8 io GLOSSARY. 



Beurre". a buttery pear. The word is discarded by the American 

 Pomological Society. 



Bezi, a natural seedling ; a wilding. 



Biennial, a plant which germinates from seed one season, and 

 produces flowers and fruit and dies the next. 



Bifid, two-cleft. 



Bifoliate, with two leaves. 



Blade, the expanded portion of a leaf. 



Bract, an altered leaf, from the axil of which the floral axes spring. 



Border, an artificial bed of enriched earth. 



Callus, the ring or swollen portion formed at the base of a cutting 

 by the descending cambium. 



Calville-shaped, much ribbed, as applied to apples. 



Calyx, the outer or green leaves of a flower, which, remaining on 

 the apex of a pear or apple, are often called the eye. 



Cambium, or cambium layer, the soft, usually mucilaginous, 

 layer of newly forming wood beneath the bark. 



Canes, long bearing shoots, usually applied to such berry-produc- 

 ing plants as grapes, raspberries, blackberries, etc. 



Canescent, grayish-white, hoary. 



Capitate, head-like. 



Capsule, a dry seed-vessel, which splits open in a regular manner. 



Carpel, a simple pistil or one division of a compound pistil. 



Caruncle, an excrescence at the scar of some seeds. 



Catkin, a form of inflorescence in which the flowers are incord* 

 plete. 



Caudate, tailed. 



Cavity, 



Chlorophyll, the green coloring-matter of plants. 



Clipping, trimming down to a definite shape. 



Cockscomb, applied to strawberries when much compressed at the 

 sides. 



Colmar-shafed, pyriform or pear-shaped, having a slender neck 

 and large body. 



Cordate, heart-shaped. 



Coriaceous, leathery. 



Corolla, the inner floral envelope ; it is usually colored ; its separate 

 leaflets are the petals. 



Cortex, the bark. 



Corymb, a flat or convex flower-cluster, as in cherries. 



Crenate, notched or cut like blunt saw-teeth. 



Cross, a fruit produced by fertilizing the flowers of one variety with 

 the pollen of another : a hybrid. 



Crown, the part of a fruit farthest from the stem ; the apex. 



