The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . warty excrescence,which becomes enlarged with the age of the vine, and prevents that free Grafting the Vine. 71 flow of sap which is so requisite to the heahh of the plant; and, to avoidthis, we have practised a sort of bud-grafting, as shown in the cut {a, a bud-graft, or scion, and /, the stock). In the preparation of this graft, as muchof the wood as possible should be cut out, and as little as possible fromthe stock : this not only admits the easy bending of the graft by tyingdown to fit its cut shape in the stock, but, by cutt
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . warty excrescence,which becomes enlarged with the age of the vine, and prevents that free Grafting the Vine. 71 flow of sap which is so requisite to the heahh of the plant; and, to avoidthis, we have practised a sort of bud-grafting, as shown in the cut {a, a bud-graft, or scion, and /, the stock). In the preparation of this graft, as muchof the wood as possible should be cut out, and as little as possible fromthe stock : this not only admits the easy bending of the graft by tyingdown to fit its cut shape in the stock, but, by cutting out the old wood, leaveslittle else than the thin layers of the last years alburnum, or new wood, tocome in contact with each other, as these are the parts that form a trueunion and growth. The position on the stock where we prefer to insertthis graft is just above the angle formed by the vine at the bottom of therafter, because we get from that point up a new cane, which insures thefruit from the bottom to as high up as we choose to fruit the vine. The. graft should be inserted when the vine is in leaf, and tied down with mat-ting so that the edges of the bark nicely fit each other, so that no grafting-wax can get between the barks. Then place or tie over the bud a handfulof moss or cotton-wadding, and keep it moist: this assists the bud to the bud ; and, when it is discovered that the bud is swelling, go tothe top of the vine, and rub out or ofT some of its shoots, or spurs, so called,and continue this by degrees as the bud is developing itself. When thebud, or graft, has pushed out an inch or two long, the shoots, or branches, ofthe parent plant may be dismembered of two-thirds of its branches. Thiswill give still more vigor to the graft; and in a few days it will be seen thatthe graft is growing freely: then take the knife, and cut away the old vineto within a foot of the graft-growth, and tie in the latter by degrees, or it willbe broken off to that portion
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