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XVI. On the Grafting of Vines. By Mr. William Gowans. 

 Communicated by the Horticultural Society of Glasgow. 



Read June 7, 1836. 



The mode of grafting which I am now about to describe, if not 

 altogether new, is at least so far as I am aware nowhere in 

 practice. 



I was first induced to try it from the following circumstances. 

 The Glasgow Society having generally awarded prizes for the best 

 of a number of kinds of grapes, I was for some years prevented 

 from competing, from a want of the requisite varieties. I, therefore, 

 applied to a friend in Ireland in the winter of 1833, and received 

 from him three scions, one of them a highly praised variety. De- 

 sirous of having these matured as speedily as possible for the pur- 

 pose stated, it struck me that if I could succeed in grafting them 

 by the cuneiform mode, it would ensure their bearing much earlier 

 than the usual inconvenient and tedious arch mode of grafting. 



The plan which I adopted as most likely to ensure success, will 

 be understood from the following description. In the month of 

 February, 1834, having selected of the scion of which I am to 

 speak, a portion with one eye, I cut it into the form of a wedge. 

 For a stock I selected on a black Hamburgh vine a shoot of the 

 preceding year's growth, about the same thickness as the scion, 

 and cut it over a little above the second eye from the old wood. 

 With a sharp knife, I cut it down the centre nearly to the old 

 wood. Out of the centre I pared with a penknife as much as 

 was necessary to make it fit the cut on the sides of the scion. I 

 then inserted the scion with its eye opposite to that on the top 



