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field. If all the vines were bench-grafted originally and grown in 

 the nursery row for a year, careful selection could be made of 

 perfect, vigorous plants, with unions well established, to be set 

 in places where desired with the unions placed at the desired level 

 in the soil and the plants free from undesired suckers from the 

 root stocks or roots from the cions. By this method subsequent 

 vine failures should be very few under ordinarily good conditions. 

 By this means, also, the vineyard area can be held for one year 

 longer for other crops, or for l)etter preparation for vineyard 

 purposes. 



In selecting stocks for such work, it is believed that the three 

 used in this experiment should all be given a trial though it may 

 be rather difficult to secure the Clevener stocks necessary, while the 

 St. George and Tiiparia Gloire stocks can be readily secured from 

 California growers. To these stocks might well be added Riparis 

 Grand Glabre and two hybrids between Vitis riparia and VUis 

 rupestris known as 3306 and 3309, which have been found useful 

 in California viticulture. 



If a grafted vineyard is established, it will be necessary to give 

 better care to it than the ordinary vineyard receives, in pruning 

 particularly, but to some extent in plowing, tilling, fertilizing and 

 treatment of phylloxera and fidia. The varieties on other roots 

 will require different treatment from the same ones imgrafted. 

 This is by no means a disadvantage, for, probably, of all our 

 horticulturists the vineyardists have become least caretaking. If 

 the grafting in itself did not promise larger yields, its adoption 

 would be of profitable benefit to Xew York viticulture if it secured 

 to the new vineyards the care grape-growing should receive. 



