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Bedding plant
A plant, usually low growing, suitable for a mass planting display of flowers or foliage. Most are annuals or short-lived perennials.
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Arbor
A structure, usually free standing, designed to be covered with climbing plants to provide shade. The term is more or less interchangeable with pergola. A structure, usually freestanding, designed to be covered with climbing plants to provide shade. The term is more or less interchangeable with pergola. A treelike structure. Arbor vitae cerebelli is the…
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Air-layering
A method of propagation applicable to a wide range of trees and shrubs which involves wounding the stem and then packing the wound with damp sphagnum moss. This is all held in place with string and plastic. When roots show, the new plant can be severed and transplanted. A method of propagation applicable to a…
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UN Single Narcotics Convention of 1961
International treaty to prohibit production and supply of nominally narcotic drugs and drugs with similar effects, regarded as a milestone in the history of international drug control.
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Toklas, Alice B
American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde in the early twentieth century, life partner of writer Gertrude Stein, author of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.
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Tetrahydrocannabinidinol (THC)
Active ingredient in cannabis that gives it psychoactive effects.
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Tea houses
Speakeasy-type establishments in urban centers that served hashish in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Sugar leaf
Small, resin-coated leaves trimmed from colas during harvest, often used in cooking. Also known as trim.
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Space cakes
Brownies or cakes made with cannabis, originally available in coffee shops in Amsterdam.
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Shatter
Amber liquid concentrate made using butane.
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