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and they can be planted in May, or even earlier, where they 

 are wanted. 



Grafting. This is a ready way of renovating old Vines; and 

 the safest plan to effect this is to bring in young canes in pots, 

 and inarch them on the old established canes after the latter 

 have made twelve to fifteen inches of young growth. The 

 stocks should always be in a much more advanced state of 

 vegetation than the scions, to prevent bleeding. Eyes with a 

 portion of the old wood may be inserted in old canes, as shown in 

 our diagram. " This should be done without cutting too deeply 

 into the stock, which would cause it to bleed, and so prevent a 

 union ; but a very shallow cut one and a half inch long should 



Vine-grafting. 



be made, with a cross downward cut at the end, and the graft 

 be fitted to it as shown in our sketches. The graft should be 

 bound up with bass matting rather tightly, and then the junc- 

 tion covered with grafting-wax." Whip, veneer, or even bud- 

 ding succeed well if neatly and quickly performed ; and for 

 indoor culture the Hamburg or Muscat of Alexandria stocks 

 are best, as a general rule. 



From the ' Florist ' we learn that " Mr J. Douglas has with 

 facility grafted Vines by simple whip-and-tongue grafting young 

 wood on young wood. A moderately vigorous young shoot, with 

 the wood firm, was chosen, and a scion to correspond, and four 



