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and which now presented the interesting appearance of an 

 entire reconstitution of the vineyard on a grand scale, by 

 means of American vines planted ten years previously, and 

 subsequently grafted with the French vines, which latter have 

 since offered a perfect resistance to the attacks of the 

 phylloxera. 



In the ssme district another property was found where the 

 vines, which were of a French species, had been grafted 

 either on the Lenoir, Clinton, Taylor, or Riparia, and were 

 in a splendid state of vegetation, with an abundant appear- 

 ance of fruit. 



Similar accounts are given as to a number of other proper- 

 ties visited on this and the succeeding days, as to which M. 

 Lalande remarks : " It does not appear necessary to give a 

 detailed account of all we have been able to observe. We 

 limit ourselves, therefore, to remarking that, after having 

 seen numerous specimens of all varieties of American vines 

 introduced into France, we have especially noticed some 

 Lenoir and Herbemont vines as presenting a magnificent 

 appearance, with a fair quantity of fruit, although, it should 

 be stated, much less so than was to be found where French 

 vines had been grafted on American stocks." As a proof of 

 this fact, some particulars are given of a property in the 

 neighborhood of Montpelier where all the French vines had 

 been destroyed by the phylloxera. Here some 200 acres 

 had been replanted a few years previously with the American 

 vines called Riparia, and these had been subsequently 

 grafted with French vines. The results in this case were 

 splendid, the vegetation being very fine, and the quantity of 

 fruit enormous, in fact, all the vines were loaded with mag- 

 nificent grapes, and these extremely well formed, so much so 

 that the production had increased by half as much again per 

 acre on the original yield. 



Very much the same results w r ere observed on the last day 



