How To Use Phylloxera In A Sentence
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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.
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It survived the epidemic grape phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, which destroyed much of Europe's vineyards.
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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
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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
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It survived the epidemic grape phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, which destroyed much of Europe's vineyards.
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On all but the most favorable soils, Delaware should be grafted on a phylloxera-resistant rootstock to ensure vigorous growth.
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It's made from pre-phylloxera colombard grapes, not the ugni blanc grapes of modern vintages.
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In the 19th century, a plague of insects called phylloxera decimated the vines used to grow wine grapes in Europe.
Blessing the Garden
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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.
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A very large part of it is due to a nasty little bug called phylloxera.
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But in doing this, we have so lowered the general constitutional vigour of the plants or animals that our vines fall an easy prey to oidium and phylloxera, our potatoes to the potato disease and the Colorado beetle; our sheep are stupid, our rabbits idiotic, our domestic breeds generally threatened with dangers to life and limb unknown to their wiry ancestors in the wild state.
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In addition, there had been several successive bad harvests, and a phylloxera epidemic which devastated the vineyards.
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Any of several small insects of the genus Phylloxera that are related to aphids, especially P. vitifoliae, a widely distributed species very destructive to grape crops.
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The vineyards of these two appellations were planted with sauvignon blanc after being destroyed in the 19th century by phylloxera.
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It was actually one of the first regions in Spain to experience mass-production in the 19th century, when its proximity to Barcelona and the French market whose wine industry was struggling under devastating effects of the vine-eating louse phylloxera provided a ready market for its wine.
Iberia's Hidden Gems
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Spartacus was not a new Hannibal, he was something much more dangerous; he was a new species of _Phylloxera_ or of _Mosca olearia_ in the form of brigand bands that destroyed vines and olives, the accumulated capital of centuries.
Characters and events of Roman History
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More important was the wine boom in Spain and Italy in the 1880s which took advantage of the phylloxera epidemic in France.
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Following the phylloxera outbreak in 1918, the Co-operative Wine Growers Association KWV was created to help protect the Cape's wine industry by setting minimum prices and limiting production.
The Grape of Good Hope
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These galls are caused by small insects known as phylloxera, which are closely related to aphids, or plant lice.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
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Read More Drinking Now: Synchronicity Its downfall came in the form of two fungal diseases that ripped through the vineyards—first oidium, which at the height of its powers, effects grape ripening; followed by phylloxera, a root-feeding aphid that destroys vines.
The Grape of Good Hope
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In addition, Chile is excitingly free from phylloxera, the bane of the wine universe, allowing it to produce versatile, forthright wines that are a pure and direct expression of single grape varieties.
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In 1863 it partially recovered, under the free use of sulphur; but now it has been ravaged by the more dangerous phylloxera, which is spreading far faster than Mr. Henry Vizetelly supposes.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Read More Drinking Now: Synchronicity Its downfall came in the form of two fungal diseases that ripped through the vineyards—first oidium, which at the height of its powers, effects grape ripening; followed by phylloxera, a root-feeding aphid that destroys vines.
The Grape of Good Hope
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Recession in the 1880s was compounded by phylloxera, which swept aside not only vines but many poorer farmers.
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While growing succeeded there for decades, a plague of the plant louse phylloxera, followed by Prohibition and then the Depression, set the region back for years.
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The effects of the vine-eating louse phylloxera and the construction of the Paris-to-Marseilles railway line in the mid-19th century, which opened Paris up to wines from farther afield, conspired to hit its production.
The Draw of Chablis
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Prum sees the massive bridge and roadway project as the biggest threat to the area since the great, late-19th century phylloxera insect epidemic that ravaged European vineyards.
Massive Bridge Project Divides German Winemakers
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They had replanted their land with vines after the phylloxera disaster, until a glut of cheap wine flooded the market, and they could no longer sell their only product.
