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2nd. Easy execution without any special preparation of 

 the soil (earthing up), as the budding may be performed 4 

 inches above the level of the ground. 



3/y/. No emission of roots from the scion, and severance 

 of the stock only after the knitting has taken place. 



kth. Crop-bearing following the year of grafting. 



The only drawback of these grafts is the extreme fragility 

 of the scion shoots during the first month of their growth. This 

 is due to the extraordinary growth of the single bud, which 

 seems so weak when dormant, and often throws three or four 

 shoots from this one point, shoots which often reach yards in 

 length at the end of summer. 



Budding of old Stocks. With Salgues' green budding, 

 we may at any time transform a European variety already 

 grafted on an American stock or direct producers, Jacquez, 

 Herbemont, &c., without interrupting the crop. These 

 ordinarily can only be replaced by decapitating the stock, 

 and using a cleft-graft. Every vine-grower knows that this 

 system of grafting weakens and generally kills the stock, if 

 the graft misses. 



The shoots occupying the best places on the crown of the 

 plant must be preserved when disbudding. In June or July * 

 one or two buds of the required variety are placed on each 

 of these shoots, and the following year, at the pruning season, 

 all the canes of the stock are cut at ^ to J inch above the 

 bud, immediately above the last scion. This bud is left to 

 draw the sap towards the scion, and it must only be cut 

 away after the latter has reached a length of 12 to 20 

 inches. All shoots growing on the old wood (water 

 shoots and suckers) must be disbudded, an operation 

 which should be renewed as often as possible ; directly 

 the scions have started to grow properly these suckers cease 

 to appear on the old wood. All the other operations simply 

 consist in erecting a strong stake to fasten the shoots to. 

 The above method may be used for old gooseberry-shaped 

 bushes. We have tried to apply it to vines trained in other 

 ways, such as Cazenave or Royat cordons, or old Jacquez. 

 Herbemont, or even old mother-plants of Riparia Rupestris. 



The operation is conducted in the following way: Choose 

 the shoots which are most strongly attached to the plant, 

 and bud them with dormant eyes of Cabernet-Sauvignon, 



* About December to January in Victoria. 



