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V. HERBACEOUS GRAFTING. 



According to Hermann Goethe's work, from which we 

 extract the following, herbaceous grafting has been a common 

 practice in Hungary for the last half-century, although 

 exceptionally used in connection with vines. 



The cultivation of American vines drew the attention of 

 viticulturists to this method, which belongs rather to the 



Fig. 143. 



Herbaceous Graft knitter!. The scion 

 developed a shoot (a, b). (After 

 H. Goethe.) 



Fig. 144. 



Stock prepared for the herbaceous 

 graft. (After H. Goethe.) 



domain of horticulture, and it is now applied on a large 

 scale for the reconstitution of vineyards destroyed by 

 phylloxera. The results obtained are good, the percentage 

 of strikes often reaching 90 per cent. 



It has been tried in France in several districts, but the 

 result has not always been very satisfactory, and for differ- 

 ent reasons, which we cannot study here, it has generally been 

 discarded. 



