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VINES AND VINE-CULTURE. CHAPTER II. 



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VINES AND VINE-CULTURE.— Chapter II. 



CONTINUING my remarks on tlie propagation of Vines, I now come to (4) 

 Budding. The budding of tlio Vine differs somewhat from that Avhich is 

 ordinarily understood by the term budding as practised with the Rose, &c. 

 In the one case the bud as attaclied to the bark only is inserted, the whole 

 of the wood being removed ; in the case of the Vine, however, the wood of the 

 bud is not removed, but left as in the case of a graft, so that the operation may 

 more properly be termed bud-grafting. Fig. 4 shows a " bud-graft " or an 

 " eye " such as was shown by fig. 2, prepared for budding on to the stock, and 

 represents a bud of the ripened wood of the previous season's growth. The mode 

 of performing the operation is simple, it being only required to make a cut on the 

 stock corresponding to the form of the prepared bud, so that the inner bark of the 

 stock and that of the bud may unite. This will be more fully explained when 

 I come to speak of grafting proper. 



Budding the Vine in the manner here described is not much 

 practised. It is, however, sometimes advantageous, as by its 

 means the bare stems of vines can be reclothed — for the buds 

 can bo inserted on any part of the stem, I have had recourse to 

 this method when by accident a shoot has got broken off in 

 the operation of tying down ; and it is just at this stage, when 

 the vines are in flower, and the shoots are being tied down, 

 that the operation can be most advantageously performed ; but of 

 this more anon. 



There is another method of Budding Vines which is frequently 

 practised, and that is with the young half-ripened wood while there 

 is still a sufficient flow of sap going on for the formation of cambium 

 to form the union, the bud remaining dormant until the following 

 spring. The bud is taken from a Vine or a shoot in a growing 

 condition, which has just begun to ripen off, as it is called. The 

 bud is cut in the usual manner, with a leaf, as in the case of a Rose, 

 only the wood is not extracted, but is inserted with the bud on to the stock, in 

 the same manner as recommended for fig. 4. The younger the stock on which 

 this sort of budding is performed, the better. It cannot be advantageously 

 performed on very old stems. It is a good plan for rapidly testing the merits of 

 a new sort, since it permits of a great number of buds being inserted on a Vine 

 already established. 



5. Inarching., or grafting by approach, as the French very properly term the 

 operation, is a method of grafting two growing plants together, and it is very 

 frequently adopted in the case of Vines. It is found to be a safe and an easy 

 process, and there are many ways of doing it. A shoot of a permanent Vine 

 may be inarched on to a Vine in a pot, and a new plant of the permanent Vine 

 be thus obtained ; or, and this is most frequently the requirement, a plant in a 



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