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twelve days, afterwards turning on the heat. Keep the house 

 close ; temperature 80 to 85 by day ; 65 to 70 at night. 

 They will soon root and begin to grow, and as the day lengthens 

 the young plant strengthens, and will soon be ready for planting 

 in their permanent positions in the borders, or will make 

 splendid canes if potted on by the end of the season. 



GRAFTING. 



My favourite method is what is known as dove-tail grafting, 

 and I think it is best explained by the illustration. Bottle 

 grafting used to be much practised. It is a sure way of getting 

 a good union. Grafting differs from inarching, as it consists 

 of placing ripe wood to ripe wood. Most of my Muscats are 

 on Gros Colman Stock ; Duke of Buccleuch on Trebbiano ; 

 Directeur Tisserand on Alnwick Seedling ; Muscat Hamburg on 

 Black Alicant ; Chasselas Napoleon on Foster's Seedling ; 

 Duke of Buccleuch, again, on Barbarosa. 



Although I would in nowise lay down rules for stocks to 

 graft on, for many vines, given the treatment that suits them, 

 will finish best on their own roots. This year (1906) in the 

 eight bunches with which I secured the trophy, my Muscats 

 were on their own roots and the latter all in inside borders. 

 Time to graft is when the sap begins to flow in spring, when the 

 stock has made growth about four inches in length. 



INARCHING. 



Inarching is another favourite method and can be simply 

 done. It has an advantage over grafting in that it is supported 

 by the parent vine until a proper union of stock and scion has 

 taken place. It is performed by placing two growing shoots 

 of about the same thickness together, after first having cut a 

 piece off the side of each and having both cuts fitted nicely 

 together and then binding with raffia. In grafting and 

 inarching the cumbium of stock and scion must be placed 

 together. When a union has taken place the scion may, if 

 desired, be severed from the old stock. In this way many 

 different varieties may be grown on the same stock. When 

 there is a supply of new varieties in pots they can readily be 



