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title: 'The Grape-Vine Borer: In a Communication on the Grape-Vine'
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- 'Elisha Mitchell'
date: 1854-01-01
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# The Grape-Vine Borer: In a Communication on the Grape-Vine

1854 report identifying a grub (an Egeria species) destroying grape roots across the Southern U.S.; advises exterminating adults and grafting foreign vines onto wild Scuppernong roots.

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