GRAFTING OF THE VINE ABOVE GROUND. 



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The second method is more rapid than the first. In both 

 cases the ligature must be cut away three weeks after being 

 made. Waxing these grafts is not indispensable, but is 

 useful, and should be done 

 when possible. The success 

 obtained by Clarac is perfect. 

 Of all the methods above 

 described, the two due to 

 Clarac are certainly those 

 which seem most worthy of 

 the attention of viticulturists 

 wishing to perform aerial 

 grafts on vines. They are 

 easily executed and may be 

 applied to herbaceous, lig- 

 nified, young or old shoots. 



Herbaceous grafts made 

 with dormant buds last July* 

 are already forming many 

 leaves. 



Grafting above ground for 

 vines may render great ser- 

 vices, for changing the 

 nature of the vines in a 

 vineyard, to produce grafted 

 cuttings, and even to per- 

 form the ordinary grafting 

 of rooted stocks. It also 

 renders the training of vines 

 in cordons easier, as it allows 

 us to replace a bud which, 

 dying off, might ruin the 

 foundation of the future cor- 

 don, or form interruptions. 



Changing the nature of a 

 vineyard without losing a 

 crop becomes very easy with 

 the Clarac grafts. If the vine 

 is trained in the gooseberry- 

 bush method, buds are grafted Fi g . 28 . Fig. 29. 



011 two Or three Spurs, aCCOrd- Clarac's First Method. Clarac's Graft 



ing to the strength of the stoc ^a f a d. to be 



* About January in Victoria. 

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