Millardet. Rec. Oct. 20 Ans Jan. 8 1884 



Bordeaux, August 21, 1883 



Sir and dear correspondent, 



l beg you excuse me for answering so tardity your excellent letter of the 16th of 

 February, past. I was waiting from day to day for 3 months, for the publication of the 3rd 

 delivery of my work on the American vines. Look! it has just appeared. You will receive it 

 shortly with the second. (I believe I sent you the first at another time). 



I did not want to write you before sending you this new work because it answers 

 precisely many of the questions that you had posed in your last letter. For example you 

 ask for the proof in the intervention of the Vitis cinerea in the formation of the 

 Cunningham, he Etterbemont and the Vitis labrusca in the formation of the Norton- 

 Cynthiana. I hope that the proof of my assertions appear definite and very plausible to 

 you. 



I owe you many thanks for the samples of seeds that you had the kindness of sending 

 me. I seeded the one of the Fort Oak but none grew. This species is still very little 

 known. The seeds that you sent me under that name, two years ago have given some 

 singular spécimens that are nearly glabrous and that resemble more the Cordifolia. 



Allow me to ask you for seeds of the Luiceconii, Monticola and Labrusca. 



Your information on the Vitis palmata arrived two days ago. The description is very 

 complète and satisfactory. I will see if the "Garden of the plants" has cultivated this 

 species. The seeds sent to me by Eggert did not do well Three kilos barely produced 

 300 plants. I also asked him to send me others and to collect for me a few hundred 

 cuttings specially from fertile plants. 



Last year I began studying the question of hybridization among wild vines and I have 



already obtained very interesting results. Among thèse new hybrids that live at this time 



in my garden in numbers close to 290, I can tell you the following: 



Riparia x Cordifolia and viceversa. 



Riparia x Rupestris and viceversa. 



Rupestris x Cordifolia 



Rupestris x Candicans 



Candicans x Cordifolia 



Rupestris x aestivalis 



In regards to the European vine, I have crossed it with: 



Riparia-Rupestris-Cordifolia-Aestivalis-Cinerea-Californica-Monticola and even 

 with the Rotundifolia. I have at this moment more than one thousand hybrids of this 

 type, some that are already 3 years old and that will bloom next year. 



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