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Grafting an Old Grapevine 



bud at base of wedge, leaving the wedge slightly thicker on the side of bud than on the other 

 side. Now with a narrow wedge of wood or metal, driven into center of cleft in stock, until 

 cleft is opened enough to receive the wedge-end of scion up to the bud at its base, insert the 

 scions, being careful that the scions lean outward a little, their bark crossing the bark of stock, so 

 the rising sap of stock will feed the scion from the start. Remove wedge, and the scions will 

 be held firmly. Then with moist, mellow, clean soil, mound up around the stock, pressing the 

 damp soil between and around the scions where they enter the stock, not in the least dis- 

 placing the scions, and mound the soil up to last bud on each scion, as shown in above figure. 



The work is done. Keep the mound free from weeds, and the sprouts that may spring up 

 from the stock, and in a month or six weeks, if successful, nice thrifty shoots will be coming up 

 from the buds of the scions. Select one or two of the best and train them up where you wish 

 them and remove all others. The next season such grafts will be strong enough to bear a good 

 crop. 



The Rose Chafer. (Macrodactylus subspinosus-} 



When this beetle becomes numerous, as it does some seasons in some sections of the country, 

 it quickly defoliates the vines, doing them great damage. The larva develops under ground and 

 cannot well be fought. It is the beetle that feeds upon the foliage that, like other leaf-eating insects, 

 can be easily poisoned by putting into the Bordeaux Mixture, used in first application after the 

 foliage of the vine appears, before the grapes bloom, two pounds of arsenate of lead to 

 every 50 gallons of water. The beetle is dark gray, nearly one-half inch in length and, when 

 disturbed, quickly drops to the ground, as tho dead. 



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