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considered equivalent as a graft-bearer. Its adult leaves 

 are very large, rounded, and thick ; petiolar sinus almost 

 closed ; young leaves very bronzed and shining. 



BERLANDIERI ECOLE. 



This form was obtained at the School of Agriculture of 

 Montpellier, from seeds imported from Texas in 1876 by 

 Douysset. It is inferior to the above form, its use is therefore 

 not advisable as a graft-bearer. It is easily recognised by 

 its leaves, which, when adult, are depressed in the centre 

 and very involute. 



(E).-VARIOUS HYBRIDS. 



Apart from the hybrids previously described, grouping 

 them under the name of the pure form which seems to pre- 

 dominate in their character, there are a great number of 

 other hybrids offered to vine-growers as graft-bearers or 

 direct producers. We only mention those which are of 

 some value and already known : Aramon x Rupestris 

 Ganzin, No. 1, and A. R. G., No. 2, Gamay Couderc 

 (Colombeau x Rupestris Martin, No. 3103) ; Mourvkdre 

 x Rupestris, No. 1202 ; Chasselas x Berlandieri, No. 41, 

 of Millardet and de Grasset ; Tisserand ( Cabernet x Ber- 

 landieri, No. 333) ; Alicante-Bouschet x Rupestris, No. 

 136 ; Berlandieri x Riparia, No. 33, and B. x R., No. 34; 

 Petit-Bouschet x Riparia, No. 142, of the School of Agricul- 

 ture of Montpellier ; SeibeVs Hybrids, No. 1 and No. 2 ; 

 Franc's Hybrid, Alicante x Rupestris Terras, No. 20, &c. 



ARAMON x RUPESTRIS GANZIN, No. 1. 



Obtained by fecundating Aramon with Rupestris Ganzin. 



Description (according to V. Ganzin). Vigorous plant, 

 strong and stout, with long, spreading canes, buds sombre, car- 

 mine, red, bronze, violet ; young shoots, carmine, violet, with 

 lighter ribs ; leaves medium on the main canes and smaller 

 on the secondary ramifications, almost entire, sometimes 

 trilobed, of a dull green, glabrous ; winter wood large and 

 thick, sometimes striated, but rarely ribbed, varying in 

 colour from light brick red to hazel, with a tint of white or 

 yellow dotted with blackish brown spots. 



The Aramon x Rupestris, No. 1, is certainly one of the 

 most resistant Franco-American hybrids. For this reason 



