Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . not wantto reach quite to the commencement of thetongue to which they are attached. By thisKiG. yj. ii^eans a notch is left with angle of fifty orsixty degrees on the side now formed. 8ome have objected to this system because it leavesthis notch exposed; this objection, however, is readilyovercome by supplying a covering of wax or follows the example, and soon supplies a cover-ing of bark, new, more regular and certain than theartificial covering used on the Engli
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . not wantto reach quite to the commencement of thetongue to which they are attached. By thisKiG. yj. ii^eans a notch is left with angle of fifty orsixty degrees on the side now formed. 8ome have objected to this system because it leavesthis notch exposed; this objection, however, is readilyovercome by supplying a covering of wax or follows the example, and soon supplies a cover-ing of bark, new, more regular and certain than theartificial covering used on the English cleft graft. It is often asserted that the wound made below theearth surface will not heal as will that exposed to theair; but this is a mistake, for, if properly covered withmastic, it heals better beneath the surface than it couldabove. The earth serves as an additional seal, which,if added to the one we have added carefully at the timeof forming, the wound makes a union hard to find atthe end of a year, and seldom distinguishable, exceptbv color of tlie different stocks. B Fio. OO. 52 DIFFERENT METHODS OF. GRAFTING THE VINE. 63 42.—GKAFT OF THE CUTTING. In grafting the cutting, the tongue, cleft, and all are formed thesame, with a single exception, very important to observe. The grafton a cutting is usually less certain than that on a rootedplant. 1 say usually, because in the year of 1879 my expe-rience and that of most other viticulturists was otlierwise;therefore, instead of leaving and utilizing a long joint orinternode at the top of the cutting to graft with, it should beshort, something less than two inches; anything, so that wemay graft above the upper bud, 0 (Fig. 62). Now, if thegraft does not take, we may still have success with the root-ing of the cutting. This will be better understood when wecome to speak of the planting. If by any accident in the handling of the cutting, it bedeprived of its buds, though it be planted and form roots—wdiich it may do with
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