36 NEW METHODS OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



On the 18th of July, 189.1, that is to say, after two 

 months of fruitless trials, suspecting that the scions which 

 had struck must present some peculiar con- 

 ditions of constitution, we decided to place 

 100 buds on fine shoots of a Biparia mother 

 plant, taking all the buds of a Malbec shoot. 

 We labelled each of these scions, mention- 

 ing on the label 1st. Its state of lignifi- 

 cation ; 2nd. The thickness left under the bud; 

 3rd. Its order on the shoot; 4th. If it were or 

 were not accompanied by a small latent axillary 

 bud. We then waited with great anxiety the 

 critical twelfth day; we were unable to visit 

 the grafts before the eighteenth day. At last 

 we were satisfied that those which were per- 

 fectly well knitted belonged to the central 

 portion of the scion-bearing shoot, free from 

 latent axillary buds, and of a semi-ligneous 

 constitution at the time the graft was made ; 

 on the contrary, those originating from the 

 upper third of the scion-bearing shoot (there- 

 fore too herbaceous) had become black, and 

 died. Since that time we have not had any 

 failures, and have found the truly practical 

 conditions for budding, which we have used 

 since with great success. As we do not 

 desire to make a secret of this method, and 

 realizing the services it may render to viti- 

 Fig. 47 Knitted culture, we will describe its means of execu- 



Bud (twenty days j. 

 after budding). UOn. 



GREEN BUDDING WITH DORMANT EYE. 



/. Time of Budding. Vines may be budded from 

 the 1st of May to the 15th of August* according to 

 climates. In the warm regions of the south of France the 

 early bursting of the buds enables one to obtain good eyes 

 for budding at the end of May and the beginning of June ; 

 while, in the south-west regions, it is only on the 10th of 

 June that the buds show characters, of vegetation retarded 

 enough to give good scions. 



77. Stock. The stock may be a shoot growing on the 

 American mother-plant, or rootlings one, two, or three years 



. * About November to February in Victoria. 



