RLTRAI^ NEW-YORKER 
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The FineJ Test of Quafity 
RURALISMS 
Notes on Grape Grafting 
The fniit men here could give me no 
encouragement for Fall grape planting, but 
it suited my convenience best, and I 
went ahead and planted several year-old 
vines (on a small town lot), and after a 
particularly savage Winter, every one 
lived and grew. In advice you gave me 
is this statement: “If the old Isabella 
vine has a good root system, it would 
be folly to destroy it, hut rather it 
should be grafted to a more desirable 
sort.” I am unable to find a pei’son who 
has actually grafted .t grapevine and the 
printed material I have found is very con¬ 
tradictory. So I would like a few de¬ 
tails: 1. Time—November or .Tune? Find 
accoTuits of both ; greatly prefer the first, 
if it is as good, as I tried to keep scions 
dormant till .Tune and they died. 2. 
Where—in root, below earth surfa<‘e, or 
higher on stock? How—simple cleft, 
or tongue-graft? With grafting wax, or 
moist sand? How much protection, if 
done in Winter? 4. Ho you take any 
accout of congeniality in make-up of 
varieties? Some writers do. and if so, 
will any of the.se affiliate? Roger’s Hy¬ 
brids on Isabella stock; on Clinton; 
Duche.ss on Isabella; .Tefferson on 
I.sabella? Any of these on ,a seedling of 
unknown parentage and rather slender 
growth. The Isabella and Clinton stocks 
are probably 20 years old, the little wild 
vine perhaps three. One question more— 
sui)posing a good growth from a .sc'on 
next year, it might be allowed to bear 
moderately the year following, might it 
not? E. c. 
Liberty, Ind. 
I advi.se as follows. 1. Never having done 
grape-grafting in the Fall. I cannot give 
an opinion. I do know that stocks 
grafted in the Spring are, as a rule, very 
satisfactory. Cut your scions late in the 
preceding Fall and bury with the butts 
up and covered with about six inches 
of soil. This will keep them dormant. 
The grafting can then be done before the 
sap begins to flow in the Spring. 
2. Graft the stock about two inches 
below the soil level, u.sing the cleft 
method. I saw my clefts with a hack or 
meat saw. This avoids splitting, as is 
often the case when the cleft is made 
with the chisel. 
2. Use no grafting wax, but cover 
the cut surface of the stock and the sides 
of the stock as far down as the inserted 
scions extend into it or below. If done in 
Fall, the earth should be heaped up 
around the scions till they are com¬ 
pletely covered. 
4. Congeniality has been studied very 
extensively with the grafting of European 
varieties, but our experience thus far with 
American varieties and species has not 
been extensive enough to warrant conclu¬ 
sions. The average layman will not be 
able to detect striking differences in the 
use of certain stocks for certain varieties. 
I, however, should expect your combina¬ 
tion as submitted to tuni out well, al¬ 
though it might be possible to put the 
Htiche.ss on Clinton with equal success. 
5. With vigorous stocks .a moflerate 
amount of fruit may be expected the 
year following the grafting, and unless 
the provision is made for such and if the 
sbwk be especially vigorous too rank 
wood growth is produced, so that winter- 
killing is likely to result. F. E. 0. 
Fall-bearing Raspberries and Strawberries 
]. I can run a most successful truck 
farm, hut small fruits stump me. I have 
a fine lot of St. Regis everbearing rasp¬ 
berries that made a good crop in .Tuly, but 
the old canes died, and are just cut out, 
while the new ones, strong as to size and 
foliage, show no sign of bloom. MThat do 
you know of the nature of the bush, and 
what should I do with it? 2. Also ever- 
bearing strawberries: Should the runners 
he kept off in September, and, if not, 
should they be kept off ne3^t Spring? 
New York. E. T. B. 
1. It is doubtful whether your raspber¬ 
ries are the St. Regis, as the tips of the 
young canes should be in fruit and bloom 
1 in September. The later crop is always 
borne on the young canes, and the very 
fact that these plants show no signs of 
fruiting is a pretty sure indication they 
are not of the everbearing type at all. 
2. The runners of everbearing straw¬ 
berries should not he taken off in the Au¬ 
tumn. as it is on the young plants most 
of the Fall crop, and 'practically all the 
.Tune crop of the following year is borne. 
Most growers of the everbearing sorts al¬ 
low all the runners to make plants that 
will, during the entire season. None of 
them is a heavy plant maker and there is 
s(‘ldom any overcrowding. K. 
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