WINE-MAKING IN CALIFORNIA. 9i) 



These four grafts are growing now, thus proving that it is unnecessary 

 to graft in the crown. 



I will mention the after-work when the grafting was finished. The 

 field looked like a multitude of anthills at that time, on account of the 

 <lirt thrown up to the scion. I then plowed the land crosswise, throw- 

 ing the dirt to the vine. Then, as soon as the union of scion and vine 

 was strong enough, I cut the vine away, leaving one standard only? 

 which I tied up. The "anthills" were leveled down, exposing the roots 

 on the scion, which were cut off; and, as the union is at the surface, 

 they cannot form a new, and the vine must be supported by the Cali- 

 fornica root alone. The misses which I have I find to be almost invari- 

 ably due to the fact that the scion was set with its sap veins entirely 

 outside of that in the root, and as a matter of course such failed to grow. 

 I used a great many lateral cuttings with an abundance of pith ; they 

 all grew, however. 



Of course, I used a great deal of care in keeping my scions in the best 

 possible condition ; they were never allowed to get into a position where 

 they would dry out or injure in any other way. If there are any other 

 points in regard to this matter which you desire to know, I will furnish 

 them to you with pleasure. 



JOHN E. PACKAKD. 



POMONA, October 2, 1885. 



The above statement of Mr. Packard's experience with 

 Californica's grafts is reproduced here, not as an example 

 of what may ordinarily be expected, but of what may occur 

 under extraordinarily favorable conditions. Its publication 

 called forth at the time from Professor George Husmann, the 

 well known writer on viticulture, the following communica- 

 tion, which was published in Bulletin 46 of the College of 

 Agriculture : 



TALCOA VINEYARDS, NAPA, October 24, 1885. 

 Professor E. W. HILGARD, State University, Berkeley, California: 



DEAR SIR : As you desire reports about resistant vines, and grafting 

 thereon, I will give a short resume of my experience here on perhaps 

 the most difficult and varied piece of ground to be found in the State, 

 being "spotted" with tough adobe, hard pan alkali, poor stony soil, and 

 rich alluvial lands, and therefore a harder and more severe test for them 

 than is ordinarily found. 



