CONTENTS OF BUDS 



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it does not. The length of the shoot usually depends more 



on the lengths between joints than on the number of leaves. 

 94. How Buds Open. When the bud 



swells, the scales are pushed apart, the 



little axis elongates and pushes out. In 



most plants, the outside scales fall very soon, 



leaving a little ring of scars. Notice peach, 



apple, plum, willow, and other plants. 



(Fig. 60.) In others, all the scales grow 



for a time, as in the pear. (Figs. 61, 62.) 

 In other plants, the inner bud- 

 scales become green and al- 

 most leaf-like. See the maple 

 and hickory. Fig. 63 shows a 

 hickory bud. Two weeks later, 6 5. Opening of the 

 the young shoot had pushed out pear bud> 

 and the enlarged scales were hanging. (Fig. 64.) 

 95. Sometimes flowers come out of the buds. 

 Leaves may or may not accompany the flowers, 

 o'clock it We saw the embryo flowers in Fig. 56. The 

 fuiiy ex- bud is shown again in Fig. 61. In Fig. 62 it is 

 opening. In Fig. 65 it is 



more advanced, and the woolly un- 

 formed flowers are appearing. In 



Fig. 66 the growth is more advanced. 



In Fig. 67 the flowers are full blown; 



and the bees have found them. 



96. Buds that contain or produce 



only leaves are leaf-buds. Those that 



contain only flowers are flower-buds 



or fruit-buds. The latter occur on 



peach, almond, apricot, and many 



very early spring-flowering plants. 67 ' Pear in fu " bloom> 



(Fig. 68.) The single flower is emerging from the apricot 



bud in Fig. 69. Those that contain both leaves and flow- 



A single 

 flower in 

 the pear 

 cluster as 

 seen at 7 

 A. M. on 

 the day of 

 its open- 



