crown-grafting love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of grafting in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the plant (where it emerges from the ground).
  • noun See grafting, 1.

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Examples

  • We spent Saturday afternoon in handing up twigs for crown-grafting — the older trees, you know.

    St Peter's Finger Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1938

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