. Bulletin. Agriculture. 58 EXPERIMENTS IN BLUEBERRY CULTURE. the axils of the cotyledons, 13 had neither branch so situated, and 0 had 1 branch from a cotyledon axil and 1 from a leaf axil. Of the 4 plants with 3 branches, 3 had all 3 branches in the axils of the cotyledons and the first leaf, 1 had a branch in the axil of a cotyledon and of the first and second leaf. Of the total 111 branches 46 were in the axil of one of the two cotyledons, an average of 23 to each, 30 in the axil of the first leaf, 20 the second, 7 the third, and 2 the fourth. In the order of the frequency of production of
. Bulletin. Agriculture. 58 EXPERIMENTS IN BLUEBERRY CULTURE. the axils of the cotyledons, 13 had neither branch so situated, and 0 had 1 branch from a cotyledon axil and 1 from a leaf axil. Of the 4 plants with 3 branches, 3 had all 3 branches in the axils of the cotyledons and the first leaf, 1 had a branch in the axil of a cotyledon and of the first and second leaf. Of the total 111 branches 46 were in the axil of one of the two cotyledons, an average of 23 to each, 30 in the axil of the first leaf, 20 the second, 7 the third, and 2 the fourth. In the order of the frequency of production of a basal shoot, therefore, the first leaf stands first, a cotyledon next, then the second, third, and fourth leaves, in order. AVTiile the exact location of the basal branches appears to have no special significance, the number of the branches does, for the habit of producing two or more branches is a persistent one and such seedlings tend to produce diffuse plants with many and small stems and small stature, while the plants with the single-branch tendency are taller and have fewer and more robust stems. The differences in general appearance caused by the two types of branching are well illustrated in figures 24 and 25, from photographs of two seedlings of 1907 made at the age of 10 months. (23) When the seedlings are about four months old and about three INCHES IN height THE GROWTH OF THE ORIGINAL STEM TERMINATES. On January 5,1909, the growing tip on the original stem of one of the plants withered. At that time this stem was about inches high, had 14 leaves, and had 2 vigorous basal shoots about an inch in length. This withering differed in one important respect from the withering due to shock, described on page 56. In that case it was an ordinary leaf rudiment that withered. In the present case the withering was fore- shadowed by the development of a minute bract (fig. 23). This differed from the ordinary leaf rudiment in the absence of the glandular hairs characteristi
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