ON 



GRAFTING. 



BOOK III. 



Grafting of Vines is a practice little known in 

 this country, though the advantages resulting 

 from it are many and important. 



I shall first endeavour to state some of the most 

 important advantages of grafting Vines, and then 

 lay down the necessary directions for performing 

 the manual operations. 



First, when a wall is planted with inferior kinds 

 of Vines, the usual method of stubbing them up, 

 and supplying their places with better sorts, is at- 

 tended with much expense and loss of time ; as in 

 that case it will be necessary to renew the border 

 with fresh compost mould ; and several years 

 must elapse before the wall can be completely 

 furnished with new Vines; but, by grafting, the na- 

 ture of the Vines may be changed, without expense 

 or loss of time ; for I constantly have good grapes 

 from the same year's graft; and in a hot-house 

 the grafts, if permitted, will frequently shoot 

 thirty or forty feet the first summer. 



