Grafting. 
GRAPE MANUAL. 
‘Grafting. 35 
is generally used for tree and other grafting, 
cannot be recommended for the grape, as the 
tallow and rosin seem to have a deleterious 
influence. 
To complete the operation, replace the soil, 
filling it up so that the upper bud on the scion 
will be level with the surface. A shade placed 
so as to protect it from the noonday sun, or a 
slight mulch, is very desirable. 
method of grafting may also be em- 
ployed for small stocks; when the stock is 
nearly the same size as the scion a perfect con- 
tact of the bark mage ean be obtained on 
both sides. (See F ‘ 
Or two scions may mee = innortiod & in a stock 
of a little larger size (see Fig. 48). 
It can also be employed = grafting cuttings 
on cuttings (as figured in Fig. 49), though for 
this, and in fact for all small stocks grafted 
_ out of the ground, we would prefer the WHIP- 
GRAFT, or, better yet, the ‘‘CHAMPIN-GRAFT,”’ 
of which we will speak la 
eal hich, tho 
a little more tedious, is aa also that safe 
more certain, is to saw a slit in the stock about 
one and a half inches deep with a thick-bladed 
ide-set saw, instead of using the chisel. 
The cleft thus made must be spread open suffi- 
cient only to receive the scion, which must be 
cut to fit nicely in the slit, with its upper por- 
tion resting, with a square shoulder each side, 
on thestock. In this instance we prefer to 
with two buds, the lower one of which should 
ee the point where to cut the riayrtcipecrcies: in 
as those given before. The jrsababl adivesitage 
is that we can always make a clean straight 
cleft, even when the stock is gnarly or twisted. 
As the slit cut by the saw is always of a 
uniform thickness, the scions may be prepared 
beforehand in the house during a rainy day or 
in the evening, and kept in damp moss until 
ant 
We spoke before of the ‘‘wHrp-GRAFT’’ and 
C IN-GRAFT’’ as being ‘preferable 
for small stocks or for cuttings grafted upon 
Bee and itis especially convenient for graft- 
in-doors, for the ‘‘ graft on the table’’ or for 
a “oraft by the hearth-stone,’’ as the French 
designate it. 
In France millions of this grape-graft are 
made every winter, mostly on rooted plants of 
one year’s growth, but very many also on sim- 
ple cuttings of Phylloxera-resisting varieties. 
The stocks and scions should both be pro- 
vided in good season and kept well-preserved 
in sand, vets ee or corti pong ma- 
t place in 
