PROPAGATION OF PLANTS l6l 



If a bud produce fifty buds a year, and each of these produce fifty 

 buds, and so on, how many buds will there be at the end of the fifth 

 year? Ans. 312,500,000. 



Last spring I was glad to pay a dollar for a young Campbell's 

 Early grapevine. Now the vine has thirty-eight buds on it and has 

 produced a second vine from a layer that I bent down and covered 

 with earth early in the summer. The grape is said to be as much 

 better than the Concord as the Concord is better than the wild grape. 

 If this be true, its originator is welcome to the dollar, and I hope he 

 may be a multi-millionaire by this time, as he deserves to be. 



Let the children each bring in branches of some kind 

 of tree, preferably a fruit tree, and help them to study 

 the annual growths that it may show. Study with them 

 the two kinds of twigs (growth twigs and fruit spurs) 

 and the different kinds of buds (leaf buds and fruit buds). 

 We shall need to have clear ideas of these when we study 

 how to bud and graft, make cuttings and layers, and 

 prune and feed our trees. 



Yearly growths are distinguished by roughened lines 

 around the branch at the position of each successive ter- 

 minal bud. Beginning with the present year's growth, 

 these may be counted back for four, five, and sometimes 

 many more years. In seasons where a wet, warm autumn 

 follows a drought in summer there are sometimes two 

 distinct periods of growth with all the appearance of the 

 annual markings between them. 



With the buds distinguish the large terminal bud, which 

 is to continue the growth of the shoot ; the side, or lateral, 

 buds, that are destined to make leafy side branches ; and 

 the fruit buds, that are to produce the fruit of the ensuing 

 year. The chief purpose of this study is to enable the 

 pupils to tell a fruit bud from a leaf bud, and a fruit spur 



