GRAFTING

in horticulture, fs the e of inserting a branch, twig, bad, or *n a root of one plant into another int of the same species, with a view to ir vital union. Grafting is employed ‘ Yarious purposes: to preserve rare scimens which could not be reproduced th certainty from the seed, to increase » finer qualities of fruit trees, or to proce dwarf varicties of great fruitfulnese. tion does not take place uniecs the wurnum (the soft white wood next the ver bark) of each plant is brought into ntact. ‘The graft always retains its own suliar leaves, flowers, and fruit. [s. 160]