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GRAFTING. 
BOOK III. 
G rafting of vines is a pra(5lice little known in this 
country, though the advantages refulting from it are 
many and important. 
I fhall firft endeavour to Hate fome of the moft important 
advantages of grafting Vines, and then lay down the necefTary 
directions for performing the manual operations. 
Firft, when a wall is planted with inferior kinds of Vines, 
the ufual method of ftubbing them up, and fupplying their 
places with better forts, is attended with much expence and 
lofs of time ; as in that cafe it will be neccftary to renew the 
border with frefti compoft mould, and feveral years muft elapfe 
before the wall can be completely furnifhed with new Vines j 
but by grafting, the nature of the Vines may be changed 
without expence or lofs of time, for 1 conftantly have good 
grapes from the fame year’s graft ; and in a Hot-houfe, the 
grafts, if permitted, will frequently fhoot thirty or forty feet 
the firft fummer. 
Secondly, in fmall Vineries, or Vine-frames, w'here it would 
be inconvenient at leaft, if not impoflible, in the common 
way, to have any confiderable variety of forts, they may be 
U procured 
