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Grafting: How To-graft-a-city | Blackwood Gallery
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Brampton Flood, March 1948. Photograph by Russell K. Cooper. Courtesy Region of Peel Archives. The machine-learning algorithm processes a training set composed of images of grafted fruit trees. It watches as gardeners and farmers cut underperforming-but-still-sturdy trees down to a stubby rootstock, trim healthy shoots from more desirable trees, insert those shoots—or scions—around the bark of the rootstock, bandage it all up, then fashion for our Siamesed tree-twins a rehabilitative greenhouse …
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