Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-16
GRAFpING VINES.

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G. RAFTING VINES.
Tue following from French paper
will be found interesting 20 those engaged
IN the cultivation of the vine. = N. f.
! Farmer.
OK GRATING VINES A we'll plant
ed vineyard lasts from fifty to sixty years,
often longer, and during allthat time bears
well, if properly attended TO. But 1t is
not in full bearing until the sixth or even
the seventh year. This Inconvenience,
which falls heavy on the planter, is re-
lleVed by grating.
In certain districts of the departments Of
Bouchese de Rhone Gironde, Cote dor
and L'Yonne, grating is much in use
and very generally liked.
The principal aim OF grating is 10 re-
new the vine the same season that il meets
an injury from frost or drought; or to sub.
stitule to poor plant, slip of better
| quality or different species. Grating,
also, as is well known, has d remarkable
power of ameliorating the nature Of the
fruit. 1t is a very ancient art when ap-
piled to the vine it is easily done, and its
success certain. The sap OF the vine as
cends by all the capillary vessels indiffer-
emily, without any distinction between the
Iiber, cortex or wood particular in
which it is very different from such plants
1 as have their conduits of the sap exclus-
lively between the wood and The bark.
This peculiar conjecture Of the vine fits it
for slit grating through the whole of the
wood. 1t is unimportant whether the sci
on be inserted vertically or slantwise; the
wood unites to the wood, no matter In what
way they are joined. The slit soon fills
up, and does not canker as grated trees
usually do.
] Grazing, it must be said, is only nppli
ed to thick and large vines it has been
discovered, at least SO the vine growers of
Marine insist that ii does not agree with
slender ones.
/ For grating the vine, the thickest and
strongest lateral wood must be taken; il
the cuttings are Of thin twigs they will be
likely to wither with the sun and wind.
The foot or lower part of cress shoot,
where there are two or three eyes, very
close together, is the kind most likely 10
succeed the wood In such specimen is
solid, fbrous, thick; and the circulation
plentiful and free. These gratis must be
cut before hard frosts. TIED in bundles, and
put away in cellar or vault, or under
. loose earth.
The graft should comprise both year
ling and two-year-old wood; the former
, should be 8 or 9 inches in length, and the
latter, which is to form the wedge TO be in
serted in the root, should be or 4 inches
in length.
/ Before undertaking the operation, the
, vine should be allowed 10 exhaust the first
access Of the sap, which is SO overflow
ingly abundant in the first fine spring
weather, because tits rather distilled wa
ter than juice, and the qlntity would be
! likely TO drown the gratis. Ii is therefore
: more prudent to wait as is commonly ex
pressed. until the vine has doue weeping
5 and which time the buds are so far evolv
3 ed as 10 show the leaves.
When speed and economy are 10 be con
a suited, two men and a child tea or twelve
t years of age are nee .ssary. One lay
g bare the stocks with hoe to the depth 0
: sixteen inches, aGd cleans them sufficient
7 ly of the earth around for the ingrafter L
e work at his ease. One of the workmel
= saws the stem about six or seven iEche
below the level of the ground; while b.
is thus employed on the first low, the in
:. CRATER shapes his gratis and arrange
, them, as flsl as be fixes them, in basin, il
which there is enough OF water TO cove
entirely the wedges or inserting poin's 9
-e the gratis; these points must be three o
is four inches long. and as slender as posi-
n BILE. The sloping oil these wedges, in 9th
RI er words their trimming, should com
he mence immediatel y below the Joint or kne
by which the two-y ear old wood is attach
ed to the yearling wood.
The first row being dug down and saw
ed, the engralter, with a very sharp grf
ing tool smooths the sawed part oflhe roc
er makes the slit, and inserts Two or thr,
he gratis, according. to the strength of Ii
d root, and in such way as to make the Sc
SIS arations between the grafts as snail
W. possible. Ii Is even more easy and ce
of tain not to insert the third graft until aft
u The ligature has been put on. The j
,th CRATER is followed by the child who han
Die him the knife, the gratis, or the strings.
th. osier, as thew are wanted The child ca
for ries basket filled with short mould. Il
10. ligature being tied. the. ingrafter lays on
he good handful of the mould from thebas
re- ct. and fills the hole up with loose ear
to around. leaving only two eyes of Teach or
ar, above ground After this there are