1.   Conservatives are right when they argue that government social welfare activities are antithetical grafts on the root stock of capitalism.

2.   Grafted trees, where a piece of the parent is grown onto another root stock, do remain true.

3.   He looked, too, into proper siting of vineyards, the physiology of grapevines, mineral nutrition, root stocks and microclimates.

4.   Kendall-Jackson, the big Santa Rosa grape grower and winemaker, produces its own root stock and grafts.

5.   The trees are propagated by grafting cuttings onto a root stock that is well adapted to that growing area.

6.   They base their guesses on an estimate of the number of trees on sour orange root stock.

7.   To produce salable plants more quickly, a few nurseries are grafting Parkland or Explorer roses onto other root stocks.

8.   Growers transplanted cuttings from those balsam firs onto root stock.

9.   Hix has spent the last year trying to beat back the insect at Rancho de Philo, experimenting with pesticides and grafted root stocks.