34 2 GLOSSARY. 



Inarching The joining, by graftage, of parts of two con- 

 tiguous plants, whilst the cion part is still attached to 

 its parent plant. The cion is severed from its parent 

 when it has united with its foster stock. Figs. 138, 139. 



Inlaying. The insertion of a cion into a cavity or notch 

 made by the removal of a piece of wood from the stock. 

 Fig. 116. 



June-budding. The practice of budding trees very early in 

 the season, commonly in June, with the expectation that 

 the buds are to grow the same season. Practiced in the 

 south. Page 103. 



Knaur. An excrescence or burr appearing as redundant or 

 adventitious tissue upon a woody plant, and which may 

 be used for the propagation of the plant when removed 

 and treated like a cutting. Page 64. 



Layer. A shoot or root, attached to the parent plant, par- 

 tially or wholly covered with earth, with the intention 

 that it shall take root and then be severed from the 

 parent. See Figs. 29, 30. 



Layerage. The operation or practice of making a layer, or 

 the state or condition of being layered. [Word first 

 used by the present author in 26th Report of the State 

 Board of Agriculture of Michigan, p. 431 (1887). Equiv- 

 alent to the French marcottage,~\ See Chapter III. 



Mallet. A form of cutting in which a prominent transverse 

 portion of an older branch is left upon the lower end. 

 Fig. 61. 



Mother-bulb. The large or parent bulb about which smaller 

 bulbs, or bulbels, are borne. 



Mound-layering. The rooting of upright shoots by means 

 of heaping earth about them ; stool-layering. Fig. 32. 



Nursery. An establishment for the rearing of plants. In 

 America the word is commonly but erroneously used in 

 connection with the propagation of woody plants only, 

 as fruit trees and ornamental trees and shrubs. The 



