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' cepages ' are not of the same value as regards the chances of their 

 successful grafting. The one of which the greatest number of 

 grafts take is the Vialla ; next to it come York Madeira, Jacquez, 

 and Taylor ; then Vitis Rupestris, and the wild V. Riparias. The 

 latter, after being planted out for two years, are refractory to graft. 

 Lastly, the Solonis, which is the most difficult of those usually 

 employed. The question of the accommodation of different stocks 

 to different ' cepages ' used to graft on them is as yet very imperfectly 

 known, and only seems to be of slight interest from a practical 

 point of view. The majority of stocks employed so far seem to 

 unite equally well with the different types grafted upon them, and to 

 nourish them equally well. Some people believe to have observed 

 that the Aramon succeeds particularly well on the Clinton, and the 

 Bouschet Hybrids upon the Jacquez." 



