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GRAFTING. 



from the strongest shoots. The grape cuttings should be 

 made any time from the fall of the leaf in the autumn until 

 the buds commence to swell in the spring. At no time 

 should they be taken from the vine, when the thermome- 

 ter is below freezing. 



The cuttings should be of the best and ripest wood. 

 Any well ripened wood cut with two eyes on it, as shown 

 in figure 5 , is all that is requisite ; and yet we confess a 

 penchant for the old style of mallet cutting, which is 

 shown in our figure 6. It differs from the former only in 

 the fact that it is made with an inch or less of the old 



FIGS. 5. C. 



wood attached to the base of the cutting, and in that 

 attachment, of base, or crown is supposed to be stored 

 up a greater amount of vital life-giving power than can 

 be concentrated in any one distinct bud that junction 

 or connection being, in fact, filled with buds, dormant 

 so long as the main bud exists, but ready to do service 

 as soon as that is destroyed. 



