Scions from a tree which is weakly, or liable to injury by frosts, are strengthened by engrafting on robust stocks.
Wyat and Surrey began by engrafting the forms and graces of Italian poetry upon the native stock.
Various experimenters, especially Fenn, have asserted that by engrafting an eye of one variety into the tuber of another, not only will adhesion take place but the new tubers will present great variety of character; this seems to be the case, but it can hardly be considered as established that the variations in question were the result of any commingling of the essences of the two varieties.
They,satisfied themselves with engrafting on it a series of amendments which, on the whole, secured rather more liberal terms of compensation for existing interests.