. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. bove them (and we havefound that buds grow in the axils of leaves).They must, then, be fruit-scars (or flower-scars). In other words, normal scars with-out the presence of buds indicate that aflower was borne at that point. 31. If we could have seen this twig(below a) in the spring of last year, apiece of it would have looked like Three buds are borne together, the twolateral ones (which are evidently fruit-buds)being large and thick. If it were the habitof the peach to bear three lea
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. bove them (and we havefound that buds grow in the axils of leaves).They must, then, be fruit-scars (or flower-scars). In other words, normal scars with-out the presence of buds indicate that aflower was borne at that point. 31. If we could have seen this twig(below a) in the spring of last year, apiece of it would have looked like Three buds are borne together, the twolateral ones (which are evidently fruit-buds)being large and thick. If it were the habitof the peach to bear three leaf-buds to-gether, the method of branching of the ^^ig frompeach tree would tend to be by threes, but » peaouwe know that this is not the fact. Weknow that these objects a a are not spurs (orbranches), because the leaf-scar is visible below 34 I,£!SSONS WITH PLANTS each one or one scar beneath the group. That is,they are normal buds formed the previous year inthe axils of leaves. If we could go back to thisprevious year, we might find the condition shownin Fig. 30, in which one or more leaves are. FlO. buds of the peach. PiQ. formation of the peaeh buds. determining the position of the buds; in some axilsonly leaf - buds are borne. From this it is seenthat the method of fruit - bearing of the peach isvery different from that of the apple, pear andplum. 32. It must now be determined why the fruit- FRUIIBEABING, CONCLUDED 35 scars are single in the twig in Fig. 28,while the fruit-buds are in pairs (witha leaf-bud between them) in the firstplace (Figs. 30, 29). Fig. 31 showsa half-grown peach which has arisenfrom one of the buds. A flower wasproduced from eachbud, but in the strug-gle for existence oneof them (and alsothe leaf-bud) per-ished. The twig inFig. 28 has no budsupon the bodies whichbore the peaches;therefore, these bod-ies are not leaf-bear-ing branches (orspurs), and they do not bear have seen (Figs. 30, 29) thatthese fruit-buds are formed up
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