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Punnet.— h. chip basket of ^Ib., lib., or zlb. capacity. 



Pug or Wax, — Materials used to exclude air in 

 grafting. 



Smother Fire. — Rough couch or other grass and 

 rubbish, that smokes freely and burns slowly. 



Snag. — In budding, a piece of the stock lies above 

 the bud, and this has to be removed by an oblique 

 cut. In grafts it is a shorter piece of the stock. Its 

 removal allows the new growth to spread to the 

 thickness of the parent stock. 



Spawn. — Where the stock or plant throws up suckers 

 from the roots. 



Stool. — The mother plant. 



Tilth. — The result of harrowing and rolling in farm 

 crops, to produce a friable surface. A good tilth is 

 land in a proper condition for planting or sowing 

 (braid in Scotland). 



Topped. — In pruning means the long shoots cut over 

 and reduced in length. In packing fruit it refers to 

 the reprehensible practice of placing the finest fruit 

 on the surface layers of the package and inferior stuff 

 below. It is wrong in principle and does not pay in 

 practice. 



Note. — In consequence of the number of Letters sent 

 to the Author, asking for Addresses of Makers, Patentees, 

 etc., of the Appliances recommended in this work, 



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