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haustion consequent upon the repeated effort to grow, unaided 

 by the restorative action of the leaves. 



While, therefore, the common practice of removing the 

 first and even the second crop of suckers is a proper rule, in 

 order to throw the sap into the scion as much as possible, yet 

 so soon as it is definitely apparent or probable that the graft 

 will fail, the "suckering " should be stopped, in order to insure 

 a vigorous stock for regrafting the following season. From 

 personal experience I am inclined to think that the necessity 

 of close suckering, in order to make the graft "take/ 3 is com- 

 monly somewhat over-estimated; and that few grafts will fail 

 altogether because the removal of the sprouts from -the stock 

 is omitted after the second time. From comparative obser- 

 vations on grafts treated differently in this regard, I incline 

 to think that allowing the sprouts to grow will often so 

 strengthen a dormant stock that it will push the scion into 

 life, when, had the sprouts or suckers been removed, stock, 

 scion and all would have perished. 



But with the most careful treatment, and taking into due 

 consideration the fact that a dead stock involves for its re- 

 placement a loss of two or three seasons, while a stock whose 

 powers have been judiciously husbanded may be successfully 

 regrafted the following year, yet a certain percentage of loss 

 will thus take place, involving the replanting of a cutting or 

 seedling. This, with the graft failures, defers the completion 

 of a full "stand," and counts in the matter of delay in bring- 

 ing a grafted vineyard into full bearing. 



Considering the advantages to be gained by grafting on 

 vigorous resistant stocks in regions menaced by the possible 

 importation of the phylloxera, one season's delay (which I 

 think should be looked for by those who graft) should not de- 

 ter any one from taking this needful, and with proper care as 

 to adaptation, ultimately profitable precaution. 



Crop from Grafts of the Same Season. When bearing 



