68 NEW METHODS OF GKAFTING AND BUDDING. 



this graft gives satisfactory results. However, if the buds 

 are not ripe enough when the grafting takes place they will 

 not grow. 



The graft in which the eyes are only partly hollowed, 

 prevents the second inconvenience, and has also the advantage 

 of allowing the use of a much greater number of buds. This 

 is the safest green graft, and may be performed during a 

 very long period, from June till the end of August.* Its 

 shoots are very vigorous. 



These grafts may be performed with dormant or growing 

 eyes. It is preferable to use dormant eyes, as lignifying 

 takes place under more favorable conditions. If we wish 

 to obtain growing eyes, the shoot should be pinched a 

 fortnight after the operation. 



These buds can also be placed on old wood. 



The grafting knife used for the whip-tongue graft cannot 

 be used for budding. The ordinary gardener's budding knife, 

 with Kund's blade, should be preferred. 



Practical grafters who have only been accustomed to cleft- 

 grafting will not succeed at first with herbaceous budding, 

 but we must remember that the whip-tongue graft was 

 found quite as difficult of execution when it was first invented, 

 and it was not without great difficulties, experiments, and, 

 above all, conviction of its merits, that it became practical, 

 arid is now used by every vine-grower. We wish to impress 

 upon the reader the necessity of learning the budding of vines 

 by practice in the vineyard. However, it will be found to be 

 easier of execution than the whip-tongue, and, as all nursery- 

 men, and most gardeners know already how to bud fruit trees, 

 there is no reason why this method of grafting, with all its 

 advantages, should not become generally used. 



* December to February in Victoria. 



