Grafting.

Abstract

fruitfulness or beauty. Of the various methods of Veredelung grafting is one of the best known and most frequently employed. This art and science has come down to us from beginnings lost in hoary antiquity. Grafting was already an established procedure of horticulture in Bible times. (See St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Chapter 11.) Pliny and Virgil made frequent reference to grafting in ancient Roman horticulture. Gradually the practice emerged from the magic and superstition surrounding it; through the Dark Ages the Roman practices were retained and improved by the European monks, until today we have a heritage of the experiments and lore of two thousand years to guide us in our use of grafting in plant propagation. Yet experiments and observations in the past few years assure us that we have much to