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Definition of Graftage
1. n. The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
Definition of Graftage
1. the process of grafting [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graftage
Literary usage of Graftage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nursery-book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication of Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1896)
"graftage is rarely employed for the propagation of the species itself, ...
graftage is always a secondary operation. That is, the root or stock must first ..."
2. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"... BY graftage According to Bailey's Cyclopedia of Horticulture, "graftage
comprises the process and operation of inserting a part of one plant into ..."
3. The Nursery-book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1891)
"In graftage, a plant or part of a plant upon which a cion or bud is set. ...
graftage is rarely employed for the propagation of the species, ..."
4. Courses in Agriculture for the Secondary Schools of Texas by Walter Francis Doughty, Martin L. Hayes, William Septimus Taylor (1914)
"(2) Uses of graftage. a. To perpetuate a variety. b. To increase ease and speed
of multiplying plants. e. To produce some radical change in nature of habit ..."
5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"This operation, known as grafting, or graftage, is a method of propagating plants
... The art of graftage, however, has several other distinct advantages. ..."
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