■October 19, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



499 



Although the season's work shows some marked failures, still 

 the lines in which future work should be carried on are quite 

 clearly defined. 



About twenty vines of the Red Wyoming- Grape were used 

 ■for each kind of graft, and cions of the Niagara were inserted. 

 With one exception, the cions were about ten inches long and 



ordinary cleft graft. The stock was cut off about three Inches 

 above the ground, and after the cions were inserted all cut 

 surfaces were covered with grafting wax. None of the cions 

 lived. 



(2) The same method was again adopted, but the wounded 

 portions were protected with a thick layer of clay and cow- 



Fig. 85. — The Sacred Lotus in a Reclaimei Swamp. — See page 494. 



carried two or three buds; the stocks were six years old. The 

 work was done April 4th, the weather at the time being quite 

 warm and the sap was flowing freely. The following is a 

 brief outline of the various methods used and the results 

 reached : 

 (r) In this case the cions were inserted in the stock by the 



manure, mixed in equal proportions. This dressing is said to 

 be of much value in Grape-grafting, but in this case its virtues 

 were not manifest. AH the cions died. 



(3) This method is called by Baltet side-grafting with an 

 oblique cleft. A slanting cut is made downward on the side 

 of the stem, at any desired height, but the knife is drawn 



