Gustave Foëx - Cours Complet de Viticulture -
Gustave Foëx - Cours Complet de Viticulture - Montpellier, Camille Coulet, Libraire-Éditeur, pages - Hardcover - 23 x 15 cmCondition: goodA magnificent and complete course on viticulture that extensively explains: history of viticulture, ampelography, vineyards, vines, Provence, Alsace, Rousillon, etc.; grape varieties of Drome, Savoie, Jura...; vineyard physiology, influence of the environment, grain multiplication, conservation and transport, types of cuttings, planting, tooling and machinery, soil preparation, grafts, shears, diseases and parasites, use of carbon disulphide, planting in sand, climate, phylloxera, etc...At the end of the work there is a very complete appendix with excerpts, lists of vines, times of vegetation, laws and regulations, decrees, etc. Illustrated with 4 chromolithographed maps and 501 drawings interspersed in the text.A good book. Read More