Henri Ponds

Henri Ponds , born with Chalon-sur-Saône the January 18th 1820 and died in Launac the May 9th 1901, is a French agricultural engineer, specialist in the Viticulture.

Fixed, as of its low-age with Montpellier, it was dedicated being studied of the Cépage S of the Languedoc and the Provence. It constituted of it a very beautiful collection with Launac, which enabled him to control, in the course of its long and happy existence all that was known as on their account, initially by Pierre Joseph Garidel, David, Michel and Joseph Audibert and then by André Pellicot and Louis-César Cazalis-Allut.

Principal publications

Observations on the disease of the vine in 1853 (1854)
Memory on the disease of the vine (1856)
Sulphuring of the sick vines, use of sulfur, its effects (1856)
Manual for sulphuring of the sick vines, use of sulfur, its effects (1857)
Description of principal type of vines of the Mediterranean region of France (1890)

External bond

Biographical note and bibliographical of the Academy of Science and letters of Montpellier

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