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Secondary hybrid. A hybrid between hybrids, or between 

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

 tion hybrid. 



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

 calyx ; an outer leaf of a flower. 



Shoot. A soft and growing branch. 



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

 stem or trunk : bush. 



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

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



Slip. A cutting. 



Small-fruit. Low and bush- like fruit plants, and the 

 fruits they produce, as the currant, gooseberry, blackberry, 

 strawberry and the like. 



Splice-graft. A sort of grafting in which both the scion 

 and stock are cut off obliquely and the cut surfaces applied 

 to each other, the two scions being held secure by bands of 

 string. 



Seed. The sexual reproductive organ of flowering plants ; 

 a ripened ovule. Its essential part is the embryo, or rudi- 

 mentary plantlet. 



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, with- 

 out 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. 



Spore. The reproductive body of a flowerless plant, 

 answering to the seed of a flowering plant. It contains no 

 embryo. 



