GLOSSARY 



(Numbers refer to Paragraphs.) 



^Esthetic. Appealing to the faculties of taste, as of color, music. 



Agriculture. Farming. 1, la. 



Albumin. A nitrogenous organic compound, present in both plants and 



animals. 370, 442a. 

 Aliment. Food. 



Alimentary canal. The digestive channel or tract. 377. 

 Ameliorate. To improve. 

 Amenable. Open to, liable to : a loose soil is amenable to the action of 



air, but a very hard soil is not. 

 Amendment. A substance which influences the texture rather than the 



plant-food of the soil. 58. 

 Annual. A plant which lives only one year. Beans and pigweeds are 



examples. 



Antiseptic. A substance which kills germs or microbes. 284a, 387. 

 Available.. Capable of being used ; usable. 436. 

 Axil. Angle above the junction of a leaf-stalk, flower-stalk, or branch 



with its parent stem. 

 Biennial. A plant which lives two years. It usually blooms and seeds 



the second year. Mulleins and parsnips are examples. 

 Botany. Knowledge and science of plants. !('. 

 Breaking down. Said of hard soils when they become mellow and 



crumbly. 

 Budding. A kind of grafting, in which the cion or bud is very short, 



and inserted under the bark or on the wood of the stock (not into 



the wood). 

 By-product. A product incidentally resulting from the manufacture of 



something else. 437a, 495. 

 Callus. The healing tissue on a wound. 234. 

 Capillary. Hair-like. Said of very thin or fine channels, especially 



those in which water moves by the force of capillary attraction. 

 Carbohydrate. An organic or carbon compound, in which hydrogen 



and oxygon occur in the same proportions as they do in water. 



Sugar, starch, woody fiber are carbohydrates. 197a. 



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