. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Pig. shoot of the quince. THE OPENING OF THE BUDS, CONTINUED 55 is, the axis has elongated considerably since theopening of the bud. A quince flower is drawn inFig. 53. This, too, is borne upon a leafy shootof the season. (The pupil should now explainwhy this shoot is said to be of the current sea-sons growth.) Now let the pupil examine theflower-clusters and shoots of grapes, raspberries,. Fig. of quince. blackberries and walnuts. We have already found(49) that some frui
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Pig. shoot of the quince. THE OPENING OF THE BUDS, CONTINUED 55 is, the axis has elongated considerably since theopening of the bud. A quince flower is drawn inFig. 53. This, too, is borne upon a leafy shootof the season. (The pupil should now explainwhy this shoot is said to be of the current sea-sons growth.) Now let the pupil examine theflower-clusters and shoots of grapes, raspberries,. Fig. of quince. blackberries and walnuts. We have already found(49) that some fruit-buds are simple and othersmixed. We now find that there is still a thirdclass, those which may be called co-terminal, be-cause they terminate the axial growth of theseason, and thereby cause a diffuse or deter-minate growth of the plant. 56. We can now interpret the winter twigs of 56 LESSONS WITS PLANTS the quince. Fig. 54 is such a twig. There is afruit-scar at d. We know that the shoot grewthe same year in which the fruit was borne;and this is further proved by the presence ofaxillary buds upon the shoot between c and fruit was borne at b. While this latter
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