Word: phylloxera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California, he says, the weather is always equally good so the vintage years are always the same. When he is accused of plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...
...addition to its services in curbing malaria, the School has checkmated phylloxera, destroyer of countless vineyards, by the importation from California of resistant grape stock on which native vines have been grafted to grow a variety immune to the blight...
Inside the Court House cowered no blackamoor. Something else had roused the passions of the mob. A law about an insect: phylloxera vastatrix...
...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...