Grafting the Grape Vine
- • We desire to have new varieties of grape* ooming qmickly into bearing, but Tines from nurseries are frequently tardy. .Even after careful nursing they wdl often droop and die, while a few buds cut off .^ en arrival and properly grafted may produee froit in a short time. Grafting om enfeoff underground gnarly stumps of Tines, as usually practised, is very uncer- ' tain at best. Our method is to take a good strong branch or cane of vine, or even a whole young vine, when a change of fruit is desired, and whip the graft in the usual way. We then cover up the Tine w the soil as near the roots as possible, leaving above ground only a bud or two of the graft. It is well-known how quiokly a3ajer will make a bearing vine, at it has the«dvaatage of the parent roots aa well a» the roots it produces. The layer may be extended, if long enough, to grow wliere the vine is to remain. Vineyards nay ia this way be quickly changed to fetter varieties,— American Ajjriepltunsfc
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 12, 31 January 1884, Page 3
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183Grafting the Grape Vine Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 12, 31 January 1884, Page 3
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