CLEFT BUDDING. 



CLEFT BUDDING.* 



BY ARNOLD CHAVALLIEE. 



Plessard-Plane, gardener at Petit-Pressigny (Indre-et- 

 Loire), has invented a new graft, which is performed in the 

 following way : 



I. Preparation of the Scion. To excise the bud of the 

 scion-bearing shoot, the latter is cut at AB (Fig. 85), the top 

 section being previously made J inch above the bud, which 

 is finally detached by an oblique section CD. 



Fig. 86. 



Fig. 88. 



. 89. 



t Rewft de Viticulture, vol. XII., 1899, 



