BOOK V. XI. 10-13 



bared, so that it exactly corresponds to the area on 

 the other tree from which the bark has been stripped. 

 Having done this, bind the bud well all round and be 11 

 careful not to damage the sprout itself. Then daub 

 the joints of the wound and the ties round them with 

 mud, leaving a space, so that the bud may be free and 

 not be constricted by the binding. Cut away the shoot 

 and upper branches of the tree into which you have in- 

 serted the graft, so that there may be nothing to 

 which the sap can be drawn off or benefit from the sap 

 to another part rather than the graft. After the 

 twenty-first day unbind the scutcheon. This kind of 

 grafting is very successful with the olive also. 



The fourth method of grafting we have already 12 

 explained when we treated of vines ; so it is super- 

 fluous to repeat here the method of " terebration " 

 already described.* 



But since the ancients denied that any kind of scion 

 could be grafted on any kind of tree and, according 

 to the limitation which we made use of just now,** 

 established as a hard and fast rule that only those 

 scions can unite which resemble the trees in which 

 they are inserted in bark and rind and fruit, we have 

 thought it advisable to destroy this erroneous 

 opinion and to hand down to posterity a method by 

 which any kind of scion can be grafted upon any kind 

 of tree. That we may not weary the reader with 13 

 too long a discourse, we will submit a single example 

 by following which any kind of scion can be grafted 

 upon a different kind of tree. 



« IV. 29, 13 : V. 9. 16. ^ § 1 of this chapter. 



• omni generi c : omni genere A : omne genere 8 : om. a. 

 ^^ dissimilibus scripsi : dissimilis 8 : dimissis Aac. 



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