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NEW METHODS OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



Performed under the above-mentioned conditions, the 

 normal budding gave excellent results to its inventor 

 and all the vignerons (quite numerous) who, following his 

 example, have applied it during the last two years. The 

 proportion of takes reached between 75 and 100 per cent, in 

 1893, during which year the drought was of intense and long 

 duration, causing failures with all the herbaceous and 

 ordinary grafts. Youzou obtained 90 per cent, in a lot of 

 1,000 grafts. We must add that last year at the State 

 nursery, where the above-mentioned workman (Vouzou) 

 publically demonstrated his system, the strikes reached 95 

 per cent, on twelve years' old stumps of Cynthiana ; this year 

 these grafts (Fig. 37) are simply excellent, vigorous, and 

 bearing a few grapes. 



Fig. 37. Vouzou Graft : A. Knitted Bud; B. Stock. 



This graft is not only remarkable for the simplicity of its 

 execution, and the great proportion of strikes resulting, but 

 also from the point of view of the knitting. The examination 



