. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. enter bud is removed, andone of the side buds Istrained up to takeits place, and this bud, to all intents be-comes the terminal bud, with a numberof lateral buds clustering around it; butexcept that the two terms are in generalnse, there is no reason why terminalshould not apply to each. » How many beginners reading theabove and seeing no illustration wouldinfer that the whole problem was merelyto choose between the center and one ofthe side buds in a given cluster of flowerbu
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. enter bud is removed, andone of the side buds Istrained up to takeits place, and this bud, to all intents be-comes the terminal bud, with a numberof lateral buds clustering around it; butexcept that the two terms are in generalnse, there is no reason why terminalshould not apply to each. » How many beginners reading theabove and seeing no illustration wouldinfer that the whole problem was merelyto choose between the center and one ofthe side buds in a given cluster of flowerbuds? Nearly all, I think.* Hut why are crown buds wanted atall? One reason is that the crown budsometimes gives a flower ten daysearlierwhich is an important consideration tothose commercial florists who make aIjoint of getting the earliestblooms ofthe season into the large cities. More-over there are many sorts which wouldnaturally bloom too late for the exhibi-tions. Some of these may be secured foran arbitrary date by the use of crownbuds. As a rule the crown bud gives alarger flower, and meresize alone Isyal-. FlG. 3.—A Crown bud is seen below A. To save the Crown cut off the shoots A, B and C. Tosecure a Terminal bud cut off the Crown bud and the shoots B and C. The shoot A will event-ually bear clusters of flower buds as in Fig. 4. out the axis of growth so that onewould never know the difference. Theflower bud remains rudimentary or dor-mant. The whole cluster of buds shownin tigure 4 is terminal because itends thevegetative phase of the plants history,and it is only the particular bud in theclutter that is left to flower which iswhat the chrysanthemum specialist callsthe terminal bud. Finally the beginneris easily led to mistake the whole pro-blem by such writing as this: For garden purposes, the termcrown bud does very well for it is thecenter or crown of a group of buds atthe end of the growth; indeed the termcan only be fully appreciated by thosewho have a practica
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