206 
EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING VARIETIES. 
The terms used in the descriptions are in the main the 
same as those used in the report for 1885! in describing the 
varieties of lettuce, and they have the same signification. - 
In order to make some of these terms more detinitely un- 
derstood, drawings are given illustrating certain characters. 
A spoonform leaf having a EO 
ruffied border, and a re- rate 
curved or reflexed apex is 
shown at Fig. 8. When thee 
border is slightly waved, but 
not sufficiently to form folds 
it is called wndulate. A leaf 
having its upper surface 
dishing, but of which the 
folds in the border are so coarse and large as to distort its 
outline, is called angular spoon- 
jJorm. At Fig. 9 is shown a 
leaf that is spoonform at the 
center, but of which the bord- 
ers curve backward. Such 
leaves are termed reflexed 
spoonform. When the whole limb of the leaf curves back- 
ward from the midrib, causing the latter to form a straight 
line, or to curve in the opposite direction from that shown 
in the cut, the leaf is said to be reflexed. A leaf is said to 
be petzoled when it is not sessile upon the stem, but is pro- 
jected a little, the midrib being nearly or quite naked at 
the base. 


FIG. 9. 
EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE DESCRIPTINS. 
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 Cl.—Album des Clichés, Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie., 
18838. 
Britt—Farm Gardening and Seed Growing, Francis Brill, 
1872. | 
Burr, or Burr—Field and Garden Vegetables of America, 
Fearing Burr Jr., 1863. 
Gar. Chron.—Gardeners’ Chronicle, London, Eng. 
Grea. —Cabbages and how to grow them, J. J. H. Gregory, 
1870. 
Hen.—Gardening-for profit, Peter Henderson, 1867. 
pei Sr ee Or Ce ee 
*See report N. Y., Agricultural Experiment Station for 1885, pp. 138-139. 
