1 8 Grafting the Grape -Vine. 



Basin small, abrupt, russeted ; eye medium, closed. 



Cavity medium, acute, regular, brown ; stem long, slender. 



Core medium, regular, distinct, and green, clasping the eye ; seeds few, 

 plump, brown ; flesh yellow, fine-grained ; flavor rather sweet, rich ; quali- 

 ty rather good. Use, market and kitchen ; season, fi-om April to July ; will 

 keep for fifteen months. 



Diagnosis. — Class I., order I., sect, i, sub-sect. 2. 



jfohn A. Warder. 



Cleves, O. 



GRAFTING THE GRAPE-VINE. 



When this process takes kindly, it is of much advantage to the grape- 

 grower. Vines of questionable value may thus be quickly replaced by other 

 and better kinds. A weak or slow-growing variety, grafted into a thrifty 

 stock, will, if the union is successful, generally produce a much more vigor- 

 ous growth than the original. The Delaware and Rebecca vines for in- 

 stance, under ordinary culture, are, in a majority of cases, feeble growers. 

 It is not uncommon for grafts of these varieties to make a growth of from 

 ten to twenty feet in length by from an inch to an inch and a half in 

 circumference the first year. With the stronger-growing kinds, such 

 as Rogers's Hybrids, Diana, &c., a much larger growth is often ob- 

 tained. 



According to popular belief, the stock has an influence on the graft. If 

 this theory is correct, there may be other advantages in this process, such 

 as hastening the maturity of a late variety by grafting into a stock that is 

 early. Possibly one or two weeks may in this way be gained in the ripen- 

 ing of that excellent late grape, the Catawba ; or, on the same principle, 

 the Delaware, Clinton, and others of the species Vitis cestivalis, may be 

 made to produce a much larger berry by grafting into the Mammoth Native, 

 Union Village, &c. Experience, however, does not seem to confirm these 

 latter statements ; but that a shy bearer, or an inferior variety, by grafting, 

 may be changed in one or two years to a bearing vine of good quality, or 



