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The propagation of grapevines is an important consideration in commercial viticulture and winemaking. Grapevines, most of which belong to the Vitis vinifera family, produce one crop of fruit each growing season with a limited life span for individual vines.
Flowering occurs when average daily temperatures stay between 15–20 °C (59–68 °F) which in the Northern Hemisphere wine regions is generally around May and for the Southern Hemisphere regions around November. A few weeks after the initial clusters appear, the flowers start to grow in size with individual flowers becoming observable. [1]
Rosa rugosa is a suckering shrub which develops new plants from the roots and forms dense thickets 1–1.50 m tall with stems densely covered in numerous short, straight prickles 3–10 mm long. The leaves are 8–15 cm long, pinnate with 5–9 leaflets, most often 7, each leaflet 3–4 cm long, with a distinctly corrugated (rugose, hence the ...
Rosa 'Jens Munk' is a medium pink, Hybrid Rugosa cultivar, bred by Canadian rose breeder, Felicitas Svejda in 1964. It was introduced in Canada in 1979 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada . Named for the Norwegian explorer, Jens Munk , who explored the Northwest Passage in 1619, it is one of the Canadian Explorer roses that Svejda developed and ...
A place where grape vines are grown for wine making purposes. Vintage The year in which a particular wine's grapes were harvested. When a vintage year is indicated on a label, it signifies that all the grapes used to make the wine in the bottle were harvested in that year. Viticulture The cultivation of grapes. Not to be confused with viniculture.
Rosa 'Charles Albanel' is a Hybrid rugosa cultivar, bred by Canadian rose breeder, Felicitas Svejda in 1970. It was introduced in Canada in 1982 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada . It is one of the Canadian Explorer roses that Svejda developed and named in honour of legendary Canadian explorers.
Rosa 'Henry Hudson' is a white blend Hybrid rugosa cultivar, bred by Canadian rose breeder, Felicitas Svejda in 1966. It was introduced in Canada in 1979 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada . It is one of the Canadian Explorer roses that Svejda developed and named in honour of legendary Canadian explorers.
Thomcord grape is a hybrid of Thompson Seedless grape (Vitis vinifera, or Sultanina), which is popular in American (?) supermarkets during the summer, and seeded Concord grape (Vitis labrusca), commonly used to make grape juice and jelly.