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from the wounded surfaces. The sap rising in the 

 stock will mix with that stored up in the scion, and 

 thereby effect the desired union in the course of a couple 

 of weeks. The same remarks apply to whip grafting. 

 A downward cut extending about one and a half inches 

 towards the centre of stock, as shown in the figure, 

 baring the bark with an upward cut to the point where 

 the first cut was made. This done, prepare the graft 

 to correspond with the cuts made in the stock, tongue- 

 ing the graft in the latter in the manner shown by the 

 lines in our illustration, it being essential to success 

 that the two inner barks should Jit well together. Bind 

 stock and graft, and otherwise treat as recommended 

 above. 



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This is a very easy, effective, and popular way of 

 effecting a union of two distinct varieties of the grape- 

 vine in a growing state. The vine to be inarched is 

 generally grown in a pot. This is stood on the trellis 

 stage over front pipes, on a shelf, or on a stool, as 

 the case may be. A downward cut about one inch 

 long is made in the stock, a corresponding one in an 

 upward direction being made in the pot-vine, which is 

 pressed open and tongued into the incision made in the 

 stock, and bound round with matting, after which a 

 little moss is tied round stock and scion, and damped 

 two or three times a day for about a week, by which 

 time it may be removed. Two weeks later the scion 

 can be detached from the parent plant. 



PATCHING VINES IN FULL GROWTH 



This consists in inarching shoots of the same vine to 

 fill the gaps caused by the next buds above them not 

 pushing into growth. I have on some occasions in the 



