Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2000), pp. 29-32 (4 pages) Long-term maintained, homogeneous in vitro shoot cultures of Pyrus communis infected with pear decline (PD) phytoplasmas ...

An art professor from Syracuse University named Sam Van Aken has successfully grown a tree bearing 40 different kinds of fruit using a technique called grafting. Van Aken's one-of-a-kind hobby was ...

Not long ago, while walking down Bethlehem Road in Jerusalem, I spotted a tree unlike any I had ever seen before. It had both pink and red flowers which, upon closer examination, belonged to the same ...