CHAPTER SIXTH.
Of the Diseases and Accidents incident to Vines, with the Means of Prevention, Remedy, and Renewal.
THE injuries to which the vine is liable, are not every where of the same nature, nor do they occur to the same extent, in all wine countries. In warmer climates, where frosts are rare, where the temperature of the atmosphere permits a wider plantation, and where vegetation is vigorous, without the abundance of the sap proving an obstacle to the maturity of the fruit, the vine is secure from those disasters to which a more severe climate subject it; at the same time, that it lessens its power of supporting them.
The principal injuries which it suffers, are occasioned by the intemperance of the seasons. These are, the destruction of the fruit buds, by the late frosts of spring, and the running of the flower[1].
- ↑ The French call running, "coulure;" the derangement of the parts of fructification, by whatever cause, which prevent the
