The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-18
DEPARTMENT NEWS.
STATE DEPARTMENT

STATE DEPARTMENT.
Portuguese WiaeThs Vine Disease.--Exract of a let
ter recently received from Oporto, Portugal
ssThe produce the wine district in 1854 has been about
10 900 pipes although there have been the Judges
goa samples o. pipes TOR Mo ss than ONE
unsound and unit for 1t has been since treated
With geroriza and bsa and in all probability much Of
spring. and be exported to different parts Of the world under
the pure juice. There have been opinion,
three thousand pipes Of good wholesome made in the
Douro this last vintage
'Thc the green wine the principal drink
Of the native Portuguese has been almost totally destroyed
and in the Vienna district not pipe has been made In
disease mentioned that the vines put forth their shoots
aud leaves with great vigor and that the growth very
rapid The show Of y, was greater than eyer known n
but the advanced their hopes blasted
Of the .odium BY middle the leaves had
the autumna tn began TO curl and the berries indicated
appearance they usually have in the month Of November
In the early part Of July vines put forth second
they attacked with the odun Many large punches
OF the beautiful Muscael grapes which had carefully
watched from their rst formation were destroyed when
OF time What still remarkable there not
rege % amy @ axe ba onnd u0h
The new shoots which the farmers leave on the
a fss dd q s seaf s..
the .baras thus treated have shown scky appear
@ Sc 70 I oa s a. s
docs attack the shoots and berries till they
state although
the and to the uninated farmer look promising when
examined carefully show thin, watery pulp, with acrd
and smell which be mistaken by the close OBJ
Early in the spring, the Douro farmers advised
bleed their vines, it supposed there OF
sap In every where this done the vines persisted
That the sap circulated the vine freely than usual
certain but that there Of not true
There want OF nourishmen in it which should be
found in juices of healthy vine. collected the sap from
vines the Douro for chemical analysis but the result
give with at present That there is want
Of vegetable albumen and accharne matter is certain. IL
sap contained the usual nourishing qualities the
would not have aecayed to the The ber
dry before they fully developed, which has been
hgough this Kingdom. symptom appeared
this which did observe in the year 1885, which
follows small black spot made its appearance
Of the bunch, where IL unites with the branch al
the bloom heads formed. This seemed
the fruit became developed and before the
berries half maured the whered aud the cluster
fell the ground. have now quite made ny mind that
the vdiu nothing than the effects OF the disease,
the disease itself, is supposed BY many. II
close examination is made mcroscopicay IL be traced
the vine, and branch In the vicinity OF
Rgoa, last year. there nothing to be far MS
could REACH for miles around but total destruction
fruit and St. Martha the vines appear If
coched by fire. Very little wine has been made within
eight miles Rigoa and what little has been
produced OF very poor quality As far Arroeda the
disease violent and vineyards produced fair
wne but in very small quantities give you below the
produce Of twelve different vineyards the Douro wine dis
tricl in the years 1851 and 1854