. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. grown peach. ElG. 32. Gooseberry fahnot. 36 LESSONS WITJET PLANTS from a to 6 grew the last season, and the por-tion below a two seasons ago. The upper portionhas simple buds, while the lower portion haswhat appear to be elongated buds, but which arereally fruit-spurs (for we have found that whenbuds elongate they become branches). Each ofthese spurs, then, bore a cluster of leaves last. Fig. : of the black currant. year, as if it had been an apple spur. Let the
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. grown peach. ElG. 32. Gooseberry fahnot. 36 LESSONS WITJET PLANTS from a to 6 grew the last season, and the por-tion below a two seasons ago. The upper portionhas simple buds, while the lower portion haswhat appear to be elongated buds, but which arereally fruit-spurs (for we have found that whenbuds elongate they become branches). Each ofthese spurs, then, bore a cluster of leaves last. Fig. : of the black currant. year, as if it had been an apple spur. Let thepupil examine currant and gooseberry bushes (atany time of the year), and he will readily con-clude that they bear fruits usually on spurs, butthat these spurs generally bear only two or threetimes. Examine the barberry. 34. The two-year-old twig of a black currantis drawn in Fig. 33. It was taken in spring, andyet the remains of the old fruit-stems persist. FBUIT-BDARINO, CONCLUDED 37 The point of attachment of these stems shows thelengths of the spurs of the year before, and thecrook in the spur at that point shows that thefruit-bud was terminal (as it must be in Fig. 32,since the spur contains but a single bud), alsothat the subsequent growth of the spur arose from a side bud. In fact, two of the spurs developed two side buds, only one of which, however, made a conspicuous growth. Our conclusion, from observation suggested by the pictures, may be that each kiud of plant has a system of fruit-
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