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...Bordeaux mixture is so named because the French vine-growers of the Bordeaux region used to spray their plants with copper sulphate and lime-not as a plant medicine but as a deterrent to thieves. An alert viticulturist named Millardet discovered that vines so sprayed were not attacked by downy mildew. David Fairchild and an associate were the first to try out Bordeaux mixture with success on Virginia vineyards...
...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...
...After whom the vine, Wistaria, is named...
...Workmen's Window" to represent the various trades engaged in building the church, they clubbed together to pay for it. Designer Willet happily put Architect Carroll at the bottom of the window, looking pale, and the stained-glass craftsman at the top, under a benevolent angel. A vine etched in gold joins the 14 figures in between-iron worker, excavator, stone mason, carpenter, woodcarver, electrician, roofer, plumber, plasterer, painter-and lettering sets forth: "We Are Laborers Together; Let Every Man Take Heed How He Buildeth...
Some of the minnows out of this pretty kettle of fish are probably meant for matrimonial comment: the veritas in vine sort of thing. But one can't be impressed by profundity. One of the girls left her husband because he never took her to the movies, but instead made very disagreeable stinks with his chemicals. She goes back to him when she learns that he is through with the smelly part of his work, and is about to go to France to make perfume. Perhaps Mr. Herendeen has his tongue in his cheek about that daughter...