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work on the principal Varieties and Species of Vines of American 

 Origin resisting the Phylloxera. Messrs. Bush and Meissner, of 

 Missouri, have also published a very comprehensive work on the 

 American Vines, translated into French by Professor Planchon and 

 M. L. Bazille. Mr. T. V. Munson, of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has lately published a short account of the 

 American species of Vitis, as a preliminary to a future full 

 monograph on this subject. In the Department Herault already 

 170,000 acres were planted with American vines in 1890. Un- 

 fortunately the mildew, which has attacked so much the European 

 vine, is equally hurtful to the American species, unless V. rubra and 

 V. cordifolia be proof [Planchon]. However Mr. E. W. Hilgard, 

 of the Agricultural Experimental Station, found V. riparia to be very 

 little attacked by mildew in California. The Phylloxera has now 

 found its way to Algeria, Smyrna and Australia, so that all 

 the five great parts of the globe are invaded. The late Prof. J. E. 

 Planchon lived to enjoy the triumph of seeing largely the French 

 vineyards, affected by Phylloxera, brought into copious bearing 

 again by grafting on American stock. Professor Millardet, who, 

 with the able assistance of M. de Grasset, has taken a prominent 

 part in hybridising the different species of American vines with each 

 other and also with the European species, is hopeful of overcoming 

 any difficulties, which yet present themselves to the complete re- 

 generation of French vineyards by these hybrids. He estimates, 

 that now already in Southern France two-thirds of the vineyards, 

 destroyed by the Phylloxera, have been replanted with American 

 vines and then grafted ; the yield from these is now larger by a fourth, 

 or perhaps even by a third, than before the invasion of the Phylloxera ! 

 He saw the extraordinary produce 1,400 gallons of wine from an 

 acre of the variety " Aramons " grafted on Vitis riparia, the soil 

 being of medium quality and deep, the plants grafted four years 

 before. 



Vitis rubra, Michaux. 



The Cat- Vine. Illinois and adjoining country, on river-banks. 

 May climb to half a hundred feet height. Proof against Phylloxera 

 and Mildew. Promises to become of value for hybridisation 

 [Millardet]. 



Vitis rupestris, Scheele.* 



The Sandgrape- or Sugargrape-Vine. From the Missouri to 

 Texas. Succeeds well even at Rockhampton under the tropic of 

 Capricorn [J. S. Edgar]. Likes naturally gravelly borders of 

 torrents, along which elsewhere this species might be naturalised ; 

 also at home on hill-sides and rocky knolls ; suited also for calcareous 

 soil. An important species as stock for grafting, particularly on 

 hillsides and on gravelly soil, also very drought-resisting. Hybrids 

 between V. riparia and V. rupestris are far more vigorous than the 



