scions
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As in the East, it is necessary in California to remove suckers from the roots and roots from the cions once or twice during the summer.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
It is better for him to purchase regular nursery trees and to graft the cions on them; or he may put the cions in any older tree that is available.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
The shoots used for cions are those of the previous season's growth, or as usually termed, one-year-old wood; and in selecting these, endeavor to get such as are plump, well ripened and firm.
From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.
If the stock is large, two cions are used.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
He obtained the cions from the celebrated apple region, Grand Isle, Vermont, where it is sometimes called Champlain, and where it had been introduced from Rhode Island, without a name, by his friend Macomber.
From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.
