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[Douglas Hinds <cedecor@gmx.net>]

On 11/13/2012 4:58 PM, david liezen wrote:
> In reading the Handbook on Grafting, I remember illustrations and text 
> describing natural grafts of two individual trees of the same species found 
> in the wild.
1.- What you describe is an uncommon phenomena (and may be pathological).

2.- Two trees growing together in the wild are likely to be of the same 
variety, and no one grafts scions on rootstock of the same variety.

> Standard trees need not be merely seedlings, with the odds stacked against 
> you.

You and I and everyone else are merely seedlings.  Do we all have the 
odds stacked against us?

DH