The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-21

Ifee-OraI G1Iigs
Year after year we have some new
kink in grating set before us. Be-
yond the fact that it is "Freneh"
mode there is little torecommend it.
Of course that is something; for
whether it is Miss Flora McFlimsy
of departed memory, or buyers at
the Broadway store of Lafayette &
Co., the very fact with them that the
article is "French," is a positive re-
commentator.
But what we meant is not so
much new mode, as a new prinei-
pie. Almost all our modes are on
the principle Of practice, whether we
whip or split, bud or march, the
skill acquired only by experience is
requisite to insure success. If the
inner bark does not exactly meet
that of the stock-if the scion be
pushed too far in or-to0 far out
success is problematieal Then
there are wounds to be healed. If
the tree is large and top-grafted it
takes two or three years entirely 10
heal over; and a good coating of
wax, clay, or some other air-tight
or waterproof material, has to be
used to keep all things dry and close
until the healing takes place. Amer
lean boys do not like apprenticeship.
The lad who is capable of holding a
saw or pushing plane is journey
man carpenter and the boy who eau
pick up potatoes CT gather apples is
gardener full-fedged, and must
have gardeners wages. 1t is fact
that nearly half the gardeners" So
called and going about. not ten per
cent. can graft a tree; and if we want
to get a tree grated we seldom think
in these progressive days of asking
gardener to do it.
We have often thought that if
every man is to be his own CRATER,
it would be capital thing if some
one would get a machine by which
skill would not be necessary, so that
one could cut off branch and stick
in his shoot as readily as the street
Organist grinds out Hail Columbia;
and rs sure to come out pretty near
right. The time will no doubt come
one of these times. We have now
before us an account Of a machine
for grating grapes by a Mr.. Wagon
er, of New York; and for aught we
see the principle can be applied TO
large trees as we'll as grape-vines.
a assure is salCed into the stump,
and the scion is shaved by q gauge
which just fits the saw-cut. The
saw cannot go deeper than is re-
| CURED to make the perfect union
necessary. This is said to be the
case with the grapevine. The head
is cut of, the stump sawed the scion
is set in, all in a few moments, and
Judge Larrowe, of HammOndsport,
says that of hundreds which can ali
be done in an Incredibly short space
of time, rarely one dies. The sue.
cess with the grape is no doubt bet.
ter by this method than it would be
by most plans. These gratis usual.
| ly suffer from bleeding. Some Of
the exposed parts exude so much
sap as to rot the adjoining parts
But by this plan there seems to be
no exposed parts. The parts fit ex-
actly.
Many years ago our good cores
pendent Samuel Miller, described
a plan Of grape-grafting which al
ways did we'll with him. In this 9
notch was cut out of the stock and
the scion cut so as as to fit in. This
plan of Wagener's seems nearly tie
same, only machine does the work
instead of the experienced hand.
In top-grafting fruit-trees we sup
pose the scions would be sometimes
large and sometimes small; and q
small scion could not be cut by g
gauge. We do not know how this
will operate. Perhaps there may be
something to regulate this. So fan
the plan seems to be intended chief
! ly for grapes. We note that such
names as Downing and Wilder
speak well of it, as well as the lead.
ing HammandspOrt grape men; SO
that we suppose there is something
in it Germantown Telegraph