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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All grafting techniques depend on preparing matching surfaces at the ends of stock and scion so that they quickly fuse.
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As a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, he wasn't allowed to have higher education.
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Bench grafting Cuttings of both rootstocks and scion are taken in autumn and stored until mid or late winter.
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He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family, and correspondent of Gregory the Great.
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He was then a figure in Boise society, scion of Thomas Oglethorpe Tucker, the lumber and tinned-trout impresario.
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I made a note to myself to come back in early spring to get scions for grafting.
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Prepare a scion from a one-year-old shoot, similar in diameter to the rootstock.