Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1888 — American Vines Cure the Pest. [ARTICLE]

American Vines Cure the Pest.

It is the fashion to decry all things American in Europe, but there is one American thing which even the most ■ cynical European cannot decry, and that is the American grape-vine, grafted upon which the vines of France have conquered the phylloxera. Not only has the American vine helped theFrench vine to get the better of this destructive insect, but it has actually improved the European varieties of grapes. M. Yiette, French Minister of' Agriculture, has returned to Paris from a tour made through the vineyards of Central and Southern France," and has made a report which is highly encouraging to his fellow countrymen. M. Viette declares that the restoration of ihe French vine by means of the Amertcan stock is now a certainty, having • passed beyond the field of experiment. The yield of the new’ vines is generally greater than the old ones before they were attacked with phylloxera; and what is more, varieties which Avere nothardy before, and could not be cultivated except wdth great difficulty, now prove hardy on the American stock. In the important vine-groAving department of Herault the vineyards are almost - completely restored," and in several 1 . other departments restoration is in full, progress.