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He attempted many sorts of grafting flute-graft, crown-graft, shield-graft, herbaceous grafting, and whip-grafting. With what care he adjusted the two libers! how he tightened the ligatures! and what a heap of ointment it took to cover them again! Twice a day he took his watering-pot and swung it over the plants as if he would have shed incense over them.
Apples and pears are more easily propagated by ingrafting than by budding. Ingrafting is a similar process to budding, with this advantage, that it can be performed on large trees, whereas budding can be applied only on small ones. The two common kinds of ingrafting are whip-grafting and split-grafting. The first kind is for young trees, and the other for large ones.
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