Gustave Foëx - Manuel pratique de viticulture - 1882

FOËX (Gustave). Practical manual of viticulture for the reconstitution of the southern vineyards. Second edition.
Montpellier, Camille Coulet; Paris, 1882; in-12, half green morocco, spine smooth and ornamented.

1 f. bl., 282 pp., 1 f. bl.— 35 figures in the text.

Second edition of this work by Gustave Foëx (1844-1906), Swiss-born in Marseille and holder of the chair of viticulture, founded in 1882, at the Montpellier School of Agriculture. His work relating to grafting French vines onto American rootstocks contributed to stemming the ravages of phylloxera in the southern vineyards.

Divided into three large parts, this manual gives the details of grafting methods on American vines, the submersion technique, “a method which consists in covering the vineyard with water for a sufficient time to destroy Phylloxera,” and planting in sands which “exert an important preservative action against Phylloxera.”

Simon Vinaria, 66.

Back bound, small marginal damp-stains, rare foxing, head a little soiled, some annotations in pencil.