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In no branch of horticulture has so much ingenuity and manual dexterity been shown as in the art of granting and budding. Over centuries, gardeners have taken pride in devising new methods by which two or more plants of different origin may be made to combine into a single entity, often for no reason other than to show their skill or originality, though sometimes to improve genuinely upon existing methods. Mr. R. J. Garner has probed deeply into the literature to discover as many of these ingenious devices as seemed to him worthy of preservation, and out of many hundreds he has put on record some eighty-odd methods of grafting, including a dozen or more of budding. All, or nearly all, are accompanied by unusually clear line drawings of the stages in each method, which help greatly to make plain the description in the text. If the book did nothing but bring together these scattered records and preserve them in collected form, it would have achieved something of historical value.
The Grafter‘s Handbook
By R. J. Garner. Pp. 229 + 24 Plates. (London: Faber and Faben, Ltd., 1947.) 15s. net.
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STOUGHTON, R. The Grafter‘s Handbook. Nature 163, 117 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163117a0
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