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."

Snoogie, I have the same problem with one of my cherry trees. I moved in to our house about 5 years ago and after the first full season I started noticing large parts of the tree dying off. First the leaves turn yellow, then red. Then they fall off altogether and a fungus grows on the bark. I've been trimming the dead sections each year, but this may be it's last. Any suggestions on treatment to attempt to save it would be greatly appreciated.

Do you have the right types of blueberries? What are the cultivar names? I'll through out a bunch, not necessarily all good ones, if you can't remember: Northsky Northblue Tophat Rabbit eye Elliot Patriot Chippewa North Country Northland St. Cloud Maine half high highbush Vaccinium corymbosum Vaccinium angustifolium Vaccinium x .... huckleberry

"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.