THE FRUIT -BUD OP PEARS 



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lens is usually sufficient. If the section of a 

 pear or apple bud looks like Fig. 55, it is a 

 leaf -bud; if like Fig. 56, it is a flower -bud. 



59. Pear spur with 

 leaf-buds. 



60. Pear spurs, E with three 

 fruit-buds. 



The globular bodies in the latter are the mini- 

 ature unopened flowers; one sees them further 

 expanded in Fig. 10. The imbricated plates in 

 Fig. 55 are bud- scales and leaves; one sees 

 them expanded in Fig. 11. A leaf-bud of apri- 



