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INGRAFTING VINES. 



insertion somewhat to the size of the graft, next trim the scion 

 into a pivot form with a rounded point, so as to fit the hole, 

 leaving a slight shoulder of bark on one side, and press or 

 drive it gently into its position, the earth must then be raised 

 around it in the same manner as before prescribed. 



Some operators, apply clay or composition to cover the 

 place of junction, while others deem it of no importance, as 

 the earth serves to exclude the air. In many cases this method 

 has been particularly successful, and some shoots have grown 

 from twelve to sixteen feet the first season, and produced from 

 twelve to twenty-five clusters of fruit. Some persons state, 

 that where the stock has been very large, they have attained 

 equal success, by boring two or more holes in different parts 

 of the wood indiscriminately, and inserting a scion in each, 

 which grew in this manner as well as by any other course. 

 In some cases the stocks have been removed from the woods 

 to the garden at the period of ingrafting ; and Mr. Herbemont, 

 of South Carolina, states, that he has dug up vines in the woods 

 in April, even after they had begun to grow and had leaves 

 formed, which he carefully ingrafted and replanted, and that 

 several of these produced ripe fruit the same season. Mr. H. 

 has been also particularly successful in using the Isabella vine 

 for stocks, and has ingrafted several hundred of them with his 

 fine Madeira grape, (which is the same as the Warren or War- 

 renton,) many of which produced fruit the same year, and at- 

 tained a length of from twelve to twenty, and even thirty feet 

 with a proportionate thickness. In one case he has had a 

 single vine to grow in four months, so as to cover an arbour 

 seven feet high, and about ten feet square. 



The skill of Mr. Herbemont has even turned the advan^ 

 tages offered to a new account, and instead of pruning off the 

 lower branches, he has layered them the first summer with 

 success, thereby having layers in the fall, made during the 

 summer, from grafts inserted in the spring. So very speedy 

 3. course however may be more readily consummated in the 

 southern states, than in this section of the Union, and layers 

 made the second summer from wood of a year old, are much 

 to be preferred. 



