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The Graft in Victoria. 



From the description first reproduced above, and acting on verbal ad- 

 vice, several Rutherglen growei-.s tried the graft. Mr. P. A. Wyatt, at 

 that time Travelling Viticultural Assistant of this Department, demon- 

 strated it to numerous growers, with the result that a good many vines were 

 thus grafted in February, 1909. The encouraging results of these first 

 trials led to their renewal on an increasing scale each season with greater 

 success. As was to be expected, each grafter applied such modifications 

 and improvements as practical experience suggested to him, until a 

 method was evolved, differing somewhat from either of those already 

 described, and which is now very generally followed throughout the dis- 

 trict. 



Simultaneously with this the graft was being extensively practised at 

 Mildura, with most encouraging results. To Mr. J. Rounce, now an 

 officer of the New South Wales Agricultural Department, belongs the 

 credit of its success in this district. He had experience of this graft in 

 England before coming to Australia, as he informed the writer after a 

 lecture delivered in 1908, at which the graft, as practised in Spain, was 

 described and illustrated. He had seen it applied to roses and several 

 other garden plants. Mr. Rounce practised it on the vine with remark- 

 ably successful results, and within the past few years he has reconstituted 

 considerable areas on resistant stocks by this method. The manner in 

 which he executes the graft differs a good deal from that which has be- 

 come so popular at Rutherglen, as will be seen presently. 



The " Yema " graft is, in fact, remarkably elastic; it permits of a 

 good deal of variation, according to the individual fancy of the grafter. 

 The two methods about to be described and figured do not pretend to 

 exhaust all the possibilities. The graft may yet be varied in other 

 details. 



As to which is the better of tlie two, it would be rash to attempt a 

 definite statement. The writer has known percentages of 98 and 99 of 

 completely successful unions by both methods. Both methods seem to 

 give equally perfect unions. So far as the final result, there would seem 

 to be little difference between the two, though Mr. Rounce^s modifica- 

 tion, permitting, as will be seen, the suppression of tying or binding the 

 graft, should enable the grafter to operate more rapidly. These two 

 typical modes of executing the graft will now be described in detail. 

 Afterwards, a few points of importance in connexion with summer grafts 

 in general, irrespective of the style of graft, will be considered. 



The Rutherglen Method. 



This is illustrated in Fig. 5, which shows how the scion-bud is re- 

 moved from the cane, and Fig. 6, where the preparation of the stock, 

 the fitting in of the scion bud, and the binding necessary to hold it in 

 position, until knitted, are shown. 



A suitable bud must first be selected. It should be situated on a 

 cane of somewhat smaller diameter than the stock on which it is to be 

 grafted. It must also fulfil the conditions specified under the heading 

 "scion requirements." The 3cion-hu3 is removed, as shown in Fig. 5. 

 An oblique cut, penetrating to about the middle ol the cane, and rather 



