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AMERICAN GRAPE GROWING 



count upon a few clusters the same summer, with a full 

 crop the following season. 



III. How to do it. Necessary implements : You need 

 a good, thin-bladed, sharp knife to cut the cions, a sharp 

 saw to cut off large stocks, the smaller ones 

 can be cut with good pruning shears, a chisel 

 for grafting, having a blade two and a half or 

 three inches broad in the middle and a wedge 

 on each side (see figure 3), a wooden mallet 

 and a few strings of raffia, or other bandage, in 

 case a stock should need tying, which is seldom 

 the case. Your cions should be of selected 

 wood, the size of a 

 lead pencil or some- 

 what larger, cut in 

 time in winter, tied 



in bundles and bur- pia - 3 - GRAFTING CHISEL. 

 ied their entire length on the shady side of a 

 building or under a tree, to keep them dor- 

 mant. Short-jointed, firm wood is to be pre- 

 ferred. All can be carried in a basket, if 

 one intends to perform the operation alone. If 

 several are to work together, of course the tools 

 must be divided accordingly. We work here 

 generally in gangs of three, the first man clear- 

 ing away the ground from the stock, until he 

 comes to a smooth place for inserting the cion, 

 whether this be at the surface or slightly below. 

 The former is preferable if resistant vines are 

 to be grafted with non-resistant cions. He 

 FOR then cuts off the stock horizontally about an 

 GRAFTING. i nc h and a half above a knot or joint. The 

 next man cuts the cions to a smooth, long, sloping 

 wedge just below a bud (figure 4), then splits the stock, 

 either with pruning shears or chisel, according to its 

 size. If the stock is not more than an inch in diameter 



FIG. 4. 



