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graft and not a form of budding in the sense in which we usually understand it, 

 for the hud is removed together with a fair sized fragment of the already woody 

 shoot of the current year's growth. The stock is prepared to receive it by the 

 removal of a similar sliaped piece of wood by means of four cuts of the grafting 

 knife; into the gap thus made, which reaches nearly to tlic centre of the cane,* 

 the properly cut eye is carefully fitted and securely hound with raffia. Care must 

 be taken in fitting the bud into its place that the cambium layers of stock and 

 scion correspond as accurately as possible. When tying, the raffia must first be 

 placed over the hud and bound round and below it so as to insure thorough 

 contact at the base of the graft. 



This graft is best suited for cases where there is but slight difference in 

 diameter between stock and scion, as in the case when a one or two year old 

 rooted vine is grafted in the vineyard. The upper part of the stock is not cut 

 off but cuntinuKs it.s ijrowtk, the flow of sap which is thus maintained enables the 

 union to take place under most favorable conditions. The graft knits but 

 the bud rfinuins ilurinunt until the following spring when, after the upper part 

 of the stock has been cut back, it makes very vigorous growth. 



August is the best month for the execution of this graft in Spain. This 

 corresponds to February in Victoria; a convenient time, falling, as it does, between 

 harvest and vintage. As soon as the young shoots of the current year are 

 sufficiently lignified to provide a properly ripened bud the operation may be 

 performed. The bud is grafted on, at about the level of the ground which is 

 then heaped up around it into a high mound to protect it from changes of 

 temperature and desiccation. (See Fig. 3.) 



This graft practically gives the vigneron " two strings to his how." When 

 the time for ordinary spring grafting comes round it is possible to see if the bud 

 has taken or if it is dead ; in the latter case the stock is cut off half an inch 

 below the bud graft which has failed and re-grafted in the ordinary way. 



The unions obtained by means of this graft in southern Spain are really 

 magnificent. ... At the well-known Tula vineyard of Messrs. Gonzalez, 



Fig. 2. — The Spanish 



graft — second style. 



A, the scion bud; B, incision in stock; C, same, bent to facilitate insertion of 

 scion; D, graft completed and ready for tying. 



Byass, and Coy., this style of grafting is in great favour. " Espirja ne vale nada " 

 (The espigaf graft is no good) said the Capctaz (overseer) of Tula to me. He 

 assured me that with the Yema a larger percentage succeeded and that the unions 



• According to later experience this would be too deep, as will be seen later, 

 t Kspi^a is the Spanish name for the ordinary cleft graft. 



