Pierce's Disease of Grapevines (Classic Reprint)

Pierce's Disease of Grapevines (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
0331456451
ISBN-13
9780331456455
Category
Gardening
Pages
40
Language
English
Published
2017-11-19
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
William Boright Hewitt

Description

Excerpt from Pierce's Disease of Grapevines In addition to the studies reported by these two men, there were others' who made observations and some who conducted experimental work on the nature of this disease. Both Pierce and Dowlen came to similar conclusions: that the disease which caused the death of the vines in southern California was due to some very obscure disease-producing agent that in their opinion was not either bacterial or fungus but was, nevertheless, contagious and spread through the vineyards. They fur ther concluded from their studies that the disease was not associated with any soil types or cultural and irrigation practices. Losses in vineyards of southern California began to decline about 1895, and by this time young plantings near the margins of the diseased areas were developing with the loss of only a few vines each season. After 1900 the disease became obscure or passed unnoticed and very little is known of its occurrence until the recent outbreak of Pierce's disease in the San Joaquin Valley, except that vines of vinifera grape varieties have been notoriously very short-lived in many of the southern California districts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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