. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. Fig. 42. Fruit spur of the pear. Re- duced one-balf. (After Barry). Cions (379) or cuttings (358) of dormant wood should be made from shoots having inter- nodes of average length and thickness and with plump and well-matured buds. In the potato tuber, which is the thickened terminus of an underground stem, (Fig. 32) the most vigorous shoot comes from the terminal bud (the so-called "seed-end "), hence rejecting this part of the tuber in p
. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. Fig. 42. Fruit spur of the pear. Re- duced one-balf. (After Barry). Cions (379) or cuttings (358) of dormant wood should be made from shoots having inter- nodes of average length and thickness and with plump and well-matured buds. In the potato tuber, which is the thickened terminus of an underground stem, (Fig. 32) the most vigorous shoot comes from the terminal bud (the so-called "seed-end "), hence rejecting this part of the tuber in planting, as has often been recommended, is detrimental to the crop. 135. Conditions Affecting the Formation of Flower- Buds. The majority of cultivated plants are grown either for their flowers or the product of their flowers, i. e., fruit or seed. But the flower is not an essential part of the plant Fig. 41. Fruit spurs of the apple. K, points at which apples were de- tached the precediDg year: W, wrink- les, marking points at which fruit and leaves were detached in previous years. (After Hardy).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Goff, E. S. (Emmett Stull), 1852-1902. Madison, Wis. : E. S. Goff
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