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or new blossoms appear laterally. We term such cases proliferous shoot 

 development ( proliferation). Unusual buds arise inside of one blossom 

 or of one inflorescence. 



Fig. 55. Spi-outing: pear.s. 



Such buds sometimes de\elop into blossoms, sometimes into leafy 

 shoots. If such an adventitious bud stands in the centre of a blossom, so 

 that the axis of the flower appears to end in it and can be continued only 

 by the development of this bud, we call such a proliferation diaphysis. If, 

 on the other hand, the adventitious bud appears in the axil of any member 

 of the inflorescence, or the bracts, the formatixe variation bears the name 



