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when subjected to a forcing temperature. The sap 

 being slightly excited and having no other outlet, 

 bleeding takes place. 



If the wounds are seared with a hot iron where bleed- 

 ing is anticipated, it will, as a rule, be prevented. A 

 small potato pressed on the top of a young main rod of 

 the vine will stop bleeding. 



I have never experienced any difficulty in this direc- 

 tion myself, further than such as the two simple and 

 always available remedies mentioned above were suf- 

 ficient to cope with. 



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The influence which the stock exercises on the scion 

 is greater and of more consequence than many grape- 

 growers are aware of. So great, indeed, is this influence 

 that the character of a well-known grape to wit, Gros 

 Maroc was altered so much in size and shape of bunch 

 and berry, as well as in flavour, by reason of its union 

 with a worthless foreign grape vine, that several expert 

 grape growers to whom I showed it, together with a 

 bunch of the same grape cut from a vine inarched on a 

 Black Hamburg stock, failed to recognise it, while they 

 readily recognised the bunch cut from the Hamburg 

 stock placed in a bottle alongside it in the grape-room 

 for comparison. This happened soon after the Gros 

 Maroc grape was introduced into commerce. Being 

 anxious to obtain a second rod of it, and a second shoot 

 being available on the same pot-vine from which I 

 inarched one on the Hamburg close by, I accordingly 

 inarched the second shoot on the worthless vine referred 

 to regardless of what the result of such a union would 

 be. The vine in question was sent in mistake for a 

 good variety, which an officer in command at Malta 

 ordered to be sent home to me. Being anxious to 

 test the variety as soon as possible, I took one bunch 



