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the growth on the stock plant is eut back, but a stump of wood still 
left above the graft to he removed at pruning time in the winter. 
Cut worms should be particularly watched as the shoot bursts 
out, and poison bait laid to prevent any damage. 
Suckers issuing from the stock or roots from the scion are re- 
moved as in the case of the cleft graft. 
When these details have been attended to, strikes averaging 
80 to 90 per cent. are usual, and should the Yena-graft fail, then 
the opportunity offers next spring to cleft-graft the vine. 
Vine BorTur GRart. ‘ 
An ingenuous method of grafting vines in full growth, or for 
the matter of that many evergreen or herbaceous plants, is described 
and illustrated by the experimenter, Mr. W. C. Grasby, the agricul- 
tural editor for the Western Mail, in the issue of the 5th Febrary, 
1920. The method referred to by Charles Baltet in a work on 
grafting and budding has for some years been successfully applied 
to vines by Mr. Grasby, and although not of great commercial im- 
portance is interesting in connection with home gardens. 
Time for the Work.—The method of bottle-grafting, says Mr. 
Grasby, may be adopted either in spring, when the vine is starting 
into activity, or any time later in the season after the season’s growth 
has become sufficiently matured for the operation. I believe, however, 
that the best time is either in March or the beginning of April,* 
the actual time depending upon the conditions of the vine. At this 
time the wood to be used for scion has assumed a brown, woody, 
mature appearance, and at the same time the vines are normally 
still in a state of growth so that healing of the wound and the growth 
of the scion and stock takes place quickly. The objec{ is to obtain 
a dormant graft ready to start after the vines have been pruned the 
the following season. 
Method of Grafting—The method to be adopted for the March 
or April grafting will be best understood from Fig. 1. It will be 
noticed that the scion consists of a piece of wood with one bud above 
the point of incision in the stock, and a long heel with two or three 
buds projecting below. The lower end of the scion is eut off just 
below the joint or node, while on the upper portion of the scion a 
piece of wood an inch or,so above the bud is left. 
The Summer Graft.—The method of grafting when the vine 1s 
active is what is known as whip and tongue. A downward incision 
*Autumn months, 
