| Show GRAFTING tue TUB GRAPE VINE we have met w with nh joany inday experienced persons who have naver never seen been been seen the grape vine vine grafted the pro plo cess ces is so easy that thousands who arp are anxious to possess the newer varieties should especially take dare care of their 1 old roots and insert scions of or the new no clay or covering of the grafted part is necessary beyond the natural soil below which the graft is tobe inserted in saw off your stock arid put pu t in in your 3 our scion with two or three buds wedge fashion as in the cleft grafting of fruit trees and then cove cover rup up a f few ew inches leav leaving in one or two buds above ground where the stock tg cic is very large and inconvenient to split a gimlet hole so made as to brin bring the two barks together answers i the sprouts of the old stock as they spring up u to rob the graft must be pulled off grafts often bear some fine clusters the first seaton season of growth and many more the second in this way the old stocks of wild grales grapes removed from the woods are very useful with due care rare behave lately seen an old catawba vine that was wanted for shade forty feefe feet off laid down for a year till it had rooted well ani aal then was grafted with perfect success and fruited the first season horticulturist |
