| "Poetic forms are like plants: Some are native to the soil
and others are the result of grafting or transplanting,"
Sor Juana, Octavio Paz
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| On April 27, 2001 Arbor Day - The Family School and The Urbane Gardeners from midtown, Manhattan, created a planting ceremony for Kaki Jr., Nagasaki transplant from Japan, in the shadow of a native Persimmon Tree at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. | ||
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| Green Thoughts by Eleanor Perenyi "It isn't that graft itself is hard to master. The stumbling block is what is called compatibility between the scion (the crown) and rootstock (the stem)." |
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American persimmon: Diospyros virginiana Ebony Family/Ebenacease - E. United States - Diospyros kaki (see: "The Map") |
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"Since grafting is one of the oldest practices in horticulture, you might think that the facts about
compatibility would long since have been established, and lists of what goes with what easily obtainable.
The facts are still very much up in the air, and no book is prepared to give more than a few examples of
grafted standards and the materials they are made of. |
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