GRAFTING- AND BUDDING. 



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Privet. 



Stock. — Common Privet; oval-leaved Privet (from seed or 

 cuttings). Mode of Grafting. — Cleft-grafting; veneering; 

 inlaying (in September and November); shield-budding ; 

 side branch-grafting (in July) ; close to the ground or as 

 standards. 



'Remarks. — Evergreen kinds should be grafted close to the 

 ground on young stocks, either single or grouped in a pot, 

 and placed under a cloche with the air excluded. The leaves 

 should not be removed from the scion. Deciduous kinds 

 succeed either when bud-grafted or branch-grafted under the 

 bark. The stocks are to be raised from seed. 



The Vine. 



Stock. — Yine (from cuttings or layers). Mode of Grajting. 

 — Cleft-grafting ; in the f orkings of the branches ; cutting- 

 grafting (see p. 116) ; layer-grafting (see p. 117) ; on the neck 

 of the root (see p. 127) ; the English method in April and 

 September) ; by approach (in spring, see p. 53) ; shield- 

 budding (in July). 



Remarks. — We have already sufficiently explained all the 

 peculiarities connected with each mode of grafting the Yine 

 (see pages in index). With the exception of grafting in 

 the forkings of the branches and by approach, all the methods 

 require the soil to be heaped up around the graft in order to 

 facilitate the union. Even when shield-budded it has no 

 chance of success, unless the soil is heaped up around the 

 part budded. In all cases the^ scions should be well ripened 

 and free from disease (see p. 127), and the stock not so old as 

 not to be worth grafting. When it is possible to choose the 

 scions before-hand on the parent vine, care should be taken to 

 prune them and to pinch the tops before the fall of the leaves, 

 so that the wood may be properly ripened. Yines are more 



