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EUPESTRIS MISSION. Very vigorous and spreading ; stands 

 drought well. Leaves small, gutter-shaped, with margins turned 

 in ; wood violet red at first, then dark and dull. 



Eupestris Mission. 



VITIS EIPARIA (River Bank Grape). In Europe, where the 

 conditions of soil moisture and fertility are frequently met with, the 

 R. Riparia is generally a favourite, and where these conditions 

 occur it is of all the stock vines the best to use. It is distinguished 

 from other specie's by having very thin diaphragms at the nodes of 

 the stem, light green, shining, glabrous leaves, almost or quite 

 without hairiness beneath ; large stipules and very early flowering 

 habit. 



One great advantage the Eiparia has over the Eupestris is that 

 it is more easily grafted when old than the Eupestris, and if the 

 stock is planted straight out instead of first grafting and sticking in 

 nursary rows, Eiparias stock will for that reason succeed more easily. 

 The large-leaved vigorous varieties only should be used and all 

 others discarded. Its only defect is that in the case of some sub- 

 varieties the stock is sometimes more slender in growth than the 

 vine it supports. 



RIPARIA GLORY OF MONTPELLIER (syn. R. Portalis). A 

 very vigorous variety, with spreading habit of growth. Wood long, 

 light hazelnut colour ; long joints with a small kink at the nodes ; 

 few laterals, light bloom ; young shoots bright purple. Leaves large, 

 roundish, dull, straight hair on the veins underneath. Petiolary 

 sinus open, U-shaped. Especially suited to deep alluvial soils, red 

 loamy, and rich, moist, sandy loamy. Does not do well in soils 



