GRAFTING OF THE VINE ABOVE GROUND. 



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of the bud two longitudinal parallel incisions are made, bi- 

 secting the circumference (if anything towards the eye) and 

 joining the annular incisions (x y Fig. 11). 



" The bud so prepared, the next thing is to choose the posi- 

 tion where it is to be placed. It should be placed on a shoot 

 of the same diameter, as nearly as possible, as that from 

 which it was taken. But the indispensable point which 

 makes the difference between ordinary budding and Professor 

 Horvath's flute-grafting is that the bud must be placed or 

 inserted in place of another bud on a node. 



"The green shoot to be 

 used as stock having been 

 chosen (Fig. 12), and on 

 the latter the bud where the 

 graft is to be made (A, Fig. 

 12), the leaf on that node is 

 removed. Above and below 

 the bud, at distances corre- 

 sponding to the length of 

 the scion, two semi-annular 

 incisions are made (a a f b U 

 Fig. 12), penetrating the 

 whole depth of the bark, 

 without, however, cutting 

 into the wood. A longitudi- 

 nal cut (x y Fig. 12) is then 

 made parallel to the axis of 

 the shoot, passing through 

 the whole bark, dividing the 

 petiole in two without cut- 

 ting into the wood. Then, 

 with the haft or spatula of 

 the grafting-knife, the bark is lifted on both sides of the cut so 

 as to form, as in the ordinary budding, two flaps. These two 

 flaps being open (Fig. 13), the wood is left bare, exposing a 

 place the shape of which is arranged so as to be exactly 

 adapted to the shape of the scion. The scion is inserted, the 

 two flaps brought over it, and the joint ligatured (Fig. 14). 

 The tie is made with wool or raffia, and a fortnight or 

 twenty days later it should be undone." 



According to Professor Horvath, 80 per cent, of strikes 

 have been obtained with this process. But the minutiae of 

 this lengthy and delicate operation militate against its use 



Fig. 11. Horvath method. Preparation of 

 scion. 



