480 



The same characteristics are of cen seen on leaves growing on a 

 sterile water shoot or sucker issuing from a vine stump. 



FIG. 14. Aramon leaf from a sterile sucker on the same vine. 



From what we know, therefore, of the fertility of particular 

 vines, or particular parts of grape vines, it is evident that selection 

 enables us to eliminate from a vineyard all unproductive stock by 

 means of grafting, or avoid reproducing undesirable features shown 

 in the parent vine. 



INSECT ANT) FUNGOID PESTS. 

 TREATMENT ATSTD REMEDIES. 



Until of late years little or no attention was paid to the damage 

 caused by insect and fungoid pests to cultivated crops. 



In the old days of farming and fruitgrowing pests were 

 regarded in the light of an unavoidable calamity, and a visitation 

 of Providence ; their nature was shrouded in mystery, or they were 

 either entirely unknown in some parts of the world, or else were 

 often met with, under a mild form, in' certain localities ; a great 

 many, by transplantation to surroundings somewhat dissimilar to 

 those by which they were influenced in their original habitat, have 

 subsequently developed more pronounced and distinct characteristics, 

 and have consequently forced themselves to the notice of cultivators. 



