To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mystery apple trees
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:22:56 -0500
This is interesting! Is this still done today?
deb
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Kieran &/or Donna
<holycow@frontiernet.net>wrote:
> In the old days it was more common to do "piece root" grafting, using a
> piece of apple root and simply planting it so the graft union was
> underground. There were farms that produced and sold the root pieces to
> nurseries for grafting. Donna
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