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beautiful red colour, so that the growing bud looks 

 almost like an opening flower. 



These bud- scales, therefore, are evidently the bases 

 of leaf-stalks. 



If, without waiting for the spring, we open a bud 



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FIG. 161. FIG. 162. 



BUDS OF MAPLE. 

 F.IG. 161. Leaf-bud. FIG. 162. Flower-bud. 



in summer, say in July, we shall find five or six pairs 

 of scales, each pair at right angles with the pre- 

 ceding, and then a beautiful little crown of tender green 

 leaves. Fig. 161 shows such a bud, drawn in December, 

 after the removal of one of the last pair of scales. The 

 remaining scale is shown forming a large hood over the 

 little leaves, which at Christmas only occupy about half 

 the space in the bud. 



