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smooth, shining, almost glabrous, mider-face lighter in 

 colour, shining between the veins, which are more or less 

 downy. Hermaphrodite flowers with short stamens. 



Notwithstanding its Franco- American origin, the Chasselas 



x Berlandieri proved resistant to phylloxera, and grew well 



in limestone soils. It seems, therefore, to be a good 



graft-bearer for such soils, but unfortunately does not 



possess very great vigour. 



TISSERAND. 



Synonym: Cabernet x Berlandieri, No. 333. 



The Tisserand was obtained in 1883, at the School of 

 Agriculture of Montpellier, by fecundating Cabernet 

 Sauvignon with Berlandieri. 



Description. Plant of medium vigour, trunk of medium 

 size, deciduous bark detaching in fine thongs, long and 

 sinuous canes of medium diameter, nodes slightly protruding, 

 large buds. Wood fairly hard, with very little pith ; bark 

 deep red, strongly striated ; herbaceous shoots, purple, 

 covered with fluffy hair disseminated towards the extremities, 

 flattened towards the nodes. "When bursting, the buds are 

 bright carmine, then become whitish-pink, with large 

 grapes protruding from the centre. Margins of young 

 leaves and petioles pink, with woolly hair, forming a slight 

 down on the upper-face, white hair on the under-face. 

 Adult leaves medium, sometimes orbicular, five lobed, longer 

 than wide, petiolar sinus generally U shaped, the sides of 

 the sinus often overlapping. Inferior lateral sinus fairly 

 deep, teeth in two series, short and blunt, thick and glabrous, 

 of a brilliant green on the top, of a lighter green with stiff 

 hair on the veins of the under-face. Petiole cylindrical, 

 purple, with a few stiff or woolly hairs. Male flowers. 



The Tisserand resisted, even when grafted, the action of 

 chalky soils in the environs of Cognac. It bears grafts of 

 a fine green colour, but, unfortunately, its Franco- American 

 origin, and the examination of a few lesions produced on its 

 roots by the phylloxera, do not allow us to recommend it as 

 a graft-bearer, 



AUCANTE-BOUSCHET X RUPESTRIS, No. 136. 



This hybrid was obtained in 1881, at the School of 

 Agriculture of Montpellier, by fecundating Alicante-Henri- 

 Bouschet with Rupestris-Ecole. 



