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open wooden boxes with moist moss and sand or saw 

 dust, and are well covered on top with straw or other 

 dry foliage to keep off the light. The boxes are ar- 

 ranged systematically in a glass house which is heated 

 to 2 8 -30 C., and are sprayed frequently to keep up a 

 constant moisture. In about a week or ten days the 

 lower end of the cutting will have formed a callus, and 

 the same happens about the union between the stock 

 and the scion, and the bud of the scion begins to swell 

 and to push out the young shoot, which is a proof that 

 the graft has been a success. The boxes are then taken 

 out in a glass house or room with a lower temperature, 

 and the covering of straw is taken off to admit light and 

 air, spraying the boxes occasionally to keep up a proper 

 degree of moisture. In this way the callus at the base 

 of the cutting begins to form some rootlets and the 

 young shoot takes a healthy green colour, remaining 

 short, with leaves closely set together instead of beconv 

 ing etiolated with a thin and long stem and sickly 

 foliage. In the meantime the temperature is gradually 

 brought down to the same degree as that of the external 

 air and in about 10 days this second part of the process 

 is completed, and after a few days of rest during which 

 the boxes are also sprayed occasionally to prevent a too 

 quick defoliation with the consequent check to the vital 

 processes, the bundles are taken out of the boxes with 

 care, and being yet too weak to be planted in their final 

 quarters in the vineyard, they are planted out in the 

 nursery in the same way as ordinary cuttings where they 

 are given proper attention for one or two years, and any 

 rootlets which may develop on the scion are carefully 

 removed to keep up the full value of the American 

 rootstock and to prevent the liberation or enfranchisement 

 of the scion. 



A variation of this method suitable for small grow- 

 ers, consists in grafting canes early in March, without 



