MODES OF GRAFTING. 



worked (see figure, a b) were exhibited at the Montpelier 

 Viticultural Congress in October 1874. In America Mr 

 Cambre, a successful viticulturist at Nauvoo, 111., has practised 

 grafting the Delaware Grape very extensively, the stocks used 

 being wild seedlings collected from the woods; and his 

 Vines so treated are healthy and vigorous even in unfavourable 

 seasons, when others not so treated fail completely in the same 

 soil. V. cestivalis and V. labrusca, together with their cultural 

 forms, made excellent stocks. 



Grafting by Approach (Inarching). This is perhaps the 

 most ancient of all the modes of grafting, as it not unfrequently 

 occurs naturally in tropical Fig-trees and in the Lime. In this 



Saddle Vine-Graft. 



Grafting by Approach or In-arching. 



method both stock and scion are left on their own roots until 

 a union takes place, after which the base of the scion is severed, 

 and the stock headed down, so as to allow it to develop itself 

 to its utmost extent. This plan is especially useful in filling up 

 any naked spaces in Peach and Nectarine trees, or even in the 

 Vine, a superfluous branch being simply bent down and spliced 

 on the main branch just where it is required. Stocks may be 

 grown in pots in cases where it is necessary or convenient to 

 multiply plants in this manner. This plan is simple and 

 tolerably sure, and can be modified in many ways by the intelli- 

 gent propagator. It will be perceived that this kind of grafting 



