Grafting Grape Vines

Those who wish to grrift their vinos with otlier riñes shouhl remember that winter and not spring is the timo for it - and in this tho grape is different trom most other trees. It is different in this, that in tho spring of tho ycar tbere i aaoh a tvemendous pres3r.ro upward by tho ascending sap that ,ho parts of Uiè scion and stock which ;o unite must of eourse touch onc another ave forced by the sap apart. Whcn the grafts are put in in winter there is fittla danger of this. Tho wvered colls granúlate and heal, and when tho sap is rcady to ttow upwaril strong-ly, it goea up throu.ïh lts regular chanñcis in tho giift without any ten dency to break througli the junction. H()W to ffraft grapo vinos admita of nrniy various replies. The best is probably that desoribed years ago ia our pa'cs by 3amnel Miller, then of Lebanon, in this State, now of Missouri, who was very successful as a grafter of the grape. Ile drew away tho soil from the stock to bc graftod, cut it down about two inches from the surfacc, Uien cut with a stout, sharp knife a long and narrow wedge-shaped noten in the stock, and sliapeu tne scion as a wedgo to fit in tho notch in tho stock. The ups of the notch are then tied togotlier and the earth drawn in arouiul tho wholc, leaving the upper eye ol' tlie graft above the ground. We may gay that it is vety astonishinof that grape-grafting 13 not moro generally practicad, and cspecially since the discovcry that the great succoss of tho Concord, Clinton and a feír other grapei is not owing to any extra constitutional hardiness, bnt to the fact that the power to throw out numorous flbrous roots isgreater in these kinds. If this be truc, and it seems to be real 1 y the case, we may have tho choicest and best of grapes by graftiag them on these viarorous rooting stocks. For once tho French secm to have taken a start ahead of us in this matter. The rosult has been that milliona 011 millions of Concord and Clinton cuttiiiga have been sent to France tho past five or six years, and in futuro wines of that country may be brought to a highor gv&áe of perfection than everbefora. .