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Article: Grafting fruit trees successfully.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Grafting fruit trees is often seen as a complicated and mysterious art, best left to master gardeners and experienced horticulturists. The process itself can be learned from books or a mentor... but why does the very same technique sometimes result in 100 percent success, and at other times in 100 percent failure, even when done by an expert?
Laymond Hardy believes he has the answer. Now 73, he is still an agricultural consultant and author of scientific articles on agriculture. His introduction of radical pruning of citrus, which he introduced in 1947, is now common practice. His hypothesis of a "pruning hormone" was conceived in 1931, but has not been widely ...