NOTE ON GRAFTING THE VINE. 



(See page 157.) 



" Grafting the Vine is attended with great suc- 

 cess in the cleft manner, if treated as follows : 

 Cut your scions during winter, keeping them par- 

 tially buried in a cool damp cellar till wanted. As 

 soon as the leaves of the old vine or stock are fully 

 expanded, and all danger of bleeding is past, say 

 about the 10th of June, cut it off smoothly below 

 the surface of the ground, and split the stock and 

 insert one or two scions in the usual manner, bind- 

 ing the cleft well together if it does not close firm- 

 ly. Draw the soil carefully over the whole, leav- 

 ing two or three buds of the scion above the sur- 

 face. If the root of the stock is a strong native 

 grape, the graft will frequently grow ten or fifteen 

 feet during the first season, and yield a fair crop 

 during the second year. 



" The Vine may also be grafted with good suc- 

 cess at the usual season if grafted below the ground, 

 but above ground it should not be attempted on 

 account of bleeding, until the leaves are nearly 

 expanded." Downing^ Fruit and Fruit Trees of 

 America. 



