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Often when a vine-stock is eradicated, some years after shoots come up to the surface of the ground; well, my dear boy, my mother had almost torn me up by the roots from her heart, and I sprouted again in her head.
A Marriage Contract 2007
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Sandalon pulled one of the doors open — the door latch was of age-smoothed bronze, in the shape of a twist of vine-stock — and sketched a quick bow in Kellen's direction.
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Whatever the cause of the current spate of vine-stock deaths, the isolation of the fungus is an important breakthrough.
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The accepted industry norm for vine-stock losses, is 10 percent and, at a price of up to R4 per vine-stock, growers say that industry-wide losses could run into "hundreds of millions" of rands.
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An investigation into vine-stock deaths in the Orange River
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The mystery fungus is believed to have also infected up to 50 percent of young vine-stock planted in California over the last three years, costing the industry there an estimated $250-million, said Strauss-Ferreira.
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Kriel said he did not accept that the root-stock supplied by the Association was responsible for the high levels of vine-stock deaths.
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He said nurserymen placed the responsibility for the infected vine-stock squarely at the door of the Association but were too scared to publicly criticise their only legal supplier of root-stock.
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Strauss Ferreira believes that the fungus could be killed if vine-stocks are treated with warm water, but very few nurseries use this technique as it is costly and in itself poses a threat to the delicate young vine-stock.
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Now that coffee is being planted as (? vine-stock) we have been recommending
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