Grape Grafting. 



471 



In California* the tongue graft has gained considerable favor 

 for large as well as for small stocks. 

 In case the stocks are large, they are 

 pared down so that the part lupon 

 which the cion is inserted is not much 

 wider than the cion itself. When 

 the two parts are in position, the 

 graft is firmly tied with strips of 

 common calico about an inch wide 

 and ten inches long. The estimate 



of the cost of the 

 operation is giv- 

 en at three cents 

 per vine, this in- 

 cluding the sec- 

 ond grafting of 

 those which 

 failed to grow 

 the first time. ^' 



No.\6. Side g raft. — This 

 method possesses an important 

 advantage, already spoken of 

 under No. 2. The stock does 

 not need to be cut oS" in order 

 to insert the cion. A cut is 

 first made inward and down- 

 ward in one side of the stock 

 at the same distance under the surface of the 

 soil as for the other methods named. For 

 making this side cut, a tool shown in Fig. 13 

 is very useful. The shaft is bent so that it can be 

 easily held, and the lower end is made com- 

 paratively thin so that the wood will not sliver 

 much when the cutting edge is driven in. An 

 ordinary chisel if well sharpened may answer 

 the same purpose, but not so well. The tool grafl^ prepared 

 should be driven in from one to one and a half inches. "°"^' 



Modified tongue graft. 



10. Modified tongue 



grajt, prepared 



stock. 



II. Modified tongue 



* Leonard Coates, Report of the Sixth Annual State Viticultural Conven- 

 tion, 1888, p. 50. 



