Chrysanthemums. 



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grown continuously without a check. " Single " and *' cluster buds " 

 mean something. "Crown" and ''terminal" do not mean anything 

 on their face, and their technical use in chrysanthemum culture violates 

 botanical usage and must 

 be arbitrarily memorized. 

 " First single bud " and 

 '* second single bud " are 

 awkward at first, but they 

 are clear. Asd " taking " 

 the bud is unnecessarily 

 misleading, while we have 

 " use," "keep" and 

 "save," in the language. 

 It should be stated, how- 

 ever, that nature does not 

 keep to definitions. It is 

 often difficult to say what 

 is a cluster. This doubt 

 is chiefly due to the fact 

 that such a cluster as is 

 shown in figures i8i and 

 183 rapidly elongates, and 

 what one seems to see is 

 a number of buds scattered 

 distantly along the stem. 

 Similarly there may be 

 more vegetative shoots on 

 the same stem with a single 

 flower bud than the three 

 that are pictured in figure 

 180. (Six of them are 

 seen in figure 182.) Every 

 axil, in fact, below that 



flower bud wants to make 184. — What happened to t%vo crow7i buds thai were 



^11^ , ^i not removed. 



a growth, but as a rule the 



three at the top get the start. If the student will burn figure 180 



into his mind, and understand the definitions previously given in italics, 



he will have no trouble in knowing a crown from a terminal. 



