. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. HOW BUDS OPEN 19. it does not. The length of the shoot usually depends more on the lengths between joints than on the number of leaves. 93. HOW BUDS OPEN.—ir//'/( thv bud swells, the scales are pushed apart, the little axis elongates and pushes out. In most plants, the outside scales fall very soon, leaving a little ring of scars. Notice peach, apple, plum, willow, and other plants. Fig. 56. In others, all the scales grow for a time, as in the pear. Figs. 57, 58. In other plants, the in- ner bud-scales become green and almost leaf-like. See the
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. HOW BUDS OPEN 19. it does not. The length of the shoot usually depends more on the lengths between joints than on the number of leaves. 93. HOW BUDS OPEN.—ir//'/( thv bud swells, the scales are pushed apart, the little axis elongates and pushes out. In most plants, the outside scales fall very soon, leaving a little ring of scars. Notice peach, apple, plum, willow, and other plants. Fig. 56. In others, all the scales grow for a time, as in the pear. Figs. 57, 58. In other plants, the in- ner bud-scales become green and almost leaf-like. See the maple and hickor}'. Fig. 59 shows a hickory bud. Two weeks later, gi. opeiiins of tho the young shoot had pushed out ^"'" and the enlarged scales were hanging (Fig. 60). 94. Sometimes flowers come out of the buds. Leaves may or may not accompany the flowers. We saw the embryo flowci-s in Fig. 52. The bud is shown again in Fig. 57. In Fig. 58 it is opening. In Fig. 61 it is more advanced, and the woolly un- formed flowers are appearing. In Fig. 62 the growth is more advanced. In Fig. 6-3 the flowers arc full lilown; and the Ix'cs have found thciii. !)5. \',\\{\>i \vlii<'h contain oi- pro- ducf only leaves ait- leaf-buds. Those whii'li coiitjiiii oiil\ flowers ai-e flower- buds ol- fruit-buds. The oeelll- on peaeli, aliiKjnd, apricot, and many very <'arl\' spring-flowering plants. Fig. (il. The singli' flower is eiiiiT^ing tVoni theaprieot bud in l-'ig. 65. Tiiose wliieli contain liolii |ea\es and 62. A single rtower in the pear cluster as seen at 7 A. M. on the day of its open- ing. At 10 o"clook it will be fully ex- 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York Macmillan
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