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the fall, inserting the graft as near the layered cane or 

 roots as practicable. And when the grafts have made one 

 season's growth they may be taken up and separated, or 

 be again layered and several vines produced from each. 

 But in grafting the one-year-old canes the cleft or wedge- 

 graft should not be used unless the canes have grown very 

 strong, and are at least five-eighths of an inch in diameter ; 

 but instead of it, splice-graft them as follows : select one- 

 year-old wood for the "grafts as near the same diameter of 

 the stock as possible ; cut the stock obliquely upward and 

 the scion downward, with a corresponding inclination, so 



Fig. 22. 



that the two shall fit nicely together, care being taken that 

 the bark on one side, at least, of the graft and stock shall 

 meet exactly. Fig. 22 shows the manner in which they 

 are united. Bind them snugly together, and proceed to 

 cover, etc., as with the cleft-graft. 



