PROPAGATION OP THE GRAPE VINE : BY BUDDING. 



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time that the first leaf is fully developed, when the young plants are 

 about two inches high, they should be potted into five-inch pots, and 

 from that time grown on rapidly. See Pot Culture, chap. xv. 



In Jersey and Guernsey a very simple system of propagation is 

 frequently adopted, the eyes and short-jointed cuttings being " put in " 

 in the open ground in beds, where they are grown for three years, when 

 they are considered ready for planting in their permanent positions. 

 The following plan is also adopted : About March, some No. 2 pots 

 are selected and filled to within three inches of the rim with good 

 strong soil ; on this the Vine eyes are placed, about one inch 

 apart, and covered with fine soil. The pots are then placed in 

 some sheltered situation, and occasionally watered. By September 

 the eyes are well rooted, and the growths from one to two feet 

 long. The following spring these plants are shaken out and planted 

 in light sandy warm soil, where they are allowed to grow till autumn ; 

 they are then cut back to three or four eyes, and left till the 

 following spring, when they are carefully lifted and planted in their 

 positions. 



4. Budding. The budding of the Vine differs somewhat from the 

 operation which is ordinarily understood by the term " budding " as 

 practised with the Rose, etc. In the case of the Rose, the bud as 

 attached to the bark only is inserted, the whole of the wood being 

 removed ; while in the case of the Vine, the wood of the bud is not 

 removed, but left as it is in a graft, so that the operation may more 

 properly be termed bud-grafting. Fig. 5 shows a " bud-graft," or an 

 " eye," such as was shown by fig. 3, prepared for affixing to the stock, 

 and represents a bud of the ripened wood of the previous season's 

 growth. The mode of performing the operation is 

 simple, it being only required to make a cut on the 

 stock corresponding to the cut on the prepared bud, so 

 that the inner bark of the stock and that of the bud 

 may be brought together. See Grafting, p. 12. 



Budding the Vine in the manner here described is not 

 much practised. It is, however, sometimes advantageous, 

 as by its means the bare stems of Vines can be re-clothed 

 for the buds can be inserted on any part of the stem. 

 We have had recourse to this method when by accident a 

 shoot has got broken off in the operation of tying down ; 

 and it is just at this stage, when the Vines are in flower, 

 and the shoots are being tied down, that the operation can 

 be most advantageously performed; but of this more 

 anon. 



There is another method of budding Vines, which is 

 frequently practised, and that is with the young half- 

 ripened wood while there is still a sufficient flow of sap 

 going on for the formation of cambium to form the union, BUD GRAFT. 



