GRAPE-VINE. 81 
Hopetoun, and Mr..Shiels at Erskine. It seems proper, 
therefore, to describe minutely the mode of performing the 
operation. 
The distinctive feature of the method is, that it avoids 
the usual mode of grafting vines by approach, with all its 
inconvenient restraints, and substitutes a simple scheme 
of grafting by detached cions. The following are the 
directions given by Mr. Gowans himself, which will’ be 
rendered plain by looking at the annexed sketch: “ Select 
Fig. 11. 
a cion with one eye, and cut it in the form of a wedge. 
For a stock, select a shoot & of the preceding year, about 
the same thickness as the cion, and cut it over a little 
above the second eye from the old wood. With a sharp 
knife cut it down the centre nearly to the old wood. Out 
of the centre, pare with a pen-knife as much as is neces- 
sary to make it fit the cuts on the side of the cion. Then 
insert the cion a@ with its eye opposite to that on the top 
of the stock. -Tie it up and clay it over in the usual 
manner, with this difference, that you cover nearly the 
whole of the cion with the clay, leaving only small holes 
for the eyes. Tie some Ep upon the clay, upon 
