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moist with moss. In the course of a fortnight partial unison takes 

 place, when the bandage should be somewhat loosened to admit the 

 expansion. In six or eight weeks, if the operation is successful, the 

 stock and cion are firmly united, when the bandage may be removed. 

 The graft immediately below the union and the stock immediately 

 above it should then be partially severed, and in a week or so more, 

 entirely cut loose. 



While, as already stated, this mode has not been much practiced 

 in America, sufficiently successful results have been obtained to 

 encourage further trial ; and, as an example, I will mention one in- 

 structive instance communicated by my friend Isidor Bush. One of 

 his customers, Eugene Cambre, of Nauvoo, Ills., has for some time 

 furnished him with a superior quality of Delaware wine; and being 

 anxious to know how Mr. Oambre succeeded so well with the Dela- 

 ware, when so many others in the same neighborhood failed with it, 

 Mr. Bush inquired as to the reason, and found that it was Mr. Oambre's 

 custom in planting a Delaware vineyard to plant alternately with a 

 Delaware, a wild vine from the woods, and to subsequently transfer 

 the Delaware onto the roots of the v/ildling, by this system of inarch- 

 ing. 



The Delaware, as may be seen by the tabular statement in my 

 last report, is among those which suffer materially from the Phyllox- 

 era, and several other cases of its successful growth when grafted 

 onto wild vines, where on its own roots it failed, were elicited at the 

 recent meeting of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, held at 

 Peoria. 



Mr. Cambre has very kindly communicated to me his method, but 

 the following description of it, from the Grape Manual of Messrs. 

 Bush & Son & Meissner, so well covers the ground that I give it in full : 



For this method it is desirable that two plants, one each of the variety which is to 

 form tlie stock, and one of the scion, be planted close together, say abont one foot 

 apart. In June, (tne tirst year, if the plants make a sufliciently strong growth, if not, 

 the second year,) or as soon as the yoiinof shoots become sufficiently hard and woody 

 to bear the knife, a shoot is taken from both the stock and the scion vine, and at a con- 

 venient place, where they may be brouglit in contact, a shaving is taken out from each 

 of these, on the side next to the other, for a length of 2 to 3 inches. This must be 

 done with a smooth cut of a sharp knife, a little deeper than the inner bark, so as to 

 obtain on each a flat surface. Tliey are then fitted snugly together, so that the inner 

 bark joins as nmch as possible, and wrapped securely vvitli some old calico torn in strips, 

 or soft bass strings. Besides this, it is well to place one tie a little below, and one above 

 the grafted point, and also to tie the united canes to a stake or trellis to insure against 

 all chances of loosening by the swaying of the wind. The rapid swelling ot the young 

 growth at this period of tlie year makes it desirable that the'grafts be looked over after 

 a few weeks, replacing such ties which may have burst, and loosening others which 

 may bind so as to cut into the wood. A union will generally be made in the course of 

 two or three weeks, which will be turtiier consolidated in the course of G to 8 weeks, 

 when the bandages may be removed and the grafted portion left exposed to the sun, to 



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