Modifications to be Made to Vine Size - Guyot-Poussard Follow-Up Apoplexy, Preventive and Curative Treatment by René Lafon

The book on pruning that time forgot...

René Lafon's classic and provocative work on the Poussard pruning methodology, Changes to be made to vine pruning - is now available for the first time in English (with the original French text also included). It is arguably the most important historical work on vine pruning, and this beautiful hardcover edition is now available through Ex Vinum publishing. The translation is fully annotated, with 120 footnotes and over 60 retouched photographs and illustrations. There is also a preface by François Dal and a long introduction by Robert Walters that seeks to place the work in both a historical and modern context.

To quote François Dal, the most respected vine pruning consultant in France, "This English translation by Robert Walters is a true gift, offered to all English-speaking viticulture enthusiasts. By reading this book, you will not only benefit from the beautiful and important knowledge it has to offer, but you will also experience a moment in history and admire how, with the limited means of the time, brilliant growers and scientists used their instinct and insight to understand how our world works."

Lafon's work was lost for nearly 100 years until it was rediscovered in recent decades, subsequently playing a key role in the pruning revolution we are witnessing today. Remarkably, Lafon's thought-provoking text remains as fresh and valid as it was when first written. It also remains controversial, completely undermining much of the modern thinking on wood diseases. It is a work that points towards a new way of thinking about our interactions with the vine, and with nature in general.

Anyone with a genuine interest in vine pruning, viticulture, the challenges of wood disease in modern vineyards, or simply the history of viticulture, will want to read this enlightening, revolutionary, and highly detailed text.