PHELIMINABY DEFINITIONS. 



8. A NURSERY is any area specially used for the raising of trans- 

 plants. A nursery may be maintained or intended to be main- 

 tained year after year in a continuous manner, or it may be kept 

 up for a limited number of years until a certain definite and limit- 

 ed amount of planting has been accomplished, when it is aban- 

 doned altogether. Nurseries may accordingly be either PERMANENT 



Or TEMPORARY. 



9. To SCHOOL a plant is to prepare it for use by means of a 

 course of training in a nursery. A SCHOOLED transplant is thus one 

 that has been prepared in a nursery, while an UNSCHOOLED trans- 

 plant is one that has not been so prepared. 



10. The term LIFTING or LIFTING UP will be used to denote the 

 operation of taking a plant out of the ground preliminary to trans- 

 planting it. 



11. To PRICK OUT a plant is to remove it from wherever it 

 stands, whether in a nursery or not, and put it down again at any 

 point inside a nursery ; while TO PUT OUT a transplant means to 

 place it in the ground in the forest at the point itself which it is 

 finally to occupy. To prick out and to put out are thus only two 

 special cases of transplanting. 



12. To UNDERPLANT is to plant under an existing taller crop. 



13. A SEEDBED is any cultivated portion of a nursery in which 

 plants are raised from seed sown in situ. Before transplants are 

 put out, they are often removed from the seedbeds and pricked out 

 in regular lines, such lines being termed NURSERY-LINES. 



14. To GRAFT is so to apply a portion of one woody plant (the 

 GRAFT or SCION) to another woody plant (the STOCK) that, as a 

 consequence of the operation, an intimate union between the 

 cambium and the living woody and cortical tissue on each side of 

 the cambium takes place and the scion becomes an organic portion 

 of the stock. 



This union is effected by the production of an intermediate connecting paren- 

 chymatous tissue between the contiguous surfaces of the stock and the scion. 



BUDDING is the special method of grafting, in which the scion 

 consists only of a bud and of a strip of bark to which the bud is 

 attached. 



