THE STUDY OF TREES IN WINTER 



these are called flower buds. Occasionally 

 we find two or three lateral buds together 

 called accessory buds, superposed, if placed 

 one above another as they are in the butter- 

 nut; collateral, if side by side as in the red 

 maple. When several buds are crowded to- 

 gether one bud usually remains latent. Latent 

 buds are sometimes caught in the growing 

 bark of the tree and remain undeveloped for 

 years, breaking out at length perhaps up and 

 down the sides of the trunk as we see them 

 in " feathered elms." These abnormal and 

 irregular buds are called adventitious buds. 



The winter buds of trees may be large or 

 small, they may be slender, flat, oval, pointed 

 or round, hidden or exposed, they may be 

 smooth, downy, sticky, or rough, covered with 

 scales or naked, and they may differ in color 

 from pale yellow to an inky black. 



From the great outlines of the trees against 

 the sky to the little scales of the buds on the 

 stems we marvel to find here as in all nature, 

 order, law, consistency out of infinite variety. 



