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Magazine Reference: Plants

Plants which develop from seeds each year, mature, produce ripened seed, and die during the same growing season. Alpine Plants:

Plants adapted to living in exposed situations but requiring a constant seepage of cool water through the soil surrounding their roots. Alpine plants are not drought-resisting.

Anthracnose:

A plant disease caused by a parasitic fungus of one definite class (melanconiae).

Arborescent Shrubs:

Ball:

Those plants on the borderline between shrubs and trees. In transplanting work it is the mass of earth containing the roots of a plant, and it is transplanted with the plant to its new location. Ball-and-Burlap:

The process of covering a ball of earth, containing the roots of a plant, with burlap or other bagging so that the plant may be safely transported a considerable distance without losing the earth from about its roots. Bedding Plants:

Herbaceous plants selected for the purpose of producing a solid ground cover of flowers or foliage as a part of a definite design in a refined garden or lawn development.

Bell-glass:

A bell-shaped glass used to cover small plants growing in the open, as a protection from wind and rain and frequent temperature changes. Biennials:

GLOSSARY Blight:

Plants which require two years to produce ripened seed. They form buds at the crown of the root at the end of the first season. The next season they bear ripened seed, and the plants die.

A diseased condition caused by a parasitic fungus.

Bog Garden:

A garden composed largely of bog-loving plants. A garden on a relatively low area consisting of a continuously wet, peaty soil, but not containing stagnant water.

Budding:

Bulb:

The insertion of a bud from one plant (together with some live surrounding tissue) beneath the bark of another plant so that the cambium layers join and grow together.

A subterranean leaf-bud consisting usually of several fleshy scales. Calcium Oxide:

Callus:

A compound resulting from the burning of limestone containing, when pure, 40 parts of calcium and 16 parts of oxygen by weight. It is also known as fresh burned or quicklime.

The new tissue which forms over a wound as over the end of a cutting; a protective measure provided in nature; but not always an indication that the cutting will produce roots.

Cambium, or cambium layer:

The soft, very thin tissue lying between the bark and the woody tissue. This is the tissue from which new wood originates and is the only truly live portion of the stem of a plant. Plant food rises from roots to leaves through the cells on the inner half of the cambium layer and returns from the leaves downward as available plant food through cells on the outer half of the cambium layer.

Canker:

An area attacked by a parasitic fungus.

Carpet bedding: