VOUZOU GRAFT. 



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only being formed, but these indications are not precise 

 enough, or, better, do not convey any sufficiently definite 

 meaning to the majority of viticulturists. 



It is easy to explain, under these circumstances, the 

 numerous failures which followed its application in inex- 

 perienced hands, and why it was discarded by many viticul- 

 turists. That is why this method, which, however, gave 

 good results in the hands of its inventor and a few skilful 

 operators, has not been so generally applied as would have 

 been thought from its inherent qualities. Salgnes, after four 

 years' experimenting, in 1891, hoping to render his method 

 of grafting more readily utilizable, and also to study one of 

 the causes of its failures, attempted to graft green buds on 

 wood from one to three years old. The success which he 

 personally obtained was again very satisfactory, and con- 

 tinues to be so in his own vineyard and those of a few other 

 vignerons, particularly at that of Lemarchand, of Pradet 

 ( Var), where M. Cahuzac, who began the application of this 

 system in 1892, obtained excellent results, which he lately 

 published. 



Notwithstanding the modi- 

 fication which allows us to 

 graft on young or old wood, 

 according to. circumstances, 

 the use of the herbaceous graft 

 has not much extended. This 

 is due to the main cause of 

 failure subsisting, the diffi- 

 culty of choosing the scion- 

 bud. 



Another vigneron of the Lot 

 overcame this difficulty, and 

 rendered this method of graft- 

 ing essentially practical for 

 everybody, with the same 

 chances of success, by prac- 

 tising lignified budding, which 

 he named " normal budding of 

 the vine" In 1891, Vouzou, 

 a vineyard labourer at the 

 Chateau of Crozes (Lot), tried 

 successfully to replace the 

 herbaceous bud by a com- Fig. 34.-vouzou Graft:- A. stock 



^1^4-,-vl K ^'fi^A ^A 4- 1 ^ ready to be budded ; B. Front, side, and 



pletely lignined one taken back ? view of shield. 



