PHYLLOXERA CANNOT LIVE IN SANDY SOIL.
Mr. do Cast-ella, tho Victorian vitjculturist, who lis now. investigating" the"reconstitution of vineyards in Europe, has reported that ho found that in almost _ pure sand near Lisbon the European varieties of vines' could be grown on their own .roots, without danger, from phylloxera, which could . not . live in such soil/ Ho lias..collected samples' of soils I 'that arc (1) totally resistant, to phylloxera, (2) partially resistant, and (3) phylloxera-liable, where American" stocks have, to be used. He anticipates that many of the Victorian saudy soils will provo'similarly resistant.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 97, 17 January 1908, Page 2
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94PHYLLOXERA CANNOT LIVE IN SANDY SOIL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 97, 17 January 1908, Page 2
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