38 Graftimj. 



BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Grafting. 



made every winter, mostly on rooted plants 

 of one year's growth, but very many also on 

 simple cuttings of Phylloxera-resisting va- 

 rieties. 



The stocks and scions should both be pro- 

 vided in good season and kept well preserved in 

 sand, sawdust, moss, or other suitable materi- 

 al, and stowed away 

 in a convenient place 

 in the cellar. For this 

 method of grafting 

 it is very desirable, 

 though not really es- 

 sential, that the stock 

 and scion should be 

 as nearly as possible 

 of a uniform size. 

 The ordinary whip- 

 graft, as employed 

 for the grape, is best 

 explained by the ac- 

 companying Figs. 51 

 and 52. 



The improved whip-grafting, or the "Cham- 

 pin-graft" \la grejf'e Champing ^ we will de- 

 scribe by a free translation of that chapter of 

 his book treating thereon : 



Let us operate first on a rooted plant or a 

 rooted internode ; with the pruning shears, or, 

 better still, with the knife, cut off the top as 

 close as possible below an eye or joint at the 

 collar. After the top has been taken off there 

 remains but little difference between a plant 

 and a rooted joint.* With a coarse rag wipe 

 off all sand and grit from that portion of the 

 shoot to 1)6 grafted. Then with a grafting- 

 knife, which should be simple and strong, 

 with a A'ery thin, but wide and not too long 

 blade (see Fig. 53), make a nice, straight and 



Fis. 55. 



Fig. 54. 



Fig. 5.3. 



regular slit or cleft, from above downwards, 

 and at one-third or one-fourth of the diameter 

 (1^ to 2h inches in length), according to the 

 size of the subject (Fig, 54). Then, holding 

 the stock in your left hand in the manner 

 shown in Fig. 55, with the palm of the hand 

 turned up, cut the thickest part of the split 

 end to an exact smooth bevel, of equal length 

 as the cleft, as shown in Fig. 56. 



* By " rooted joints" (merithtille racine) Mr. Champin 

 designates portions of a cane, layei'ed tlie pi-evious 

 summer, which lias sent out loots from its dilferent 

 eyes or nodes. For grafting purposes, it will 1)0 seen, 

 these rooted internodcs answer all purposes if they 

 have good strong roots, even though no top growth has 

 pushed from the eyes which were buried in the gi-ound. 



Fig. 56. 



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