Monthly Meeting | Native Plant Society of Texas – Houston Chapter

This evening’s presentation by Dr. Russell D. Kane, Characteristics, History and Their International Significance will highlight the characteristics of Texas and its native grapes. It will also address how, in the late 1800s, Texas native grape species were utilized by horticulturalist Thomas Volney Munson from Denison to offer a solution to one of the greatest agricultural devastations of all time caused by the infestation of Phylloxera vastatrix in European vineyards and beyond.

Dr. Russell Kane is a scientist and an award-winning Texas writer, author and wine aficionado with articles, tasting notes and quotes that have appeared in local, regional and national publications over the past 20 years. His bestselling book, The Wineslinger Chronicles: Texas on the Vine was released by Texas Tech Press in 2012. His newly completed book, Texas Hill Country Wineries – a wine trail guide and pictorial history of the Texas Hill Country Wineries, was released in 2015 by Arcadia Publications. Since 2008, he blogs at: ww.vintagetexas.com. Dr. Kane has his Ph.D. degree in engineering and is a technical researcher with over 300 technical publications as author or co-author, and was editor of five technical books. He is a member of the Native Plant Society of Texas and a Texas Master Naturalist. Dr. Kane will bring his books to this presentation for autograph and sale.