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Magazine Reference: Lime

Fresh-burned Lime:

See calcium oxide.

Friable:

Easily crumbled, mellow, allowing free and unobstructed root development. A term used in describing a condition of soil. Frozen Ball:

A solidly frozen ball of earth containing a major part of the root system of a plant (usually a tree) which is being transplanted. Ball of earth must be frozen sufficiently solid so that it will not split during normal transplanting operations.

Fungus:

A flowerless plant not containing chlorophyll and generally parasitic upon another living plant.

Furrow:

Gall:

A shallow trench made by or as by a plow.

An abnormal swelling or excrescence caused by gall flies. Gas Lime:

Girdle:

Is a mixture of slaked lime or calcium hydrate, and carbonate of lime, together with sulphites and sulphides of lime. These last are injurious to young plant life until they have been exposed to the air for some time. Gas lime usually contains 40 per cent. of calcium oxide and sometimes a small percentage of nitrogen. n. An incision or several incisions which sever the cambium layer of a woody plant to the woody tissue and for the whole circumference of the stem. It may be a circular cut, a spiral cut, or may consist of several cuts more or less widely separated, but whose horizontal projection would form a closed circle. V. To kill a tree by girdling it. Ground Cover:

Small plants or vines, usually growing not more than a foot high, which will spread out and conceal the surface of the ground from view. Grubbing:

Clipping and digging out roots, stumps, etc. Turning over and breaking up the sod with a grub hoe or mattock.

Guying Trees: