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though it does not attain in this neighborhood to so large a size as it does 

 on the Brazos, it is still to be met With from 6 to 9 inches in diameter, 

 over-topping the highest trees, and bearing an enormous quantity of fruit, 

 worthless for the table, but good as I have proved for wine. On the Brazos, 

 six weeks since, the woods were stated to be perfectly blue in appearance 

 from the immense quantity of fruit which had ripened, even under the shade 

 of a dense foliage. It is entirely free from mildew, and to prevent its ap- 

 pearance on European varieties, and to secure a luxuriant growth, I intend 

 in the coming season to m a'ke use of it largely as a stock, for I have proved 

 . that it unites most freely with the scion, so much so that a cutting of this 

 year's wood attached to a Mustang stock during the last week of May, had 

 in a period of from 50 to 60 days not only taken, but had been followed up 

 by such a vigorous growth that I counted 37 joints from the point of inser- 

 tion. The following statement on this same subject T)y a Mr. Lincicum, ap- 

 peared a few weeks since in the G-alveston Journal : — "We have in our 

 highly favored country many delicious, healthy, indigenous fruits, particu- 

 larly in the Grape family, many of which are of fine flavor, and quite large^ 

 bear cultivation well, and might be made with small expense a source of 

 much wealth and comfort. Our native Grape will flourish well almost with- 

 out attention; all that is'necessary is sufficient space and protection from cat- 

 tle. But the foreign varieties, on their own roots, do not thrive well in our 

 black and limy soil. They become diseased and die out in a ,few years. 

 Amongst these are many varieties very delicious and suitable for the table. 

 These varieties are available notwithstanding their want of thrift in the 

 prairie soil, by a very cheap and simple process. In my experients the fol- 

 lowing has resulted very favorably. Take a healthy cutting from the last 

 year's growth, from the kind of Grape vine you wish to propagate, and by 

 the common wedge process, engraft it on a thrifty Mustang grape vine./ 

 The wedge graft is so simple that a description of the process may be con- 

 sidered superfluous. However, any time between the 10th and 20th of Feb- 

 ruary, prepare your grafts, having two or three buds on each slip, cut the 

 upper ends even and smooth k and the lower ends into a true wedge — your 

 knife should be sharp — then cut off the top of your stock Vine, within 2 or 

 3 inches of it3 root, split it down through the centre, low enough to re- 

 ceive the wedge of your graft, push in your wedge on one side of the stock, 

 sap to sap, and downwards until. the cut of the knife on the graft disappears. 

 You may insert two grafts in the same stock if it is large enough. Then 

 wrap a strip of wet domestic carefully around all, with sufficient firmness to 

 hold the graft in its place , after which raise the earth around it so as to 

 cover the stock, leaving the bud3 of the graft only above ground. I have, 

 however, inserted grafts 3 feet above ground and they grew very well, but 

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