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XIX. On Grafting Vines. In a Letter to the Secretary. 

 By John Braddick, Esq. F. H. S. 



Read February 6, 1822. 



Dear Sir, 



In compliance with your request, I now proceed to give you 

 an account of the experiments made by me in grafting Vines. 



I have for some years past amused myself in raising Vines 

 from seed ; but many of these have produced fruit so much 

 resembling each other, that it became necessary, in order to 

 keep up a variety, to change the sorts ; and as the requisite 

 time to raise new seedlings to a bearing state is four or five 

 years, I conceived it to be highly desirable to find out some 

 sure method of making the Vine take by grafting. 



The information which I collected from books on this sub- 

 ject was, that Vines may be easily made to grow by grafting, 

 and that the proper time for performing the operation was in 

 January and February, for Vines growing under glass ; and 

 in March for Vines growing in the open border. But, out of 

 forty or fifty Vines which I operated upon, in the above 

 months, I had the mortification to find that very few of the 

 grafts grew, and those which did take became weakly plants, 

 and were as long a time in coming into bearing as would have 

 been lost had I removed the old and brought forward other 

 new seedlings to supply their places. 



I observed that the stocks of the Vines grafted as above 

 mentioned all bled profusely, and upon unbinding those grafts 



