Sunset . these parts. Ingrafting, success depends uponforming a living contact betweenthe cambium of a scion (a budor shoot to be grafted) and thecambium of a sturdy root-stock. Grafting deciduous trees is bestdone in late winter. Unless as anexperiment, graft only relatedspecies — cherry on cherry, exist. Peach, plum,apricot, nectarine, and almondseem congenial, while quince hasan affinity for apple, pear, loquat,and toyon. Freaks are fun! Tools for grafting need not beexpensive. Those essential in-clude a knife for cutting scions;pruning shears; a saw; malletand hand ax for sp
Sunset . these parts. Ingrafting, success depends uponforming a living contact betweenthe cambium of a scion (a budor shoot to be grafted) and thecambium of a sturdy root-stock. Grafting deciduous trees is bestdone in late winter. Unless as anexperiment, graft only relatedspecies — cherry on cherry, exist. Peach, plum,apricot, nectarine, and almondseem congenial, while quince hasan affinity for apple, pear, loquat,and toyon. Freaks are fun! Tools for grafting need not beexpensive. Those essential in-clude a knife for cutting scions;pruning shears; a saw; malletand hand ax for splitting limbstubs; a heavy screw driver orother prying tool for openijigclefts, and wax or tar to seal allof the cut surfaces afterwards. Drawing above shows end graft(used principally for grapes).A root-stock and scion arematched for size, the square-cutends butted tightly together andheld in place by a peg forcedinto the pithy centers, and theperfect-fitting union boundvery tightly with friction
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