73Nor is the way of grafting and of budding a single one. 74For where the buds push out from the middle of the bark and burst their thin sheaths, a narrow slit is made in the knot itself: into this they enclose a bud from another tree and teach it to grow into the moist inner bark. 78Or again, knotless trunks are cut back, and a path is split deep into the solid wood with wedges; then fruitful scions are put in: and before long a huge tree shoots up to the sky with fruitful branches, and marvels at its new leaves and fruits not its own.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 2.73–82
Methods of grafting and budding
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Vergil, Georgics. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.