Grafting the Grape Vme. 301 



sists in taking off the sprouts that rise from the stock, those 

 that spring from the scion, all but one, and training that 

 up carefully as it grows. 



No tree is so easily propagated, by grafting, as is the 

 vine in this way. No clay, or wax, or adhesive plaster is 

 wanted. No special care is required to fit bark to bark, 

 as in other cases. Indeed, it is said that the scion may be 

 put in the centre of the stock, and it will grow just as well 

 as if bark were adjusted to bark — though this I have not 

 tried. I have always put the scion on one side of the 

 stock ; and, to insure success, I have usually, when the 

 stock would admit of it, put in two scions, one on each 

 side of the cleft, (Loudon, fig. 201,) but never have taken 

 any especial care to make bark fit to bark. I have tried 

 wrapping with waxed paper, and then drawing up the 

 earth, as before mentioned, but have found success far 

 more certain when this was omitted. As to the time, I 

 must repeat, tliat it is essential that the operation be per- 

 formed after the leaves of the stock are fully expanded^ and 

 all danger of bleeding is over. I am informed, however, 

 by one who has tried it. that success by this mode is just 

 as certain, if the operation is performed before the sap 

 begins to rise. This I have not tried, except in one or two 

 instances, in which I took up the stock, grafted it as above 

 described, and then planted it where I wanted it. 



On the 1st of June, of this year, I put a scion of the 

 Gros Maroc in the root of a wild vine. It has now (June 

 30th,) grown about two feet. I have had scions grow, 

 Avhen put on strong roots, fully fifteen or twenty feet in one 

 summer, and invariably produce good crops the second 

 year. A white grape from France, the name of which I 

 do not know, worked on the root of the vigorous growing 

 fox grape of our woods, produced abundantly the second 

 year, while cuttings of the same grape, treated as cuttings 

 usually are, grew very slowly, and were five years in com- 

 ing to a bearing state. The delicate foreign varieties, I 

 have invariably found to be wonderfully strengthened by 

 being worked on the roots of our strong native kinds. 



In propagating by cuttings, I have tried long cuttings, 

 short cuttings, and single eyes ; and with due deference to 

 Mcintosh, who quotes Speech! y with approbation, I must 

 insist, that single eyes succeed with much less certainty 

 than cuttings. I greatly prefer short cuttings, inserted in 



