18 PROPAGATION, 
and the trees planted at once, drawing the well pulverized £04 
with great care around the graft. Another way of graiting 
apple stocks, common in some western nurseries, consists 1D 
tongue-grafting on seedling stocks of very small size, cut back 
almost to the root. This is performed in winter, by the fire- 
side—the grafts carefully tied, and the roots placed in the cel- 
lar, in sand, till. spring, when they are planted, the top of the 
graft just above ground. ; 
Grafting the Vine is attended with great success 1n the cleft 
manner if treated as follows. Cut your scions during the winter 
or early spring, keeping them partially buried in a cool damp 
cellar till wanted. As soon as the leaves of the old vine or stock 
are fully expanded, and all danger of bleeding is past—say about 
the 10th of June, cut it off smoothly below the surface of the 
ground, and split the stock and insert one or two scions in the 
usual manner, binding the cleft weil together if it does not close 
firmly. Draw the soil carefully over the whole, leaving two or 
three buds of the scion above the surface, If the root of the 
stock is a strong native grape, the graft will frequently.grow ten 
or fifleen feet during the first season, and yield a fair crop the 
second year. 
‘The Vine may also be grafted with good success 
at the usual season if grafted below the ground, 
but above ground, it should not be attempted, on 
WH account of bleeding, until the leaves are nearly 
i expanded. 
ai\| Saddle grafting, Fig. 5, consists in cutting the 
Rll top of the stock in the form of a wedge, splitting 
AN the scion and thinning away each half to a tongue 
| shape, placing it astride the stock, and fitting the 
| two, at least on one side, as in tongue-grafting. 
} This mode offers the largest surface for the junc- 
Hig tion of the scion and stock, and the union is very. 
perfect. Mr. Knight, who practised it chiefly 
upon Cherry trees, states that he has rarely ever 
f seen a graft fail, even when the wood has been se 
j succulent and immature as to preclude every hope 
of success by any other mode. 
Fig. 5. A variety of this mode, for stocks larger thar 
Saddle grafting. the scions, 1s practised. with much success in Eng- 
land after the usual season is past, and when the bark of the 
stock ‘separates readily. “The scion, which must be smaller 
than the stock, is split up between two or three inches from its 
lower end, so as to have one side stronger than the other. This 
strong side is then properly prepared and mtroduced between the 
bark and the wood; while the thinner division is fittcd to the 
opposite sid¢ of the stock.” The graft, thus placed, receives a 
large supply of the sustaining fluid from the stock, and the union 
