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Magazine Reference: Placing

Placing wires or stays on trees or portions of trees to prevent them being blown over or broken by the wind; more especially the placing GLOSSARY of three or more guys on trees recently transplanted to hold them firmly in place until an adequate root system has been established, and to prevent swaying of the trees and loosening of root system. Hammock Land:

Land, mostly in the southern part of Florida, covered with luxuriant growth of trees (hardwoods, or cabbage palms and palmettos). The soil is rich in fertilizer value.

Harden-off:

To so care for plants previously grown in a greenhouse that they will be able to withstand normal outdoor exposures. It is customary to move such plants from the greenhouse to cold frames. Heave-out:

Hedge:

The partial lifting of plants out of the soil by frost action. This is apt to occur when ground previously deeply frozen and thawed out on top is again frozen. The layer of frozen soil beneath, which has not yet thawed out, forms an unyielding barrier and the expansion of the soil in freezing is then wholly upward. The stresses thus caused are enormous and plants are lifted sometimes almost wholly out of the ground.

A row composed of living plants usually in a straight line and planted closely to each other (See Plate XV, Page 95).

Hedgerow:

A hedge or fence of bushes or shrubs either in the form of a definite hedge or of an irregular border-planting, of varying width and oftentimes varying types of plants. Heeling-in:

Herb:

Placing plants with roots covered with soil pressed down with the heel or toe to preserve them in a dormant condition for short periods until they can be permanently planted. Usually a deep furrow is dug, the roots placed close together in the furrow, with stems in a slanting position, and roots then covered with soil. The soil used in this covering is taken from the furrow of the next row (See Plate VI, Page 34). A plant with no persistent stem above ground.

Horticultural Variety:

Said of certain varieties of plants developed because of some desirable characteristic. They are not necessarily hybrids, but usually are artificially hybridized, then propagated by grafts, buds, cuttings, etc., to preserve in the new plant the desirable characteristics of the parent, which might be lost if grown from seed.

Host Plant:

A living plant attacked by a parasitic fungus or supporting a parasitic plant.

Hotbed:

A bed of earth enclosed in a glass-covered frame and heated by means of fermenting manure placed well below the surface of the soil in the hotbed.

Humus: