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buds did not put out 

 present size and then 

 What are these 

 do in 1897 ? We can 

 just one year and 

 (or older) part of the 

 (below B) the buds 

 Therefore, they must 

 no leaves borne below 



lO'. 



e 



Fig. jg—A two- 

 year-old shoot 

 from a young 

 apple tree. 

 Half size. 



each of these branches 

 the growth in the 

 to be simple buds at 

 branches. 



But the strangest 

 has not yet been seen, 

 sizes, and three of 

 stripped the others 

 ent kind. It should 

 lowermost bud (at i) 

 perfectly dormant 

 will be seen, then, 

 smallest branches are 

 and the three strong 

 the last year's growth. 



If, now, we picture 

 of 1895, we will see 



leaves. They simply grew to their 

 stopped. 



buds of the tip shoot proposing to 

 answer this question by going back 

 seeing what the buds on the lower 

 shoot did in 1 896. Upon that part 

 seem to have increased in size, 

 have grown last year. There were 

 these buds in 1896, but a cluster of 



leaves came out 



ofeachlittlebud 



in the spring. 



As these leaves 



expanded and 



grew, the little 



bud grew on ; 



that is, each bud 



grew into a tiny 



branch, and 



when fall came 



had a bud on its end to continue 



year to come. What we took 



2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are, therefore, little 



part of this wonderful little twig 

 — the branches are of different 

 them (7, 8, 9) have so far out- 

 that they seem to be of a differ- 

 be noticed, too, that the very 

 never grew at all, but remained 

 during the entire year 1896. It 

 that the dormant bud and the 

 on the lower part of the shoot,, 

 branches are at the very tip of 



the twig as it looked in the fall 

 that it consisted of a single 



