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It is a strong aiid vigorous plant with a spreading and 

 bushy habit. The canes are long and slender with long 

 internodes and numerous secondary ramifications. The 

 leaves are medium, large, or small, generally entire or cordi- 

 form, sometimes trilobed, more or less folded along the mid- 

 rib or conical, with undulating margins, deep green and 

 glabrous, the upper-face of a lighter green, with stiff hairs 

 on the veins of the under-face. The young leaves are slightly 

 downy, folded along the mid-rib, but not completely envelop- 

 ing the apex of the shoot. When the growth is very vigorous, 

 the margins of the very young leaves are pink (Fig. 17). 

 The bunches are medium or small, compact, and not 

 shouldered. The berries are small, black, firm, with a thick 

 skin and a fleshy pulp. The juice is pink, acid, and foxy. 

 This cepage is a good bearer, but it yields a very small 

 quantity of wine on account of the smallness of its berries. 



TAYLOK. 



This vine, indigenous to America, was the first cultivated 

 there. It was very much extolled by Americans at the 

 beginning of reconstitution of vineyards in France. Its 

 vigour, the large diameter of its trunk, the facility with 

 which it strikes from cuttings, its aptitude to grafting with 

 all European vines, would make it the best graft-bearer if 

 its resistance to phylloxera were higher; it is only 11, and 

 this is probably due to one of its parents, the V. Labrusca. 

 However, in certain fertile and fresh sites and not calcareous 

 soils, it has found very favorable conditions of growth, and 

 even now it is to be found in some vineyards bearing fine and 

 very fructiferous grafts. 



It resembles the Clinton very closely. However, it is easy 

 to distinguish it by the young leaves of the extremities of 

 the shoots which are always glabrous. The trunk is vigorous 

 and the habit spreading. It is even more robust than the 

 Clinton. The canes are long with medium internodes, of 

 medium diameter and slightly sinuous with numerous and 

 long ramifications. The leaves are fairly large, almost 

 entire or slightly trilobed. The petiolar sinus is rather 

 open ; teeth sharp, in two series, glabrous on both faces. 

 Bright green on the upper-face, light green on the under- 

 face. The point of junction of the veins is generally pink. 

 The leaves are folded along the mid-rib or conically (Fig. 18). 

 The bunches are small and frequently liable to nonr 

 setting ; the berries are small, amber white. 



