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kinds discussed briefly herein are suited to this region. The South, 

 and the Central Southwest are, however, not forgotten. Nevertheless, 

 it must be said that the varieties known to succeed there are fewer 

 because less has been done in those sections. As to California, it seems 

 advisable to give only very brief comments on the more important 

 or well-tested varieties. Some of these have been tentatively tried 

 in the East during the past few years, the idea being that when grafted 

 on phylloxera-resistant roots, properly sprayed and protected during 

 Winter, they may succeed where they formerly failed. Mr. R. D. 

 Anthony of the New York State Experiment Station suggests nine 

 varieties concerning which he has written me that most of them have 

 ripened at Geneva under normal conditions and that he believes they 

 will do much better on Long Island. So far I have not had a chance to 

 grow them. The varieties are: Buckland Sweetwater, Ghasselas de 

 Fontainebleau (White Sweetwater), Dattier de Beyrouth (Rosaki), 

 Feber Szagos, Golden Champion, Gradiska, Joannenc or Lingan, Malaga 

 and Sultanina Rosea. So far as I know, the European varieties are 

 obtainable only from California nurseries. 



T. V. Munson, in Foundations of American Grape Culture, says 

 that certain European varieties (marked with an asterisk in the 

 following list), "if grafted upon the good resistant native Grape roots, 

 and the vines carefully sprayed with Bordeaux mixture, will succeed 

 all through the South to about the thirty-fifth parallel [the Southern 

 boundary line of Tennessee]. In the Northern parts of this region 

 Winter protection will be needed. A covering of straw, leaves, stalks 

 or weeds will be sufficient. In the moister regions it will be much more 

 difficult to succeed with these kinds than in the arid regions, and 

 their quality will be much better in the drier parts." The same 

 writer has also proved the following varieties suited to the same 

 region: Calabrian, Griesa de Piemonte, Perle of Anvers, Quagliano, 

 Muscat Rose, Sauvignon, Jaune, Semendia, Verdhelho and Violet 

 Chasselas. 



Mr. Anthony, when addressing the New York State Fruit Growers' 

 Association two years ago, gave the following suggestions as to grow- 

 ing the European varieties in New York and other cold parts of the East: 



"Both because of the necessity of laying down the vines in the 

 Winter and because of different habits of growth [from American 

 varieties] we are finding it best to modify the usual methods of Grape 

 pruning. When the scion starts into growth two shoots are saved and 

 when these are pruned in the Fall the lower one is cut to a spur of two 

 buds and the upper one is cut at the lower wire [which is 18 to 24 

 inches from the ground, the trellis being a different style two or three 

 wires one above the other]. Each Fall the lower growth is cut to a 



