Gardening Terms Explained
FLAG Another name for the common iris. A plant “flags” when it droops for want of water or some other cause. FORCE When flowers, fruits or vegetables are produced early by means of artificially applied beat, they are said to be forced. GREEN MANURING This is a method of manuring by sowing vacant ground with such seeds as mustard, rape and vetch, the crop being dug in before it lias fully developed. Valuable plant food is thus conserved. HARDEN OFF « When plants are raised under glass in warmth they have to be gradually inured to outside conditions if they are to be planted in the open, and this is the term used to describe such a gradual hardening process. HEEL If a cutting has a small portion of the older branch attached to it when it is prepared, it has a “heel.” INTER-CROPPING The sowing of small, quick-maturing crops in the spaces necessarily left be-
tween certain other crops needing a good deal of room. The “catch” crops, as they are known, will have been cleared oft by the time the others become fully developed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 30
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188Gardening Terms Explained Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 30
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