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Name: Corinda H.
Status: student
Age: 30s
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Date: 5/15/2003
Question:
What is the purpose of grafting a wild tree into a cultivated tree?

Replies:
Possibly helpful. Grafting for cultivars/hybrids, vigor, fruit set.

http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/propagation/grafting.html

Anthony Brach, Ph.D


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