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On the Grafting of Vines. 



begun to flow freely ; and the danger of the stocks suffering from 

 bleeding is over. But indeed if vines are in good health, and 

 thoroughly ripened, I find that there is no danger of their bleeding 

 at any time. 



The following may be stated as some of the more obvious 

 advantages of this mode of grafting. Cuttings of vines may be 

 brought during the winter from any distance with perfect safety and 

 with little expense or trouble, any number of different sorts may 

 be had in the same house without confusing it with plants : a prac- 

 tice which I consider to be as injurious as it is common ; and the 

 merits of new sorts, can be ascertained without loss of time. 



I may here mention another mode of grafting vines hitherto 

 unpractised so far as I know, but which may be introduced with 

 great advantage, particularly when the saving of fruit-bearing wood 

 is an object, should the graft fail. I was urged to this invention 

 from the following circumstance. Foreseeing the necessity of 

 making a number of grafts this season, perhaps to the loss of 

 requisite fruit-bearing wood, I last year tried a graft upon two 

 years old wood and was fully successful. The mode which I 

 adopted is just a modification of the cuneiform mode, and may be 

 termed the Angular Cuneiform mode. The eye of the scion is 

 to be placed opposite to the shoot on the stock after the manner 

 adopted in the simple cuneiform mode. If the graft succeed let 

 the fruit-bearing shoot be cut off, to throw the sap into the scion. 

 If the graft should not succeed you have still the fruit-bearing 

 shoot without material injury having been done. 



Cadder Garden, 

 April, 1835. 



