ED. Western Horticulturist: Your method of grafting the vine as described in the Pomologist some months ago, is correct in accordance with my experience, but I have improved a little on that. I find it unnecessary to graft at the root of the vine and often inexpedient, but more successful to graft the side branches or laterals of the vine. Two years ago I laid down two wild vines sixty feet in length each, buried them in a trench ten inches deep, brought up their side branches above ground suitable distances apart for grafting. I then set fifty Iona grafts on those branches just below the surface of the ground. Every graft lived and has made strong, healthy vines. I left five of the branches until the 20th of July, and then grafted with Delawares. Two of them failed to grow, the other three grew and made about as much growth as the Iona vines that were set early in the spring. Vines can be propagated in this way with as much certainty as by layering. I have found that cions of the Delaware do not take so well on the Clinton as they do on the Wild or Taylor's Buttit. I have not tried grafting on the Concord; Salem Iona, and Allen's Hybrid, take well on the Clinton. I presume Concord stocks would be equally good. The main object is to have hard, healthy roots for stocks.

I have found very little difference in the different modes of setting the grafts. Freeport, 111 P. Manny.

P. S. - I am reported in some of the papers to have said at the meeting of the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society, at Freeport, that June was the best time to graft the grape. I said no such thing, but directly the reverse of that. I find early spring the best time, and that as the season advanced, the chances of success diminished. After the 20th of June, I found it too uncertain, though some will live. I once set a few cions the 20th of July, only about one-half grew. I used4 old wood of the previous year's growth. I at the same time set a few cions cut from the same season's growth with better success.