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Use for: plant diseases, plant pathology, phytopathology

• a branch of botany concerned with the diseases of plants

Use for: Elm blight

• A widespread fungoid killer of elms (Ulmus species) and certain other trees, first described in the Netherlands. Spread by bark beetles, the disease has decimated elm populations throughout much of Europe and North America.

Use for: Economic Botany

• a division of botany that deals with the utilization of plants

Use for: gutta-percha

• A tough plastic substance from the latex of several Malaysian trees (especially Palaquium gutta) of the sapodilla family that resembles rubber but contains more resin and is used especially as insulation and in dentistry as a permanent filling in root canals.

• Natural dyes. Colours extracted from plants.

• Here are entered works on the discipline of medical botany. Works on the description and/or the cultivation of medicinal plants are entered under [Medicinal plants.]

Use for: Wills's Cigarettes

• W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco manufacturing company formed in Bristol, England. It was the first British company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the 13 founding companies of the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland); these firms became branches, or divisions, of the new combine and included John Player & Sons.
• In 1888 W.D.& H.O. Wills became the first British cigarette manufacturer to include cards, again originally for advertising purposes; however in 1895 they issued their first general interest set titled Ships & Soldiers. This no doubt represented the target market for their product. Cigarette cards are small collectible cards issued by tobacco companies between the late 19th century and the 1940s. They first served to protect cigarettes inside soft paper packs, but soon became popular advertising tools and collector items.

Use for: World War 1, First World War, Great War, 1914-1918, European War, 1914-1918, WWI, WW1

• an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers.

Use for: Ginger

• Plant family made up of aromatic herbs that grow in moist areas of the tropics and subtropics, including some regions that are seasonably dry. Members of the family are perennials that frequently have sympodial (forked) fleshy rhizomes (underground stems). Commonly known as the ginger family of flowering plants.