. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. STEMS 63 over others, and the form of the tree is round-topped and spreading, deliquescent like that in Fig. 235. Most of the larger forest trees are intermediate between these extremes. Branches get their characteristics to a considerable degree from the relative importance of their terminal buds. If these are mainly flower-buds, as is the case in the horse-chestnut, the tree is characterized by frequent forking, and has no long horizontal branches. If the terminal bud keeps the lead of the lateral ones, but the latter are numerous and most of them grow
. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. STEMS 63 over others, and the form of the tree is round-topped and spreading, deliquescent like that in Fig. 235. Most of the larger forest trees are intermediate between these extremes. Branches get their characteristics to a considerable degree from the relative importance of their terminal buds. If these are mainly flower-buds, as is the case in the horse-chestnut, the tree is characterized by frequent forking, and has no long horizontal branches. If the terminal bud keeps the lead of the lateral ones, but the latter are numerous and most of them grow into X. Fig. 26. Twigs and Branches of the Birch. slender twigs, the delicate spray of the elm and many birches is produced (Fig. 26). The general effect of the branching depends much upon the angle which each branch or twig forms with that one from which it springs. The angle may be quite acute, as in the birch, or more nearly a right angle, as in the ash (Fig. 24). It is these differences that help to give to leafless woods in winter their unending variety and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Boston, Ginn
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