. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. .300 CASSELL'S POPULAE GAEDENING. «r an Asparagus-shoot, the nature of which latter is obvious. It is, in fact, a terminal hud, such as before descrihed, hut one in which the central por- tion is enormously thickened, which ceases to grow -at the tip (definite), but which is capable of lateral growth by development of shoots from the " eyes," -as maj- be seen when "sets" or so-called " seed- of propagating it. From the above-ground portion of the stem of the Strawberry issues a long slender branch, which terminates in a bud, in
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. .300 CASSELL'S POPULAE GAEDENING. «r an Asparagus-shoot, the nature of which latter is obvious. It is, in fact, a terminal hud, such as before descrihed, hut one in which the central por- tion is enormously thickened, which ceases to grow -at the tip (definite), but which is capable of lateral growth by development of shoots from the " eyes," -as maj- be seen when "sets" or so-called " seed- of propagating it. From the above-ground portion of the stem of the Strawberry issues a long slender branch, which terminates in a bud, in which true leaves are directly developed, and which becomes in time detached from the parent plant and serves to propagate it. In aU essentials the resemblance is close; the difference is associated with the circum-. Fig. 30.—A Potato-plant. "••potatoes " commence their growth (Fig. 30 ; see also Fig. 10, p. 24). Its essentially bud-like character is shown by the occasional formation of small tubers in the axils of the leaves. Any one who will compare a Strawberry "runner " with a Potato will see how close the c&rrespondence reaUy is. From the under- ground portion of the stem or haulm of the Potato slender branches are thrown out, which terminate in tuberous buds (Fig. 10), that do not directly de- velop true leaves, but become separated from the iparent plant in course of time, and serve as a means stance that in the one case the growth takes place below-ground, where the leaves could not work if they were produced; in the other the growth is above-ground, and the leaves can efiect their purpose so completely that the food stored up in the offset of the Strawberry is actually largely obtained by its own leaves, and not conveyed thitter from other sources. Practical Inferences The life-history of the Potato, as here sketched in outline, illustrates the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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