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the grafts support, if 

 they have taken, by 

 tying to stakes, and 

 they can be bent 

 down later." 



(I hardly think that 

 this grafting above 

 ground will succeed 

 in our climate, unless 

 the canes or shoots 

 are bent into trench- 

 es and covered with 

 earth. G. H.) 



"This process 

 seems of more im- 

 portance to me, how- 

 ever, when applied 

 to young vines in 

 nursery, as has been 

 done at Marburg in 

 1878. In this case, 

 we take young Am- 

 erican vines as stocks 

 and graft with Eu- 

 ro p e a n varieties. 

 These can be remov- 

 ed to the vineyard the 

 following season, and 

 ' K X \ w r e would thus have 

 the most suitable 

 vines for planting 

 on resistant roots. 



" But whether ap- 

 plied to old vines or 

 in the nursery, it is 



