CION, or CYON, in gardening, a young shoot,
sprout, or sprig, put forth by a tree. Grafting is per-
formed by the application of the cion of one plant upon
the stock of another. To produce a stock of cions for
grafting, planting, &c. the gardeners sometimes cut
off the bodies of trees a little above the ground, and
only leave a stump or root standing: the redundant
sap will not fail next spring to put forth a great num-
ber of shoots. In dressing dwarf-trees, a great many
cions are to be cut off.