American Vines (resistant stock) : Their Adaptation, Culture,

American Vines (resistant stock) : Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation

This illustrated volume was published in 1903.

A summary from the book's Preface:
The translation of the book which Messrs. Raymond Dubois
and Edmund H. Twight are now presenting to California viti-
culturists is a summary of the efforts accomplished by the
viticulturists of France in the struggle against phylloxera,
and of the new knowledge they have definitely gained for the
reconstitution of vineyards. This knowledge has been revised
to date for the present translation, and all new facts which
actually permit to direct the reconstitution of vineyards are
brought together in this California translation.

The viticulturists of California are practically working
under the same conditions as the viticulturists of the South of
France, therefore the facts acquired in that region should be
applied in their vineyards. These facts are simple, and
consist, above all, in having recourse to the American vines
most resistant to phylloxera, that is to say, in using pure
species (V. Riparia, V. Rupestris, V. Berlandieri), or hybrids
of these species (V. Riparia X V. Rupestris, V. Rupestris
X V. Berlandieri, and V. Riparia X V. Berlandieri). The
essential condition is to select different graft-bearers, accord-
ing to the diverse classes of soils, and we trust that this book
will assist California viticulturists in that direction.

The course to be followed in the struggle against phylloxera
is nowadays definitely established. The immense efforts
accomplished by our French viticulturists have vanquished
an unprecedented crisis; their work, crowned with success,
should benefit the viticulturists of the whole world. The
most definite and general conclusion derived from this strug-
gle is the superiority of reconstitution with American vines
resisting the attacks of the insects.

Already we have seen the destruction it caused in the
Napa, Sonoma, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, reach-
ing thousands of acres in extent, and it will spread slowly
but surely to Southern California. The signal and world-
wide failure of the extinction method to check the progress
of the phylloxera should be clearly recognized by all Califor-
nian vine growers.
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Summry from the book's Introduction:
When the American vines were first cultivated in France
on a large scale, it was soon apparent that they were not
thriving equally well in all soils. Such varieties as were
thriving well in one soil grew indifferently in another;
and, in the same soil, they were not all growing in the same
manner.

Evidently, it would have been easy to foresee that this
would be the case if beforehand, care had been taken to
study the nature of the soils in which they were living in
America. But, in the haste in which new vineyards were
started, the mistake was made of thinking that American
vines would grow in all kinds of soils just as the European
(Vitis Vintferd) did.

All the European vines belong to one species the V.
Vinifera. Their pecularities and properties extend, with
only slight differences, to all the varieties cultivated.

With the American vines we have to deal with species
not only differing from the V. Vinifera, but also very
different from one another. Consequently, their numerous
varieties, which had adapted themselves to special con-
ditons, gave very different results when planted in similar
conditions.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-06-22
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2010-06-22
Format	Kindle eBook

American Vines (resistant stock) : Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation