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Report of the Horticulturist of the 
Explanation of Abbreviations, Words, and Phrases Used in the 
Descriptions. 
For a list of the abbreviations of the names of seedsmen see the 
close of the report of the Horticulturist in this volume. 
Abbreviations for the names of authors and works upon gardening 
are used as follows: 
A. de CI. — Album de Cliches, Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie., 1883. 
Brill. — Farm Gardening and Seed Growing, Francis Brill, 1872. 
Burr, or Burr. — Field and Garden Vegetables of America, Fearing 
Burr, Jr., 1853. 
Greg. — Cabbages and how to grow them, J. J. H. Gregory, 1870. 
Hen. — Gardening for Profit, Peter Henderson, 1887; Les pi. pot. — 
Les plantes potageres, Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie., 1883. 
Morton. — Cyclopedia of Agriculture, 1855. 
Vegk Gar. — The Vegetable Garden, the English edition of Les plantes 
potageres, edited by William Robinson, 1885. 
Vil. — Les plantes potageres, Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie., 1883. 
White. — Gardening for the South, William N. White, 1868. 
Additional abbreviations are employed as follows: 
(d.) " from description " — applied to synonyms that have been identi- 
fied from a printed description. 
Dan. — Danish. 
Flan. — Flanders. 
Fr. — French. 
Ger. — German. 
Holl.— Holland. 
Ital. — Italian. 
Port. — Portuguese. 
Syn. — Synonym. 
When two or more foreign synonyms are given, the initial is gen- 
erally substituted for the word expressing the kind of vegetable in the 
second and following names of each language. The same is true in 
certain cases in the English synonyms. 
The effort has been made to use terms in the descriptions that 
should be as far as possible self-explanatory. A few of the words or 
phrases used, however, have been assigned a special meaning, and 
some others are introduced which have not often been used in horti- 
cultural descriptions. These are here. explained: 
Border. — Of the leaf, the part of the limb adjacent to the margin. 
Club-shaped. — Shaped like a club, swollen at one end and constricted 
into a neck toward the other. 
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