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or chisel; and having tapered the lower end of the 

 scion in the shape of a wedge, insert it in the cleft 

 stock so as to make the bark of both coincide 

 (which is perhaps not necessary with the vine) — 

 tie it with any kind of string merely to keep the 

 scion in its place ; return the earth to its place, so 

 as to leave only one bud of the graft above the 

 ground, and the other just below the surface, and it 

 is done. If I have no vine where I wish to have 

 one, I dig it out of the woods, cut it off as before 

 described-insert the scion-tie it, and plant it 

 where wanted, leaving as in the other case only 

 one bud or two at most, above the ground. All 

 the care now required, is to surround it with sticks 

 to prevent its being trampled on or otherwise in- 

 jured, and to notice the shoots that may grow 

 below the scion, that they may be immediately 

 taken off close to the stock, taking care not to 

 move the scion or graft, which might prevent its 

 taking. Such grafts usually grow as soon as other 

 buds of the vine in the neighborhood, but it some- 

 times happens that they start later. 



" When the stock or the vine into which you wish 

 to i„sert a graft is too W» to be conv.„ie,^Iy split, 

 or is several inches in diameter, after having sawed 

 it two or three inches below the surface nearly 

 horizontally, I take a gimlet, or carpenters' stock 

 and taper bit, and bore one or more holes according 

 to the size of the stock, about an inch and a quarter 

 deep. I then prepare the scion, which in this case 

 ought to be selected pretty large, and by cutting 



