Editing Fruit tree propagation (section)

==Family trees and fruit salad trees==
In addition to propagating trees on rootstocks designed to control size/vigour and confer disease resistance, grafting above the rootstock can be used to provide multiple cultivars of a single species, known as a '''[[genus|family]] tree''', or, within certain limits, cultivars of different fruit species on one tree, often known as a '''[[fruit salad]] tree'''. Family trees typically combine several cultivars (two or three being most common) of apple, pear or a given species of [[stonefruit]] on a single rootstock, while fruit salad trees typically carry two or more different species from within a given genus, such as plum, [[apricot]], and [[peach]] or [[mandarin orange]], [[lemon]], and [[lime (fruit)|lime]]. Certain combinations, including sour cherry (''[[prunus cerasus]]'')/sweet cherry (''[[prunus avium]]''), although from the same genus, are known to be difficult, although successes have sometimes been reported. Other grafts of this kind can produce the [[Pomato]].