26 BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
e Euro varieties are more eae = wate dis- 
than our pet sess sorts. In Fran d Ger- 
many it is successfully combated with “ponies ot peers 
ei often applied, on the lower surface of the 
With our prices of labor it would scarcely be 
sullaaisios except in cold graperies or garden culture, 
and it is best not to plant largely of those pervert 
which are very liable to this disease 
The Rot ere are several kinds of Rotin the ber- 
ries, (well known to all cultivators to 
pecially prevalent in heavy soils and during wet sea- 
sons; (at | the dry climate am ewe seems a 
complete safeguard against both m and rot,) and 
ursue is to 
choose varieties — are least liable to be secs and 
to plant them tae ined soil. 
Si another disease, or, probably, va an- 
S 
fected by the one are very likely to be attacked by the 
oni 
§ another species of fungus called rust, and 
Toke diseases, but they are ick cy less injurious 
mw formidable than the many n 
INSECTS. 
[our limited space only permits us to briefly refer to 
a few of those insects which we have found most inju- 
rious in our own vineyards. These are, however, for 
the most part unnoticed in any of our standard treatises 
on the Grape-vine, and for the facts regarding them we 
are indebted to the ni ere Entomological Reports of 
the State of Missouri 
THE GRAPE FAYLLOXERA: 
Phy 77, 
Among the insects Beeaphage e the Grape-vine none 
have ever attra 
ERA, which, Bi ey pouena characteristics, was u 
known when the first edition of this little ioe oh on 
e-vines Was Wri The gall-inhabit- 
ing type of this insect, itis true, was noticed by our 
the roots of young vines to be sites off, in order to get 
never , nor of 
any root-infesting insect, in his excellent Treatise on 
the Cultivation of the Native Grape, 16 pages 
are devoted to its inse ts. In the estes of 1869 M. J. 
Lichten: the opinion 
ftrestiok so much at- 
ciate was identical with the American 
ix the equal 
quantity: of ve aoe lime, har yd ena ¥ the p peader 
aid of bellows, ‘e which a very c ve eis 
manufactured for th se. par is 
made as soon eins: > oO are off, in June, and re 
peated once a month during the summer. th 
ure an even distribution in a time 
tisto 
i << make sure work, this application paseue he mae made ee 
ere: rie ong signs of i mildew appear, and repeated 8 or 4 
times during the seaso: 
of this insidious little root-louse; also, 
Lea eaf-gall Louse, (first described by Dr. Asa Fitch, 
State Entomologist of New York, by the name of Pem- 
phigus vitifolie); and in 1870, Pro . Ri - 
eeded in establishing the identity of their gall insect 
with giesih and also the id piousdd of the galla 
France; Pally nee of Prof. Roessler, in Klosterneu- 
burg in Aus’ 
After iui — in 1871, and then — his 
observations here, some of sepa aye made in our 
teers us se aaa 
Tro: 
native varieties, are mainly owin 
that some of 
our native varieties oe 4 ca immunity from the 
insects’ attacks ’’—M. Lalim f Bordeaux, having 
. 
usly DBoOvced tne 
previo 
American vi fe the midst a Ye vines —— 
from the effects-of Phylloxe The 
these eavionetion to grape spanner eannot ce too hgh 
appreciated. The French Minister of Agricu com- 
missioned Professor Planchon, of Meanenier ba to visit 
this country to study the insect here—the h oes 
0 our vine r of resistance which these 
an 
ich will be very apt to dispel much of th 
vichebies' against them that has so universally ae TT 
heretofore. 
To discuss this subject as it deserves; to give a his- 
tory of the Grape Phylloxera; 
exper 
ceed the scope of this ‘bilet ah 
this subject would already ai a feepectate library. 
We can here merely mention a few facts, and give some 
sect; and we refer those who de 
information to Prof. Riley’ s Entomological Reports, 
especially i Si which we cull 
arge are 
a 
find the mother louse diligently a nd: 
herself with pale-yellow eggs, deaiodly (.01) the one hun- 
*While this is going to press we learn fro 
Lame hen iaferabe cum rmany, that the sgn aeta 
t been found in three different — sf gremaouet dnd 
Gar sruhe and Worm rms) always on the roo 
a which, however, did not show the Bo atighiont 2 peng 
mi of disease. 
e The full report of Prof. Planchon has ih been pub- 
lished in the — ofa bg 3 chaser msn ittle vipneoneh 
aan vot feta ericaines,] 
spin ae i Paris 1875 
