In a nursery near Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh in India, stands a massive fruiting mango tree. If you look carefully at each branch, the texture of the leaves are all different, with varying ...

In India, mangoes and summers go hand in hand. The beginning of the season for mangoes creates a plethora of mango varieties flowing into stores and enticing everyone around. While mangoes have been ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Most of the year, Drew Bohan can pick fresh fruit from his Carmichael, Calif., backyard. In his quarter-acre garden, he has more selection than any supermarket: More than 70 ...

In his quarter-acre garden, Drew Bohan has more varieties of fresh fruit than any supermarket — currently 70, and growing. That includes six kinds of peaches growing on one tree and eight different ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...