. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE LIFE-HISTORY OF PLANTS. 195 be kept clean by band-weeding, or by tbe old- fasbioned plan of boeing, raking, and rolling, several times a year. Tbougb tbe last involves a consider- able amount of labour, it is not labour lost in kitcben and fruit gardens, in wbicb comparatively loose and frequently scarified walks will prove most favourable to the roots of fruit-trees, busbes, and those of other crops, that often run further and increase and multiply faster under the walks than anywhere else. THE LIFE-HISTORY OF PLANTS. By Db. Maxwell T. Masteus, F.
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE LIFE-HISTORY OF PLANTS. 195 be kept clean by band-weeding, or by tbe old- fasbioned plan of boeing, raking, and rolling, several times a year. Tbougb tbe last involves a consider- able amount of labour, it is not labour lost in kitcben and fruit gardens, in wbicb comparatively loose and frequently scarified walks will prove most favourable to the roots of fruit-trees, busbes, and those of other crops, that often run further and increase and multiply faster under the walks than anywhere else. THE LIFE-HISTORY OF PLANTS. By Db. Maxwell T. Masteus, , GROWTH OF BUDS. IN considering the seed, it was shown bow, in tbe first instance, before the seedling could in any way shift for itself, it was dependent for its food upon tbe stores laid up beforehand for its use in tbe perisperm or elsewhere. Tbe genial beat of spring. Fig. 18.—Terminal Bud of Ash, enclosed in Bud-scales. Two side buds of later generation are seen beneath. might, indeed set tbe 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. Tbe life-work of tbe plant whose course we have to trace largely consists in tbe for- mation and accumulation of reserve supplies for future use. As it was with the seedling, so it is with tbe bud. Apart from the special peculiarities of its origin— a matter to be hereafter alluded to—a seedling has much in common with a bud, struc- turally and functionally. With the exception we have noted, its history is much tbe same. IsTature of Buds.—Speaking generally, and for the moment without reference to detail, a bud consists of a central growing point, surrounded by scales, as shown in Figs. 18—21, showing the buds of various plants still invested by scales, or in process of growth, during which the scales separate and ultimately become detached. The expression " grow- ing point" is applied more particularly to those parts of tb
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