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persons complain that their pears on quince stocks do not succeed well. They 

 should recollect that the quince is amontist the earliest of deciduous trees in coming 

 into leaf, and therefore it should be headed back for grafting eaily in the year at 

 latest ; for when done at the time of grafting, or after its sap is in active flow, it 

 dies or cankers at the grafted part, so that a perfect union cannot possibly take 

 place. 



Presuming that due attention is paid to the proper time for grafting, the ope- 

 ration may be successfully performed in various ways. On the whole we consider 

 that in most cases whip-grafting is the rcost preferable ; and what is termed in the 

 Mevue Horticole Daniel Hooibrenk's system, appears to be nothing more nor less 

 than whip-grafting. It is better than cleft-grafting, because more of the sections 

 of the inner barks of the stock and scion can be made to coincide than by other 

 modes. M. Carriere, who is a very intelligent horticulturist, details a case in which 

 Hooibrenk's mode, or what we may as well call wbip-gra.'ting, succeeded better 

 than cleft-grafting. In the beginning of September, he took two vine shoots, of 

 which the wood was then half-herbaceous. One he cut in lengths of five or six 

 inches, eacii piece being cut immediately under a bud at its base, and close above 

 one at its top, exactly as if prepared for a cutting, but a slice at top was taken off 

 as in whip-grafting, to receive the scion formed of a portion of tlie other shoot, 

 which latter was cut so as to preserve a bud and leaf at its top, whilst its base was 

 cut sloping, to fit exactly its counterpart at the top of the other p.ece intended for 

 the stock. The parts were then tied and covered with grafting wax. Each grafted 

 cutting or cutting stuck was then inserted about half its length in a pot, and placed 

 under a hand or bell-glass in a propagating house. The leaf at tiie top of the scion 

 continued to act, and contributed to the formation of roots, and the union of the 

 graft. 



In the Gardener's Magazine of March 9th, 1867, M. Sisley, of Lyons, makes a 

 communication on a yet different method, which has been adopted by M. Boisselet. 

 He cleaves the stock between two bifurcations. It is no matter at what height of 

 the stock this is done. Into the cleft he introduces the graft, cut as for ordinary 

 cleft-grafting. It is then bound up with a strong ligature and grafting wax. He 

 next binds the two branches of the bifurcation at two or three eyes above the cleft ; 

 and in the spring, as the sap rises, he pinches back the young shoots, causing 

 thereby a flow of sap into the graft. He does not cut off the two siumps of the 

 stock until the autumn following the insertion, by which time the gratt is weli 

 developed. 



The experiences of M. Boisselet have sufficiently demonstrated that this mode 

 of grafting is nearly infallible. It offers the utmost advantages to the cultivator, 

 especially as a graft can be inserted wherever there is a bifurcation, hence affording 

 the power to place a number of grafts on the same stock. The sudden suppression 

 by means of the knife of the whole of tlie vine above ground is always prejudicial to 

 the root-action, and the " Greffe Boisselet " is free from this objection. Another 

 important advantage attending it is, that if the graft does not prosper, nothing \% 

 lost, for the branches of the bifurcation will produce their fruit the same, and the 

 stock will not suffer more than from the check to which it is subjected by the ordi- 

 nary process of cutting down. 



The horticultural journals of France have given publicity to this invention, and 

 rendered justice to its inventor. The Imperial and Central Society of Horticulture 

 of France hiis been occupied at several of its meetings in the consideration of the 

 subject, and M. Duchartre, the secretary general, testified, at one of its recent 

 meetings, that he had practised this new mode of grafting with success. 



The "Greffe Boisselet" may be practised at every season of the year, but it» 

 inventor recommends— and with reason — that the autumn should be preferred, 

 the best time of all beijig when the leaves of the vine begin to turn jelluw. 



