GRAFTING OF THE VINE ABOVE GROUND. 1 / 



CLARAC GRAFTS. 



While Besson was experimenting upon the inlaid budding 

 of vines, Clarac, the Demonstrator of Horticulture at the 

 School of Agriculture, Ondes, was applying the same idea ; 

 but, like Besson, whose work he was unaware of, stopped by 

 the difficulty in excising the bud, he resolved the problem in 

 a different manner. Although the Clarac grafts have a point 

 in common with that of Besson, that is to say, the substitu- 

 tion of one bud by another, by inlaid budding, they differ 

 from it in so many details, that they constitute a new method 

 of grafting vines, and by no means the least interesting. 



Clarac' s First Method. Slock. A bud is removed from 

 the stock and replaced by a scion-bud. An incision is 

 made on the cane -^ to ^ inch above the bud to be removed 

 with an ordinary grafting-knife, or one with a curved blade 

 for preference (Fig. 22), the incision is continued in a 

 straight section parallel to the axis of the cane, penetrating 

 only one-third of the diameter. To operate with success the 

 first finger of the left hand is placed under the eye of the 

 bud. The cut is stopped when its length is a little over the 

 width of the blade, under the base of the bud (Fig. 23). 



Fig. 22. Clarac's First Method, 

 of Stock. 



Preparation 



Fig. 23. Preparation of Stock. 



The blade is then removed from the incision, and laid 

 flat on the cane immediately under the base of the bud 

 (Fig. 24), the width of the blade indicating the point 



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