Grape Grafting. 



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firmly tied with waxed twine and packed in damp material until 

 spring. They are then set out in nursery rows and allowed to 

 grow one season. The following year they are set in vineyards, 

 . although in some cases this is done directly, instead of putting 

 them first in the nursery. The grafts are planted so that the 

 point of union between cion and stock shall be on a level with, 

 or a trifle below the surface of the soil. The earth 

 is then heaped around the cion leaving only the up- 

 per bud exposed. 



This method of grafting may become of value in 

 this country for the purpose of having weak grow- 

 ing varieties upon vigorous roots. The field is so 

 new that one can scarcely predict what will be the 

 results which may follow from grafting one variety 

 of grape upon another. 



Figure 15 represents a successful graft seven 

 years old when photographed. The operation was 

 performed by B. P. Olin, North Hector, N. Y. He 

 inserted a cion of Brighton upon a four-year-old 

 Agawam stock, and so perfect was the union that 

 not an external trace remains to show where the 

 two parts are joined. The point of union is on a 

 line directly between (a) and {b), as. could be seen 

 when the stock was cut. Under such favorable 

 circumstances there is no reason to suppose that^ Rooted cut- 

 grafted vines are not as long lived as those upon tinz cleft 

 theirownroots,providedsuitablevarietiesareselected. S^^'j ^ • 



No. 8. A peculiar method which has been employed in graft- 

 ing cuttings is shown in fig. 16.* The description is here given 

 in full: 



" The following method of propagation has done well where I 

 had a new variety that I wished to multiply rapidly. In taking 

 up vines in the fall, when clipping back the roots, I save bits of 

 them about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and keep them in 

 damp sand until needed. In February or March I cut these roots 

 in pieces two inches long, using a piece to each graft, as in apple 



■ Samuel Miller, American Gardening, September, 1892, p. 535. 



