fertilizer (fertilizer)

One who or that which fertilizes; specifically, a manure, whether organic or inorganic: as, guano is a powerful fertilizer. Also spelled fertiliser. fertilyt, adv. Fertilely. Sir P. Sidney. ferula (fer'ö-lä), n.; pl. ferula (-lē). [L., a rod, staff, walking-stick, a slender branch, the plant giant fennel: see ferule1.] 1. A rod; a ferule. -2. A leading-staff, baton of command or authority, scepter, or the like, especially cially the scepter of some ancient and Eastern dominions, as that of the Byzantine empire, Hungary, etc.3. [ cap.] [NL.] In bot., an umbelliferous genus of about 60 species, chiefly of the Mediterranean region and central Asia, and very nearly allied to Peucedanum. They are generally tall, coarse plants with di ected leaves, and many of the Asiatic species yield strongly scented gum resins, used in medicine. F. Narthex, F. Scorodosma, and F. all i ace a yield the gum asafetida. Gum galbanum is the product of F. galbani flu a, F. rubricaulis, and F. Schair. F. Sumbul furnishes the sumbul or muskroot of commerce. F. communis, the giant fennel of Europe, and some other species, åre occasionally cultivated as ornamental foliage-plants. There are four or five species in the United States, on the Pacific coast, which are referred to this genus. Most of them have large resinous roots.