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Return to his roots
By SHEELA RAMAN
Published February 2, 2007
DUNEDIN - Mike Zervos, 82, learned to graft trees in grade school on the island of Crete. His teacher in a small village taught him how to remove branches from apricot, olive, and walnut trees, and told him which seasons work best for grafting each tree. Now, after 52 years in America, Zervos has returned to his childhood pastime. Zervos, a retired mechanic who repaired sewing machines for General Motors, and his wife, Katherine, moved to Dunedin from Michigan in 1993, and since then he has created a collection of citrus trees in his back yard - grapefruit, tangerines, oranges, lemons, tangelos and more. One tree has five fruit types grafted onto it. The 2007 grafting season has just started, Zervos said, about a month earlier than usual because of the warm winter. "I love it as a hobby," he said. "But I'm starting to get old and it's hard to keep up the business."
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