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below and inserted over the end of the stock, which is cut 



wedge-shape. 

 Salad. A dish of uncooked herbs, or chopped meat combined 



with uncooked herbs. 



Sap. A term designating loosely the liquid contents of plants. 

 Saprophyte. A plant which lives upon dead or decaying 



matter, as a mushroom or toadstool. 

 Scion, or Cion. A portion of a plant which is mechanically 



inserted upon the same or another plant with the intention 



that it shall grow ; a graft. As commonly used, a scion, 



in distinction from a bud, bears two or more buds. 

 Secondary hybrid. A hybrid between hybrids, or between 



a hybrid and one of its parents ; derivative hybrid ; deriva- 

 tion-hybrid. 

 Seed. The reproductive organ of flowering plants ; a ripened 



ovule. Its essential part is the embryo, or rudimentary 



plant-let. 

 Seedage. The process of propagation by seeds, or the state or 



condition of being propagated by seeds. 

 Seed-germ. The rudimentary plant contained in the seed ; 



embryo. 

 Seedling. A plant growing directly from the seed, without the 



intervention of grafts or cuttings. 

 Self-fertilization. The action of pollen upon a pistil of the 



same flower ; close-fertilization. 

 Self-pollination. The transfer of pollen to a pistil of the 



same flower. 

 Se'pal, or Sep'al. One of the separate parts of the calyx ; an 



outer leaf of a flower. 

 Separation. The act or process of multiplying plants by 



means of naturally detachable asexual organs, or the state 



or condition of being so multiplied. 

 Shoot. A soft and growing branch. 

 Shrub. A small and bushy woody plant, with no central stem 



or trunk ; a -bush. 

 Side-graft. A sort of grafting in which the scion is inserted 



in a slit or oblique cleft in the side of the stock. 

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