other authorities without 

 number, ought certainly to be conclusive evidence in the 

 case; but the report of three French experts, which I 

 give here in full, establishes a new phase of the question, 

 namely, that the French varieties, when grafted on 

 American stocks, produce much more abundantly than 

 they ever did on their own roots. 



CHAPTER LIT. 



AMERICAN VINES IN FRANCE. 



The following extract, from " The Wine and Spirit 

 ," contains about the latest French experience on 

 the subject of American vines, and is conclusive enough 

 to convince the most skeptical. It clearly establishes 

 two points: 1st, The entire resistance of the American 

 vines to phylloxera; 2nd, The adaptability of the Vinifera 

 for grafting on the American stock, as it positively states 

 that the productiveness of the European varieties has 

 been increased by one-half over the original yield : 



"Under the heading ' Measures for Combating the 

 Phylloxera,' a pamphlet has recently been published at 

 Bordeaux, giving an account of a visit paid by M. A. 

 Lalande, the deputy for the Gironde, in company with 

 M.M. Ed. Lawton and T. and P. Skawinski, to the dis- 

 tricts of the Herault and the Gard, for the purpose of 

 studying the means employed in those departments with 

 a view to the destruction of the phylloxera or, where 

 necessary, reconstituthig the vineyards already destroyed. 



