Seedling Olives Must Be Grafted
Categories: Fruit GrowingWill olive trees grown from the olive seed be the right thing to plant?
Will they be true to the parent tree or will they have to be grafted?
Olives which a seedling olive tree will bear will be, as a rule, very
inferior and generally of the type of the wild olive. All such trees
must be grafted in order to produce any particular variety which you
desire.
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