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will appear. The growth of the stock on which the 

 new vine is inarched may be stopped at three joints 

 past its point of junction with the new one. In nine 

 out of ten cases the union should be complete in a 

 month, when the bandage may be taken off, but the 

 ties above and below retained for some time after- 

 wards. When the young vine shows by its vigorous 

 growth that it is deriving supplies of sap from its new 

 parent, its connection with its own roots may be half 

 severed, and by the end of the season cut off entirely. 

 I have inarched young wood on to old, but do not 

 recommend it where young can be had conveniently. 

 I do not consider grafting so certain a plan as inarch- 

 ing in the manner I have described; and, besides, it 

 leads to a good deal of bleeding when the graft is put 

 on just as the old parent vine is started into growth. 



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As a rule, I do not consider this a profitable way of 

 growing grapes, as compared with permanent vines 

 planted in borders ; at the same time, there are various 

 exceptional cases where fruit can only be had so as, 

 for instance, the first year a vinery is erected, if the 

 proprietor procures not only a set of vines to plant in 

 the borders, but another set to fruit in pots, he may in 

 this way have a partial crop of grapes in his house the 

 first season. Or when a gardener has to root out and 

 renew a vinery, and at the same time supply grapes, he 

 can have recourse to vines in pots. In this way I have 

 grown two hundred bunches of grapes, in a house 30 

 feet long and 13 feet wide, the year I planted it with 



