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Graft-Hybridisation

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ST. PAUL, in his Epistle to the Romans, says (ch. xi. v. 17), in illustration of the admission of the Gentiles to the religious privileges of the children of Israel, “if thou, being a wild olive, wert grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree,” &c. Olshausen, in his commentary on this epistle, says (English translation, p. 369), “Whereas, according to the image in this place, the wild branches are ingrafted into the generous tree, reversing the usual process by which good branches are grafted into wild trees, we are informed by both ancient and modern writers that such a process is practicable in this very tree, the olive, and is often practised in the East. Compare Columella ‘De Rebus Rusticis’, v. g.” Can this be confirmed? It seems scarcely credible. The question bears on the subject of graft-hybridisation, about which many curious facts are collected in Darwin's work on “Variation under Domestication.”

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MURPHY, J. Graft-Hybridisation. Nature 28, 225–226 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028225f0

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