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RENEWAL GRAFTING. 



would be required for the natural maturity of the 

 young tree, the character of the fruit. Mr. Robert 

 Cornelius, of Philadelphia, has from his fund of 

 ingenuity invented the following : As soon as the 

 young seedling has grown sufficiently to mature 

 from six to ten buds, a good strong shoot is selected 

 upon an old bearing tree, and these buds are in- 

 serted in a spiral form, as they are always placed 

 naturally. The next spring the terminal bud is 

 allowed to grow, while the lower ones are pinched 

 according to the rules for forming a fruit-bud. By 

 this method fruit will often be secured much earlier. 



21. Renewal graft'uig. Often the orchardist or the 

 vigneron is puzzled how in the best way to fill the 

 blank side of a tree with limbs. A system of in- 

 arching may be advantageously resorted to. A 

 young shoot is bent forward to the place which the 

 limb is desired to occupy, and a slice taken from it 



and from the trunk, either with or 

 without a tongue. They are both 

 placed together and bound firmly, as 

 in the figure. After the limb is per- 

 fectly united, and has acquired suffi- 

 cient strength, it is cut where the 

 transverse line indicates. 



22. Grafting the vine. The root-grafting of the 

 vine is so uncertain an operation, in the hands of 

 most cultivators, that they must hesitate to cut 

 down a whole vine to prove a new variety of no 



