10.25381/cput.10008242.v1
Anton Pieter Nel
Anton Pieter
Nel
The history of the oldest rootstock mother block in South Africa
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
2019
Rootstock
Vineyard
South Africa Agriculture
Phylloxera
Oenology and Viticulture
2019-10-21 12:32:55
Journal contribution
https://esango.cput.ac.za/articles/journal_contribution/The_history_of_the_oldest_rootstock_mother_block_in_South_Africa/10008242
<div>In 1864 - 1865 a then unknown insect started attacking French vineyards. The cause of the destruction of the vineyards was shrouded in mystery, due to the fact that the leaves developed strange galls, where after they perished. The losses, as a result of phylloxera, were so severe that a commission to combat the new disease of the grapevine (La Commission pour Combattre la Nouvelle Maladie de la Vigne) was founded by the Herault Agricultural Society in the spring of 1868. On 3 August 1868 Jules-Emile Planchon declared it to be an insect.</div>