. The theory and practice of horticulture; or, An attempt to explain the chief operations of gardening upon physiological grounds. Fig. XVII.—TransformaUoii of Fraxinella. remarked.* Partial alterations into leaves are in fact of very frequentoccurrence in the parts of a flower. In the Kose, the sepals and pistil Proceedings of the fforticvMmral Society, toI. i. p. 37. a 2 84 FLOWERS GROW INTO BRANCHES. are frequently changed into leaves, of whiot tie case represented in thefoUomng cut (Fig. XVIII.) is a most striking example. In tHs case the. Fig. XVIII.—Transformation of a Rose into a brancl
. The theory and practice of horticulture; or, An attempt to explain the chief operations of gardening upon physiological grounds. Fig. XVII.—TransformaUoii of Fraxinella. remarked.* Partial alterations into leaves are in fact of very frequentoccurrence in the parts of a flower. In the Kose, the sepals and pistil Proceedings of the fforticvMmral Society, toI. i. p. 37. a 2 84 FLOWERS GROW INTO BRANCHES. are frequently changed into leaves, of whiot tie case represented in thefoUomng cut (Fig. XVIII.) is a most striking example. In tHs case the. Fig. XVIII.—Transformation of a Rose into a branclj. calyx-tube was absorbed or not developed; the sepals were half convertedinto leaves ; the petals were more than half changed iiito sepals; theouter carpels were partly in their customary state, those nearer the centrewere converted into small leaves, and the remainder were carried upupon the axis or centre, which had lengthened into a branch in everyconceivable state of transition, imtil the last-formed, namely, the FLOWERS PRODUCE BUDS AND TUBERS. 85 uppermost, assumed tte usual appearance of the leaves of the stem,(See Gardeners^ Chronicle, 1847, p. 171, for this and similar facts.)In the Double Cherry, the pistil is almost always to he found in theform of a leaf; and hooks on structural botany abound in the records ofsimilar cases. It sometimes happens that buds are not only formed,but developed, at the axils of the parts of a flower, as in a Celastrus
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