Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . Fifj. 37. After making the graft, the union, buried from four to six inchesbeneath the surface, is maintained at this point by two woodencrotches or notched stakes, C C. The system employed in joining thetwo pieces is of secondary importance, and one may use the simpleor double cleft, the inverted graft, or graft by approach, as in Figure37, G; only, care must be taken to have the variety which it is desiredto root on the downward side. fSuckers may often be found which will an
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . Fifj. 37. After making the graft, the union, buried from four to six inchesbeneath the surface, is maintained at this point by two woodencrotches or notched stakes, C C. The system employed in joining thetwo pieces is of secondary importance, and one may use the simpleor double cleft, the inverted graft, or graft by approach, as in Figure37, G; only, care must be taken to have the variety which it is desiredto root on the downward side. fSuckers may often be found which will answer for this graft andthereby avoid the necessity of using the fruit wood. The suckerserves to root equally well, and draws little sustenance from the the use of this system of propagation, fine rooted plants, givingcanes many feet long the first year, have been obtained from theJacquez, Cynthiana, Nortons, Virginia, and Black July, supplied, asabove, by vines almost dead and past bearing entirely. If old vines be employed to root resistant vines by this method,the old vines may be best prepared for the
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