32 = Planting. BUSHBERG 
CATALOGUE. 
Grafting. 
ferred by many, but unprejudiced and observ- 
ing cultivators have found that they only look 
stronger and finer, but are not as goo? as plants 
perly grown from penises or Tg of 
disposition 
from or, 
green patie: The plants so piodticed usually 
prove a disappointment to the planter, and 
injure the reputation of new varieties. 
Our German and French vine-dressers gene- 
rally practiced growing vines from long cut- 
tings, but short (two or three eye) cuttings will 
from single-eye plants, and consequently pre- 
_ fer them. The celebrated French am pelograph 
Dr. Jules Guyot praised single-eye cuttings as 
physically and ae panic yd most approach- 
ing to those raised from seed. We have tried 
all, and find that it au very little difference 
fect buds. (We never found any grown from 
green or unhealthy wood that had them.) As 
a general rule, a well grown vine is in its best 
condition for planting when one year old. 
Fuller and some other good authorities prefer 
two-year old trans ted vines; vines older 
than two years should not be planted, and so- 
ealled extra large layers ‘‘ for immediate bear- 
ing” are a humbug. 
* There is, however, one method of propagat- 
ing the grape, namely, by GRAFTS, which be- 
longs more properly to the sphere of the cnet 
vator, the vineyardist, than 
_ OF propagator, and which presents itself Sader 
aspects almost entirely new. 
: GRAFTING. 
_ Grafting the grape-vine is now practiced on 
_agigantie scale in Europe, where the contin- 
ued inroads of the Phylloxera have carried 
oo devastation and destruction over an immense 
rip | that we were the first 
the most renowned vineyards, the ‘‘ grand 
crus,’’ whose products command such extraor- 
dinary prices as to cover the extraordinary 
expenses of preserving them by this means. 
Vineyards which can be entirely submerged 
in water every winter, for a period of at least 
fifty days, can also be maintained in spite of the 
Phylloxera. And, finally, vines planted in soil 
containing at least 60 per cent. of pure sand 
(silica) offer also a comparative resistance to 
the insect. 
These three means of maintaining the Euro- 
pean grape in spite of the Phylloxera apply 
oon 
it not for the American vine coming to the aid 
of its European sister. The American vine, 
with its strong, robust system, and its tough, 
vigorous Sg resists the Phylloxera, and ee 
lending its root to the European 
the te Gition of the devastated vineyards 
possible. 
When the last edition of our catalogue was 
published (1875) this matter was stila problem, 
and many then doubted whether the solution, 
positively and practically, would be a satisfac- 
solution of the Phylloxera question for the Eu. 
ropean vintner—that solution which alone has 
so far been found generally applicable, gener- 
ally ‘practical, and generally satisfactory. 
ons upon millions of vines are now 
ciated in Europe every spring, some on simple 
cuttings, some on nurse’ lants, and others 
in vineyard plantations; but in all cases the 
grafting stock is of American descent. The 
stocks most generally employed for this pur- 
are types of our wild Vitis Riparia, 
which : probably constitutes four-fifths of the 
ftin ‘ 
rtain degree of _ and satistaction, 
a nee ine wonderful _— and 
