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  • From: Clifford Cain <cc_syorks@yahoo.co.uk>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] NAFEX] Grafting prunus (as opposed to budding)
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:57:28 +0000 (GMT)

I have to say that my budding success is poor, but grafts close to 100%.  I had a Stella cherry for planting at a local primary school and took a piece of wood off it, the buds had burst.  I whip and tongue grafted it onto Colt rootstock and it sulked.  The buds died back yet I see that there 3ft new wood was made.

I was passed a copy of a book by William Lawson - A new Orchard and Garden (ISBN 1903018102)  written in 1618.  If is a facsimile edition - the s's appear as f's so you have to have the correct mindset when reading.  It is amazing what they new about grafting back then - how little has changed since.  I would go further - they were more adventurous that we are. Lets face it the books would as no to grafting an actively growing scion, yet they did as a routine.


It never ceases to please me to see the standard text book rules being challenged and shown that Nature will prevail.




Clifford Cain
Bawtry, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK


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