Grafting The Grape

Nothing is inore inipoitantio the ownera of viueyards, and imkert tO imy ono who has largo vincs of any kind he wishes to change, than to know how to graft vines. For it i not strangc that during the excitement of viuoyarii planting, the owner finds that he luis not the 1 st varietios ; or that disoase attacks a variety that was hcalthy wlun he put his virus out ; or that botter kinds bo needed and he wants to change theni. Soveral persons soera to have solved the principal on which tho late sueccss in grafting depends ; for of all uneertain things, a few years ago, was grafting any grape vino, while now sueccss, not failure, is the rule. That success 8CGD1S to bc foundod on the nice adaptation of the cion to tho stock which, as a statement, is two thousand years old. But this adaptation consists rather in the way it is done. Ono man years ago, cut obliquely into the stock with a conimon but thick handsaw, and fitted in the cion without splitting the stock ; he claims great success by the crossing of the Unes of upward ascent of the sap. Another, that he cute two clefts, by a common hand saw, distinct yet close to each other, and claims success by tho spring of the partition to the cion. Mr. Wagner has invented and patented a doublé saw, and a hand machine, by which he fits che cion to the stock, on the same principie of no splitting of the stock and a close but wedgod holding of tho cion in the stock. Many lay great stress on the cotton cloth with which they bind the stock, or the sand and saw-dust and clay and manure and clay and buckwheat flour, and a score of other applianccs about the cions and stocks. I apprehend that the appliances are of little valué, only as tlu y keep the cion and stock in an even tcmperature and nioisture; and while they allow the necessary escape of the excessivo flows of sap, they favor the retention of the mucilage in the sap so that there is soon furmed the essential callus about tho cion. But be thoso matten as they maj , tho fact remains wo have successful methods of grafting, and tho chango oí' a vineyard or singlo vine to a new kind or kinds is both easy and roadily mado, and it is one of the most valued of the later improvements in wine culture. In all our grape regions thore are largo numbers of acres being now yearly grafted, and with admirable success. It takes in favorable circurastances, two years to make the change. He is unfortunate who cannot change a vineyard in three &t glicipnrps