GRAFTING OF THE VINE ABOVE GROUND. 



GRAFTING OF THE VINE ABOVE GROUND.* 



BY CH. TALLAVIGNES, 



Director of the School of Agriculture, Ondes, 

 Haut- Garonne. 



The results (satisfactory in most cases) of the methods of 

 grafting vines underground have prevented, viticulturists 

 from devoting attention to the grafting of the vine above 

 ground ; it may also be stated that the methods so far known 

 oi this manner of grafting, even when placed in experienced 

 hands, frequently resulted in failures. 



This is so true that in 1886, Foex stated in his lectures at 

 the School of Agriculture, Montpellier, " Grafting above 

 ground, which theoretically realizes the most favorable con- 

 ditions (as a principle, the younger the stock the greater 

 the proportion of strikes, and the better the knitting) has 

 been abandoned on account of the rapidity with which the 

 scions become dry. The latter, as a matter of fact, lose 

 their vitality before knitting takes place unless kept in a 

 hothouse." t 



In recent years the idea of grafting above ground has 

 been revived, and new practical methods of easy execution, 

 giving almost certain strikes, have been devised. We will 

 study these rapidly, leaving aside purely fancy grafts too 

 difficult to perform, or those resembling the methods we are 

 going to describe. 



INARCHING, OR GRAFTING BY APPROACH. 



Until quite lately the only recommendable graft above 

 ground was the graft by approach, which we will not 



* Revue de Viticulture, vol. I., 1894. 



t G. Foex. Cours complet de Viticulture. 3rd edit. 1891, p. 293. 



