. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. bearing lilac shoot. at 12 ZMSSOJYS WITS PLANTS the base of the stronger shoot (a). The lilac,therefore, gets up in the world by a processof suppression. This suppression begins the veryyear in which the buds are forming, for wehave already seen (Fig. 3) that companion buds are generally un-like ; sometimes thisearly suppression goesso far that one budnever has an oppor-tunity to fully de-velop. 14. In the fall, theold seed-pods of thelilac stUl persist on thebush. They are shownin F
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. bearing lilac shoot. at 12 ZMSSOJYS WITS PLANTS the base of the stronger shoot (a). The lilac,therefore, gets up in the world by a processof suppression. This suppression begins the veryyear in which the buds are forming, for wehave already seen (Fig. 3) that companion buds are generally un-like ; sometimes thisearly suppression goesso far that one budnever has an oppor-tunity to fully de-velop. 14. In the fall, theold seed-pods of thelilac stUl persist on thebush. They are shownin Fig. 9. That is, boththe terminal buds uponthis shoot gave clustersof flowers, and it restedwith the lower pairs ofbuds to continue thegrowth. Two of thesepairs have made the ef-fort, while the buds be-low them remain dormant Fig. 10. and will never grow un- Winter twig of black haw, showing ° the aide buds at a u. less somc injury should. THJl DEFLECTED AXIS OF GJROWTff 13 befall the shoots above. Each of these four shootshas two terminal buds, and each of the shoots isunlike the is easy to seethat the shoot ais to become thehead of the fam-ily. Fig. 10 willsuggest investiga-tion of the com-mon black haw orviburnum. is a sumacbush, with its zig-zag and forkinggrowths; and theterminal clustersof seeds explainhow the forkinghas arisen. Theforks are most ap-parent at the tipsof the branches;this only meansthat many of ? the older branches have perished; orperhaps the buds never developed on one development among branches is the resultof struggle for existence.
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