An artist's rendering of the "Tree of 40 Fruit," grafted together by Sam Van Aken to bear 40 different kinds of fruit. Sam Van Aken Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University ...

Novices should first try grafting apple trees, which are relatively easy, said Jack Kay, 52, a master gardener and longtime grafter in Santa Clara.

Grafting also allows you to use one main tree and graft a range of different varieties onto it; Josh has a pear tree with 27 varieties grafted on it and an apple tree with nearly 40 varieties.

About 1 in every 80,000 apple trees grown from seed are of the same quality as their parent tree. Apple trees grown from seed typically have smaller, inferior fruit.

The time for grafting apple trees is just before the buds pop open in late winter or in early spring … and here’s how. Cleft Grafting Procedure Step One ...

People have been grafting apple trees for thousands of years, ever since the fruit was domesticated. “It’s an ancient technique,” says Julie Sawtelle, who will be co-teaching a free workshop ...

Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, managed to graft different stone fruit plants such as peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries together to create a single ...

Novices should first try grafting apple trees, which are relatively easy, said Jack Kay, 52, a master gardener and longtime grafter in Santa Clara.