. [Catalogue]. Nursery stock California Fresno Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 60 CATALOGUE OF THE vines from France, and already have hun- dreds of thousands growing in nursery form. It is our purpose to make the growing of grafted resistant vines one of the special features of our nursery business, for we fully realize that the vineyard industry of California and other countries also can only expand and maintain its prestige by extending the a
. [Catalogue]. Nursery stock California Fresno Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 60 CATALOGUE OF THE vines from France, and already have hun- dreds of thousands growing in nursery form. It is our purpose to make the growing of grafted resistant vines one of the special features of our nursery business, for we fully realize that the vineyard industry of California and other countries also can only expand and maintain its prestige by extending the acreage in the future, using resistant vines to give it permanency. We are making practical experiments in our own vineyards, with a number of varieties of resistant vines, and have imported direct all the very best varieties from France, so we feel that we will be in a position to give advice to our customers on this subject based on practical experience. HOW GRAFTED RESISTANT STOCKS ARE GROWN It is only natural that vines grown on phylloxera resistant roots should be more expensive than vines grown on their own roots, when the painstaking work necessary to grow resistants is taken into considera- tion. Practically all the grafted vines are bench grafted. The resistant cuttings, none of which should be less than a quarter of an inch in diameter, are cut into fourteen-inch lengths, the cut at the base of the cutting being made close to the joint. All the buds, must be cut out with either a sharp knife or shear, otherwise suckers will start out and be a constant source of annoyance to the vineyardist. The scions are cut into three- inch lengths, and are grafted on to the cut- tings with a whip graft. The union is either wrapped with raffia or Dexter twine which has been previously soaked in melted grafting wax. The cuttings are then placed in a callousing bed where they remain until a well developed callous makes it appear- ance at the joint of the scion with the stock. The graft
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