WINTER AND DORMANT BUDS 



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walnut, butternut, red maple, honey locust, and sometimes 

 in the apricot and peach. 



If the bud is at the end of a shoot, however short the 

 shoot, it is called a terminal bud. // continues the growth 

 of the axis in a direct line. Very often 

 three or more buds are clustered at the tip 

 (Fig. 140); and in this case there may be 

 more buds than leaf scars. Only one of 

 them, however, is strictly terminal. 



A bud in the axil of a leaf is an axillary 

 or lateral bud. Note that there is normally 

 at least one bud in the axil of every leaf on 

 a tree or shrub in late summer and fall. The 

 axillary buds, if they grow, are the starting 

 points of new shoots the following season. If 

 a leaf is pulled off early in summer, what 

 will become of the young bud in its axil ? 

 Try this. 



Bulbs and cabbage heads may be likened to buds ; that is, 

 they are condensed stems, with scales or modified leaves 



densely overlapping 

 and forming a 

 rounded body (Fig. 

 141). They differ 

 from true buds, how- 

 ever, in the fact 

 that they are con- 

 densations of whole 

 main stems rather 

 than embryo stems 

 borne in the axils of 



FIG. 140. TER- 

 MINAL BUD 

 BETWEEN TWO 

 OTHER BUDS. 

 Currant. 



FIG. 141. A GIGANTIC BUD. Cabbage. 



leaves. But bulblets (as of tiger lily) may be scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from buds on the one hand and from bulbs 



