46 NEW METHODS OF GKAFTING AND BUDDING. 



Malbec, Chasselas, or other varieties, placing" the buds 

 12 inches apart on the shoot ; the first at 27^ inches from the 

 ground, so as to be level with the bottom wire on the cordon 

 generally 15^ inches, above the ground. The first bud will 

 be 12 inches from the bend and the last will correspond 

 with the bend of the next cordon. 



At the next winter pruning, all the shoots of the vine are 

 removed ; the budded one alone is left, and is trained on the 

 wire straight away. This shoot is pruned at the bud over 

 the last scion ; this bud, being left to draw the sap towards 

 the scion, is pinched short when the latter are 10 to 12 inches 

 in length. They are then fastened with raffia to the top 

 wire, and directly they reach to 20 or 23 inches the sap- 

 drawer is cut away. We may add, that the canes of all the 

 stocks tried so far increase in diameter at the same rate as 

 the scions, without producing too large a protuberance at 

 the knitting point. 



This graft is so handy and so rational that it may readily 

 be used to replace weak spurs on Cazenave, Royat, or 

 Thomery cordons. 



Even amateurs may use it to graft different varieties on 

 the same stock. 



Vouzou SYSTEM. 



A word remains to be added concerning another kind of 

 budding recently invented by Vouzou, vineyard manager for 

 de Yerninac, whose property is in the same canton as that 

 of Salgues. 



Vouzou, who understood well the modus operand 'i of green 

 budding, hit on the idea of excising the buds from canes of the 

 previous year's growth, such as those used in bench grafting 

 and preserved in sand. The first trial was made in 1892, and 

 the judges of the agricultural show of the Lot, which took 

 place in June and July, were surprised to see the results. 

 Buds grafted towards the end of May on trellised vines, 

 varying in age, were already bearing shoots 10 to 30 inches 

 in length. 



This method was pointed out originally by Tallavignes, but 

 it was only in 1894, at the Agricultural Show of Cahors, 

 that we saw for the first time specimens of Vouzou grafts 

 made in 1893 which were loaded with grapes, together with 

 others, grafted only twenty days before on Jacquez and 

 Riparia one year old : these had shoots 2-^ to 4 inches in 

 length. 



