GLOSSARY. 8ii 



Cuttings, shoots of one year's growth, inserted in the soil for 

 multiplying varieties. 



Cyme, a flat-tipped flower-cluster, differing from a coryml* in its 

 formation. 



Deciduous, falling off— as leaves which fall in the-autumn. 



Dehiscent (fruits) , opening at maturity. 



Dentate, toothed. 



Depressed, flattened vertically. 



Dicecious, plants which have staminate and pistillate flowers on 

 different individuals. 



Drupe, a stone-fruit. 



Duramen, heart-wood. 



Dwarfs, trees made diminutive by grafting or buddin; upon 

 stocks of small growth. 



Echinate, armed with prickles. 



Emarginate, notched at the apex. 



Embryo, the germ or rudimentary plantlet in the seed. 



Endocarp, the inner layer of the pericarp. 



Endogenous, without the destinction of bark, wood, and pith. 



Enquenouille, training to produce fruitfulness by tying the 

 branches downward. 



Epicarp, the outer layer of the pericarp. 



Epidermis, the outer covering, or skin. 



Espalier, a tree trained flat upon a trellis. 



Exogenous, having bark, wood, and pith, each distinct from the 

 other. 



Fascicle, a close cluster. 



Fascicled roots, those which grow in a bunch or cluster. 



Fibrous roots, the smaller branching thread-like roots. 



Filament, the part of the stamen which supports the anther. 



Flavescent, yellowish, or turning yellow. 



Foliaceous, leaf-like. 



Forcing, the early ripening of fruits under glass. 



Fore-right shoot, the terminal shoot of a branch. 



Germ, the rudimentary plantlet in the seed. 



Glabrous, smooth. 



dlaucous, covered with bloom, a fine white powdery coating 

 which rubs off, as the bloom of the grape. 



Habitat, the situation in which a plant grows naturally, without 

 cultivation. 



Head back, to cut off the limbs of a tree part way down. 



Head down, to cut off the entire limbs or branches of a tree, or to 

 cut down to an inserted bud. 



Heeling in, burying the roots of a tree in a trencft temporarily. 



