. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE LIFE-HISTOEY OP PLANTS. 195 be kept dean by hand-weeding, or by tbe old- fashioned plan of hoeing, raking, and rolling, several times a year. Though the last involves a consider- able amount of labour, it is not labour lost ia kitchen and fruit gardens, in which comparatively loose and frequently scarified walks will prove most favourable to the roots of fruit-trees, bushes, and those of other crops, that often run further and increase and multiply faster under the walks than anywhere else. THE LIFE-HISTOEY OF PLAJSTTS, By Db. Maxweli, T. Masters,
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE LIFE-HISTOEY OP PLANTS. 195 be kept dean by hand-weeding, or by tbe old- fashioned plan of hoeing, raking, and rolling, several times a year. Though the last involves a consider- able amount of labour, it is not labour lost ia kitchen and fruit gardens, in which comparatively loose and frequently scarified walks will prove most favourable to the roots of fruit-trees, bushes, and those of other crops, that often run further and increase and multiply faster under the walks than anywhere else. THE LIFE-HISTOEY OF PLAJSTTS, By Db. Maxweli, T. Masters, GUOWTB OF BUDS. IN considering the seed, it was shown how, in tho first instance, before the seedling could in any way shift for itself, it was dependent for its food upon the stores laid up beforehand for its use in the perisperm or elsewhere. The genial heat of spring Fig. 18.âTerminal Bud of Ash, enclosed in Bad-soales. Two side buds of later generation are seen beneath. might, indeed set the juices in motion, but of what avail would that be were there an empty larder? Provident Nature, however, takes care that this shall not be. The life-work of the plant whose course we have to trace largely consists in the for- mation and accumulation of reserve supplies for futvire use. As it was with the seedling, so it is with the bud. Apart from the special peculiarities of its originâa matter to be hereafter alluded toâa seedling has much in common with a bud, strue- turally and functionally. With the exception we have noted, its history is much the same. ITature of Buds.âSpeaking generally, and for the moment without reference to detail, a bud consists of a central growing point, surrounded by scales, as shown in Pigs. 18â21, showing the buds of' various plants stiU invested by scales, or in process of growth, during which the scales separate and â ultimately become detached. The expression " grow- ing point" is applied more particularly to those parts of the
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