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Hello

I am planninng some interspecies grafting projects for this year.  I am going 
to graft serviceberry on cotoneaster rootstock.  A mountain ash in the yard 
is going to be cut back and something a bit more useful (serviceberry, pear, 
chokeberry, or Shipova) grafted on that rootstock.  I have some damson plums 
which may also go away, leaving their more useful rootstocks, for an apricot 
graft or two.  I do have several species of hawthorne around and may 
eventually try them for something as well.  

My success with grafting has been very good so far and I am just curious to 
push the limits a bit.  In the past year, I read, somewhere on the internet, 
of someone having grafted maybe six members of the Rose family to a single 
rootstock.  If I locate that article again, I will put up the email address.  

Please post any further results from your grafting and I will do likewise.

Best of Luck,

Jim Elie
Green Bay, WI
zone 4/5

---- "R. Keith Etheridge" <goatdoc@ctitech.com> wrote: 
> I'm a persistant if not expert grafter.Reasonable success
> with pecan,pawpaws,persimmons etc.There are many
> native crabapples on my property, According to a book 
> they are probably Iowa crabs.Trying to graft apples
> to  has never been a priority but over the years I have
> only one success,It's 15+years with above the graft twice
> the diameter as the rootstock and leaning on its side.It's 
> not productive but in a bad site.I've not had success trying
> to graft pears to hawthorne also.Any one had success?
> Keith