PROPAGATION 



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Cutting the cleft. 



tion and to keep the graft moist. Two or three times 

 during the summer, sprouts coming from the stock or roots 

 from the cion should be removed. 

 A method used with fair success 

 at the New York Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station with young vines 

 is to plant one-year-old stocks in 

 the nursery row as soon as the 

 ground can be worked in the spring. 

 Just as the vines start in growth, 

 these are cut off at the surface of 

 the ground and whip- or cleft-grafted with a two-eye cion. The 

 graft is tied with raffia, after which it is all but covered with 



a mound of soil. This is a case in 

 which the work must be done at the 

 accepted time, as it is fatal to delay. 

 R. D. Anthony describes another 

 method as follows : ^ "A method 

 which a Pennsylvania grower of 

 Viniferas has found very satisfactory 

 is to root the Vinifera cuttings, and 

 grow them one year on their own 

 roots ; then the vine 

 which is to be used 

 as a stock is planted in the ^•ineyard and the 

 rooted cutting planted beside it so that the 

 shoots from the two may be brought in con- 

 tact with each other. In June when the plants 

 are in full growth, two vigorous shoots (one 

 from each vine) are brought together and a 

 cut two or three inches long made in each 

 parallel to the length of the cane removing from one-third 

 to one-half of the thickness of the shoot. These flat surfaces 

 1 Anthony, R. D. .V. F. Agr. Exp. Sla., Bui 632: 88. 1917. 



Inserting the cion. 



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Fig. 11. The 

 completed graft. 



