At a recent meeting of the Horticultural Society Of Western New York, D. S. Wagener gave a description of the method he adopts in grafting the crape vine. He grafts from early spring till last of June. The grafts are cut early the previous winter and packed in saw-dust. He grafts a little below the ordinary surface of the ground and covers with earth. The moisture of the soil is preserved by two inches of mulching. The cleft is sawn in without splitting. He has set the Delaware and Isabella roots with good success, and in one instance had a crop of grapes the same year. A strong stock desirable, such as Isabella, Catawba and Diana .The Rebecca does better on a strong stock than on its own roots.

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I dug the dirt from the roots till I met a smooth place on the stocks, taking care to destroy as little of the roots as possible. I then sawed it off in a slanting cut, as I am, positive it is better than a square one, for this reason, that all the gummy matter which oozes from the cut, together with the excessive moisture, instead of accumulating on the stock to the great injury of the scion, makes its way down the sloping cut, and the scion and stock will unite quicker, and make a healthier granulation than on a square cut. I next cut off about one-half an inch of the end of the slope for the scion to rest on. I did not make all the stock smooth, only around the edges. I next got a small hatchet ground as sharp and keen as possible, so as to make a cut instead of a slit, as I think the cut best in all oases. I next prepared the scions with shoulders, leaving just wood enough to keep the bark whole and perfect. The scion should be a little thinner on the inside than on the outside; it should be but two eyes long, unless the joints are very short, and then there ought to be three. I next split, or rather cut, the stock, inserting one scion in each. I used no wrapping of any kind, as the stocks, being ten years old, would hold the scion like a vise.

I next filled up the hole even with the top eye, and I considered the work done. At present writing I can show Concord, 95 per cent., 20 feet long, ■with well formed, healthy hunches of grapes on them; Clinton, about 25 feet, 95 per cent.; Ives, 20 feet, 90 per cent.; Martha, 50 out of 75, 15 feet, and all the other varieties in proportion. I would not have lost so many were it not for the dogs hunting rabbits in the grafted portion of the vineyard. I went over them once a week, and pulled off all suckers as they made their appearance. I pinched out all laterals, and now I have finally checked them. I expect a full crop of grapes from these vines next year, so there is but-one year to wait for a full crop from vines that were worthless for the last six years, and would continue to be so but for grafting them. I advise all who have those worthless varieties not to delay a moment, but graft them immediately. I intend to try some experiments in grafting grapes in August, of the success of which 1 will inform you in due time.

There is more to be learned in this branch of the business, and I am confident of my ability to ferret some of it out.

The scions for grafting should be kept dry, the dryer the better, provided their vitality is not destroyed, and I recommend grafting before the sap rises. 1 did not take extra pains in grafting this time. I grafted as many as 200 per day. - P. H. Parker, in Southern Farm and Home.

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A. M., (Detroit.) Bury your grafts in a cool, shady place, covering two-thirds of the lower part, till the stocks that you wish to graft have begun to grow, and their leaves are as large as a shilling. Then graft, and you will be successful. The great flow of sap, almost destitute of organizable matter, in the grape-vine, often prevents the graft from uniting with the stock, when set at the usual time.

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At this time, when the subject of the grafting of grape-vines is commencing to attract so much attention, and when the old process of inarching is being revived by our gardeners and amateurs, it becomes of consequence to the operator to know which sort of stock is best to graft upon, or to inarch upon, with the scions of his valuable new varieties, whether under glass or out of doors.

The influence of the stock upon the growth and fertility of the scion engrafted upon it, has been a subject so freely discussed, that perhaps my experience may seem commonplace enough to your readers. It is well enough known, that engrafted upon mountain ash stock, the pear ripens its fruit much earlier; that upon Paradise stock the apple is both earlier ripened and higher colored than when upon its own roots. All the modes and effects of tree grafting are getting to be pretty thoroughly understood by our more practical nurserymen.

That the grapevine should be similarly affected in its growth, or productiveness, or earliness of ripening, is rather to be expected, and I hope that other gardeners will give their own experience in similar cases, that we may compare notes, and learn to emulate the success of some while avoiding the mistakes of others.

In the forcing-house and grapery which John Chorlton is managing for Joseph Hall, Esq., of Rochester, N. Y., it was decided to engraft upon one of the old stocks, a scion of the beauti ful Bowood Muscat grape-vines, imported and grown by Messrs. Bissell & Salter. After free discussion as to which stock it was most advisable to use, the Prince Albert was chosen, and the result has shown the wisdom of the choice.' The Prince Albert is a very free grower, and the growth of the scion partook of the strong growth of the stock. ' The scion was inserted 13th March, and on 9th August the Bowood Muscat vine, at six inches from the graft and midway between two buds, was two and five-eighths inches in circumference. The scion had been twice stopped in its growth, and now stands fully fifteen feet of fine bearing wood.

By grafting on Prince Albert, or kindred stocks, we get a much stronger growth than upon any of the Sweetwater; and we repeat, that the selection of the stock is a very important matter to those who are desirous of having early and fine specimens of those new English grapes the Muscat Hamburgh, Bowood Muscat, and Golden Hamburgh. P.

["P." will find elsewhere in our present number a very interesting article on grafting the Grape. We hope others of our readers, as suggested by P., will furnish the results of their •experience on this important subject, which should be much better known than it is, comparatively few being even yet aware that the grape can be grafted at all. The case mentioned above shows strikingly its advantages. - Ed].