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and leaves. Buds come out 

 at the ends of branches 

 (terminal) and at the sides 

 (lateral). 



Deliquescent Tree. 

 The position of the most 

 active buds determines the 

 form of the future tree. If 

 A larch, an excurrent tree (at right) and an dm, you examine a winter branch 

 a deliquescent tree (at left). Photographed by of the apple, elm, or oak 

 W. C. Barbour. tree, you will find that the 



lateral buds have developed 



more strongly and more rapidly than the terminal bud. Thus the tree has 

 come to assume during its growth a rounded shape due to the rather 

 more rapid development of the lateral buds. Such a tree, having a 

 rather stout, short trunk, with many low, spreading, lateral branches, 

 is said to be deliquescent. 



