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Grass Husband^']/, where the principal object is the dairy, the rearing 

 •^ of domestic animals, &c., as in grazing districts. 

 Green Crops, are clover, buckwheat, or other growing crops, buried 

 by the plough to enrich the soil — considered improving crops. 



Herbage Plants, clover and other plants cultivated chiefly for the 

 herb, to be used either green or to be made into hay. 



Horticulture, is to the garden, what agriculture is to the farm, — 

 the application of labor and science to a limited spot, for conve- 

 nience, for profit, or for ornament — though implying a higher state 

 of cultivation than is common in agriculture. It includes the culti- 

 vation of culinary vegetables and of fruhs, and forcing or exotic 

 gardening, as far as respects useful products. 



Humus, or Geine, the product of organic matter, and the food of plants. 



Husbandman, one who farms generally ; that is, who produces both 

 grain and cattle, and attends to the dairy, the poultry, and the or- 

 chard. A farmer, says Loudon, may confine himself to grazing, or 

 to breeding, or to haymaking, or milking, or raising green crops for 

 the market, &c., but in none of these cases can he with propriety 

 be called a husbandman. The term farmer is therefore not exactly 

 synonymous with husbandman. 



Husbandrxj, is here used as comprehending all that belongs to agricul- 

 ture. 



Inorganic Matter, devoid of organs ; not formed with the organs or 

 instruments of life ; pure earths. 



Insoluble Matters, matters which cannot be dissolved by the waters 

 of the soil. 



Landscape Gardening, is the art of so arranging the external scenes 

 of a country residence, as to render them ornamental, both as do- 

 mestic scenery, and as a part of the general scenery of a country. 



Latter math. After math, Rowcn, are all terms which express the sec- 

 ond crop of grass. 



Lay, Ley, Lea, different terms applied to meadow, pasture, or sward. 



Leguminous Crops — peas, beans, and the like — having a seed-vessel 

 with two valves, in which the seeds are fixed to one .side only. 



Liquid Manures, those that are applied in a liquid form, as urine, the 

 liquids of the cattle-yard, soap-suds, &c. 



Manures, every species of matter capable of promoting the growth of 

 vegetables. See Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable. 



Mechanical Manures, are those which serve to improve the texture 

 of soils, as sand applied to clay, clay to sand, and marl or mild 

 lime to both, when they are deficient in calcareous matter. 



Mineral Manures, such as serve to dissolve the org:tnic matters in the 

 soil, to induce new soluble compounds, or to stimulate the organs of 

 plants, as quicklinie, gypsum, ashes, salt, &c. 



Mould, organic matter in a finely divided and decomposed state, with 

 a little admixture of earth, as vegetable mould, leaf mould, peat 

 mould, &c. 



Organic Matters, animal or vegetable matters in a greater or less 

 state of decay. 



Organic Remains, are the remains of living bodies either petrified or 

 imbedded in stone. 



