"David Snedeker" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Plants......you forgot about plants. How about an apple trunk grafted
onto
pear rootstock and later augmented with plum and cherry branches? (It's
doable.....they're all Rosaceae and graft relatively easily.)


Interesting.

Isn't it?

"Relatively easily."

Yep.

"Doable."

Yep.

So you've grafted plum and
cherry branches sucessfully onto an apple trunk, have you?

Nope.

What were the
varieties pray tell?

My uncle and his cousin both grafted various members of the Rosaceae onto
one another. I have no idea what varieties they used. As they were both of
peasant stock with something less than a high school education, neither
spoke any English on arriving in the U.S., and both spent the better part of
their lives doing manual labor during the daylight hours and drinking
themselves into oblivion in the evenings, I suspect neither of them ever
bothered to learn what varieties they were either. What's more, they
probably didn't know a great deal about current events and I'm certain they
couldn't pass themselves off as authorities on suitable substrates for oil
based paints. Uncle Art DID have a velvet collar on a coat he owned back in
the 50s, though.

Wolfgang