Agriculture . —The leaves do not grow into branches orflowers. The buds come every year (in the fall and in thespring) in the angles or axils of the leaves or at the endsof the branches, so that the arrangement of the leaves is alsothe arrangement of the buds. Some buds grow into branchesand some into blossoms, ^\^len a bud grows at the end ofthe branch it, of course, by its growth lengthens the branch;when it comes on the side, by its growth it forms a sidebranch. When we stop a raspberry bush by pinching offthe growth at the end, we cause the side buds and branches togrow out, and thereby ma
Agriculture . —The leaves do not grow into branches orflowers. The buds come every year (in the fall and in thespring) in the angles or axils of the leaves or at the endsof the branches, so that the arrangement of the leaves is alsothe arrangement of the buds. Some buds grow into branchesand some into blossoms, ^\^len a bud grows at the end ofthe branch it, of course, by its growth lengthens the branch;when it comes on the side, by its growth it forms a sidebranch. When we stop a raspberry bush by pinching offthe growth at the end, we cause the side buds and branches togrow out, and thereby make the plant become bushy. If you remove a bud formed in the fall, covered witha waxy substance to protect it in winter, or if you take abud formed in spring or summer, and carefully open it, youfind it is a compact mass of small leaves —it is a little branchcompressed and packed away ; and the opening of the budis nothing else than an unfolding of these leaves as they STRUCTURE AND GROWTH OF THE PLANT. 27. grow larger. The life of the tree starts the leaves growing, andthe buds burst and open up, some to form leaves and branchesand some to form blossoms. Blossoms.—Let us take a simple blossom like a yellowbuttercup. First we find five small leaves arranged aroundthe outside. These formwhat is called the calyx,and each of these fiveleaves is a sepal. Justabove these are fiveleaves of bright yellowcolor forming \.\\ecorolla,each of which is called a/(A//. Next inside the Fig. 14-Parts of a Blossom, as follows: End of 11 1 • f stalk or receptacle in ceiitie; two leaves or sepas corolla are a numner 01 of calyx on outside; then two leaves or petals of little stems of fine stalks, °^° = ^° ^ = ^° p^^-with tiny balls on their tips covered with fine dust. These arecalled stamens, and the dust \^pollen. Right in the centre aresome more little growths called the pistils. This blossom, then,has four parts—calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistils. If we takea buttercup, we can
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