AKD WI]S^E MAKING. 



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M. H. .Bouschet, of Montpelier. It is the winter graft- 

 ing of a cutting of such variety as is desired to grow upon 

 another which is to be used as stock, 

 the combined cuttings being planted 

 in the usual manner in spring, leav- 

 ing only the buds on the graft 

 proper out of the ground. This is 

 very similar to our ordinary mode 

 of making apple grafts ; and while 

 we have little or no experience in 

 this country on which to base antic- 

 ipations, the method is worthy of 

 trial, and is illustrated at figure 5." 



" But not to w^eary wdth details, 

 I here reaffirm my belief, strength- 

 ened by each further observation, 

 and by every additional experience 

 of the past year, that just as the 

 working of the Koot-louse is the 

 primal cause of failure of some of 

 our choicest varieties of the grape- 

 vine, so in judicious grafting we 

 have the most available means of 

 counteracting its work, and of thus 

 growing successfully many of those 

 kinds which cannot be grown in 

 this latitude with any profit or 

 success on their own roots." 



I have omitted propagation by single eyes, as this 

 method is now only followed by nurserymen, for the pur- 

 pose of increasing new and valuable varieties. As it in- 

 volves the expense of a propagating house, it can be of 

 little value to the vineyardist, and those who intend to 

 follow it professionally, are generally proficient already. 



Fig. 6. Fig. 5. 



GRAFTED CUTTINGS— PART 

 OLD AND ALL NEW WOOD. 



