RURALISMS — Continued. easily an inch in diameter. Some were 
Station, Ithaca, N. Y., (No. 77) is a of a pink ground, peppered and splashed 
treatise upon grape grafting. This, too, bright blue, others were crimson 
gives all needed illustrations, and the splashed with purple and blue. The 
results of the latest and most expedient plants bloomed early in the season and 
practice. In a general w 
that for the amateur cleft-grafting in the 
fall will be found the most successful. 
Saw off the stock, make as clean a clef t as 
possible, cut the scion, which should be 
of the past season’s growth, about the 
size of a lead pencil, and having two or 
three buds. Then insert this scion so as 
to secure the contact of the cambium 
layers as closely as possible. This is of 
the first importance. Without this con¬ 
tact in part or whole, the scion will 
surely die, because the cambium layer 
is that portion which contains the living 
cells. It separates the wood from the 
bark. When the stock cleft is made, it 
is necessary to use a suitable-sized wedge 
to hold it open until the scions, one on 
either side, are accurately set—cambium 
to cambium. In our own practice, we 
have used strong cord to bind the 
stock after the scions are set. Grafting 
wax of any kind seems unnecessary. We 
have now merely to bank up the soil 
about the scion, covering the wound 
with leaves and setting a few small 
stakes about the base of the mound to 
hold the leaves in place, and also to pro¬ 
tect the mound from careless help or 
from dogs rabbits and the like, Hy the 
method above described, we have had 
scions grown from 12 to 15 feet the first 
season. Such canes always bear the 
second year. We have tried various 
kinds of above-ground grafting in late 
spring, protecting the union with a ball 
of moss, securely tied and kept wet for 
a week or more. Hut the scions died. 
Among the conclusions which the Cor¬ 
nell Station arrives at are : 
The scion should be dormant, or prac¬ 
tically so, at the time of insertion. 
Early spring is, on the whole, the best 
time for grafting grapes, and the earlier 
it is done the better. 
Scions inserted late in the spring will it 
unite with the stock, provided they have 
been kept dormant. 
Grape grafting will be followed by 
better results if the scions are inserted 
below the surface of the ground. 
Cleft grafting is the most common and, 
perhaps, the most successful form of graft 
to use ; but it necessitates the entire re¬ 
moval of the top. makes it interesting to all 
Tongue grafting is one of the safest 
methods to use, but it is not always the 
easiest to perform. 
Side grafting is one of the best forms 
of inserting scions. It is easily per¬ 
formed and gives satisfactory results. 
The vine does not need to be severed, 
and the same stock can be repeatedly 
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