- Rhymes: -aɪən cion (plural cions) - (chiefly in botanical
senses) Alternative spelling of scion. - 1621–1626 (published
posthumously in 1627): Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum : or, A
Natural History ; in ten centuries, century V, Experiments in
consort touching the putting back or retardation of germination,
¶ 421; reprinted in: - 1838, The works of Lord Bacon : with an
introductory essay, and a portrait ; in two volumes, volume 1,
page 133 (London : William Ball, Paternoster Row ; stereotyped
and printed by John Childs and son) - 421. Men have entertained
a conceit that showeth prettily ; namely, that if you graft a
late-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh
early, the graft will bear early ; as a peach upon a cherry ;
and contrariwise, if an early-coming fruit upon a stock of a
fruit-tree that cometh late, the graft will bear fruit late ; as
a cherry upon a peach. But these are but imaginations, and
untrue. The cause is, for that the cion overruleth the stock
quite : and the stock is but pas