. Elementary principles of agriculture : a text book for the common schools . Fig. 51. Leaf buds and flower buds of plum. 1. Shoot bearing leaf-buds only. 2 A bud of same enlarged. 3 and 5. Branches having leaf-buds and flower-buds. 4, 6 and 7. Buds of same enlarged. Flower-buds at /; leaf- buds at I, times called fruit buds, but, of course, the flower must always precede the formation of the fruit, so it is best to call them flower buds. Just below each bud is a leaf scar. Sometimes we shall find the leaf scars, though the buds are apparently not there. The}^ are there, however, but too small
. Elementary principles of agriculture : a text book for the common schools . Fig. 51. Leaf buds and flower buds of plum. 1. Shoot bearing leaf-buds only. 2 A bud of same enlarged. 3 and 5. Branches having leaf-buds and flower-buds. 4, 6 and 7. Buds of same enlarged. Flower-buds at /; leaf- buds at I, times called fruit buds, but, of course, the flower must always precede the formation of the fruit, so it is best to call them flower buds. Just below each bud is a leaf scar. Sometimes we shall find the leaf scars, though the buds are apparently not there. The}^ are there, however, but too small to be seen. They do not grow unless the end of the branch is removed. Such buds as do not grow except when stimulated are called late7it buds. (Fig. 51.)
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