I have read that in this instance that people can do two grafts. The native variety being the most hardy and strongest rooting, then a short intermediary piece which can bridge between the native and fruiting varieties. Can anyone assist? Or know someone who can? I have cut down a large native cherry and would like to graft lapins and stella to the sprouts which are sure to come up this spring. "example taken from plum/almond stone fruit grafting" - " Also (and this is where the fun starts) most fruit trees in the Prunus genus are sometimes compatible with each other: almonds, apricots, nectarines, peaches, and plums all are compatible for grafting, but occasionally it's complicated. For example, some plum rootstock is not compatible with peaches or nectarines; and some almonds require an intermediate step before grafting onto some plum rootstocks."

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I like Burpee's and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Tomato Growers Supply Co. And Selected Plants dot com for live plants. And that is just for starters, there are so many places on the internet and once you have ordered from one company, you may very well find your mail box full of catalogs from most of the other ones. Even if I do not get around to ordering from all of them (which happens when you get into saving seeds from the ones that do well for you and that you like), I still find a lot of pleasure in looking through them and doing a little day dreaming when the weather is still too bad to be planting them in the garden. The list is way too long for making recommendations of what varieties you should grow, so much depends on what you like, want and expect. I am having trouble cutting my list down to what I want to grow this year because I want to keep my list at 40 or 50 plants with two or three plants of each variety. A good problem to have I guess. I hope that this helps some. Bill P.

"subgenus" may be more appropriate (or maybe not, taxonomists have put both sweet and sour cherries into the subgenus Cerasus). All these different cherry species are very closely related, if one wants to consider them different species. This is one example where the line separating different species is not a clear one. It could even be possible to consider the different cherry families as subspecies. After all, if they can freely interbreed and hybridize with each other, can they not be considered members within the same species? (by this definition we could divide all cherries into only 2 groups: those with 16 chromosomes and those with 32) Or one could attempt to divide cherries into different families: Sweet cherries (P. avium), sour cherries, Black cherries plus Capulin native to the American continent (put into same group), and Asian flowering cherries. Perhaps better classification could be provided if taxonomists utilized multiple degrees of species relatedness/separation, because it is ambiguous whether some of the different cherries should be classified as entirely separate species or subspecies within a singular species, neither of which would be wholly accurate.