Grafting. 
GRAPE MANUAL. 
Planting. 39 
Below the ligature make a slo- 
ping cut down, as shown at a; 
also, a similar reversed one above 
the ligature, as at 5, about one 
inch in length. In selecting a 
scion cies one that has naturally 
Cut it so that it shall be 
we weddeabags at both ends, and a 
little longer than the distance be- 
tween the cuts in the vine at a 
contact, securing it with a string, 
c, bound round both scion and 
vine sufficiently tight to force the 
scion-ends into their places. 
the work is done well, no tie will 
wax. In a short time, the bud at d 
1 commence its growth, after whigh you can, 
by degrees, remove all the growing shoots not 
belonging to 
in the fall remove all above @ on the stock, and 
above ¢ on the scion.” 
We refrain from speaking of other methods 
of grafting, as we believe that the modes of 
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and illustrated by plain figures, 
which rosie the’ best results, generally. The 
extensive grafting operations of France are 
setiy confined to these methods, and eres 
cal oo is the best teacher in such mat- 
We also deem it unnecessary to speak of the 
many machines and tools lately invented for 
grafting; as a good pruning knife, as de- 
seribed, is the tool ace in bh end quite satis- 
factory in skilled hands. 
We should here mention that, generally 
varieties do not take 
less, when well done, at the proper season and 
with well cond ditioned wood, the operation will 
show a far corr peemenee = of success than 
of 
In cui mien edition we 
ber, 1880, we exhibited in St..Louis, at the 
meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horti- 
cultural Society, a number of fine foreign 
grapes, raised in open air, on grafted vines, 
in our own vineyards. 
so far as protecting the European grape 
from the Phylloxera, has been highly satisfac- 
tory, we have found our climate, in this lati- 
tude, too unfavorable for the V. stom, he to en- 
tion. 
For our section of the 
United States, therefore, we would not recom- 
mend anything deters! than limited trials in 
this direction. But we think that there is a 
valuable field of cael for the enterpris- 
ing grape-grower in some sections of the 
Southern States, where, under more favorable 
climatic conditions, the V. vinifera, grafted 
upon Phylloxera-proof native stocks, would 
most likely give excellent results. 
PLANTING (Continued). 
But now let us return to the modus sisted 
of planting. Take your vines, in a pail with 
water, or wrapped in a wet cloth, from the 
place where they were heeled-in,* to the holes ; 
when Lares let ae hago, shorten the 
roots, Wi , then spread them 
out evenly re all sides, sae let another fill in 
with well pulverized earth. The earth should 
vine in slanting, and let its top come out at the 
stake previously set. Then, with your knife, 
eut back the top to a bud just above, or even 
with the surface of the ground. Do not leave 
more than two buds on any one of the yor 
vines which you are planting, howeyer strong 
of the two shoots may afterwards be removed 
enere back. 
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— deep, wide ‘en the 
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promised to experi- | tween them. 
ment more largely with the grafting of Euro- } 
eS We 
