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pot is SO placed as to admit of its being inarcliod on to a permanent plant. Some 

 perform the operation whilst the plants are yet at rest, but this is not a safe 

 period ; others inaroh about the time when the first leaves are expanded, when 

 the first gush of sap is over, and at this time inarching can be performed with 

 the very greatest certainty and success. The operation is subject to the same 

 rules as grafting, and will be explained under that head, the only difference being 

 that the scion is not separated from the parent stock until after the union has 

 taken place. 



There is another process of Inarching, however, which is very much in favour 

 with many vine-growers, viz., that of uniting the green or growing shoots of the 

 stock and scion. The union in this case is formed very quickly and very effectively, 

 and the inarched shoot in the course of a week or so grows off quite freely. The 

 difficulty in this process is that the stock and scion must necessarily be of an 

 almost equal thickness, and so when it is wished to inarch a young slender vine 

 on to a large-stemmed old plant, it can only be accomplished by the medium of 

 one of the side-shoots. Some growers prefer this method bo much, that instead 

 of trusting to simple grafting, they take all the trouble to first strike the eye 

 and grow the plant to a certain size, and then inarch it. It is eminently a safe 

 and sure method. 



To inarch, then, is simply to bring two growing shoots or stems together, 

 and to unite or fasten them to each other, as in grafting. As soon as the scion 

 has fairly taken hold, sever it from its own root — partially at first, and finally 

 in about a week after, keeping the stock in subjection so as to allow prominence 

 to the scion. 



6. Grafting. The Grafting of the vine has generally been considered a 

 somewhat difficult operation, and it is actually so. The mode of performing the 

 operation, that of joining cambium to cambium, or inner bark to inner bark, 

 may be precisely the same ; the difficulty of the process lies, not in the operation 

 itself, but chiefly in getting the stock and the scion into fitting condition for each 

 other. The vine is a plant having a most extraordinary flow of sap at the com- 

 mencement of its growth, so much so that if any portion of the stem is cut at 

 that time, the plant almost bleeds itself to death. If cut in winter, some time 

 before the sap is in motion, this bleeding does not take place, the opened pores 

 seem to get sealed up ; neither after the vines have got into full leaf does this 

 bleeding take place. Some recommend grafting before the rise of the sap takes 

 place, when the plants are at rest ; this is not, however, at all a satisfactory 

 or successful time, and the reason why it is not so is chiefly this — there is a 

 want of sap or moisture in the stock, to sustain the vitality of the scion until 

 growth commences. In grafting or budding the sap must at all times be partly 

 in motion, and in this case it is not so, and so the pores of both stock and scion 

 which are opened become dried up before they can unite. To graft it as we should 

 an apple, just when the sap begins to flow, would be fatal in the case of the vine, 

 not only in regard to the bleeding of the stock, which might result in death, but 



