60 THE FRUIT -BUD 



flowers but leaves, and the shoot is growing. 

 That is, the axis has elongated considerably 

 since the opening of the bud. 



A quince flower is drawn in Fig. 47. This, 



47. Flowering shoot of quince. 



too, is borne upon a leafy shoot of the season. 

 That is, a shoot sprung from the terminal winter 

 bud, and after this shoot had grown several 

 inches a flower was produced. Such methods of 



