By John Braddick, Esq. 



took a piece of bladder doubled, and made a small hole in it, 

 so as just to let the tip of the graft and the eye pass through 

 the hole ; the inside of the bladder I covered with a cement 

 made with bees-wax, resin and tallow, and bound the whole 

 with strong waxed twine, from just under the eye of the graft 

 to six inches below on the stock. The sap having now no 

 other way to escape, was forced up through the pores of the 

 graft : in a short time I was pleased with observing the bud 

 of the graft swell, and when the other Vines on the same wall 

 began to grow it broke, and made a shoot with several joints. 

 It however soon became evident that no union had taken 

 place between the graft and the stock, as the shoot of the 

 former turned sickly, and before midsummer died entirely 

 away. 



The next season I took a healthy growing Vine in a pot, 

 and carefully matched it with a seedling Vine of the same size, 

 growing in the open ground ; these I inarched together, and 

 bound a bladder round the wound, instead of using cement. 

 Upon cautiously removing the bladder at different times, I 

 found that both the Vines bled profusely, and no adhesion 

 began to take place until they had both shot out four or five 

 joints from each of their eyes ; the bleeding then ceased, as I 

 judged, by the sap becoming more glutinous. 



It consequently now occurred to me that the proper time 

 for cutting off the heads and grafting of Vines, without in- 

 curring the danger of their suffering through bleeding, was 

 when they had reached that period of their annual growth, at 

 which the sap ceases to flow thinly and rapidly. I accordingly 

 cut the branches of several in that state, and grafted them 

 with cuttings of the preceding year ; all these grew, the 



