On September 4, 1879, the pharmacist and naturalist from Collioure, Pau Oliver, vice-president of the Commission for the Defense against Phylloxera of the Eastern Pyrenees, was giving a conference in Figueres. A farmer in attendance raised his hand to intervene. In his vineyard in Rabós, also in Alt Empordà, the Grenache vines had fallen ill with phylloxera within a radius of one hundred meters and some had already died. The news, although expec…
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On September 4, 1879, the pharmacist and naturalist from Collioure, Pau Oliver, vice-president of the Commission for the Defense against Phylloxera of the Eastern Pyrenees, was giving a conference in Figueres. A farmer in attendance raised his hand to intervene. In his vineyard in Rabós, also in Alt Empordà, the Grenache vines had fallen ill with phylloxera within a radius of one hundred meters and some had already died. The news, although expec…