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rootstock: see rhizome rhizome (rī`zōm) or rootstock, ..... Click the link for more information. . rootstock 1. another name for rhizome 2. another name for stock 3. Biology a basic structure from which offshoots have developed |
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| Aside from enclosing them in plastic cages or cardboard boxes, you could put a bank of earth around them, covering their trunk to the bud union -- the discernible collar that develops as a result of grafting scion to rootstock -- four to eight inches above the base of the tree. I searched for wellness in the leaves, the soil and the rootstock, thinking of Yuli that day. The richest vine owners bitterly resisted the American solution, preferring to expend both vast sums on chemical treatments of their French rootstock and their power in the region in a futile attempt to force these chemicals on their poorer neighbors. |
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