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[Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>]

Group:
If you burry the graft-union (1" caliper) of a kousa dogwood (and flowering 
dogwood), will the scion take root?  The purpose would be to avoid borers at 
the graft-union for the flowering dogwood and to avoid (yet unlikely, I 
suppose) future graft-rejection in both cases.  Maybe if I steep them this 
time of year and put sand in the hole so that there's a little less bacteria 
in the hole - then put some rooting hormone in the sand-filled hole?
Thanks,
Steve; NJ