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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

In the old days it was more common to do "piece root" grafting, using a 
piece of apple root and simply planting it so the graft union was 
underground.  There were farms that produced and sold the root pieces to 
nurseries for grafting.  Donna