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Oblate, flattened, so that the shortest diameter is between the base and 



apex, like a flat turnip. 

 Obovate, reversed ovate, being largest from the foot-stalk or towards the 



apex. 



Obtuse, rounded or blunt. 



Ovate., egg-shaped, being the largest towards the foot-stalk. 

 Pedicel, the subdivision of a flower or fruit-stalk. 

 Peduncle, the flower or fruit-stalk. 

 Petals, flower-leaves, usually colored. 

 Petiole, leaf-stalk. 

 Pomology, the science of fruits. 



Pyramidal, like a pyramid, usually nearly similar to conical, but longer. 

 Pyriform, pear-shaped, having more or less a drawn-out neck. 

 Ringing, the removal of a ring of bark round a branch, to impede the 



descending sap. 



Serrate, notched or cut like saw-teeth. 



Shanking, a diseased shrivelling of the foot-stalks of grapes. 

 Shorten-in, to cut off more or less of the outer parts of shoots. 



Engiole, the minute spongy extremity of a fibrous root. 

 rt, an unusual departure or variation in a new seedling. 

 \r, a short stubby shoot bearing fruit or fruit-buds. 

 Standard, a fruit tree in open ground, or not trained to a wall or trellis. 

 Stock, seedling tree, which supports the inserted bud or graft. 

 Stop, to pinch or cut off the point of a shoot, to prevent its further ex 

 tension in growth. 

 Strike, to emit roots. 



Tap-root, the main or central descending root. 

 Trellis, an upright, flat frame, for training fruit trees and grapes upon its 



face. 

 Wilding, a natural seedling. 



