Re: Gerry Kennedy...

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Nick,
   I will take a look at the history and application of grafting. I have not
seen much on this in the internet; however, I haven't really been looking for
it too much either. At one point I was interested in the inverted V control
card symbol used in grafting since this glyph appears in the VMS.

http://www.goldcanyon.com/Patten/html/7jpeg.html

Grafting should be kept in mind and may solve some of the botanical questions
seen in the VMS. Experiments in hybridization/cross pollination may also have
been employed.

Regards,
Dana Scott

Nick Pelling wrote:

> Hi Dana,
>
> Hope you're doing OK. Winter's just kicking in here: but (as is well known)
> of Britain's four seasons, three are actually Winter. :-)
>
> Gerry Kennedy and his co-author dropped by my house the other evening: and
> (unsurprisingly) we chatted about the VMS for several hours. They're at a
> very early stage of planning the book, and each seem to have fairly
> different ideas of how it should develop... so it may take a little while
> to get off the ground. :-/
>
> One thing Gerry mentioned I thought I'd pass on to you: he was quite
> convinced that many of the VMS plants showed signs of them having been
> grafted... I know that Theophrastus discussed grafting, so it wasn't
> exactly new in 1480, but was it in active use in European gardens then? Who
> were the grafters of the day? Were there schools of graft? :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....