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NEW METHODS OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



Certain varieties of vines knit with difficulty when the graft 

 is performed at the end of a shoot. To increase the strike, 

 a bud is left on the stock above the joint. (Fig. 57.) 



Two buds are thus left 

 to draw the sap towards 

 the scion, they are natu- 

 rally pinched later on. 



Cleft grafting with hol- 

 lowed scions. It often 

 happens that towards the 

 end of the grafting period, 

 if the scions have been 

 selected to match the 

 stocks, the scions remain- 

 ing do not correspond witli 

 the diameter of the stocks 

 remaining. This difference 

 may exist in a great num- 

 ber of stocks and scions ; 

 the work is therefore han- 



Fig. 56. Other Cleft Fig. 57. Same, with ah dicapped and Sometimes 



Graft above ground. eye left to draw the sap. i j 



We would propose the following method, which we have 

 used successfully during many years, and which enables 

 vine-growers to use scions of any size. 



It consists in slightly modifying the scion used with the 

 ordinary cleft graft. The two slanting sections being made, 

 a little triangular piece abc 

 (Fig. 58) is cut away with the 

 point of the grafting knife. 

 The size of this triangular 

 piece is proportionate to the 

 size of the scion. A fork- 

 shaped wedge remains (Fig. 

 59), the two tongues of which 

 can be brought together, 

 diminishing the diameter and 

 rendering it equal to that of Fig. ss.-scion, 

 the stock. (Fig. 60.) 



The scion prepared in this manner is inserted in the cleft, 

 which is pressed against the two little tongues by a strong 

 ligature. Great care must be taken to make the inner bark 

 of both scion and stock coincide throughout their length. 



Fig. 59. Scion, 

 after hollowing. 



