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NEW METHODS OF GKAFTJNG AND BUDDING. 



CLEFT GRAFT ABOVE GROUND.* 



BY CH. CLAKAC, 

 Farm Manager at the School of Agriculture, Saint-Sever. 



Amongst grafts above ground the cleft graft is one of the 

 most practical. It is not difficult of execution if one knows 

 already how to perform the ordinary cleft graft. The results 

 are certain if the following precautions are taken. 



It is preferable to cut the scion-bearing shoot in autumn, 

 ior the bursting of the buds of canes cut in spring may take 

 place before the graft is knitted. 



We should operate in the following way : At the base of 

 the scion an ordinary wedge-shaped section is made, taking 

 care to start level with the bud, and even a little above, to 

 level the protuberance of the node always existing there. 

 The top of the scion is cut J inch above the bud. (Fig. 54.) 



Fig. 54. -Scion. 



Fig. 55. Scion and 

 Stock united. 



The graft on the stock is performed, as in the case of the 

 English cleft graft, above the node, and the scion is deeply 

 inserted in the cleft, so as to obtain as many points of con- 

 tact as possible. (Fig. 55.) The graft is bound with strips of 



* Revue de Viticulture, vol. IX., 1898. 



