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though this is not more wonderful perhaps than the 

 germ plant of the seeds, the contents of the bud are 

 more beautiful to look at. You will find buds a 

 splendid store for exploration during the winter 

 months, and will enjoy searching out their wonderful 

 and varied beauties, especially if you are fortunate 

 enough to have a microscope. 



If you pick a leafy branch of some common bush 

 or tree late in the season and notice where the new 

 buds are being formed, you will find them in what are 

 called the axils * of the leaves. What are these 

 axils ? Pick any small leafy branch and hold it up- 

 right, but so that you can look down upon it. The 

 crevice or angle into which you look between any one 

 leaf and the stem immediately above it is the axil 

 (Fig. 8 1, /), and it is in these leaf axils that all 

 lateral f buds are formed. 



But since leaves vary in the order of their 

 position upon different kinds of trees, so also do 

 the branches which grow out from their axils. 

 And branches differ upon different trees, not only 

 in their position and arrangement, but also in the 

 manner in which they develop or lengthen out. 

 For sometimes they grow almost erect, as in 

 the Italian poplar ; sometimes they grow out almost 



* From the Latin "axilla" an armpit. 



t From the Latin " latus" a side. Buds at the ends of branches or 

 stems are called terminal, from the Latin " terminus," the end. 



