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succeed better when inarched or grafted on to others of 

 a more vigorous constitution, and the practice is now 

 quite common. Inarching on to established vines 

 enables the cultivator to introduce new or desirable 

 sorts, at a time when it may not be possible to plant 

 them out in new borders ; and by the same process those 

 who have only a very limited accommodation for vines 

 can have any variety introduced into their collection 

 with the greatest ease. 



There are many well-known ways of inarching and 

 grafting the vine, but there is none which I have ever 

 seen practised that is so simple, or that makes so com- 

 plete and speedy a union, as that of uniting two young 

 green growths in the ordinary way of inarching. I 

 have often taken a young vine struck from an eye when 

 not more than 18 inches high, and inarched it on to the 

 growing side shoot of a vine. The rapidity with which 

 the two unite is wonderful. All that is necessary is 

 to place the young vine in a position suitable for join- 

 ing it to the stock, then with a sharp knife to cut a 

 slice from its side about 2 inches long and about half 

 through the young growth at its deepest part. Then 

 a similar slice is cut from the stock, and the two wounds 

 nicely adjusted to each other. Pirst, in tying them, let 

 the two be rather easily fixed to each other above and 

 below the union, and then bind them sufficiently close 

 with soft matting to cause them to fit nicely together. In 

 fourteen days they will have so farunited thatthe ligature 

 may be slackened a little to give the wood room to 

 swell. In another fortnight the union will be complete. 

 During the process supply the young vine with water 

 till the union is formed, and then, if the plant is not 

 required, it may be allowed to dry off altogether ; or 



