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only a waste of time and raluable space to enumerate the 

 many different modes of grafting, only those possessing 

 the most merit, and such as have been approved by skil- 

 ful propagators, will be described in the following pages. 



There has also been a large number of grafting machines 

 invented, several of them patented in this country and 

 Europe, but practical propagators seldom employ them 

 in their work. The French gardeners, and especially the 

 vineyardists of France, have been quite prolific in inven- 

 tions of this kind, and since the advent of the Phylloxera 

 in the vineyards of Europe, grafting machines have been 

 in greater demand, as they are thought to be of some ad- 

 vantage in grafting the Grape. As the species of Grape 

 indigenous to North America are supposed to more suc- 

 cessfully resist the attacks of the Phylloxera than the 

 European varieties, the former are now extensively em- 

 ployed as stocks upon which to graft the latter. Among 

 the various European implements recommended in graft- 

 ing vines, the following are perhaps the best known kinds : 

 M. Petit's Cleft Grafter ; Leyder's Grafting Implement ; 

 Bordguer's Grafting Tool ; Trabuc's Grafter ; Sabatier's 

 Implement for grafting. in-do6rs, and another for out- 

 door work ; Vincent's Grafter, and Pelanquier's Grafter. 

 Some of these implements are of very complicated con- 

 struction, and not only cut off and prepare the stock for 

 the reception of the cion, but tie it in when inserted. 



An American implement for grafting the Grape, con- 

 sists of two saw-blades placed side by side, for cutting 

 the cleft in large stocks, and an accompanying imple- 

 ment, consisting of two knife-blades set in a lever, for 

 cutting the cions of the proper thickness to fill the saw- 

 cleft in the stock. This implement, although at one 

 time highly recommended and somewhat extensively em- 

 ployed in grafting old and large vines, appears to have 

 gone out of use, like others of its kind. 



The ordinary implements used in grafting, are : a small 



