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 INARCHING TO FILL A VACANT SPACE IN A GRAPE VINE. 



INARCHING TO INCREASE THE SIZE 

 OF FRUIT. 



Inarching to increase the 

 size of Fruit. This is not a 

 common practice, though it is 

 followed to a limited extent by 

 European gardeners, in order 

 to obtain extra fine speci- 

 mens of fruit. The theory is 

 that by adopting this practice 

 a fruit has two sources of 

 nourishment viz., from its 

 parent branch and the one to 

 which it is united. The 

 operation is performed by 

 taking a young shoot and 

 forming a union with the 

 stalk of the fruit. The best 

 time is when the fruit is about 

 half-grown, and kinds with short stalks are unsuitable. 



BUDDING OR BUD GRAFTING. 



This is merely a form of grafting in which buds are used as scions 

 instead of branches as in other methods. Each bud is an individual 

 plant in embryo, and is capable of forming a tree under certain con- 

 ditions. By budding, the cultivator can attain precisely the same objects 

 as by the ordinary modes of grafting, and it is a method better adapted 

 for some kinds of trees. Stone fruits are more usually budded than 

 grafted, as they take more freely. Budding is also largely practised with 

 the Orange and other evergreens, and is preferable to ordinary grafting. It 

 may also be successfully practised with all other trees. As with grafting, 



