MAN-MADE PLANTS 
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and makes a notch. Then he cuts, from his 
good tree, two twigs that have several buds, and 
he shapes their ends like a wedge. He fits these 
By means of grafting the fruit grower can improve 
the fruit the tree will bear 
into the notch, one on each side, taking great 
care that the growing parts of the stem and the 
twigs come together. Then he ties the twigs 
in place with raffia and covers the cuts with 
