34 NEW METHODS OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



The above experiments show that herbaceous grafting 

 and grafting above ground have become very practicable, 

 and have rendered very great services. No other system can 

 give as fine grafts, or as perfect knittings. It will be in- 

 valuable for changing the cepages of a vineyard without 

 interrupting the crops. It gives perfect grafted rootlings 

 by placing buds on the shoots or mother plants 16 inches 

 apart the previous year. 



It allows the replacing of missing or badly-placed eyes in 

 the cordons of the Royat method. Finally, it allows better 

 than any other system the multiplication of Berlandieri for 

 grafted rootlings, and now that this mode of multiplication 

 is generally coming into use everywhere and is described by 

 viticultural professors, we may be allowed to repeat what 

 was said in 1894 : a The success with this method of multi- 

 plying Berlandieris is excellent ; shortly after planting 

 out, the Berlandieri throws roots from the joint of the graft, 

 and, after having been nourished by the fragment of Riparia 

 or Rupestris soon feeds with its own roots. This application 

 of the Clarac graft will render great services in the Cha- 

 rentes and Champagne, for it will enable vine-growers to> 

 obtain Berlandieri cuttings at moderate prices." 



