How To Use Phylloxera In A Sentence
- On the other hand, a vine with a small and/or unhealthy root system, be it due to shallow soil, drought, root pests such as phylloxera, or diseases such as armillaria root rot, will support only low-vigour growth.
- It survived the epidemic grape phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, which destroyed much of Europe's vineyards.
- Thus, for example, I have found that as oidium and phylloxera are more effective than severe punishments in diminishing the number of assaults and cases of unlawful wounding, so famine succeeds better than the strongest bars, or dogs kept loose in the prison yards, in preventing the escape of prisoners, who at such times are detained by the advantage of being supported at the public expense. Criminal Sociology
- Disaster hit 100 years ago in the form of the phylloxera insect pest that spread from mainland Europe and wiped out production, until a group of local farmers revived the tradition in the 1990s by importing vines from Italy. Mapping Mallorca
- It survived the epidemic grape phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, which destroyed much of Europe's vineyards.
- On all but the most favorable soils, Delaware should be grafted on a phylloxera-resistant rootstock to ensure vigorous growth.
- It's made from pre-phylloxera colombard grapes, not the ugni blanc grapes of modern vintages.
- In the 19th century, a plague of insects called phylloxera decimated the vines used to grow wine grapes in Europe. Blessing the Garden
- This became a necessity in most of the world's wine regions at the end of the 19th century to counter the predations of the phylloxera louse, native to America and to which most American vine species had therefore developed resistance.
- A very large part of it is due to a nasty little bug called phylloxera.
