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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (97517)	9/18/2002 6:09:22 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

who did he know? -ng-

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (97517)	9/19/2002 12:46:24 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

You do more time than that in France for making fun of the wine Then I guess reminding the French that all of their current vineyards wouldn't exist, were it not for the US "rootstock" they were grafted onto, would result in my immediate execution. berrygrape.orst.edu Grafting became a common practice in viticulture after the phylloxera epidemic (see Phylloxera: What is it?). Phylloxera was introduced in Europe (1862) through the importation of rooted vines from North America. The pest lead to the complete destruction of the vineyards in southern France at the end of the nineteenth century. Phylloxera spread at a rate of approximately of 12.5 miles a year (or faster with the help of man) and within 20 years, phylloxera had killed virtually every vine in France. Laliman was the first to suggest biological pest control of phylloxera: grafting the susceptible wine varieties to the resistant American species.